3 April 2013

Transnet: infrastructure development hand-in-hand with supplier development

Leave a Comment / Enterprise Development, Supplier Management / Editor

The DTI’s B-BBEE Codes of Good Practice (2007) define Enterprise Development as monetary and non-monetary contributions to beneficiaries, with the objective of contributing to the development, sustainability and financial and operational independence of those beneficiaries. The aim is to address certain key challenges facing qualifying small enterprises and exempted micro enterprises and, more specifically, black-owned […]

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Adopting purchasing cards – what’s stopping you?

Leave a Comment / Procurement Cards, Technology / Editor

According to the latest available research South Africa still lags, and considerably so, the UK and USA in adopting the Purchasing Card (P-Card) as a preferred tool for managing several expenditure categories such as maintenance, repair and overhaul, travel and entertainment. This is despite the fact that the P-Card has proven to be a boon

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Do Voyager Miles make commercial sense?

Leave a Comment / Benchmarking, Category Management, Technology, Travel / Editor

Within the context of Purchasing Index‘s (PI’s) Domestic Air Travel benchmark report, SAA continues to make up the bulk of domestic carrier usage (as indicated in the graph alongside for the five benchmark routes for the period Aug-Oct 2012). In this month’s SmartProcurement Alan Low wonders if this is justifiable? Surely there should be a

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Increase savings, reduce supplier risks through leveraging data

Leave a Comment / Spend Analysis, Supplier Relationship Management Systems, Technology / Editor

Reduce cost, manage supply continuity and increase the amount of expenditure under management by leveraging the data and classification services of expenditure performance management, says Marlene de Jager, Account Executive LOB: Procurement for SAP Africa in this month’s SmartProcurement. By providing visibility into spend, organisations can identify cost saving opportunities and evaluate supplier risk, says

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Top 4 travel and expense management challenges

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Shirley Le Roux, MD of TraveluXion gives SmartProcurement her insights into the top challenges and key focus areas around Travel and Expense Management as per the Aberdeen Group Survey published in March 2013. What was identified? According to the survey the top challenges with regards to Travel and Expense (T&E) Management are: Poor visibility into

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Greater value lies in procured print-manage services

Leave a Comment / Category Management, e-Procurement, Global Sourcing, Print / Document, Procurement Strategy, Service Outsourcing, Supplier Relationship Management Systems, Supply Chain Management SCM / Editor

The true value of print expenditure is becoming increasingly evident with the evolution of more sophisticated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) accounting systems, which is increasing the focus on the print commodity and highlighting the need for companies to gain greater insight into and control of this product, Christian Bell, Head of Sales and Marketing at

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Sleeping easy when travelling into Africa? Tread carefully.

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Travelling into Africa can be daunting for the business traveler and the corporate travel manager, says Kele Mohatle, CEO of travel procurement consultancy NaKo Consulting, in this month’s SmartProcurement. As an area of interest for emerging markets Africa has become a global hot spot. But while business travelers are creating and strengthening relationships in different

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Link procurement and enterprise development to build SMEs

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As corporates continue to grapple with the real transformation of their supply chains, they should look at the link between their procurement and enterprise development departments in order to provide SMEs with the openings to market they need, says Shawn Theunissen, head of CSR at Growthpoint Properties and Property Point (Growthpoint Properties’ enterprise development programme),

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How many points might your organisation lose under BBBEE draft codes?

Leave a Comment / BEE, Compliance / Legal, Legal / Contract / Editor

The buzz in the procurement and supply chain industry for 2013 definitely has to be the revision of the codes of good practice published by Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies on 27 Sep 2012. These codes ensure that the principle of black ownership reclaims its position on the Broad-Based BEE scorecard. In 2007, the

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Public sector’s wasteful expenditure hits R28-billion

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The annual audit of South Africa’s provincial and national government bodies revealed that R28.4-billion was lost to irregular spending – R6.25-billion more than the previous year, said the Auditor-General’s report. In the report, auditor general Terence Nombembe blamed weak internal controls, poor political leadership (from the accounting officer and/or executive authority) and a disregard for

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