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15 January 2014

EVENT: Next level BEE supplier development – collaborating across industry sectors

Leave a Comment / Enterprise Development, Supplier Management, Supplier Partnerships, Top Stories /

  The amended broad-based black economic empowerment codes of good practice can still create advantages for businesses if approached with a proper long-term strategy and commitment from the industry and government departments. How multinationals and other organisations can view the new Codes as a competitive advantage and engage in supplier and corporate collaboration will be […]

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Procurement reforms added to ‘electioneering’ arsenal are not “legally feasible”

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  The ANC’s call for the creation of a tender board will not be legally feasible under the country’s current SCM regulatory environment. The ruling party’s 2014 election manifesto outlines measures to tackle corruption that include the creation of a central tender board. President Jacob Zuma said “…tender processes will be centralised under a central

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Driving visibility within African supply chains

Leave a Comment / Benchmarking, Procurement Strategy, Spend Analysis, Technology, Tools /

  As supply chain management becomes increasingly central to business strategy, so the need for visibility within the supply chain becomes paramount. Greater end-to-end visibility improves revenue and reduces costs, while allowing for better management of disruption, complexity, opposition and growing customer expectation, Tech-Pro tells SmartProcurement. Image: Erik Kriek, Supply Chain Movement 2013 Supply chain

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Position your SMEs for success through defining business models

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  With many SMEs gearing themselves towards a February financial year end, the next two months will offer entrepreneurs the ideal time to objectively analyse their own and their business’ performance and growth. In order to position one’s SME for success, however, it is critical that owners understand exactly how their companies make money, as

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Multi Functional Devices – Why benchmark the procurement – running costs?

Leave a Comment / Benchmarking, Service Outsourcing /

  Although very basic when compared with the multi-functional devices (MFDs) sold today, many of the same sales techniques are still used to trap unwary photocopy machine procurers, says Alan Low of Purchasing Index (PI), who ran a London office equipment company in a past life. “It is recognised as an industry where the size

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Reducing transaction costs – the end of the firm?

Leave a Comment / e-Procurement, Procurement Strategy, Supplier Partnerships, Supplier Relationship Management Systems, Technology, Tools /

  The man who introduced the concept of transaction costs recently passed away at the age of 102. Interestingly, his 70-year-old theory explains organisations’ vertical integration in the first half of the 20th century and their contradictory aggressive outsourcing more recently. But how is the lower transaction cost offered by the Internet revising the theory?

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ANC pledges government procurement to boost jobs

Leave a Comment / Preferential Procurement, Public Sector Procurement /

  The African National Congress (ANC) has committed itself in its election manifesto to ensuring that at least 75% of government procurement takes place with local suppliers and producers. This would apply to the purchases of larger state-owned companies such as Transnet and Eskom. The pledge is part of the ruling party’s job creation programme,

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Regulation delays let state’s big spenders off hook

Leave a Comment / Compliance / Legal, Public Sector Procurement /

Treasury regulations aimed at curbing wasteful expenditure by officials on car rentals, hotels and air tickets will not immediately affect some of the government’s biggest spenders. According to a Treasury instruction note sent to all departments, constitutional bodies and public entities last month, cost-cutting measures relating to executive authorities will only be set out in

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