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11 February 2015

You’re only as good as the quality of your suppliers – but do you measure their quality?

Leave a Comment / Risk Management, SRM Supplier Relationship Management, Supplier Partnerships, Supply Chain Management SCM /

  ‘Failure of a supplier to deliver goods on time and of high quality’ ranked third in an AMR Research study of the top supply chain risks for businesses in a global environment. Ranked fourth was ‘product quality failure’. With all the concerns facing global supply chains, one of the largest is product quality. Ensuring […]

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Savings not always generated at the supplier. Look inside!

Leave a Comment / Benchmarking, Procurement Strategy /

  Almost 20 years’ experience benchmarking goods and services has taught Alan Low, CEO of Purchasing Index (PI), that improving efficiencies and generating savings often has nothing to do with an arrangement with a supplier. He spoke to SmartProcurement about other avenues that lead to great savings. SmartProcurement If savings can’t be made with the

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A change is afoot in low-cost sourcing dynamics

Leave a Comment / Low Cost Sourcing, Procurement Strategy, Sourcing Strategy, Supplier Selection, Supply Chain Management SCM /

Emerging markets are no longer type-cast as low-cost sourcing   SCM World’s chief content officer, Kevin O’Marah, recently released his ‘Top 10 Supply Chain Facts of 2014’. Noteworthy was O’Marah’s fact number five: low cost countries are no longer mere sourcing prospects – they are increasingly sought-after trading partners. O’Marah’s Top 10 is based on

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Tips for supply-ready SME businesses

Leave a Comment / Enterprise Development, Supplier Directories /

  For entrepreneurs who are running a small business that is ready to become a supplier to big corporates, in this month’s SmartProcurement, Tursuis Ruiters, Financial Mentor at The Hope Factory, offers useful tips that procurement professionals might want to share with ED suppliers to prepare them to be “Supply Ready”. Corporates are looking for

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Top 4 ways procurement can leverage business networks

Leave a Comment / e-Procurement, Procurement Strategy, Supply Chain Management SCM /

  In his frequent conversations with procurement professionals, it’s become clear to Alex Saric (Vice President of Business Networks Marketing at SAP) that the importance of increasing collaboration with suppliers is well recognised, but, when we start to discuss what that means in practice there is far less clarity. For example, few seem to understand

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Help your suppliers build a better business strategy

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

  To maximise your supplier’s potential growth, they must have a plan. In fact, more than a plan – they must have a strategy that will give them the best options for growth and success. In this month’s SmartProcurement, Shawn Theunissen, head of CSR at Growthpoint Properties and the founder of Property Point, suggests some

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The five rights mean nothing without competent application

Leave a Comment / Procurement Strategy, Professional Development /

  Supply chain management is an exercise in managing risk. Supply risks can be found throughout the chain. But how much of that risk rests in the skills of professionals that manage a supply chain? Jim Makuwa argues that skilled professionals are the differentiator in great supply chains, in this month’s SmartProcurement. Supply chain management

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January PMI may overstate improvement in the manufacturing sector

Leave a Comment / Change, PMI /

  A smaller-than-usual decline in the non-seasonally adjusted January PMI resulted in the seasonally adjusted PMI increasing significantly and perhaps overstating the improvement in actual manufacturing output in January, said Andre Coetzee, MD of CIPS Africa. Manufacturing may be starting the year on good footing, but underlying conditions are unlikely to be as rosy as

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