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12 March 2015

How the 2015 budget will address the constraints of efficient government procurement

Leave a Comment / Professional Development, Public Sector Procurement /

  As much as 45% of the proposed R1.2-trillion budget could be procured from third parties, said Dr Dinesh Kumar, Head of Supply Chain and Procurement consulting at KPMG. Considering the level of expenditure in question, it was necessary that government improved the efficiency of its purchasing, said Dr Kumar, who was speaking at an […]

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Procurement a major catalyst of Job creation

Leave a Comment / Enterprise Development, Procurement Strategy, Risk Management /

  Small Business Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu is confident that procurement will be a major a catalyst for job creation in South Africa. Addressing delegates at the Smart Procurement World Conference in the Western Cape last week, the minister acknowledged that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) face daily challenges and repeated the call to big

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Supply chain vacancies are almost guaranteed. Why don’t we plan for them?

Leave a Comment / Professional Development, Supply Chain Management SCM /

  Recent labour data indicates that job tenure rates have increased since 2008, but are still relatively low. While this makes the retention of developed skills a problem, it does assists Procurement to be more proactive in filling vacancies as it is merely a question of time before a post is vacated, says André Basson,

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Pod Cast – Too much focus on buying local may hinder Africa’s growth

Leave a Comment / Enterprise Development, Procurement Strategy, Smart Sourcing, Supply Chain Management SCM /

  Buying local may have unintended consequences to Pan African trade, said Prof Douglas Boateng at a round table sponsored by consultants KPMG and professional body CIPS. “Buying local is a good policy. But if South Africa has ‘Buy SA’ and Kenya has ‘Buy Kenya’ and Ghana has ‘Buy Ghana’, then who is going to

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The functionality of mobile ERP systems prepares enterprises for supplier development

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

  The increased productivity, flexibility and information sharing that a mobile Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system can provide would help small enterprises prepare to receive supplier development, says Don Pitsoe, Business Mentor at The Hope Factory, in this month’s SmartProcurement. Being an entrepreneur is challenging at times: managing everything on your own while keeping track

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Ensuring P-Card implementation success – The Do’s and Don’ts

Leave a Comment / Procurement Cards /

  Even with the best-laid plan, the rolling out of a P-Card might still go south. “Years of experience have taught me that there are certain things that need to be in place for a P-Card implementation to be a success,” says Anita Carolus-Opperman, Nedbank Corporate Card National Sales Manager. When clients want to implement

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4 risk management strategies to ensure supply chain continuity

Leave a Comment / Risk Management, Service Outsourcing, Supply Chain Management SCM /

  A prudent supply chain professional knows that each transaction is worth its value or the negative impact of it going wrong and has to be treated as such. High-value transactions need scrutiny commensurate with the risk that the organisation may be exposed to if something goes wrong. In other instances the transaction value may

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Magnitude of February PMI decline unexpected

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  Activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in February for the first time in four months as business activity plummeted, signalling a sector “taking strain”, said Abdul Davids, head of research at Kagiso Asset Management. The Kagiso purchasing managers index (PMI), which gauges activity in manufacturing, fell by a steeper than expected 6.6 index points

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