Procurement has a role to play in black economic empowerment (BEE), but BEE is not procurement’s mandate, said Murray Chabant, BEE ownership strategist and Director at Signa Advisors. “Rather, there should be a transformation committee, at which procurement sits. That way all strategies within a business can align to get the most benefit,” said […]
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Initial outcomes from a study are finding that while finance and legal are still seen to be the most powerful functions during the negotiation process, supply chain directors are becoming increasingly involved in initial negotiations with potential suppliers. The six-year study, entitled ‘Director Level Perceptivities on Aspects of Supply Chain Management‘, to be released
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How socially responsible are your suppliers? Supply chain social responsibility is rapidly becoming as important as cost when selecting suppliers. This 12-point supplier responsibility checklist, from Next Level Purchasing, is a great starting point to make your supply chain more socially responsible. 1. Investigate a supplier’s involvement in human trafficking. 2. Investigate whether a
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Every day, supply chain management professionals are faced with the task of facilitating a credible and transparent networking business environment, one from which corruption, fraud, dishonesty and non-compliance are absent. “Businesses should never jeopardise the integrity and credibility of their supply chain management processes, even in their early start-up days,” advises Rudi Kruger, general
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Many challenges in the next 10 years have the potential to disrupt the dynamics of supply chains. Organisations that begin adapting to the new procurement landscape today will be poised to seize a competitive edge in the decade ahead. 1. Risk: By 2025, procurement risk management will move away from emphasising compliance to adopting
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Under the new Black Economic Empowerment Codes of Good Practice, all points for procurement require that the suppliers are ‘Empowering Suppliers’. In terms of business-to-business procurement, the BEE status level of the business will therefore mean nothing unless it is also an Empowering Supplier. Vivesha Annoop, Compliance Manager for AQRate KZN, provides a quick
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BEE scorecard calculations are complex, however organisations striving to transform cannot wait for an official BEE verification to measure their progress. Transformation consultants Africandi offers a new BEE scorecard calculator for phone, laptop or tablet that anyone can use, even those who have no knowledge of BEE scorecard calculations. The app assists to calculate your
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With daily technological advances in the SAP world, focus tends to fall on the next-best technology and users forget that they already use a set of powerful basic supply chain management (SCM) tools. In fact, users may have never known about these SCM tools, and if they did, they may have ‘lost’ them through
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The Department of Economic Development (DED) is finalising a partnership that will pump R650-million procurement expenditure into various townships across Gauteng, said Gauteng MEC for Economic Development, Environment, Agriculture and Rural Development, Lebogang Maile. The partnership is spearheaded by retailer MassMart and will see the establishment of 500 retail shops within Gauteng townships. The
The SA Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) ticked up by 0.6 index points to reach 51.4 in June 2015. The increase brings the average for Q2 to 49.2 index points, slightly below the average of 49.9 recorded in Q1. This suggests that the manufacturing sector remained under pressure and that a solid recovery in quarterly
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