2 September 2015

Supplier delivery reliability inside SAP: Too much or too little, too early or too late?

Leave a Comment / e-Procurement, Procurement Cards / Editor

There are many performance measures that can be considered when managing the performance of your buyers: cost saving, cost avoidance, quality, contract compliance, off-contract expenditure, management of procurement cycle times, procurement ROI, and many more. Those of you running SAP may have many sets of complex measures that tie into supplier performance management. These […]

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Streamlining P-Card purchases with new technologies – Part 1

Leave a Comment / Procurement Cards, Technology / Editor

When looking at the Kraljic model, where purchasing card (P-card)-type purchases can be categorised as non-critical items, a new trend has emerged that further streamlines the purchasing of low-value, high-volume items, as well as other ad hoc items. This new trend is online marketplaces and e-catalogues, says Anita Carolus-Opperman, Nedbank Corporate Card National Sales

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Brighter futures for Africa’s small suppliers (part 1)

Leave a Comment / Enterprise Development, Supplier Partnerships / Editor

Barclays Africa is finding that many multinational clients are thinking with a long-term perspective; they are looking to develop local suppliers to ensure sustainability and cheaper procurement in the future, says KeaObaka Mahuma, Head of Enterprise and Supplier Development at Barclays Africa, in this month’s SmartProcurement. Enterprise development is about entrepreneurs. It is about

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The trade-off between clean audits and innovative government

Leave a Comment / Compliance / Legal, Risk Management / Editor

It took Western Cape Premier Helen Zille years in government to learn that South Africa is the only country in the world that has developed the concept of a ‘clean audit’. And there is a good reason why other countries have not; trying to achieve a clean audit can actually become a stumbling block

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Expo next week supports local, small suppliers

Leave a Comment / Enterprise Development, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management SCM / Editor

Public sector bodies in South Africa have been urged to ensure their procurement strategies “explicitly recognise the significant benefits of procuring from local small businesses”. Speaking at a regional procurement conference, Small Business Minister Lindiwe Zulu, emphasised the need for established organisations to partner with small, medium and micro enterprise (SMMEs) to boost economic

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Governments should rethink the procurement process

Leave a Comment / Public Sector Procurement, Sourcing Strategy, Supply Chain Management SCM / Editor

Vendors and governments can learn a lot from each other. The procurement process ought to start long before the RFPs are issued, says Paul Campbell, a senior advisor for the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government. Do you remember your first school dance? The boys on one side of the gym, the girls

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PRASA’s “systemic failure” on supply chain policy

Leave a Comment / Supply Chain Management SCM / Editor

An investigation into alleged tender irregularities and other mismanagement at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) has found a “systemic failure” to comply with supply chain management (SCM) policy. In a report entitled ‘Derailed’, public protector Thuli Madonsela outlined findings from the investigation of 37 complaints initially lodged by the South African

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Draft regulations have the “potential to legalise corruption”

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“The new draft regulations, if they are accepted, will legalise wholesale corruption at an even grander scale than we are currently witnessing,” said Helen Zille, Democratic Alliance (DA) premier of the Western Cape Government. Speaking on amendments to Preferential Procurement Regulations put forward by government, the premier said that amendments to the procurement law

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