20 January 2016

5 Data-driven supply chain challenges to overcome in 2016

Supply chain, sourcing or procurement executives are feeling immense pressure to cope with the expansion into global markets, waves of disruptive innovation, rising customer expectations or complex regulatory requirements. These are catalysts that require supply chain management strategies to become bi-modal and make a shift from tactical to strategic, says Antonia Renner, Senior Manager […]

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Black empowerment groups call for change to preferential procurement law

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Lobbying organisations promoting black empowerment are calling for the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA) to be repealed because it places too much emphasis on price. The Progressive Professionals Forum (PPF), which lobbies to address socio-economic disparities and promote broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE), says the law prioritises competitiveness and cost-effectiveness.

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dti on the New BEE Codes – “we are not the enemy”

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Much criticism has been levelled at dti over it New BEE Codes. Perceived by many as a legislator that has set an insurmountable bar, dti says its drive for economic-development has been lost in legislated translation. Liso Steto, Director at the dti, spoke to Smart Procurement Review about supporting small businesses and the perception

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Africa turns to small business sourcing, enterprise and supplier development

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Over the years, Africa has embraced newer models of business to create more prospects for economic growth. Driven by supplier diversification, economic transfer and building a more dynamic local content procurement approach, enterprise and supplier development (E&SD) is becoming a global action to inspire economies and create jobs. Key to this achievement is the

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Procurement’s obsession with process – misunderstood by most in the profession?

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In an Aberdeen Group study of 125 supply management executives it was identified that visibility into spending and driving compliance with supply contracts are among the leading challenges facing procurement organisations today. If we add to this the current turmoil in global financial markets and renewed calls for governance, accountability and regulation, the perfect

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Radical recruiting for procurement

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Procurement, once a home to tactical order-processing work, then a professional centre of excellence for supplier interaction, has evolved into a multi-faceted hub for facilitating internal-external synergies between company stakeholders and the supply base. In short, human interaction has become much more of a focus for the profession. Consequently, some organisations have changed the

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Procurement department change management – are you doing it the right way?

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The old adage “the only constant is change” may never have been truer than in today’s economic uncertainty. Amid constant calls to reduce operating costs, purchasing departments will be challenged to do things differently – centralise, decentralise, rationalise, even outsource. If your organisation has SAP (or any ERP system for that matter), these kinds

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“Ghana needs professional procurement practitioners”

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Ghana needs professional procurement practitioners to salvage the country from corrupt practices in its economic transactions, said Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply-Africa, Prof. Douglas Boateng.

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Handbook: dealing with municipalities and their procurement procedures

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From black economic empowerment fronting to extending gifts for officials, doing business with municipalities is still far from easy, despite the best of intentions. A non-governmental organisation, EthicsSA, has landed a helping hand and has produced a 30-page handbook with guidelines on providing services to local government. The booklet covers rules for businesses vying

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Can drones transform logistics in Africa?

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Just as mobiles leapfrogged landlines across Africa, so cutting-edge drones could outpace roads on a continent where only 16 per cent of thoroughfares are paved, but the population is set to double to 2.2-billion by 2050. Driving this evolution is a Rwandan cargo drones project that is a collaboration between Afrotech and London architects

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