• 57% of Sub-Saharan professionals received a salary increase in the last 12 months• In a change from 2016, when the private sector reported the highest average salaries, last year’s top performer was the charity/not-for-profit sector• Men earn more than women at more senior levels, especially at advanced professional level where the pay gap […]
MCIPS-qualified professionals in Sub-Saharan Africa earn 38% more Read More »
Integrity in government procurement must be held to the highest standards on every RFP and tender issued Stephen Bauld deals with so many issues related to the integrity of the request for proposal (RFP) process every week. As a government procurement expert, he is concerned about the way municipal procurement staff understand the policies and
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Professor Douglas Boateng has been appointed Chair of Ghana’s Public Procurement Authority (PPA). A group of Ghana’s procurement, logistics and supply chain fraternity as well as industrialists and business executives has lauded President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo decision to appoint Prof. Boateng.
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We’re in the throes of the 4th industrial revolution, where technology has changed the way we live and do business. Research shows that by 2020, half of the world’s business travellers will be millennials. With this in mind, it’s not surprising that the role of travel management companies has evolved way beyond making travel
Is your travel technology a strategic procurement partner? Read More »
This month SmartProcurement profiles Sese Chasakara, Chief Procurement Officer at the South African Reserve Bank Full name: Sese Chasakara Position: Chief Procurement Officer Your organisation’s procurement expenditure: Sizable Who does P & SM report to: Group CFO Hear from Sese Chasakara at the Smart Procurement World Conference in September. He will be a panellist
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CPO of VSP Global Greg Tennyson leads transformative change. He is the former VP and CPO (source-to-settle and expense-to-settle) at Salesforce and Oracle. Greg sat down with ScoutRFP to discuss sourcing’s ever-evolving relationship with business – he talks culture, Moolah (the spend-it-like-its-yours monster) and how CPOs can work with the pace of change at an organisation
Changing behaviours in sourcing – Q&A with Salesforce and Oracle’s former CPO Read More »
“They won’t even talk to me, now” David said with a sigh, and to punctuate his mood, spread his hands on the desk in front of him in resignation. David is a small supplier that was selected to participate in a corporate enterprise supplier development (ESD) programme. Following the completion of the 12-month contract,
How can procurement prepare SMEs to engage with corporates? Read More »
Supply chain management concerns itself with recognising, acknowledging and managing key business linkages and relationships. To achieve this, collaboration is the order of the day. But while collaboration is an admirable business objective, it can prove difficult to attain. To reach it, it is important to have a strategic framework to establish and improve
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The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) had a tough start to Q3 2017, declining by 3.8 points to 42.9 in July. The headline PMI was last at such a depressed level in the second half of 2009 – a period of very weak underlying economic performance. All five of the major PMI
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