By Rod Robinson, Founder and CEO, ConnXus When I graduated from Wharton in 1995 and decided to pursue a career in management consulting at AT Kearney, I had grand visions of being assigned to an engagement helping one of our multinational clients grow revenue through a high-profile M&A transaction or other topline growth strategy. Instead, […]
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By Malcolm Harrison Organisations should use the coming year as a chance to diversify – by engaging with digitisation, data and the environment. A new year, let alone a new decade, always provokes thoughts of what lies ahead. It is a good reminder to be looking ahead at trends, technology, legislation or geopolitical shifts that
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The seasonally-adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) started 2020 on the back foot and declined further in January. The PMI lost 1.9 points to reach 45.2 index points, the lowest level since September 2019. The performance of the five major sub-components was mixed, with two indices recovering somewhat from multi-year lows reached in the previous
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By Sue Barrett, Founder, Barrett Consulting Group Procurement, whether they are aware of it or not, is the epicentre of innovation and leadership of complex systems management within organisations and across supply chains. Or at least they should be… Procurement’s exposure to all elements of a supply chain can and should inform them and, in
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It is excellent if you have already gained a grip on procurement’s changing landscape. If not, for many businesses, procurement remains quite intimidating. There are concerns about co-ordinating upstream and downstream processes. Risk management, supplier intelligence, advanced analytics and a drive towards innovation all suffer from disruptive digital transformation. “To keep up with the fast-changing
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Vendor compliance programs have become a major roadblock to retail store success. But who is to blame? Retailers and suppliers point that finger at each other. One expert says there is a “state of chaos” with retailer vendor compliance programs for both bricks-and-mortar and online stores. A Supply Chain Digest Retail-Vendor Benchmark Study does not
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We would all agree that government procurement should be held to the highest level of ethical standards. It is very important to the entire system that everyone working with or for a municipality be of the same mind set. The whole idea of the importance of adherence to an appropriate standard of ethics in the
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This month SmartProcurement profiles Pascal Exbrayat from Nestlé East and Southern Africa Region (ESAR). Full name: Pascal Exbrayat Position: Head of Procurement, Nestlé East and Southern Africa Region (ESAR) Your organisation’s procurement expenditure: US$450-million Who does P & SM report to: Head of Supply Chain, Nestlé ESAR
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Across industries, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has brought a step-change in how companies approach their processes, technologies and business models. The most successful businesses of today have responded to their changing role in society by digitising and reconfiguring to unlock new sources of value for people. How is this playing out in travel? In a
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By Elaine Porteous Corruption is not unique to Africa, nor is it a new problem. However, Africa is perceived as the most corrupt region in the world as well as the most under-developed. Corruption is a complex social, political and economic phenomenon that slows economic development and contributes to governmental instability. There is no simple
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