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AFRICA – A POTENTIAL RENEWABLE ENERGY GIANT

South Africa has the potential to become a renewable energy giant within five years and the electricity crisis could boost the country’s future competitiveness, Gareth Rees, Head of Sustainability Strategy at Deloitte, told almost 300 delegates attending the recent third annual Sustainability Summit Africa in Johannesburg. He said the continent abounds with energy opportunities in […]

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compliant proposals

20 Tips for getting compliant proposals from suppliers

Proposals can contain a lot of information and are the basis on which procurement decisions are made. Therefore, you must evaluate them carefully for compliance with your requirements. So what does a compliant proposal look like? The following checklist, from Next Level Purchasing, can simplify your proposal evaluations and ensure that a supplier is worthy

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Study on improving ESD

BBBEE Commission releases study on improving ESD

The need for investment and facilitation in assisting SMMEs with pre-investment and post-investment support, is growing, says National Director – Business Consulting, ESG and Energy & Natural Resources, Yugen Pillay. Commenting on the enterprise and supplier development (ESD) research report released last month by the Commission for Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE Commission), he said

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Sustainability in business

Less Risks, More Opportunities with Sustainability

We live in an era of continuous and expanding growth: Producing, procuring, distributing, trading, consuming, and other economic activities improve people’s quality of life, upgrade communities, and allow nations to thrive. However, says Oumaima Ben Amor, Sustainability Consultant at Our Hiraya in Australia, we tend to forget that the economy and society are embedded into

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Regional Integration

AfCFTA is Here: Regional Integration on Steroids?

Perhaps the United Nations Conference on Trade and Devolopment (UNECA) said it best when it argued in 2019 that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is not just about intra-African trade, but about “dispelling the crisis of implementation” that had persisted in the telling of the African narrative. Now that AfCFTA is alive, its

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Africa’s largest virtual conference for supply chain and procurement professionals coming in August

SmartProcurement has joined forces with SAPICS to offer Africa’s largest-ever online event for supply chain and procurement professionals. Africa Supply Chain in Action takes place on 19 and 20 August 2020. It is expected to bring together more than 1 000 supply chain and procurement professionals.

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This Halloween beware the scary, old-world CPO

With Halloween just past, it is time to consider whether your boss is scarier than your average ghoul or if your career is in the grip of a scary, old-world Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) and thus doomed to wither… Tania Seary, Founding Chairman of three companies specialising in the development of the procurement profession –

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Behavioural procurement: a cognitive approach to people (soft) skills

By David Loseby Behavioural procurement (BP) is a sub-field of behavioural economics and concerns itself with the application of behavioural science, social science, decision science and applied cognitive psychology to commercial activities. For years the profession has talked about soft skills (I prefer to call them people skills) without a clear definition of what exactly

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Developing SCM

Creating a framework for developing SCM professionals

South Africa currently ranks 61st out of 137 countries within the 2017/2018 Global Competitive Index (World Economic Forum, 2017). One of the Index’s main critiques against the country is its inadequately educated workforce, which re-affirms the critical role of education and skills development. It is imperative that the country ensures efficient and effective skills development

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MCIPS-qualified professionals in Sub-Saharan Africa earn 38% more

  • 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

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