What is Sustainable Procurement really about?
Sustainable procurement requires organisations to consider social, environmental and governance...
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Category: Supplier Partnerships
How to get to 100% value creation with suppliers
As procurement professionals, what do you think your suppliers think of you – and do you care? It’s a question which top British procurement recruitment specialist, Gary Noble, believes you should care about – deeply.
Read MoreCampaign for corporates to support SMMEs affected by unrest
To help small South African businesses recover from the spate of unrest that affected parts of the country, One Linkage, a women-owned technology company, has launched the #RiseUpSA Campaign. The campaign aims to enable...
Read MoreHow to get buy-in for sustainable procurement
By Bárbara de Faria Lopes, Sustainability Consultant, IQbusiness, andChristelle Marais, Sustainability Lead, IQbusiness Financial factors are no longer the only consideration for businesses. Governments, investors,...
Read MoreHow to diversify your suppliers
By Will Green The need for greater diversity has finally reached beyond staff and hit the company purse strings. Supply Management takes a look at why you should up your supplier diversity and how to go about it. In 2020, two...
Read MoreSales trends for 2021: procurement needs to be solutions salespeople too
“One of the sales trends for 2021 is procurement needs to be solutions salespeople too,” says By Sue Barrett, Founder and CEO of www.barrett.com.au and www.salesessentials.com Times are, indeed, changing with the...
Read MoreInnovation is not about what you control, but what you can access: the procurement view
By Bertrand Maltaverne The secret sauce for innovation… The secret sauce is secret because innovation itself and conditions that foster it are, both, quite complex topics that I will not dare to address in their entirety....
Read More5 LEAPs towards successful ESD programmes
Initiating an enterprise and supplier development (ESD) programme is not something to rush into. It is a process that will achieve very little for everyone involved if it is not carefully planned, aligned with coherent business...
Read MoreUnderstanding and managing IT vendor relationships: do they matter?
By Tiran Gunarathna, Senior IT Category Lead, Infosys Business Process Management; andSriKrishna Koneru, AVP – Strategic Business Practice Head, Sourcing and Procurement, Infosys Business Process Management We often hear...
Read MoreCoronavirus has exposed just how delicate our procurement eco-system really is
Do we need to fundamentally re-imagine what our procurement eco-system looks like? Ian Thompson, Regional Head at Ivalua, thinks so and here is why… For so many around the world, the experience of the coronavirus has been...
Read MorePrepare and adjust your supply chain for coronavirus
By James B. Rice, Deputy Director, MIT Centre for Transportation and Logistics Developing a clear supply chain response to the coronavirus outbreak is extremely challenging, given the scale of the crisis and the rate at which it...
Read MoreSMME clinic | Pandemic proof your business – part 1
Smart Procurement World and its partners are joining forces to share insights and to help SMMEs during this challenging time. #BetterTogether
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