7 April 2010

Volume leveraging benefits – Where’s the evidence?

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Public sector Procurement organisations of many of today’s recession-hit territories are responding to demands for savings in various ways, including increasingly desperate attempts (in many cases) to deliver Procurement savings by pressurising suppliers to deliver lower prices, on the largest possible scale. Over the last few years public and pri vate sector volume leveraging strategies […]

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Stores Optimisation – Hidden Costs of Holding Spares

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All too often companies have no idea of the value of spares in their stores. This problem lies not only with small businesses; some of the largest companies in South Africa have little idea of the value and content of their stores, as the stores stock has been built up over a number of years.

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Green Procurement – Paper Management Programmes

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We’re all very well aware of our need to reduce carbon emissions and care for our planet. In Corporate South Africa more and more organisations are asking a key question: How much paper are we consuming for our marketing efforts? Indeed, this is a very good question, however, the usual response from Procurement or Marketing

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Commerce Edge appointed as new CIPS Exam Centre in South Africa

Achieving procurement objectives through effective contract management

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Contract management offers improved supplier performance, however, is it also a tool to censure and punish poor supplier performance? The fifth article in SmartProcurement’s World-Class Procurement Practice series will discuss the need for Procurement professionals to understand how properly managed contracts can lead to excellent supplier performance. A well developed and managed supply contract is

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CV not getting you the procurement (or other) position you want?

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In today’s volatile employment market can you really afford to be one of the many candidates with a CV that elicits no response at all? There can be a multitude of reasons for this, but from years of experience in Procurement specific recruitment Deborah van Laar of PSA Group: Search & Selection, tells SmartProcurement that

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Scoring the human role in ‘lean’ implementation

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A fundamental aspect of lean manufacturing practice is the notion that human resources are vital to the success of production. In an effort to improve the ability of organisations to track and manage human capital employed within lean manufacturing in an engineering environment, UNISA School of Business Leadership Master’s student Collin Moopanar has researched the

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A transparent and fair tender process for Government mooted

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“The tripartite alliance in Gauteng has proposed a complete overhaul of government procurement policy to ensure transparency, prevent corruption and speed up service delivery,” Sibongakonke Shoba wrote in the Business Day of April 1, 2010. Central to that thought is their simultaneous call for the tender process – the chief mechanism by which the State

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IPAP 2: Departmental dispute jeopardises plans to overhaul public procurement

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Government’s plans to bolster the domestic economy through procurement reform as set out in the Industrial Policy Action Plan (IPAP2) are in danger because the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and National Treasury reportedly disagree on the scope the proposals should have. “We are concerned that implementation remains a challenge due to an apparent

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Is your supply chain ready for AARTO?

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Whether or not the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) has yet been implemented, your supply chain may face logistics and delivery difficulties if you have not put measures in place to cope with possible driver disqualifications under the new administrative framework. SmartProcurement has some suggestions. AARTO will work as follows: each traffic violation

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