After falling below the key 50 mark in September, the seasonally adjusted Kagiso PMI rose back towards the neutral level during October to reach 49.8 index points, reports the Kagiso website. With the exception of the employment subcomponent (which declined further below 50), the other major PMI components all posted gains in October. Perhaps most […]
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Most South African organisations have only just started recruiting new staff after an employment freeze for the last 18 to 24 months. Purchasing Index (PI) tells SmartProcurement that many may have been lulled into a false sense of safety that the skills base in South Africa is relatively robust. PI has analysed data available from
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Purchasing managers should be aware of how the model year concept influences Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) when replacing company vehicles, Ashleigh Young, Chief Executive of the TransAuto Group, tells SmartProcurement. The model year concept is concerned with the timing of a vehicle’s acquisition. “This is the time of year when the model year concept
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The concept of collaboration is not new, however it has traditionally occurred between related companies with strong single leadership that offer each other a privileged right to use certain products, services and personnel. The development of technology has enabled organizations to expand their ability to collaborate beyond the traditional supply chain and into collaborative planning,
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Data is only accurate when that accuracy can be proven and ignoring the effects of inaccurate and badly maintained supplier data has many detrimental effects on an organisation, Edward Smit, CEO of National Registry, tells SmartProcurement. Making a decision is an exercise in calculating risk, whether consciously or subconsciously in the decision-maker’s mind. Risk influences
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Innovation doesn’t have to come with a high price tag any more. With a little bit of technical savvy and some consumer-level wireless technology it is possible to create a paperless environment and speed up the distribution of work assignments to warehouse workers and other operations staff, Lloyd Mather, a Toronto-based logistics consultant specialising in
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Supply chain expert Dr. Douglas Boateng, a SmartProcurement Editorial board member, has accomplished a world first by being elected to his sixth concurrent fellowship. To date Dr. Boateng is the only known supply chain strategy authority in the world to be concurrently conferred with six elected fellowships from the world’s thought leading and foremost professional
Fellowship number six makes for a claimed world first Read More »
More than 300 parastatal organisations, or state-owned enterprises (SOEs), will be put under the microscope in the next year. Many of them are really struggling, like the SABC, but there are some that are regarded as leading lights, like the Development Bank of South Africa, Elaine Porteous tells this month’s SmartProcurement. A presidential review commission
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The world continues to suffer from the disease of corruption. The Corruption Perceptions Index 2010 just published by Transparency International (TI) last week measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption in 178 countries in the world. The Index scores countries on a scale of zero to 10, with 0 indicating high levels of corruption
South Africa still hanging in there on the corruption index Read More »
