6 July 2011

Standard Bank case study – Procurement professionals moving forward

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Standard Bank’s first draft of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) certification candidates achieved a 100% pass mark in the last assessment period, the only company to do so, which is part of the financial services provider’s re-design of its Procurement function – ‘Project Prologue’. Director of Procurement, Meshern Govender, and Head of Strategic […]

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PPPFA amended – A big day for B-BBEE

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Effective 7 December 2011, government departments will be forced to consider compliance to the Codes of Good Practice when evaluating tenders for government business. The publication of the amended Preferential Procurement Regulations, issued in terms of the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA), has been eagerly anticipated following the circulation of draft amendments for public

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Leadership Profile: Elmarie van der Merwe of Pretoria Portland Cement

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This month SmartProcurement profiles Elmarie van der Merwe from PPC. Full name: Elmarie van der Merwe Position: Head: Group Procurement Your organisations’ procurement expenditure: R3.459-billion Who does P & SM report to: Executive: Group Services Private sector OR Public sector: Private Sector Core business activity of the enterprise: Manufacturing of Cement Number of people in

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PMI declines for third consecutive month – tracks lower global factory sector

Travel Management in a recovery year – more challenging than during a downturn?

HR – Managing the skills recruitment process in today’s RSA

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Do you understand how effective your recruitment rates are in the wider context of the recruitment process? In this month’s SmartProcurement Karen van Staden of Purchasing Index (PI) asks how important is it for organisations to understand the wider context in which recruitment operates? “The skills shortage in South Africa has been acknowledged by Government

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The truth about future growth – SAPICS Conference feedback

Procurement in 2020 won’t exist in its current state

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The procurement function as we know it will no longer exist in 2020. This is the consensus reached in a report ‘VSION 2020: Ideas for Procurement in 2020 by Industry-Leading Procurement Executives’, the outcome of a dialogue between Ariba and leading procurement practitioners and influencers. Its main points make for interesting reading… 1. Spend management

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Know your key procurement customers and their roles

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Organisations may have targeted certain industries, markets or regions as a customer base, but have they thought of the roles within the organisations they are targeting? One area a lot of companies overlook is the dynamics of the purchasing process within their target market, Douglas MacGregor of SuppDex tells SmartProcurement. To save costs and smooth

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