3 August 2011

Consumer Protection Act – don’t underestimate its effect on purchasing and supply

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“On April 1, 2011 the scale swung in favour of the consumer…are you ready for that?” Braam Botha, attorney, consultant and former Lecturer at NMMU Business School asked during a recent business seminar. “From the response of the audience, it was clear that the majority of business people were certainly not ready,” Botha told SmartProcurement. […]

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Strike action accelerates PMI plunge – hits two-year low

Leadership Profile: Indrasen Naidoo of First-Rand Banking Group

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This month SmartProcurement profiles Indrasen Naidoo from First-Rand Banking Group. Full name: Indrasen Naidoo Position: CPO Your organisations’ procurement expenditure: R10-billion (including Capex) Who does P & SM report to: CFO First Rand Group

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A new supply management emerges

Leave a Comment / Procurement Strategy, Service Outsourcing / Editor

After a big wave of procurement outsourcing, a different animal will be left standing. This is the consensus reached in a report ‘VISION 2020: Ideas for Procurement in 2020 by Industry-Leading Procurement Executives’, the outcome of a dialogue between Ariba and leading procurement practitioners and influencers.

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Black Economic Empowerment: How far have we come?

Leave a Comment / BEE, Commentary, Preferential Procurement / Editor

Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) was a form of Economic Empowerment initiated by our government in response to criticism against Narrow Based Empowerment instituted in the country during 2003/2004. While Narrow Based Black Economic Empowerment led to the enrichment of a few black (Black African, Coloured or Indian) individuals, the target of Broad-Based Empowerment was

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Print management – a deceptively large expenditure

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A provincial government finance department spent R500-million on its ‘copier project’ in 2010, its deputy director said at a recent conference hosted by the Logistics Graduates of South Africa. Such a level of expenditure ranked this commodity in the department’s top 10 expenditure groups, along with general goods and services at R11-billion, consultants at R867-million

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Expenditure analysis system now provides BEE scorecard data

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The July 2011 update of its expenditure analysis module now provides data on a supplier’s BEE scorecard, in addition to a consolidated BEE expenditure analysis report, says Procurement information solutions provider Ezee-Dex. “This feature enables companies to analyse B-BBEE expenditure on the spot. Any B-BBEE report you need on a vendor should take no longer

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SAA partners with the African Supply Chain Institute

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South African Airways has formally agreed to a corporate responsibility partnership with the recently established West African Institute for Supply Chain Leadership (WAISCL) to facilitate selected postgraduate supply chain management students and lecturers to undertake annual industrial visits between Southern Africa, Ghana and West Africa.

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Travel management system integration is true efficiency

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Most travel procurement managers are well versed in the various systems available to them in their quest to bring efficient management and reporting to their travel programmes. However, efficiently using various different systems to complete a booking is still inefficient, Jim Weighell, Corporate Manager at Sure Travel, tells SmartProcurement.

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Why technically compliant supplier proposals are not successful

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How is it that a service provider, supplier or vendor can be 100% compliant with a request for proposal (RFP) or request for quotation (RFQ) and still be 100% wrong? Fully understanding a client’s needs is the basis of successful and winning bids, Dr Tom Sant told delegates at recent Conference of the Association of

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