Cabinet approved the revised Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Codes of Good Practice, 2012 for public comment in August. “The revised codes will enhance the implementation of B-BBEE in a meaningful and sustainable manner. The revised codes also contain principles and guidelines that will facilitate and accelerate the implementation of B-BBEE.” “The purpose of the […]
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The great irony of today’s ERP systems is that, once they are implemented, it becomes harder to extract information so that it can be used within the business to drive decision-making and take action, Alan Low of Purchasing Index (PI) says in this month’s SmartProcurement. Spend analysis can have a huge influence on the behaviour
ERPs make procurement data extraction harder, not easier Read More »
Absa Business Bank Enterprise Development’s Denver Tavira stumbled onto the truth about creating and developing sustainable SMEs in South Africa: businesses, financial institutions and government need to work together. He shares Absa’s findings from promoting the development of a Clean Energy SME with the assistance of Eskom, in this month’s SmartProcurement. “What we need most
Case Study – ABSA Developing a sustainable SME Read More »
The collaboration will make it possible for students of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) studying through its international study centre Commerce Edge Academy, to further their qualification with a B.Com through The Da Vinci Institute. In its capacity as CIPS Study Centre, Commerce Edge Academy, a division of Commerce Edge South Africa,
CIPS Study Centre Commerce Edge Academy launches SCM faculty at The Da Vinci Institute Read More »
The theft of R140-million by corrupt officials and unscrupulous water tanker contractors from the uThukela Municipality over the past 5 years (Sunday Tribune – 25 August 2012) could have been prevented, Rudi Kruger, General Manager of LexisNexis Risk Management, told SmartProcurement. uThukela Municipality paid R29-million a year over five years to a host of companies,
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‘Cloud computing’ is a phrase that arouses tremendous interest among Procurement professional these days, Paul Morel, General Manager at MyMarket.com recently told SmartProcurement. “But as technologies evolve we must never lose sight of the fact that the top priority of Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) remains finding savings and reducing costs.” But how does cloud computing
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Ronald Mlalazi, Education Manager at Commerce Edge Academy, has become a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS). There are only eight people in Southern Africa who have reached this level of professional recognition. Ronald chatted to SmartProcurement about the path he followed earning his FCIPS a how he intends putting Procurement
CIPS Fellow intends to shake-up the profession Read More »
To increase per capita income and distribute wealth more evenly across the South African population, the economy would have to expand to almost three times the present level, and create up to 11-million new jobs over the next two decades. These were the remarks in the launch speech of the National Development Plan for South
Centralised supplier database to drive economic growth Read More »
The title of this article may have misled the reader into thinking that this is a futuristic, science fiction discussion. Rather it is a look at the reality of South Africa’s current ‘two economic universes’, explored to by Clem Sunter, legendary futurist, strategist and visionary in a recent column (News 24). More importantly it is
Parallel economic universes, procurement and supply chain? Read More »
As a consultant and educator in operations and supply chain management for the manufacturing industry, Ken Titmuss, a SAPICS and APICS Authorised Education Provider, has a habit of pondering over bills and quotations a bit more than does the average Joe Soap. Considering his dinner bill the other evening he suddenly wondered how much he
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