“Sourcing processes can be as challenging and complex as they come,” says Zurich-based Procurement Executive, Oliver Engelbrecht, a highly experienced enabler of top level teams and optimiser of business. In this article, Oliver shares insights with Smart Procurement on one of the most dynamic trends in sourcing – hardware. For sourcing and procurement professionals, the […]
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This month SmartProcurement profiles Lerato Sebata, Category Manager: Marketing & Communications; and Intermediaries, with the Liberty Group, South Africa. Full name: Lerato Sebata Position: Category Manager Your organisation’s procurement expenditure: N/A Who does P & SM report to?: Chief Specialist: Category & Supplier Relationship Management Private sector or public sector?: Private sector
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In this article, a team of economists and research analysts at the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Governance Unit, examine the growing body of economic literature on public procurement and pinpoint the most important factors to know. Globally, it is estimated that countries spend around 13% of GDP on public procurement (Bosio et al.,
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Several factors are driving the transition to more sustainable procurement practices, as spelled out in Smart Procurement World’s 2021 Sustainability Report. The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda: Designed by the United Nations General Assembly, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) define 17 goals to be achieved by all countries by 2030 to secure a more sustainable future.
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It’s time to move from rhetoric to action on carbon emissions, says international sustainability and information security specialist at EcoVadis, Lazar Armianov, who tells SmartProcurement how to go about it. Typical corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction strategies often focus on emissions from direct operations (Scopes 1 and 2), which are clearly visible under the
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“Without active interventions to address the constraints on low levels of local content, local producers will be disadvantaged and not given the opportunity to improve their capabilities and capacity,” Multi award winning global entrepreneur and strategist, Prof Dr Tal Edgars, tells SmartProcurement. Here he highlights South Africa in the first of a two-part article which
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Infrastructure is the key to unlocking the African continent’s free trade potential, says Dr Obiora Madu, Director-General of the African Centre for Supply Chain and CEO of the Multimix Group. Here he tells Smart Procurement the ways to go about “fixing the missing links”. Africa comprises about 20% of the world’s population but even with
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(Part 1): The evolving legal frameworks Spend Matters – an Austrian-based company covering procurement technology for supplier management and sourcing – has begun a 3-part series looking into how a combination of process and technology can help root out and combat forced labour and modern slavery in global supply chains. The company’s senior analyst, Bertrand
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The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell sharply to 50.7 index points in April 2022. This is the lowest level of the PMI since July 2021 when unprecedented looting and rioting shook local production and demand. As was the case then, the decline in the headline PMI was due to a sharp drop
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