In celebration of Women’s Month and the fabulous women in our industry, SmartProcurement profiles Adriane Yvette Naidoo from Visa. Full name Adriane Yvette Naidoo Position Head of Sourcing (Sub Saharan Africa) Your organisation’s procurement expenditure $8Bil/per annum Who does P & SM report to The CFO Private sector or public sector Private […]
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In last month’s issue, Toby Sparrow, CEO of Dooka, introduced the idea that much value could be gained by using Business to Business (B2B) Marketplaces in carrying out Indirect and Tail-spend, which usually costs a lot more than it should. Here he unpacks the concept of being less rigid and deriving more value from the
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To mark Women’s Month, SmartProcurement profiles another dynamic woman in Procurement, Stacy McTavish from Dimension Data, an NTT company. Full name Stacy Lee McTavish Position Head: Supply Chain Centre of Excellence (COE) Who does P & SM report to The CFO Private sector or public sector Private sector Core business activity
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What a waste of time and money if your staff ultimately don’t adopt the new tech! But prevention is the best cure with these three steps, advises Katarzyna Fonteyn, Director, Procurement Product Management at Basware, in this article published by Precurious. If your employees don’t buy-in to your purchase system, then nothing else matters.
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Suppeco CEO Sheldon Mydat chats to SmartProcurement about the intrinsic value of building solid relationships with suppliers to extract real value for your business, and how Suppeco can help. Here’s the thing: the relationships that you structure between your customers, your suppliers, your teams, your people – that’s where the real value lies. In understanding,
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Mike Mortson, CEO at Supply Chain Game Changer in Ontario, Canada, believes that in the post-pandemic era, the deployment of exciting technologies, new processes and systems, broader skills and more strategic responsibilities will make it a fantastic time to be in supply chain for many years to come and make Supply Chain heroes of their
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The further decline in the seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) suggests that the manufacturing sector experienced a tough start to the third quarter following a weak second quarter. The headline index fell from 52.2 points in June to 47.6 in July . This is the first reading below the neutral 50-point threshold since
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Where are you on your digital journey, and what barriers do you need to overcome within your organisations? Lubos Libiak, Customer & Delivery Executive at Cirtuo in the Czech Republic, shares with SmartProcurement his concern that many organisations have the budgets available, yet they’re still unable to advance on their digital journey. Businesses in Africa
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Absa’s Head of Procurement – Digital Solutions, Innovation & Technology, Craig Vaughan, talks to SmartProcurement about the evolution of procurement right up to the age of Information Technology (IT) sourcing, and how professionals in the industry can extract maximum value by embracing Technology Business Management (TBM). The role of procurement or sourcing teams has
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The digital transformation of procurement is well underway, and any organisation that is clinging to analogue procurement in today’s digital world, is in danger of extinction, warn experts. This was one of the key messages from the procurement maestros who shared their insights with over 150 IT and professionals who gathered online for the third
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