There are many paths one can take to becoming the highest-ranking official in an organisation but not all are equal, writes executive coach, leadership & talent strategist, and founder / managing director of People Shop in Cape Town. Chantal Kading. Supply chain leaders have often been overlooked when it comes to finding the right candidate […]
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Supply Chain risk management (SCRM) professionals are warned to expect prolonged negative consequences of the severe drought impacting the Panama Canal, including weight restrictions and higher rates being applied, with further increases in the cost of shipping cargo on the cards. Here Berlin-based Jan-Henner Theissen, founder and managing director of procurement advisory firm, targetP!, provides
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Risk is the focus of the 17th annual SmartProcurement World Indaba, South Africa’s largest, longest-standing event for procurement and inbound supply chain professionals, taking place from 11 to 14 September 2023 at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, Gauteng. Announcing this year’s theme as “Do Risk Right!”, chief operating officer of organisers SmartProcurement , Debbie Tagg,
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Global thought leader in supply chain, change management, procurement, management and edtech, Mike Mortson, fears that supply chain leaders are becoming lazy. By this, he explains, he doesn’t mean that they are lazy in terms of getting their day-to-day tasks done, but in making the strategic improvements necessary to create more robust and resilient supply
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Infrastructure development will be a vital tool in stimulating provincial economic growth in the Western Cape over the next 12 years, strategically leveraging procurement to optimise the impact, says Provincial Minister of Infrastructure, Minister Tertuis Simmers. Speaking at SmartProcurement’s 10th Annual Western Cape Procurement Conference last month, Mr Simmers told his audience of procurement specialists
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Efficient and interconnected supply chains play a vital role in driving economic growth and development, whereas the fragmentation of African supply chains impedes trade policies, costs, and potential, writes Adenike Onasoga, Head of Supply Chain at Kimberly-Clark, Nigeria. In this article, she writes about the pressing need on the continent to address the issues arising
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After what looks to have been a decent second quarter, at least in terms of quarterly growth momentum, the manufacturing sector had a setback at the start of the third quarter. This is the message from the latest seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). Although the headline index was only marginally lower in July at 47.3
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SmartProcurement asked Chat GPT (a Large Language Model (LLM) Artificial Intelligence that’s currently taking the world by storm) to tell us more about itself and what it can do for procurement professionals. The article that follows was written by Chat GPT in response to this question. Hey there! I’m Chat GPT, an advanced AI
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CEO of Commerce Edge International Business and SmartProcurement Editor, Bernie van Niekerk, unpacks the huge potential of Artificial Intelligence in our industry, for the purpose of releasing you, the procurement professional, to get on with the interesting stuff. The uses of AI are exploding, and have the potential for limitless developments. In this enormously helpful
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In our first article, CHAT GPT made some bold claims regarding its ability to support and enhance procurement processes. In this short video, Bernie van Niekerk, Editor of SmartProcurement, delves deeper into Chat GPT capabilities and through a conversation with this AI, illustrates its amazing abilities to support procurement processes and professionals. https://commerce-edge.com/tools-tips/practical-examples-of-utilizing-chatgpt-in-the-procurement-process/
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