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e-Procurement and Strategic Sourcing combine to deliver savings

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Whilst e-Procurement solutions are improving the procurement practices of organisations by eliminating many paper-based and labour-intensive processes, increasing transparency and improving control it cannot deliver the depth of benefits expected by businesses investing in the technology. It must be supported by effective and transparent strategic sourcing. Wayne van Deventer, National Strategic Sourcing Manager at MWEB […]

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Service Level Agreements – what should they contain?

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Many organisations have introduced Strategic Sourcing techniques to reduce their costs. Normally this is based on a methodology where the ‘A Team’, comprising top procurement, technical and other skills, completes a cost-management project and then hands these new arrangements over to other staff to continue to manage on a day-to-day basis. After the initial successes

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Telephony – new era technology saves company R20m in phone costs.

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“The last few years’ benchmarks of the local business cell-phone market indicated high costs and a lack of substantial innovation. Now, however, technology is converging and the distinction between voice and data transmission are blurring. These new products promise substantial cost saving opportunities,” Alan Low, Managing Director of Purchasing Index, told Smart Procurement.

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Market Analysis: The South African Transport and Logistics Industry – An Industry in Turmoil

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Most industries in South Africa face globalisation and transformation challenges but the South African Transport and Logistics industry faces its own peculiarities that impact on the country as a whole. Shaun Scott and Henry Carelse, Directors of Worldwide Integrated Logistics (WIL) provided Smart Procurement with an up to date market analysis of this core driver

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Outsourced BEE compliance services pinpoint supplier development requirements for increased Procurement Score.

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“With the Codes of Good Practice on Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (the Codes) approved and about to be gazetted, the BEE verification industry is moving towards much stricter regulation. Already there has been a substantial reduction in the number of businesses offering verification services now published in the Association of BEE Verification Agencies’ website (www.abva.co.za).”

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Procurement Job Descriptions

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We often get asked about Procurement Job Descriptions. As a result we opened up a post on the Procurementtips.com forum relating to various procurement jobs and their descriptions. At the moment we have information regarding: 1. Purchasing Managers (Fairly Comprehensive for a smaller organisation or local purchasing unit of larger purchasing organisation – Not suitable

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Buy consultants and other professional services for up to 20% less

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Professional services is a category of spend that is sometimes poorly understood and often not addressed when searching for cost saving opportunities, says Elaine Porteous, an independent procurement advisor. “If any area within the broad category of professional services has never been sourced or has not been addressed within the last three years, your company

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Update: New developments in the “Catering Services” marketplace.

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“After benchmarking staff catering for a number of years some interesting changes have occured that are affecting this crucial support service,” says Alan Low of Purchasing index. “At the turn of the century many organizations had outsourced staff catering usually to one of the better known service providers, e.g. Royal, KKS, Fedics, etc. who usually

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Supplier sustainability evaluation service launched

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Organisations can better manage risks by limiting their exposure to unstable suppliers. The general principle being that insight into a supplier’s sustainability profile, will advance the procurement department’s ability to plan for and handle, disruptions in supply, inconsistencies in product quality, the sourcing of back up or new suppliers and a host of other related

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TCO of Changing to a new supplier

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On the Procurementtips.com Forum Bob McLeay from RACV in Australia asked the follwing interesting question: “A lot of my work is in establishing agreements for provision of indirect services. When comparing the total cost of alternative bids I usually apply a notional cost to non incumbents to allow for the cost of transition to a

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