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Transaction switching – managing electronic transactions between buyer and supplier communities

A complete e-Procurement and Supplier Network solution enables purchasing organisations to make contracts operational through contract catalogues and to manage transactional exchanges between an organisation and its suppliers, Catherine Hills, Client Services Director at Quadrem, told SmartProcurement. An e-Procurement solution offers a path to productivity improvements and cost savings with regard to the procure-to-pay (P2P) […]

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Strategic agility in Supply Chains – risk and foxes

Strategic agility is the way forward, and South African organisations need to follow suit without delay, especially when gearing their supply chains, if they want to be around for the up turn, industry experts tell SmartProcurement. “Supply chains interact with many elements of risk. Agility is linked to risk,” says Douglas Kent, President of eKNOWtion,

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Ian Russell and Dr Douglas Boateng joins SmartProcurement editorial board

Strategic sourcing offers the public sector a guiding hand

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Strategic sourcing has become best practice in procurement management and makes good business sense for meeting the State’s ongoing commitment to taxpayers, Estelle van Rooyen, Director of Compliance, Contract Management in Specialist Functions for National Treasury, told SmartProcurement. Strategic sourcing initiatives have been persued in the private sector for many years, and recently the public

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Leadership Profile: Nathanael Siljeur of Rio Tinto

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This month SmartProcurement profiles Nathanael Siljeur from Rio Tinto Africa Full name: Nathanael Siljeur. Position: Leader Service Delivery Management: Africa Continent.Your organisations’ procurement expenditure: ± R6,5-billion (Africa).Who does P & SM report to: MD of Rio Tinto Procurement (Global).

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New Expenditure Analysis tools empower procurement, increase savings

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A new generation of expenditure analysis tools offers a route that procurement departments can follow to help their organisations avoid laying-off staff , Alan Low, Managing Director of Purchasing Index, tells SmartProcurement. The need to save money is universal in the current recession. In these times of austerity, encouraging management and staff of an organisation

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Green Procurement: Material flows and logistics in ‘cradle-to-cradle’ approach essential

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Discussion presented at the Environmental Trade Show and Conference. Cradle-to-cradle thinking, which suggests that everything created by humankind can contribute positively to the environment and the economy, may be one of the next movements to influence the future of supply chain management (SCM). SCM professionals are in a position to lead a drive towards complete

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The value for money approach to public sector procurement

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Second peer review: The law of Government Procurement in South Africa Isac Smith, Director Supply Chain Management, Department of Health, Provincial Government Western Cape, and speaker at the upcoming Supply Chain Management Summit, offers his comments in the second of his review series of Prof. Phoebe Bolton’s legal work, ‘The Law of Government Procurement in

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Transaction switching – managing electronic transactions between buyer and supplier communities

Strategic agility in Supply Chains – risk and foxes

Ian Russell and Dr Douglas Boateng joins SmartProcurement editorial board

Strategic sourcing offers the public sector a guiding hand

Leadership Profile: Nathanael Siljeur of Rio Tinto

New Expenditure Analysis tools empower procurement, increase savings

Green Procurement: Material flows and logistics in ‘cradle-to-cradle’ approach essential

The value for money approach to public sector procurement

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