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Leadership Profile: Fantas Mobu of the Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) and Chairman of SOEPF (State Owned Enterprises Procurement Forum)

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This month SmartProcurement profiles Fantas Mobu from ACSA. Full Name: Fantas Mobu Position: Group Specialist: Procurement Services Private Sector OR Public Sector: State Owned Enterprise Core business activity of the enterprise: The building, construction and development of airports infrastructure. Number of people in your P & SM organisation: 9 Direct, along with many decentralised personnel […]

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Why organisations fail to implement strategic sourcing effectively…

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“The drive to become world-class has seen many organisations implementing Strategic Sourcing philosophy and Supply Chain Management practices within their companies with various levels of success. So why do some organisations still fail, whilst others excel?”, Heleen Liebenberg, a Senior Sourcing Specialist at Volition Consulting Services, asked SmartProcurement. Top management support & commitment is

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Automating and / or outsourcing external print services

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“External print services will usually be categorised as indirect spend, unless your organisation itself is in print or publishing, in which case, it would fall into the direct spend category”, Gary Davies, Managing Director of Print Outsource International (POINT), told SmartProcurement. In these times of increased specialty procurement, indirect spend commodities are the ones which

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Welcome to the Future: Unlocking Organisational Effectiveness and Productivity – Functional Intelligence™

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“One of my all-time favourite quotes comes from what has to be one of our finest sources of brilliance and inspiration – Albert Einstein: ‘Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.’ No wonder that so many strategies fail to be realised!”, Frank Susini, an Independent Consultant, told SmartProcurement.

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Leadership Profile: Wynand Louw of Tsebo Holdings & Operations

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This month SmartProcurement profiles Wynand Louw from Tsebo Holdings & Operations (Fedics Foods, Drake & Scull, Equality Foods, Tsebo Cleaning). Full name: Wynand Louw Position: Supply Chain Director Your organisations’ procurement spend: R1bn Who does P & SM report to: CEO Private sector OR Public sector: Private sector Core business activity of the enterprise: Outsourcing

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In-Depth 2008 Procurement Salary Survey Report Published

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SmartProcurement, in conjunction with Purchasing Index, Commerce Edge and Tech-Pro Personnel have created a comprehensive, in depth report based on the findings of the National Procurement and Supply Management (P & SM) Salary Survey. The report which compliments the results previously published was based on 522 voluntary respondents who participated are representative of the major

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Mining Division Launches its Full E-Procurement Functionality with African Suppliers

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Dallas & Johannesburg – Anglo Base Metals launched its full e-Procurement functionality at a formal event on 1 August 2008, in partnership with Quadrem Africa, a subsidiary of Quadrem International Ltd, a supply chain solutions company with one of the world’s largest electronically connected supplier networks for private and public sectors. This will see

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Rigorous Process Focus Required for Effective Strategic Sourcing

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Many procurement organisations have embarked on Strategic Sourcing in recent years, with mixed successes. “A lack of focus on the integration of the overall value chain has allowed sceptics to minimise the value of new generation procurement approaches. Cobus Rossouw, Managing Director of Volition Consulting Services, told SmartProcurement.”The way forward requires appropriate focus… …on the

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Courier Services Benchmarking Shows Up Rate Discrepancies

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“Courier Services is a surprisingly complex spend category to manage as the devil (and delivery of savings!) is in the detail,” benchmarker Purchasing Index (PI) MD Alan Low, told SmartProcurement. ” We regularly benchmarks domestic courier rates across organisations from a variety of industry sectors… and Rates from courier companies vary dramatically.” The charts

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Where Corporate Travel Money Falls Through The Cracks…

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SmartProcurement was invited to the recent Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) breakfast at the Westin Grand Hotel, Cape Town on the 22nd of August 2008. The topic of this breakfast was the prickly question: “Where is the money falling through the cracks?”, with particular reference to car rentals and unused tickets. Who is ACTE?

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