This month SmartProcurement profiles Lucille de Wit of Plessey (Pty) Ltd. Full name: Lucille De Wit Position: Procurement Manager Your organisations’ procurement spend: R900m Who does P & SM report to: CFO Private sector OR Public sector: Private Sector Core business activity of the enterprise: Installation of telecommunications infrastructure Number of people in your P […]
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As the recognised industry body for the BEE Verification Industry, ABVA (the Association of BEE Verification Agencies) has provided companies with the following information in regards to what they can expect from their chosen Verification Agency (VA) during the verification process. The criteria and expectations as expressed here are part of the ABVA Member Code
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The first annual IPSA Procurement Awards ceremony (Pictured left. click to enlarge) was hosted at the Emperors Convention Centre on the evening of 19 May 2008. This prestigious event, the first of its kind in Africa, proved to be a huge success within the history of the Southern African Procurement and Supply Chain Management environments
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Sustainable procurement and the global impact that it has on supply chains worldwide was one of the primary themes at the recent IPSA / CIPS Pan African Conference that was held on May 20 – 21, 2008 at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg. The Conference, entitled “Procurement in the Global Marketplace – Opportunities and Challenges”, was
Sustainable Procurement: What is it & why is it of crucial importance? Read More »
The Institute of Purchasing and Supply South Africa (IPSA) and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) hosted their 4th annual conference on the 20th and 21st of May 2008 at Emperors Palace in Johannesburg. More than 370 delegates from all spheres of Procurement and the SCM environments (private and public) attended the two-day
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The commodity group, generically termed “Facilities Management Services” (FMS) represents a high total cost of ownership (TCO) for most organisations. This commodity group has even been defined as ‘a mainstream tool for improving performance and increasing productivity over the entire period of an alliance‘. It plays a cardinal role in optimising processes, expanding capabilities and
The recent international BrainNet/SAP survey shows that CPO’s of leading procurement organisations are faced with three central procurement challenges. They are: 1. To create transparency; 2. To create value; and 3. To establish efficient risk management structures. ***This article is a continuation of last month’s ‘Beyond the Hype: The International Importance and Evolution of
Further Beyond the Hype: The road ahead for Procurement Read More »
The item on the left seems like a pretty straightforward thing to source but the challenge in getting it 100% correct from a specification and quality perspective plus getting it on time led a Pharmaceutical company to use a procurement specialist service to source the medicine bottle-caps shown here. These services are proving ever more
Using a third party specialists to source hard to find ‘widgets’ Read More »
This is the first in a series of articles brought to you by SmartProcurement dealing with the ABC of managing your organisation’s telecommunications costs efficiently. Areas to be covered include: A – Awareness: Being fully informed on this complex and highly technical services commodity group. B – Business Communications: What are the requirements for
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Output devices – i.e. copiers, faxes, printers, scanners and new generation multi-functional units, usually represent an area of uncontrolled ‘maverick’ spend in most organisations. “In fact, if you were to tally up the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the ‘paper production’ as pushed out by your employees on a daily basis, you will be
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