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An opportunity analysis process for sourcing initiatives

What is an Opportunity Analysis? “An Opportunity Analysis is an initiative that attempts to identify ways to capture value through sourcing. These opportunities are identified after analysing organisational requirements, supplier spend, current sourcing processes and other data sources. An Opportunity Analysis initiative can differ in the number of categories in scope and type of outcome”, […]

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Demand Management Consultant – Cape Town

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Santam is currently looking for a Demand Management Consultant who will be responsible for managing and analysing business demand to continually identify avenues to drive down consumption, and implement those opportunities whilst ensuring that business requirements are met and risk is managed. Job Purpose and Principal Accountabilities: Scope, plan and manage iterations of the Demand

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People on the move: Spotlight on Procurement and Supply Chain

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Paul McKane has recently moved from Quadrem to being appointed as Solution Manager – SRM at SAP South Africa. Fantas Mobu has been appointed as the Chairman of the SOEPF (State-Owned Enterprises Procurement Forum). Julian Curtiss has been appointed as Managing Director of Transaction Technology Solutions. IPSA Board 2009: • Karen van

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Implementation of BEE hampered by bad information

Collaborative cost management with key suppliers

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It has been said that in organisation within a world-class procurement framework it is difficult to find a clear-cut distinction between the organisational drive for continuous improvement viz-a-viz value release from actively managing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). “In fact, these objectives represent the two sides of the same coin and trying to determine which

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Interim Contracts are Ideal for Both the Employer and the Procurement Specialist

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In a recent issue of Supply Management , Pat Law writes that “contractors tend to do well in a downturn, as organizations switch to more flexible forms of employment”. While this is written in the context of the UK and EU, it applies just as much to our own environment and the special circumstances in

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SMME Development as a driver of BEE Procurement opportunities and the economy as a whole

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“Governments, policy makers, even the World Bank, all agree that small businesses are the growth engine in any economy. Looking at other countries as an example, 95% of organisations in Australia are from the Small Micro Medium Enterprises sector (SMME), whilst Germany’s economic growth was also led by SMMEs. The same applies to South Africa

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Valuable spend information so important in the current economy

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It seems as though climate change and recent economic upheavals may have more in common than one might expect. It isn’t so much that the weather is getting notably worse, but that short-term changes seem to be becoming more extreme. Recent fatal storms in KwaZulu-Natal this holiday season and flash floods in the Cape last

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Quadrem delivers African market new services powered by SAP® Software

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Quadrem has signed a global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) agreement with SAP AG. The organisations will work together to help customers reduce the cost and complexity of implementing and operating integrated electronic sourcing, procurement, invoicing, and contract management processes. In addition, Quadrem’s BPO services have qualified as ‘powered by SAP’.

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How important is price when selecting recruitment agencies?

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Lindiwe Nakedi, the co-owner of and a Career Consultant at The People Shop, recently told SmartProcurement that many people often believe that recruitment is a commodity which hinges predominantly on price: “Recruitment organisations, or at least the good ones, differentiate themselves on quality and value added services which they provide and thus argue that there

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