By Gordon Reid with input from Mieka Cleghorn, SA Managing Director, Transparent As a semi-retired business executive, and after spending the past twenty plus years working for some of South Africa’s leading companies, the COVID-19 lockdown has afforded me valuable time for some serious thinking. Many businesses will need to change the way they operate […]
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The Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for July 2020 declined slightly compared with June, but continued to signal a further month-on-month improvement for conditions in the manufacturing sector. The PMI declined to 51.2 index points in July, from 53.9 in June, thereby staying above the neutral 50-point mark for a third consecutive month. This suggests
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SmartProcurement has joined forces with SAPICS to offer Africa’s largest-ever online event for supply chain and procurement professionals. Africa Supply Chain in Action takes place on 19 and 20 August 2020. It is expected to bring together more than 1 000 supply chain and procurement professionals.
The Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for June 2020 showed that conditions continued to improve in the South African manufacturing sector. This is after most of the sector came to a near standstill during the nationwide Level 5 lockdown in April 2020 and only partially returned to normal production levels in May 2020. The headline
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Do we need to fundamentally re-imagine what our procurement eco-system looks like? Ian Thompson, Regional Head at Ivalua, thinks so and here is why…
Coronavirus has exposed just how delicate our procurement eco-system really is Read More »
The Business Activity Index of the Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) survey crashed to an all-time low of a mere 5.1 index points in April 2020. The decline means that manufacturing output came to a near standstill during the nationwide lockdown, with almost all respondents reporting a decline in activity compared to the previous month.
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What kind of future-ready procurement leader is needed to survive a rapidly-changing business world? Only a few months ago, the stock market was looking strong and the ongoing trade war between China and the United States indicated future pressure on global supply chains. No one could have predicted that schools and universities would close, companies
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By Michael Healy, Supply Chain Partner The outbreak of COVID-19 has forced companies to get creative about how they connect and meet with customers and teams. Working with cloud applications allows us to workshop, design and configure systems remotely. With apps like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, working remotely can be easy and cost effective. But
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To support supply chain professionals and to ensure that they have the resources they need to maintain supply chains during the coronavirus crisis, supply chain management professional body SAPICS has launched a number of special support initiatives to aid the profession. This includes a supply chain management toolkit, helpline and collaboration platform.
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During Quarter 1 of 2020, the seasonally-adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) experienced its weakest quarterly performance since 2009. The PMI averaged at 45.9 index points, compared with 47.6 in Quarter 4 of 2019. The weak quarterly outcome was despite the PMI improving to 48.1 index points in March 2020, from 44.3 index points in
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