What is ‘Entrepreneurial Procurement’? How can the term entrepreneurial be applied to people who are working for large organisations? (Most are in procurement) Surely being entrepreneurial is about coming up with a new idea and building a business from the ground up? “That is the conventional view of an entrepreneur, but in the context that […]
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The government, big businesses and South Africans need to buy locally produced goods to support job creation, higher economic growth and address poverty, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says. "If we want our economy to grow, then we need to buy more locally made goods," he said at a Proudly SA Buy Local annual summit.
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1. Project Management Skills At the core of procurement, there needs to be a competency in project management. Procurement is a culmination of many different activities that produce a finished product. A procurement professional initiates, plans, executes and monitors the project through to completion. The best people to work in procurement are organised enough to
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The National Development Plan envisions zero tolerance for corruption in South Africa by the year 2030. With 14 years to go, can a country that has a history of high-profile corruption cases break the repetition? Rudi Kruger, General Manager of Governance, Risk & Compliance at LexisNexis South Africa, poses the question in this month’s
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Transparency is one of the most effective ways to increase price competitiveness among suppliers, resulting in lower purchase prices, if implemented correctly. Moritz Botha, Director: eTendering at National Treasury, discusses the use of technology to achieve these goals in this month’s SmartProcurement. Ensuring transparency in procurement is typically achieved through the publication of the
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In this month’s SmartProcurement, Steven Freemantle, of SweetThorn Thought Leadership, discusses how to combine three traditional approaches in a non-traditional way to achieve SAP Supply Chain Mastery. Mastery of your SAP systems contribution to procurement’s and therefore your supply chain’s success is not as complex as one may think. Freemantle refers to a methodology
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Reputable brands attract good suppliers, valuable partners and strong customers. They enjoy a positive public image and are seen as the benchmark for other players in their respective fields. But it is not only clever marketing and strategic public relations efforts that give prominent brands around the world their position at the top. “A
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Too little information and awareness is sabotaging small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which makes it a challenge to receive credit, getting better deals from suppliers, and securing additional funding to help grow their business, says credit advisor Experian SA. “SMEs needed to be aware of what affected their credit profile negatively and positively, and
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has pledged its support for the creation of a professional procurement licence. The endorsement was revealed at the CIPS Pan African Conference in July in Johannesburg. David Noble, group CEO, CIPS said in a statement that “as a profession, we need to step forward and be accountable for
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Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) exists purely to push South Africa forward in its transformation. More and more incubators of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have come to the fore since the inception of B-BBEE, however, despite developing a strong SME sector, progress in terms of SME development remains moderate. Part of the reason
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