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Awards Honour and Celebrate the Supply Chain Profession in Africa

Leave a Comment / Leadership and People, Procurement Leaders, Sourcing Strategy, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management SCM, Sustainable Procurement / Bernie van Niekerk

The winners of the second annual Africa Supply Chain Excellence Awards (ASCEA) were announced at a gala event in Johannesburg attended by more than 220 supply chain practitioners from across the continent last month. These awards recognise the vital role played by the supply chain management profession, and honour and celebrate the outstanding achievements of […]

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Risk, ESG, AI, Public Sector Procurement On The Agenda

Leave a Comment / AI, Don't miss, Leadership and People, Procurement Leaders, Professional Development, Public Sector Procurement, Sourcing Strategy, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management SCM, Technology / Bernie van Niekerk

Risk is the focus of the 17th annual SmartProcurement World Indaba, South Africa’s largest, longest-standing event for procurement and inbound supply chain professionals, taking place from 11 to 14 September 2023 at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, Gauteng. Announcing this year’s theme as “Do Risk Right!”, chief operating officer of organisers SmartProcurement , Debbie Tagg,

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Catastrophic Supply Chain Disasters made worse by laziness

Leave a Comment / Don't miss, Global Sourcing, Leadership and People, Procurement Strategy, Sourcing Strategy, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management SCM / Bernie van Niekerk

Global thought leader in supply chain, change management, procurement, management and edtech, Mike Mortson, fears that supply chain leaders are becoming lazy. By this, he explains, he doesn’t mean that they are lazy in terms of getting their day-to-day tasks done, but in making the strategic improvements necessary to create more robust and resilient supply

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Role of Procurement in Western Cape government

Procurement Key in Development of Infrastructure

Leave a Comment / Leadership and People, Procurement Strategy, Public Sector Procurement, Sourcing Strategy, Sustainable Procurement / Bernie van Niekerk

Infrastructure development will be a vital tool in stimulating provincial economic growth in the Western Cape over the next 12 years, strategically leveraging procurement to optimise the impact, says Provincial Minister of Infrastructure, Minister Tertuis Simmers. Speaking at SmartProcurement’s 10th Annual Western Cape Procurement Conference last month, Mr Simmers told his audience of procurement specialists

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Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) July 2023

Leave a Comment / Leadership and People, PMI / Bernie van Niekerk

After what looks to have been a decent second quarter, at least in terms of quarterly growth momentum, the manufacturing sector had a setback at the start of the third quarter. This is the message from the latest seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI). Although the headline index was only marginally lower in July at 47.3

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How Chat GPT Transforms Procurement … in its own words!

Leave a Comment / AI, Big Data, Category Management, Don't miss, Information technology, Leadership and People, Procurement Leaders, SRM Supplier Relationship Management, Supplier Management, Technology / Bernie van Niekerk

SmartProcurement asked Chat GPT (a Large Language Model (LLM) Artificial Intelligence that’s currently taking the world by storm) to tell us more about itself and what it can do for procurement professionals. The article that follows was written by Chat GPT in response to this question. Hey there! I’m Chat GPT, an advanced AI

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What can AI do for YOU in procurement?

Leave a Comment / Category Management, Don't miss, Information technology, Leadership and People, Professional Development / Bernie van Niekerk

CEO of Commerce Edge International Business and SmartProcurement Editor, Bernie van Niekerk, unpacks the huge potential of Artificial Intelligence in our industry, for the purpose of releasing you, the procurement professional, to get on with the interesting stuff. The uses of AI are exploding, and have the potential for limitless developments. In this enormously helpful

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CHALLENGES FACING SA’S PUBLIC SECTOR SCM ARENA

Leave a Comment / Don't miss, Leadership and People, Preferential Procurement, Procurement Leaders, Public Sector Procurement, Sourcing Strategy / Bernie van Niekerk

Public sector supply chain management officials must adopt a renewed approach to procurement in order to ensure value for money in today’s changing legislative and economic environment, according to Isac Smith, chief director of Governance and Asset Management in the Western Cape provincial treasury. The upcoming 10th annual Western Cape Procurement Conference, which is

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Industry Experts Interviewed on Best SC Risk Practices

Leave a Comment / Leadership and People, Procurement Training, Professional Development, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management SCM / Bernie van Niekerk

Vice-president of supply chain management in the ARC Advisory Group, based in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, Steve Banker, spoke to two industry leaders on the subject of supply chain risk management best practices last year, namely Klaus Niebur, the director of global supply chain risk management at Autoliv, and Jan Theissen, the managing director at targetP!

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Procurement Fraud Continues to Thrive

Leave a Comment / Compliance / Legal, Leadership and People, Legal / Contract, Procurement Leaders, Public Sector Procurement, Risk Management, Sourcing Strategy / Bernie van Niekerk

Procurement fraud happens within the entire value chain of organisations, says Lebogang Letsoalo, director at Sincpoint Pty Ltd. The reason for so many procurement officials getting the chance to manipulate systems and accept bribes, is because decisions are made on every level. Letsoalo tells SmartProcurement that – from an economic perspective – we need to

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