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Sustainability Research is Essential to Shed Light on Global Threats

Leave a Comment / Category Management, Information technology, Leadership and People, Professional Development, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management SCM / Bernie van Niekerk

What we innovate, invent, advance, or know today started off as research fueled by our curiosity. Research is essential in understanding problems and challenges, which, says Oumaima Ben Amor, independent scholar at the Ronin Institute, involves the development of new ideas and solutions. It has shed light on the global threats that we face today. […]

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Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) April 2023

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

The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 49.8 index points in April 2023 from 48.1 in March. Despite the improvement, the index failed to edge back above the neutral 50-point mark as business activity and new sales orders worsened relative to March. Indeed, the headline PMI would have deteriorated further if not

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Supply Chain Career Burnout – The Warning Signs

Leave a Comment / Don't miss, Leadership and People, Procurement Leaders, Professional Development / Bernie van Niekerk

In this episode of Peak Performance Conversations, leadership and talent strategists, Chantal Kading and Kholofelo Mabila from The People Shop, discuss burnout and the idea that we shouldn’t be seeking the elusive balance between our work and personal lives, but rather ways to integrate them.

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BBBEE Commission releases study on improving ESD

Leave a Comment / BEE, Don't miss, Education, Enterprise Development, Leadership and People, Legal / Contract, Supplier Management / Bernie van Niekerk

The need for investment and facilitation in assisting SMMEs with pre-investment and post-investment support, is growing, says National Director – Business Consulting, ESG and Energy & Natural Resources, Yugen Pillay. Commenting on the enterprise and supplier development (ESD) research report released last month by the Commission for Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE Commission), he said

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Thousands online for Africa SC and Procurement Conference

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

The recent Africa Supply Chain in Action (ASCA) Conference saw almost 3 000 African supply chain and procurement professionals from 75 countries gather online to examine the skills, strategies and solutions needed to accelerate African economic development and growth in a post-pandemic new world. The theme of this third ASCA event was “Borderless – Unleashing

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Less Risks, More Opportunities with Sustainability

Leave a Comment / Education, Leadership and People, Legal / Contract, Risk Management, Sourcing Strategy, Sustainable Procurement / Bernie van Niekerk

We live in an era of continuous and expanding growth: Producing, procuring, distributing, trading, consuming, and other economic activities improve people’s quality of life, upgrade communities, and allow nations to thrive. However, says Oumaima Ben Amor, Sustainability Consultant at Our Hiraya in Australia, we tend to forget that the economy and society are embedded into

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What P2P Will Look Like in the Future

Leave a Comment / AI, Compliance / Legal, Global Sourcing, Leadership and People, Legal / Contract, Procurement Training, Sourcing Strategy, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management SCM, Technology / Bernie van Niekerk

As businesses move further into the twenty-first century, the traditional procure-to-pay process will become increasingly outdated. In the coming decades, warns Dooka South Africa, companies will need to completely re-envision their procure-to-pay (P2P) process if they want to remain competitive. This article explores what the future of P2P will look like in 20 years, examining

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Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) March 2023

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

The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) ticked down slightly in March to 48.1 from 48.8 in February. After a solid start to the year, this was the second straight month that the index pointed to a deterioration in business conditions in the manufacturing sector. Still, when considering the performance of the business activity

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Global CPO reflects on 2022 and 2023

Leave a Comment / e-Procurement, Leadership and People, Procurement Leaders, Technology / Bernie van Niekerk

Throughout 2022, Chief Procurement Officer at Coupa in Vancouver, Michael Van Keulen, says he was fortunate enough to meet many procurement leaders, customers, and partners around the globe. Reflecting on this crazy year, he speaks here of many challenges, from the war in the Ukraine to macroeconomic challenges, that required procurement professionals to work more

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Supply Chain Peak Performance: HI vs AI

Leave a Comment / AI, Leadership and People, Procurement Leaders, Technology / Bernie van Niekerk

While the world is geared to embrace Artificial Intelligence, the facts show that Human Intelligence is not about to become extinct. Far from it, says Cape Town-based Chantal Kading, Executive Coach and Leadership & Talent Strategist. The skills of the future are not about more technology and hard skills. These are empty without soft skills.

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