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Leadership Profile: Karen van Vuuren of Transnet

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LEADERS: This month Smart Procurement profiles the dynamic leader of Transnet’s Procurement and Supply Management (P&SM) function, Karen van Vuuren. Full Name: Karen van Vuuren Position: Chief Procurement Officer , Transnet Private sector OR Public sector: Public Sector Core business activity of the enterprise: National Bulk Freight Transportation and Infrastructure Number of people in […]

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CEC acquires local World Class procurement training provider

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Commerce Edge, a provider of World Class Procurement training solutions, has sold a majority stake in its South African business to CEC (Cutting Edge Commerce), a leading BEE supplier of Procurement information, analysis and consulting services… “The deal improves Seta Accredited Commerce Edge’s BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) rating (the company is now a level 4

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True cost of Staff Recruitment exposed

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If you asked your Human Resources Department how much staff recruitment really costs your organisation the real cost can be much higher than imagined. Elaine Porteous, an Independent Procurement Consultant tells Smart Procurement that there are many costly “hassle factors” both internally and externally that are usually not accounted for. She says the following issues

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Telephony – new era technology saves company R20m in phone costs.

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“The last few years’ benchmarks of the local business cell-phone market indicated high costs and a lack of substantial innovation. Now, however, technology is converging and the distinction between voice and data transmission are blurring. These new products promise substantial cost saving opportunities,” Alan Low, Managing Director of Purchasing Index, told Smart Procurement.

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Market Analysis: The South African Transport and Logistics Industry – An Industry in Turmoil

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Most industries in South Africa face globalisation and transformation challenges but the South African Transport and Logistics industry faces its own peculiarities that impact on the country as a whole. Shaun Scott and Henry Carelse, Directors of Worldwide Integrated Logistics (WIL) provided Smart Procurement with an up to date market analysis of this core driver

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Procurement Job Descriptions

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We often get asked about Procurement Job Descriptions. As a result we opened up a post on the Procurementtips.com forum relating to various procurement jobs and their descriptions. At the moment we have information regarding: 1. Purchasing Managers (Fairly Comprehensive for a smaller organisation or local purchasing unit of larger purchasing organisation – Not suitable

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What do procurement professionals get paid?

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Do procurement professionals playing the same role but in different industries get remunerated differently? How does the mining industry compare to retail, compared to government? What does a senior manager get paid compared to a commodity manager, compared to a buyer? How does your remuneration package compare to others in your industry / band? We

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Procurement intelligence becomes “empowered.”

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Thirty Percent of procurement intelligence provider Cutting Edge Procurement (CEP) has been acquired by a BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) grouping led by businessman Althaf Emmamally (pictured). CEP provides business intelligence tools for analysing, managing and optimising the procurement environment to some of the largest procurement organisations in the country. Emmamally, which will now play the

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Find out about KEY supplier failure before it happens

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Is your strategic supplier’s business about to fail? Even they might not be 100% aware of their situation… Business Safety Ratings is an innovative new service that assist procurement officers to select safe, new suppliers and to aid ailing, existing suppliers. Early signals of a possible need for bale-out or remedial intervention assist buyers in

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PC Prices drop faster than the rand strengthens

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The average purchase prices for standard desktop and laptop PCs recorded by Purchasing Index in their continuous quarterly PC benchmarking service. The graph shows that the cost of PC technology in RSA has continued to drop far quicker than the Rand has strengthened against the Euro and US Dollar. In addition the specification for the

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