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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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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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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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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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Weighing up Work and Life

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Do you live to work or work to live? This vital question is posed by Executive Coach and Leadership & Talent Strategist, Chantal Kading, founder and managing director of People Shop in Cape Town. Achieving a successful work-life balance is not easy, she elaborates in this article, because it implies that the scales must be

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Leadership Profile: Riccardo Benedetti

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This month SmartProcurement profiles Riccardo Benedetti from Hulamin. Full name Riccardo Danilo Benedetti Position General Manager: Head of Procurement Your organisation’s procurement expenditure Approximately R12-billion p/annum Who does P & SM report to The CFO Private sector or public sector Private sector (JSE Listed) Core business activity of the enterprise Manufacturing Aluminium. Hulamin

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Deloitte Africa Hosts 2023 Sustainability Summit Africa

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Africa’s transformational ESG conference aims to ensure a more sustainable, equitable future for Africa. The 2023 Sustainability Summit Africa hosted by Deloitte Africa will be held under the theme “People, Planet, Purpose”. Now in its third successful year, this event is organised by Smart Procurement. The 2023 summit, which takes place from the 6 to

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Supply Chain Career Burnout – The Warning Signs

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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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Global CPO reflects on 2022 and 2023

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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

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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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