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Further Beyond the Hype: The road ahead for Procurement

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The recent international BrainNet/SAP survey shows that CPO’s of leading procurement organisations are faced with three central procurement challenges. They are: 1. To create transparency; 2. To create value; and 3. To establish efficient risk management structures. ***This article is a continuation of last month’s ‘Beyond the Hype: The International Importance and Evolution of […]

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Transforming procurement in a strong IT environment: Hardware, Software, Services and Telecomunications case studies

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"How does the procurement function get its hands on the company’s IT spend?" is a key question in many large organisations. It turns out that getting the mandate is only the start of the game. Getting a strong IT function to support and implement the proposed procurement strategies is a different kettle of fish. Here

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Making the most of Supply Market Intelligence Information

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“Most procurement departments have have to deliver savings on an ever-increasing portfolio of goods and services with too few skilled resources,” says Alan Low, MD of procurement benchmarking service Purchasing Index (PI). “Compounding the problem of time is the culture of consensus which results in a high number of daily meetings and workshops.” He tells

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Only 1 in 10 procurement professionals can extract critical information

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“Most World Class Organisations have realised that procurement is a key component for sustainable business success.” James Yates, COO of Cutting Edge Commerce tells Smart Procurement. However, the lack of visibility into accurate and complete transaction data is hampering company performance. Usually, large companies commission an outsourced service provider to develop a solution which

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Local procurement intelligence provider does global deal

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New York based Information Builders (IB), a supplier of business intelligence solutions and Pretoria based Cutting Edge Commerce (CEC) have announced a worldwide partnership that will see CEC’s pre-packaged procurement and supply chain reporting solution be made available globally for multiple ERP systems including SAP, Oracle, J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft, Baan, Lawson, Sage Accpac and 1C.

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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 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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