The State-Owned Enterprise Procurement Forum (SOEPF) and the Chartered Institute or Purchasing and Supply Southern Africa (CIPS SA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further professionalise the Procurement and Supply Chain profession, and uphold a policy of ethics with honesty and integrity. “In signing the MoU, CIPS is holding itself accountable to the […]
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What must procurement do for the board and CEO, now and in the future? Molefe Mokgatle, Executive Director at Aveng Grinaker-LTA told delegates at SmartProcurement World that a problem procurement must face is outdated legacies: in the past the only real skill required of procurement was negotiation. Supply chain optimisation is a key enabler of
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Enjoy reading CVs? If you do, you’re pretty unique. The problem with CVs, apart from the fact that everyone’s layout and approach is different, is that a CV tells you what the candidate wants you to hear. Ever seen a CV that said “I don’t have a clue how to determine the TCO of an
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In imagining the future of Procurement, one needs to think broad, deep, global industry expertise. Finely tuned business acumen. Sales, marketing, communications, performance management, and networking. This is the consensus reached in a report ‘VISION 2020: Ideas for Procurement in 2020 by Industry-Leading Procurement Executives’, the outcome of a dialogue between Ariba and leading procurement
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South African Airways has formally agreed to a corporate responsibility partnership with the recently established West African Institute for Supply Chain Leadership (WAISCL) to facilitate selected postgraduate supply chain management students and lecturers to undertake annual industrial visits between Southern Africa, Ghana and West Africa.
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Standard Bank’s first draft of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) certification candidates achieved a 100% pass mark in the last assessment period, the only company to do so, which is part of the financial services provider’s re-design of its Procurement function – ‘Project Prologue’. Director of Procurement, Meshern Govender, and Head of Strategic
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The UNISA Graduate School of Business Leadership (UNISA SBL) and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Southern Africa (CIPS SA) have established a strategic partnership to further develop academic career paths with tertiary level qualifications for CIPS SA members. The academic business partnership operates such that CIPS SA members will directly benefit from UNISA SBL’s
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SmartProcurement’s parent company Commerce Edge, a leading procurement training company, has sold a majority share to Supply chain specialist and member company of IMPERIAL Logistics, Volition. The deal enables further international expansion for Commerce Edge while strengthening IMPERIAL Logistics’ procurement intellectual capital and capacity, as well as training assets. “This relationship allows us to offer a
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The South African chapter of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) has entered into an affiliation agreement with SmartProcurement, a division of Commerce Edge, to grow the industry by working together. The APMP is a global organisation formed 22 years go to advance the arts, sciences, and technology of new business acquisition and to promote the
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“The role of procurement within global companies has changed dramatically over the past 25 years from that of simply buying goods and services to overseeing an integrated set of management functions. Procurement has grown up,” said a report in Harvard Business Review. Elaine Porteous, procurement consultant and freelance writer, spoke at a recent Dow Jones
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