BEE

With the release of the final BEE Codes of Good practice=, the government has listened to small and medium business concerns about their difficulty in becoming compliant Johan Giliomee of NERA tells Smart Procurement. “Their biggest complaint has been that they do not always have the resources and money to become compliant and that a

The South African economy in all its diversity, presents BEE Verification Agencies with a reality that differs substantially from the corporate standard envisioned by the authors of the BBBEE Codes of Good Practice. “This is not to say that Verification is critically affected, or that adherence to the codes becomes impossible, but rather that both

Local e-Procurement platform provider MWEB CommerceZone has launched an innovatove solution that makes the arduous task of implementing and driving preferential procurement easier and faster. The company developed a “BEE pop-up tool” within its hosted e-Procurement platform. “This gives individuals placing an order “at-a-glance” insight into the precise BEE status of every sourced supplier, making

Increasingly companies, even those that have not had their BEE positions verified, are instituting systems to track their BEE procurement spend. The reasons for this being pretty obvious, procurement accounts for 20 points (out of 100) of a company’s BEE score. There is however a disconnect between the data procurement departments are preparing and what