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A recession in review: a 2008 scenario came-true

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“Scenarios, by definition, deal with uncertainty and they scope the extent of possible future fall-outs or windfalls,” says renown scenario planner Clem Sunter. “Possible fall-outs and windfalls” was what he presented to delegates at SmartProcurement’s 2nd SmartSourcing Conference.. However, weeks after the conference his scenarios became all to true when the global economic slow-down was […]

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Green procurement in SA – The local imperative

While the agreements and targets reached at Copenhagen are still a shadow of the outcomes the world was expecting (and required?) from the environmental talks, Green Procurement will still need to be the way forward for companies to meet their CSR and to unlock sustainable value in their supply chains. SmartProcurement asked the procurement departments

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Increasing Integration, Collaboration and Overall Supply Chain Efficiencies

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Wayne Furness, Senior Vice-President Africa Region of end-to-end global logistics and supply chain management organisation UTi Worldwide, poses some questions on how effective organisational structure, end-to-end capabilities and appropriate measurement and reward systems, when applied to a logistics service provider (LSP) and client organisation, can make or break overall supply chain effectiveness. “Supply chain efficiencies

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Progress on Draft PPPFA vs BEE Codes – Parliament in January

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National Treasury has received 148 Comments so far on the proposed draft amendment to the PPPFA that was published in August 2009 for comment from the public and stakeholders. A first presentation on these comments will be made toParliament in early January 2010 , a senior source in National Treasury told Smart Procurement. The amendment

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Procurement’s image problem

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The Procurement profession has a serious image problem. Most South African organisations, whether corporate or government, still do not see the profession as a strategically important function… “How many Procurement professionals report directly to the CEO? Only two out of over 70!” Dr. Douglas Boateng, CEO of Panavest International, was responding to a show of

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PPE procurement: understanding its full TCO

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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is a subcomponent of the maintenance, repair and operational (MRO) expenditure of any large organisation. MRO expenditure is typically about 8% of large organisations’ total procurement expenditure. PPE represents 1% of total procurement expenditure, and can have more detrimental effects on an organisation than some of the other MRO sub-categories, Isak

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What will your supply chains resemble in ten years’ time? Part 2

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If an organisation wants to be competitive in the next decade, let alone a significant market participant, then its supply chains had better evolve.

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Managing the transition to Strategic Procurement

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When an organisation elevates the strategic role of the Procurement function it is important that change management plays a pivotal role in aligning employees to new policies, processes and systems. In managing a transition it is important that an organisation‘s key asset people, drive the new strategy forward as its success or failure hinges on

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Reducing SA’s Carbon Footprint – the Procurement profession’s role

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Reducing Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) has become a priority for South African business and the Government.What role will procurement professionals play in this regard? The following graph shows the various scenarios of the changes to the volume of SA’s GHG emissions. At the Climate Change Summit earlier in 2009, consensus between industry and government included the

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Inclusive supply chains support poverty reduction

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Procurement and Supply Chain Management have a role to play in a recently launched initiative for holistic poverty reduction. “Procurement that is ethical and value-based, that incorporates a community into its entire value chain” has a place in the Business for Development (B4D) Pathfinder Initiative, said Benjamin Mkapa, former Tanzanian President, at the initiative’s launch

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