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An opportunity analysis process for sourcing initiatives

What is an Opportunity Analysis? “An Opportunity Analysis is an initiative that attempts to identify ways to capture value through sourcing. These opportunities are identified after analysing organisational requirements, supplier spend, current sourcing processes and other data sources. An Opportunity Analysis initiative can differ in the number of categories in scope and type of outcome”, […]

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Call for Papers – Tendering Best Practices and Effective Implementation of the bidding process conference

How to effectively conduct Tendering and Bidding processes in line with World Class Practices in both the Public and Private Sector is the theme of the Tendering Best Practices and Effective Implementation of the Bidding Process – Conference to be held on 29-30 July 2009. SmartProcurement is calling for papers from interested (and even afflicted

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Procurement Organisations can now turn headcount on and off

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Hot on the heels of last months article concerning Interim Contracts, Purchasing SA (PSA), a specialized Purchasing Consultancy based in Kwa-Zulu Natal, announced that it is launching a new Interim Management Service. This service will provide highly-skilled purchasing executives for hands-on assignments over a wide range of industries across South Africa. As reported previously, Interim

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Events Procurement: The professionals are the answer, but transparency is key

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“The events and conference industry has grown in leaps and bounds in South Africa over the past few years. In light of this, organisations will, at some point, need the services of an Events or Conferencing Company who can assist with services ranging from conceptualisation, design, and marketing to operations,” Lou-Marie Radyn, Managing Director of

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The impact of the financial crisis on SA, and why BEE is now more important than ever

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When the current global financial crisis peaked in 2008, the South African economy was held together by its strong foundation which benefitted from several past regulations that minimized investment flows out of the economy. Factors that have been in South Africa’s favor include our exchange control, our healthy banking system, the infrastructure investment by government

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Collaborative cost management with key suppliers

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It has been said that in organisation within a world-class procurement framework it is difficult to find a clear-cut distinction between the organisational drive for continuous improvement viz-a-viz value release from actively managing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). “In fact, these objectives represent the two sides of the same coin and trying to determine which

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SMME Development as a driver of BEE Procurement opportunities and the economy as a whole

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“Governments, policy makers, even the World Bank, all agree that small businesses are the growth engine in any economy. Looking at other countries as an example, 95% of organisations in Australia are from the Small Micro Medium Enterprises sector (SMME), whilst Germany’s economic growth was also led by SMMEs. The same applies to South Africa

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Quadrem delivers African market new services powered by SAP® Software

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Quadrem has signed a global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) agreement with SAP AG. The organisations will work together to help customers reduce the cost and complexity of implementing and operating integrated electronic sourcing, procurement, invoicing, and contract management processes. In addition, Quadrem’s BPO services have qualified as ‘powered by SAP’.

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Reducing the increasing ‘billable hour’ cost in the procurement of professional services…

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In the first instance, the commodity group ‘professional services’ nowadays encompasses an extremely broad range of technical and specialised services ranging from consultants (e.g. accounting and tax) to architectural, business communications, legal, medical, and so on. Secondly, because of the ever increasing complexity of the global economy and the processes of government, the need for

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Hiring some new talent? Check them out properly first…

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“Unfortunately it is a fact that organisations are exposed to certain financial and other employee-related risks, many of which occur within the procurement area. Risks to be seriously considered are ‘white-collar’ fraud, IT integrity and identity theft, workplace violence and unethical conduct in all its forms”, Elaine Porteous, Branch Manager – Interim and Executive Search

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