As Procurement expands its influence across the organisation, many large expense categories come under a new commercial spotlight. ‘Consulting Services’, a spend category often covering an amalgam of services from strategic business consulting to IT consulting and even contract labour, poses new opportunities and challenges…
Consulting and professional Services under the Procurement Spotlight Read More »
During the last month the prices of paper and envelopes have echoed the trend since September 2005. As a result prices are almost 15% lower than this time last year. (Based on last year’s prices.) But this is not the whole picture… Since the producer price index gained about 6.5% over the period, the real
Stationery Prices continue downward trend. Is there still scope to negotiate? Read More »
Your company’s new year’s resolution – on your behalf – will be clear this year. Procurement needs to produce more savings than last year! More people will adopt sophisticated TCO (total cost of ownership) models to analyse, improve and measure costs. And if not now, you will be incentivised on reductions achieved. Being paid for
How an old(er) lady got 10% of the savings! Incentives made easy? Read More »
Whether it’s Green (Environmental) Procurement, developing historically disadvantaged individuals (HDI / BEE) or other forms of socially responsible procurement… powerful market forces guided by special interests play an increasing, and major role in defining procurement success. Will these issues destroy value created by strategic sourcing initiatives or will it raise the profile of the procurement
Preferential Procurement: Destroying or enhancing procurement value….? Read More »
Supplier complaints that “different South African customer rate our BEE (black Economic Empowerment) efforts differently” and “each time we think that we’ve met the criteria, everything changes”, might be coming to and end soon with the recent introduction of the government’s BEE Codes of Good Practice..
I’ve tried to put the salient points of the new code as they apply to South African Procurement Professionals in this article. This includes an on-line calculator which you can use to calculate your Supplier’s BBBEE rating. (or send the article to them so they can do it themselves!) Links to the various detail documents as supplier by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) are also inlcuded.
Highlights: BEE Codes of Good Practice (Part 1) Read More »
By Bernie van Niekerk No doubt, BEE is an ultra-hot topic. In this election year, it will dominate many political speeches. It will also dominate many deals and already is. (see BEE News section). For procurement professionals in Government and the Private sector this means meeting BEE targets. And the more broad-based the empowerment targets,
BEE Supplier Development: How to pass the buck but still get the credit Read More »
