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Case study: Using BEE IT systems in the construction industry

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Many large companies require ongoing tracking and measurement of BEE compliance and, increasingly, executives are becoming accountable for driving transformation. However, as procurement professionals intimately understands: Accountability requires visibility in terms of the current and proposed state of BEE compliance. In order to improve the availability of real-time BEE compliance information, one of South Africa’s […]

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How will your organization maintain its BBBEE position under the new Codes?

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It has come as a shock to many companies that the DTi plans to have the new codes of good practise published any day now, under which organisations have a 12-month transitional period to align themselves and ensure compliance to these codes. Purchasing Index (PI) is concerned that many organisations are unaware of the impact

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Developing small businesses was on Madiba’s presidential agenda

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With the current ill health of former president Nelson Mandela, it is important to remember the impact he has made on so many areas of life in South Africa, including the economy and the importance of developing small businesses therein, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, Mark Frankel, CEO of Shanduka Black Umbrellas, a non-profit enterprise

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Revised BEE Codes released as early as July 2013?

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The DTI may release the revised BEE Codes as early as July 2013, and many of the principles that we were exposed to in the draft version will be retained. “Other than that, we are in the dark, once again…” says Bruce Rowe of Mpowered Business Solutions in this month’s SmartProcurement. If organisations are

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Has the DTI gone too far on Preferential Procurement?

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The proposed changes to the B-BBEE codes of good practice have left the procurement fraternity hanging in the balance, says Seth Randall, Executive at Mpowered Business Solutions, in this months’s SmartProcurement. The Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) proposed revisions to the B-BBEE codes of good practice were released in October 2012. To the almost universal

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ZUMA: “Regain control through supply chain management reform”

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The revitalisation of production within South Africa is attributable to local procurement, said President Jacob Zuma. “We have seen the revitalisation of train and bus production in South Africa, largely because of the drive for local procurement,” said President Zuma in the 2013 State of Nation address. He acknowledged, however, that government must become more

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DTI adds to local procurement designations

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Electrical and telecommunications cables, electrical valves, manual and pneumatic actuators and components of solar water heaters have been added to the list of products that must be purchased locally as part of South Africa’s public sector procurement programmes.

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Third wave of local procurement expenditure designations underway

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Work on a third wave of designated industries for local procurement is under way and will include school and office furniture, solar water heaters, cabling and capital equipment, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said in December. Current sectors designated for local procurement under the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act include buses, rolling stock, power

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B2B procurement print magazine launch

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SmartProcurement is launching a local business-to-business (B2B) procurement print magazine – the SmartProcurement Review – “World class procurement in your hands”. While SmartProcurement remains an online portal for procurement and supply management professionals and executives in South Africa, we’ve had numerous requests over the years for a printed magazine, which is still a preferred reference

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Shocking trade deficit reminds us why local content has been designated in certain industries

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A deficit of R21.2-billion was recorded on South Africa’s trade account in October‚ following a R13.8-billion deficit in September‚ according to SARS trade figures released in November. The deficit, at its worst level in several years, reminds us why the public sector took the decision to increase the utilisation of local content in manufactured products

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