Procurement professionals must challenge themselves to influence the top-line and to collaborate with suppliers to bring innovation into your supply chains, says Mpume Maphumulo, Head of Group Procurement at Pioneer Foods. Maphumulo and other heads of supply chain were discussing the challenges and objectives they foresee over the next 12 months in the public […]
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A total of 59 per cent of South African respondents to the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Global Economic Crime Survey indicated that they had experienced procurement fraud, compared with the global figure of 29 per cent. PwC director Louis Strydom described as “mind-boggling” the loss South Africa suffered owing to economic crime. Of the 134 surveyed
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The budget’s steps to curb government spending fail to address re-course for non-compliance, said Democratic Alliance finance spokesman Tim Harris. “Cost containment measures were welcome, but there was nothing about what would happen if ministers did not meet those measures,” said Harris. He was responding to the four steps to contain government spending that
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The ANC’s call for the creation of a tender board will not be legally feasible under the country’s current SCM regulatory environment. The ruling party’s 2014 election manifesto outlines measures to tackle corruption that include the creation of a central tender board. President Jacob Zuma said “…tender processes will be centralised under a central
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The African National Congress (ANC) has committed itself in its election manifesto to ensuring that at least 75% of government procurement takes place with local suppliers and producers. This would apply to the purchases of larger state-owned companies such as Transnet and Eskom. The pledge is part of the ruling party’s job creation programme,
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Treasury regulations aimed at curbing wasteful expenditure by officials on car rentals, hotels and air tickets will not immediately affect some of the government’s biggest spenders. According to a Treasury instruction note sent to all departments, constitutional bodies and public entities last month, cost-cutting measures relating to executive authorities will only be set out in
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The validity of e-tolls has yet to be tested against the procurement requirements of the Constitution, says Paul Hoffman, from the Institute for Accountability in Southern Africa. The question is whether, as required by the rule of law, it is fair and therefore legal to impose the urban e-tolls, says Hoffman. The system according
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Phil Weir initiated and led procurement reform for the New Zealand government. In this month’s SmartProcurement he shares how his department developed efficiencies in 350 government agencies that expend NZ$20-billion. However, if you’re expecting a complex recipe for public procurement soufflé you will be disappointed. “The key lesson,” says Weir, “is that developing efficiencies
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The annual audit of South Africa’s provincial and national government bodies revealed that R28.4-billion was lost to irregular spending – R6.25-billion more than the previous year, said the Auditor-General’s report. In the report, auditor general Terence Nombembe blamed weak internal controls, poor political leadership (from the accounting officer and/or executive authority) and a disregard for
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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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