Enterprise Development

Gauteng uplifting SMMEs through procurement

  Recent studies by Stats SA indicate that the face of poverty in South Africa remains black, female and that of children below the age of 17. Furthermore, more than one in every two SA citizens can be officially classified as poor, said Gauteng Finance MEC Barbara Creecy at the Smart Procurement World conference in […]

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Small suppliers for big impact: optimising your supply chain in a turbulent economy

  In our third consecutive quarter of negative growth, it’s becoming all too clear that South Africa is well and truly facing some tough economic times ahead, and businesses are already beginning to suffer. According to Statistics South Africa, weak manufacturing and trade sectors led the recession, with falls of 3.7% and 5.9% respectively in

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Set suppliers up for success and mitigate preferential procurement risks

  Even if organisations are not doing business with organs of state, they may well form part of the supply chain of organisations to which the PPPFA directly applies. Therefore, they need to be aware of its scope and provisions. Corporate businesses are actively seeking and supporting black-owned and black woman-owned Exempted Micro Enterprises (EMEs)

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How can procurement prepare SMEs to engage with corporates?

  “They won’t even talk to me, now” David said with a sigh, and to punctuate his mood, spread his hands on the desk in front of him in resignation. David is a small supplier that was selected to participate in a corporate enterprise supplier development (ESD) programme. Following the completion of the 12-month contract,

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Supplier transformation initiative in engineering and manufacturing to be introduced

  A transformation initiative for small businesses in engineering and manufacturing, the Empowered Engineering and Manufacturing Initiative (EEMI), will be launched in September. The initiative is a collaboration between Smart Procurement World, the Absa Enterprise and Supplier Development Expo and the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA). The initiative is positioned as

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BEE: look beyond regulation to be effective in supply chain

  Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) is one of the most highly regulated aspects of the South African business landscape today. The most recent changes to the regulations have both large corporate businesses and smaller businesses returning to the scorecard drawing board. Louis Coetzee – General Manager of the Ecsponent Development Fund (part of JSE-listed African

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Procurement inefficiencies uphold poor intra-Africa trade

  The impact of ineffective procurement in Africa has been estimated at US$31,5-billion – US$24,9-billion for sub-Saharan Africa alone – in terms of value leakage – by auditor KPMG. The inefficiencies are caused by procurement organisations struggling with basic issues around delivering value, such as low use of technology, inadequate skills and non-compliance with procurement

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Buy local or face audit findings!

  Under the World Trade Organisation’s agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures, The South African government cannot prescribe to the business sector that they must follow localisation (75% local content in purchases) in the same way it prescribes to public entities. “We don’t have that ability, and are challenged internationally [if the topic of localisation is

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Short-term SCM investment for long-term savings

The City of Cape Town has leveraged its supply chain management policy to grow its economy, procure sustainably and create jobs. And save money, of course. Opening the Smart Procurement World Western Cape Conference, the city’s Executive Deputy Mayor, Alderman Ian Neilson gave delegates an insight into the City’s supply chain efforts to create employment

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