Just as procurement officers across South Africa are starting to get to grips with BEE with its scorecards, criteria and nuances, along comes GEE (the green version). Much like in BEE, where companies are starting to be measured on the basis of whom they do business with, the green version is starting to develop in […]
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Most organisations have experienced a supplier who committed to a deadline and then failed to adhere to it or claimed to have certain skills and knowledge in-house, which in the end it could not provide. Douglas MacGregor, MD of supplier service benchmarking company SuppDex tells SmartProcurement that contacting a prospective supplier’s other customers offers a
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In the contemporary economic climate supply chains compete against each other, rather than individual organisations. If it is ultimately a supply chain’s total cost of ownership (TCO) that will determine the affordability of its products, then to be competitive there needs to be transparency, knowledge sharing and collaboration of the different cogs within the supply
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Information technology is rapidly changing the way organisations are evaluating supplier performance. The best of breed supplier performance management (SPM) solutions available today are widely being recognised as important enablers to manage, monitor and find methods for collaboration with suppliers, says Niren Chaudhary, of Zycus, a spend management organisation. “Up until recently SPM was manual
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Supplier and support activities involved in the production of South Africa’s first electric vehicle could create 8 000 jobs, says Optimal Energy, the Joule’s manufacturer. The company says it will employ more than 2000 people in its assembly operation, while supplier and support activities could create a further 8000 downstream jobs. Once the plant is
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Responsibility for the supply chain is moving to board level, a report by AMR Research has noted. “Twenty years ago, a typical product company had the supply chain reporting to manufacturing, with responsibility mainly for inbound materials management and outbound shipping.”
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It has been estimated unofficially that R30-billion per year, 20% of the overall government procurement budget of R150-billion, is being lost or is disappearing into a black hole of corruption. Much of the loss is through rip-offs, overpricing and the failure of contractors to deliver on their promises, says Carol Paton, of the Financial Mail,
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Service delivery for the customer of the Republic of South Africa – the citizen – takes place through local government. Recent service delivery protests have strongly indicated that there is much scope for improvement in terms of how government is able to meet the basic needs of citizens through its local authorities. In his master’s
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SmartProcurement editorial board member Dr. Douglas Boateng has been elected president of the first supply chain management (SCM) centre of excellence in West Africa, of which he also a founder. The West African Institute for Supply Chain Leadership (WAISCL) is the first of its kind to be opened in West Africa and Boateng hopes that
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All too often companies have no idea of the value of spares in their stores. This problem lies not only with small businesses; some of the largest companies in South Africa have little idea of the value and content of their stores, as the stores stock has been built up over a number of years.
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