In the second of his two-part article, multi award winning global entrepreneur and strategist, and advisor to Presidents and Heads of State across the world, H.E Prof. Dr. Ambassador Tal Edgars, gives his views on the potential for sustainable and inclusive growth in Africa that lies in the $3,4 trillion borderless market created by the […]
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What if I teach you and you teach the next person, and the next person teaches the next person? Creating a human chain of experience and learning can go a long way to improving the rather bleak public procurement space in South Africa, says Sanele Khomo, a Deputy Director at the KwaZulu Natal Provincial Treasury.
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Political pressure from stakeholders in supply chain management (SCM) is a reality. We must just find ways to collaborate with our colleagues in government successfully, advised Thandy Pino, Founder and CEO, Ntakha Consulting, and former Chief Director of Supply Chain and Asset Management at the Gauteng Department of Health, at the recent SPW Indaba 2022.
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SmartProcurementWorld congratulates the Sustainable Procurement Pledge (SPP) on its third birthday this month, and on the substantial impact it has made on the industry in its short existence. SPP is an international bottom-up and non-profit organisation for procurement practitioners, academics and professionals, creating and growing knowledge on responsible sourcing practices and empowering people in procurement.
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One of the most common assumptions made by large enterprises is that having a digital purchasing system means they have unlocked all the potential value in their procurement process and they do not need access to a B2B marketplace. You have a digital procurement process, but you’re not seeing the value you expected. What now?
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THINK GLOBAL AND ACT LOCAL, SA PROCURERS ADVISED Procurement myopia can be a death sentence for an organisation, was the warning issued to procurement professionals attending Smart Procurement World’s 2022 Indaba at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand last month. This has never been more true than in today’s fragile, post-pandemic and disruption-fraught business environment, where
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Localisation and the development of small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) are key to the growth of African economies, including South Africa’s. President Cyril Ramaphosa has said that the country’s post-COVID economic reconstruction plan includes a big localisation of suppliers drive. However, simply pushing local procurement targets and funding SMMEs is not enough, says Debbie
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What a waste of time and money if your staff ultimately don’t adopt the new tech! But prevention is the best cure with these three steps, advises Katarzyna Fonteyn, Director, Procurement Product Management at Basware, in this article published by Precurious. If your employees don’t buy-in to your purchase system, then nothing else matters.
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Suppeco CEO Sheldon Mydat chats to SmartProcurement about the intrinsic value of building solid relationships with suppliers to extract real value for your business, and how Suppeco can help. Here’s the thing: the relationships that you structure between your customers, your suppliers, your teams, your people – that’s where the real value lies. In understanding,
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Mike Mortson, CEO at Supply Chain Game Changer in Ontario, Canada, believes that in the post-pandemic era, the deployment of exciting technologies, new processes and systems, broader skills and more strategic responsibilities will make it a fantastic time to be in supply chain for many years to come and make Supply Chain heroes of their
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