China is an economic partner that can drive enterprise and supplier development (ESD) in South Africa and the rest of the continent. A significant export, trade and development partner to Africa, China brings, particularly to South Africa, a host of industrial innovations, which if adapted for the local environment can help with various productivity […]
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A drone service delivering blood for transfusions has been launched in Rwanda. The drones are expected to make between 50 and 150 life-saving deliveries each day to far-flung and inaccessible clinics across the western half of the country. Excessive blood loss during childbirth is the leading cause of death in pregnant women in Rwanda. Zipline,
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Kraljic helped us pick the low hanging fruit, but the model is unlikely to drive the next wave of value, says Jonathan Hughes, Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain Management Practice Leader at Vantage Partners, in this month’s SmartProcurement. Strategic sourcing rests largely upon a set of concepts and principles laid out by Peter Kraljic
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The developmental nature of ‘transformation’ becomes a complex process when we consider the overwhelming commitment within supply chains to receiving high-level quality, consistent delivery and cost effectiveness. Such a commitment leads organisations to carefully evaluate the risks versus the benefits when implementing their ESD strategies. However, only from the vantage of a holistic overview
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Hosting Smart Procurement World KwaZulu-Natal gave the city of eThekwini’s SMMEs the chance to network with big business procurement from the corporate and public sectors. “Involving Procurement in assisting SMMEs to grow and creating new businesses generates jobs for citizens,” eThekwini Municipality Cllr Fawzia Peer, Chair: Finance & Procurement, told SmartProcurement. “[Linking Procurement with
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An Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) in Port Elizabeth has signed Memorandums of Understanding with Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, Joe Gqabi Municipality, East London Industrial Development Zone and the George and Knysna municipalities to provide funding and business development support to SME suppliers that work with these entities. Through the initiative, Absa, which has opened
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Modern procurement is about reaching out, collaborating and working together to allow innovation. Both the goverment and the business sectors, even suppliers, can achieve better results if they work together to drive and improve procurement process in their organisations. Speaking at the 3rd Smart Procurement World Conference Western Cape, Tennesse University Professor in Supply
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A recent study has found that although procurement is globally recognised as playing an essential role in local and regional-wide industrialisation, current purchasing and supplier selection practices do little to support SMME growth on the continent. The study found that while over 55% of African-government expenditure went towards purchasing and procurement of goods and
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Over the years, Africa has embraced newer models of business to create more prospects for economic growth. Driven by supplier diversification, economic transfer and building a more dynamic local content procurement approach, enterprise and supplier development (E&SD) is becoming a global action to inspire economies and create jobs. Key to this achievement is the
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Just as mobiles leapfrogged landlines across Africa, so cutting-edge drones could outpace roads on a continent where only 16 per cent of thoroughfares are paved, but the population is set to double to 2.2-billion by 2050. Driving this evolution is a Rwandan cargo drones project that is a collaboration between Afrotech and London architects
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