It’s still early in the Trump presidency, but not too early for supply chain professionals to begin planning for what could be major challenges in global markets and trade agreements, especially if President Donald Trump follows through on border tariffs, the dismantling of existing trade agreements, and other “America First” protectionism ideas he has […]
Supply chains and adjusting to Trump: think local and global Read More »
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
Short-term SCM investment for long-term savings Read More »
Professor Marcus Ambe – professor of Supply Chain Management (and chairperson of the Supply Chain Management Research Group) in the department of Business Management at Unisa – posed critical questions, which set the scène for the roundtable discussion around the professionalisation of supply chain management. The discussion was held at Unisa on the 2nd
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When purchasing materials the same routines are used on each occasion, even if each and every one of these purchases is unique. So why do we need supply chain policies or procedures? asks Muddassir Ahmed, Divisional Supply Chain Manager at Eaton.
10 things you should consider before writing any supply chain policy Read More »
“Procurement fraud happens within the entire value chain of organisations. Because decisions are made on every level, some procurement officials get a chance to manipulate the system, and accept bribes,” says Lebogang Letsoalo, Director at Sincpoint Pty Ltd.
Procurement fraud – why does it continue to thrive? Read More »
In this month’s SmartProcurement, Crest Advisory Africa’s Nico Snyman outlines a case-study on supply chain risk assessment. Crest Advisory Africa (CAA) recently performed an Online Supply Chain Risk Assessment (OSCRA) on a site within the Gauteng area for a leader in the construction environment who works with a number of value chains and supply chain
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Challenges of Global Procurement Rob Handfield, Co-Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative at North Carolina State University (SCRC), recently spoke to John Zapko, Vice President of global procurement for technology company Lenovo, about what’s going on in the world of global procurement. Zapko has procurement authority over all software, Latin America, and emerging markets.
Q&A with Lenovo’s VP of Global Procurement Read More »
“Buyers need to understand the importance of ‘buying locally’ and have the ability to identify locally manufactured products. By doing so they actually buy back jobs,” said Philippa Rodseth, Executive Director of the Manufacturing Circle. Speaking at an Economic Policy Dialogue hosted by the Department of Trade and Industry (dti), Rodseth said that there
Buyers must know what is made locally before they can consciously ‘buy local’ Read More »
A procurement and supply function that does not have a good understanding of how to identify, mitigate and avoid supply chain risk is itself a significant risk for an organisation. This is just one of six internal risk influencers highlighted in a CIPS good practice guide for developing end-to-end supply chain resilience in organisations.
Failing to identify supply chain risk is a business risk in itself Read More »
South Africa ranked 20th out of 160 countries in the LogisticsBarometer2016 and is classified as a logistics over-performer when compared with its peers on the logistics performance index (LPI), which provides a comprehensive measure of the efficiency of international supply chains. Unlike other countries on the African continent, South Africa’s logistics industry has the advantage
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