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Awards Honour and Celebrate the Supply Chain Profession in Africa

Leave a Comment / Leadership and People, Procurement Leaders, Sourcing Strategy, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management SCM, Sustainable Procurement / Bernie van Niekerk

The winners of the second annual Africa Supply Chain Excellence Awards (ASCEA) were announced at a gala event in Johannesburg attended by more than 220 supply chain practitioners from across the continent last month. These awards recognise the vital role played by the supply chain management profession, and honour and celebrate the outstanding achievements of […]

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Empowering emerging farmers towards a food secure Africa

Leave a Comment / Sourcing Strategy, Supplier Management, Supplier Selection, Supply Chain Management SCM, Sustainable Procurement / Bernie van Niekerk

Inspired by The Africa Report‘s statistics on Africa’s ‘Grain Drain’, founder and vision director of Farmz2U, Aisha Raheem-Bolarinwa of Nigeria, writes about her continued commitment to growing opportunities in the field of sustainable farming to ensure food security in the future. With collaborative research and development efforts, there is an opportunity to tailor wheat varieties

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Supply Chain leaders – CEOs-in-Training

Leave a Comment / Don't miss, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management SCM / Bernie van Niekerk

There are many paths one can take to becoming the highest-ranking official in an organisation but not all are equal, writes executive coach, leadership & talent strategist, and founder / managing director of People Shop in Cape Town. Chantal Kading. Supply chain leaders have often been overlooked when it comes to finding the right candidate

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SCM Managers warned of prolonged Panama drought

Leave a Comment / Category Management, Don't miss, Information technology, Legal / Contract, Risk Management, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management SCM / Bernie van Niekerk

Supply Chain risk management (SCRM) professionals are warned to expect prolonged negative consequences of the severe drought impacting the Panama Canal, including weight restrictions and higher rates being applied, with further increases in the cost of shipping cargo on the cards. Here Berlin-based Jan-Henner Theissen, founder and managing director of procurement advisory firm, targetP!, provides

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Risk, ESG, AI, Public Sector Procurement On The Agenda

Leave a Comment / AI, Don't miss, Leadership and People, Procurement Leaders, Professional Development, Public Sector Procurement, Sourcing Strategy, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management SCM, Technology / Bernie van Niekerk

Risk is the focus of the 17th annual SmartProcurement World Indaba, South Africa’s largest, longest-standing event for procurement and inbound supply chain professionals, taking place from 11 to 14 September 2023 at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, Gauteng. Announcing this year’s theme as “Do Risk Right!”, chief operating officer of organisers SmartProcurement , Debbie Tagg,

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Catastrophic Supply Chain Disasters made worse by laziness

Leave a Comment / Don't miss, Global Sourcing, Leadership and People, Procurement Strategy, Sourcing Strategy, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management SCM / Bernie van Niekerk

Global thought leader in supply chain, change management, procurement, management and edtech, Mike Mortson, fears that supply chain leaders are becoming lazy. By this, he explains, he doesn’t mean that they are lazy in terms of getting their day-to-day tasks done, but in making the strategic improvements necessary to create more robust and resilient supply

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The Impact of Fragmentation on African Supply Chains

Leave a Comment / Category Management, Enterprise Development, Information technology, Logistics, Supplier Management, Supplier Partnerships, Supply Chain Management SCM / Bernie van Niekerk

Efficient and interconnected supply chains play a vital role in driving economic growth and development, whereas the fragmentation of African supply chains impedes trade policies, costs, and potential, writes Adenike Onasoga, Head of Supply Chain at Kimberly-Clark, Nigeria. In this article, she writes about the pressing need on the continent to address the issues arising

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How CHAT GPT can improve Sourcing and Supplier Management

Leave a Comment / AI, Big Data, Category Management, Global Sourcing, Information technology, Sourcing Strategy, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management SCM, Technology / Bernie van Niekerk

In our first article, CHAT GPT made some bold claims regarding its ability to support and enhance procurement processes. In this short video, Bernie van Niekerk, Editor of SmartProcurement, delves deeper into Chat GPT capabilities and through a conversation with this AI, illustrates its amazing abilities to support procurement processes and professionals. https://commerce-edge.com/tools-tips/practical-examples-of-utilizing-chatgpt-in-the-procurement-process/

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Industry Experts Interviewed on Best SC Risk Practices

Leave a Comment / Leadership and People, Procurement Training, Professional Development, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management SCM / Bernie van Niekerk

Vice-president of supply chain management in the ARC Advisory Group, based in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, Steve Banker, spoke to two industry leaders on the subject of supply chain risk management best practices last year, namely Klaus Niebur, the director of global supply chain risk management at Autoliv, and Jan Theissen, the managing director at targetP!

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ESG or sustainability?

Leave a Comment / Don't miss, Sourcing Strategy, SRM Supplier Relationship Management, Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management SCM, Sustainable Procurement, Uncategorised / Bernie van Niekerk

The question, says Cape Town green economy leader Jaisheila Rajput, is whether you should be focusing on ESG or sustainability or treating them as the same thing. Here she gives her views which will undoubtedly help to clarify the matter for many. ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) on the one hand, and sustainability on the

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