Increased flexibility, agility and responsiveness has been cited as the top medium-term business objective by respondents to the 2012 SupplyChainForesight survey, sponsored by Barloworld Logistics. The fact that using the supply chain as more of a competitive advantage was selected a close second is evidence that these two objectives are closely interlinked, and demonstrates the […]
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South Africa’s 2010 freight logistics expenditure of R339-billion is 12.7% of gross domestic product (GDP), a percentage decrease when compared with 2009’s 13.5% of GDP, revealed the eighth State of Logistics Survey, ‘Gearing up for Change’, published in May 2012 by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Stellenbosch University and Imperial Logistics. The
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Fraud and corruption in the supply chain management (SCM) environment, such as unauthorised rebates, kickbacks and dubious vendor relationships, are prevalent in the business and public sectors. Lucille Jansen van Vuuren of Volition Consulting Services discusses the nature of Africa’s beast, in this month’s SmartProcurement.
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Corporate South Africa, starting with Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)-listed companies, should play a decisive role in addressing the scourge of corruption that is strangling our democracy. It is imperative that business, the public at large and the government initiate anti-graft measures. Steven Powell, Head of Forensics at Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs (ENS), says South Africa’s anti-corruption
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Government would not receive full value from its R1.1-trillion 2012 budget unless strides were made to improve spending efficiency and reduce corruption, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan acknowledged in his budget speech in February. Government is taking steps to strengthen efficiency in public spending, to eliminate wastage, improve the alignment between allocations and policy priorities, and
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South Africa risks losing its role as the world’s ‘gateway to Africa’ if it does not respond to rising competition from other African countries, indicates research released last week. In its 2012 publication of SupplyChainForesight, Barloworld Logistics said that Nigeria was seen as the most likely to overtake South Africa as the leading economy and
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Government spent R26,4-billion in 2010 in ways that contravened laws and regulations, BusinessDay reports. The national and provincial governments and their entities notched up R21-billion in irregular expenditure last year, a 62% rise over the previous year’s R13-billion, with unauthorised expenditure adding a further R3,8-billion (R8,9-billion), and fruitless and wasteful expenditure an extra R1,5-billion (R500-million).
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Supply chain specialist, and member company of IMPERIAL Logistics, Volition Consulting Services has published a book with an assortment of supply chain business improvement projects. “The case studies reflected in the book have been documented in such a way to demonstrate the scale of business transformation, and range of benefits that can be achieved by
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We’re into September, which leaves you only four months to meet your savings targets for the year. Where can you deliver savings in the remnants of 2011? There are still cards in your hand, in this month’s SmartProcurement. “There are four levers to pull in relation to cost savings,” says Larry Beard of Tate &
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South Africa is not doing enough to combat fraud and corruption in its business sectors, said Vusi Pikoli, Gobodo Incorporated Forensic Investigations Head, at SmartProcurement World 2010.
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