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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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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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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Companies need to become more resilient in their supply chain strategies but without sacrificing cost-effectiveness, warn experts The Covid-19 crisis has been a wake-up call for supply chain professionals, on whom marketing teams are often so dependant. According to a study by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), for years, companies have focused on eliminating redundancy
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By Moses Manuel, Lecturer in Business, Legal and Development Studies, and Founder of Zerite Network Purchasing and supply management is not an entirely new concept to most people. Take a look at the first part, purchasing: we all undertake purchasing, be it data for your mobile phone, food, clothes, etc. Purchasing and supply management is
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“One of the sales trends for 2021 is procurement needs to be solutions salespeople too,” says By Sue Barrett, Founder and CEO of www.barrett.com.au and www.salesessentials.com Times are, indeed, changing with the procurement function becoming increasingly important as a conduit, an orchestrator if you will, for the co-creation of value with suppliers and internal stakeholders
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By Dr Ambrish Kumar, Founder and Group CEO, AAA 2 Innovate Pvt Ltd The world is waiting for the COVID-19 vaccine. Distributing it globally from its points of production is a gargantuan task. In fact, it is a task some feel should best be left to the expertise of military logistics. The vaccine is beginning
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By Jeff Stiles, VP, Product Marketing SCM, Oracle Where are supply chains going today? I had a chance to hear some interesting perspectives on this question at a recent Oracle Live event, where I attended a session that looked at pivoting your SCM operations to growth. In light of recent events, this was a timely
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