The great irony of today’s ERP systems is that, once they are implemented, it becomes harder to extract information so that it can be used within the business to drive decision-making and take action, Alan Low of Purchasing Index (PI) says in this month’s SmartProcurement. Spend analysis can have a huge influence on the behaviour […]
ERPs make procurement data extraction harder, not easier Read More »
Hollard Group Procurement Manager, Arie De Ridder, outlines how the insurer made use of leading technologies to assist them with consolidating and managing their expenditure, in this month’s SmartProcurement. Background De Ridder told SmartProcurement that Hollard procurement was faced with a number of issues for which they needed an urgent solution, these included: access to
Case study: Hollard does world-class expenditure analysis Read More »
Economic uncertainty and slow growth in many sectors of the South African economy has focused senior management’s attention on improving efficiencies in their businesses. Measuring risk is integral to managing how efficiently organisations expend their money: ‘risk’ covers the management of internal processes around expenditure and the behaviour of management and staff, Alan Low of
5 Procurement risks that need to be made visible Read More »
Rosslyn Analytics announced in March the availability of RA.Pid Supplier Risk Profile, a new suite of information feeds that enables procurement, supply chain and finance organisations to collaboratively evaluate, monitor and mitigate supplier-centric risks in real-time in just five business days, as opposed to months, from a single screen. The RA.Pid cloud-based data service and
One-click all-in-one supplier risk analytics launched Read More »
South African organisations have enjoyed declining domestic air ticket prices over the last 24 months on routes between Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. However, there are further savings to be made, Karen van Staden of benchmarking organisation Purchasing Index (PI) tells SmartProcurement. Over the last couple of years costs for domestic airlines have risen dramatically
Further domestic air ticket savings possible Read More »
Purchasing Index (PI) is running a ‘free issue tea and coffee’ survey, around the different models and cost structures clients have in place for free issue tea and coffee. Are you interested in learning more about what other companies South Africa are doing to manage this area of spend? Do you often wonder what models
Survey – cost models for office tea and coffee Read More »
Facilities services are to a great extent outsourced to specialist companies who do the work or subcontract it to other companies, while the client organisation manages the facilities management (FM) arrangements. In some cases the whole of FM has been outsourced. Over the last 11 years Purchasing Index (PI) has benchmarked many aspects of FM
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Is Procurement and Supply Chain Management’s growing contribution to organisations mirrored in the salaries offered? To find out CIPS Southern Africa, in conjunction with Ernst & Young, is running its first Salary Survey. The survey will benchmark salaries across the procurement industry; measure annual salary increases; and track the annual salary growth of procurement professionals.
Professional body benchmarking SA procurement salaries – survey Read More »
Global recruitment and talent retention is changing globally, not just in SA. According to Manpower, 46% of senior human resource managers surveyed in the latest global annual survey said that their talent gap was making it harder for their organization to implement its business strategy. Only 27% said that they had the talent they needed.
Procurement and retention of talent – the challenges in SA Read More »
For many organizations looking to cut costs, changes in technology offer an excellent prospect to reduce IT expenditure while delivering greater value to the business. One such change is Cloud Computing, which Gartner defines as “a style of computing where scalable and elastic IT capabilities are provided as a service to multiple customers using Internet
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