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Mining Division Launches its Full E-Procurement Functionality with African Suppliers

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Dallas & Johannesburg – Anglo Base Metals launched its full e-Procurement functionality at a formal event on 1 August 2008, in partnership with Quadrem Africa, a subsidiary of Quadrem International Ltd, a supply chain solutions company with one of the world’s largest electronically connected supplier networks for private and public sectors. This will see […]

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Courier Services Benchmarking Shows Up Rate Discrepancies

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“Courier Services is a surprisingly complex spend category to manage as the devil (and delivery of savings!) is in the detail,” benchmarker Purchasing Index (PI) MD Alan Low, told SmartProcurement. ” We regularly benchmarks domestic courier rates across organisations from a variety of industry sectors… and Rates from courier companies vary dramatically.” The charts

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World Class Operational Procurement: Training, Training, Training

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Part 4 of a ten-part series that examines key operational aspects of the so-called “Purchase-to-Pay” value chain by Independent Contributor, Peter Alkema – Head: Purchase to Pay at ABSA “The Purchase-to-Pay (PTP) value chain is a series of business events that are usually enabled by a system such as SAP. Knowledge of this process, as

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Outsourcing Management of Print can lead to 30% cost savings

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“The world-wide trend in commodity spend management is to either appoint speciality managers internally, or to outsource the spend to a credible third party service provider”, Gary Davies, Managing Director of Print Outsource International (POINT), told SmartProcurement in a recent interview. In the industry, this specialist outsourced service is neatly captioned “Print Management”. Furthermore,

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World Class Operational Procurement: Effective Requests & Approvals processes

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Part 3 of a ten-part series that examines key operational aspects of the so-called “Purchase to Pay” value chain by Independent Contributor, Peter Alkema – Head: Purchase to Pay at ABSA The request for goods and / or services marks the beginning of the actual Purchase-to-Pay process in the organisation. There will be a stated

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Part 3: The ABC of Managing the Telecommunications Commodity Group

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This is the last article in a series of articles brought to you by SmartProcurement dealing with the ABC of managing your organisation’s telecommunications costs efficiently. Areas to be covered include: A – Awareness: Being fully informed on this complex and highly technical services commodity group. B – Business Communications: What are the requirements

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Automotive & Engineering Lubricants prices follow oil , but not to the same extent

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The following two graphs (left: automotive lubricants; right: engineering lubricants) depict the basket indexes of automotive and engineering lubricants for the past two years. “It reflects the inexorable rise of lubricant prices paid by larger SA organisations on the back of the increasing oil price. On closer inspection, however, it is interesting to note that

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World-Class Operational Procurement: Catalogues and Shopping Baskets

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Part 2 of a ten-part series that examines key operational aspects of the so-called “Purchase to Pay” value chain By Independent Contributor, Peter Alkema – Head: Purchase to Pay at ABSA Even though Amazon.com is today one of the most recognisable online shopping brands, the concept of doing your shopping over the Internet was

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The ABC of Managing the Telecommunications Commodity Group: What you need to know – Part 2

Steel Prices in SA will continue to rise…Perhaps through 2009

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Featured on the left (click to enlarge), is the Purchasing Index for steel showing the rate of increase in a basket of steel bought by the RSA Mining Industry. The graph shows that the basket prices have risen on average by 50% over that last two years with a major spike recently. . “The sudden

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