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e-Procurement and Strategic Sourcing combine to deliver savings

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Whilst e-Procurement solutions are improving the procurement practices of organisations by eliminating many paper-based and labour-intensive processes, increasing transparency and improving control it cannot deliver the depth of benefits expected by businesses investing in the technology. It must be supported by effective and transparent strategic sourcing. Wayne van Deventer, National Strategic Sourcing Manager at MWEB […]

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Telephony – new era technology saves company R20m in phone costs.

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“The last few years’ benchmarks of the local business cell-phone market indicated high costs and a lack of substantial innovation. Now, however, technology is converging and the distinction between voice and data transmission are blurring. These new products promise substantial cost saving opportunities,” Alan Low, Managing Director of Purchasing Index, told Smart Procurement.

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Update: New developments in the “Catering Services” marketplace.

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“After benchmarking staff catering for a number of years some interesting changes have occured that are affecting this crucial support service,” says Alan Low of Purchasing index. “At the turn of the century many organizations had outsourced staff catering usually to one of the better known service providers, e.g. Royal, KKS, Fedics, etc. who usually

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New procurement best practices Benchmark Service launched

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Purchasing Index is launching its international Procuretrak service locally, aimed at benchmarking Procurement leading practices in increasing detail. The attached graph compares the amount of spend controlled by purchasing to best in class companies. Alan Low, Managing Director at Purchasing Index told Smart Procurement that” “Updated reports every 6 months, incorporating participating members’ own information,

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Case Study: e-Procurement brings expenditure on office groceries under control

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While some businesses spend millions every year on basic office groceries such as coffee, tea, cleaning materials and other everyday commodities, very few manage their spend on these essential items effectively. “It’s easy for anyone in the organisation – from a driver or messenger to the chairman’s personal assistant – to quickly go to the

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Netcare e-procurement cuts CAPEX cycle time by 66%

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E-Procurement technology has assisted South Africa’s largest private healthcare network Netcare to cut the time to procure CAPEX items from 3 months to as little as three weeks. The company’s Buynet solution (Powered by local provider mymarket.com) is now used by more than 3500 users, 250 suppliers and 43 sites. The company processes as many

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BEE procurement compliance “Bureau” service launched

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Does your company buy from non-BEE suppliers when a BEE supplier could have been used? Cape Town based CCI-Growthcon have developed an innovative approach to ensure maximum utilisation of BEE suppliers based on their description based spend analysis software – available monthly on a bureau basis. According to Marc Silberbauer of CCI-Growthcon “On a monthly

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Using SMS’s to control the procurement process and boost governance

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In organisations in which executives with approval authority are often out of the office, e-Procurement functionality is extended to enable the executive to approve a purchase request via SMS. Says Arthur Benting, IT manager at MWEB CommerceZone, a hosted e-Procurement solutions provider, “It won’t matter if the executive is out of the country or without

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Are you getting the best prices in a “downward” cycle? PC market update.

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In a cyclical market where prices are going up or down, how do you know when your organisation is getting a good deal from a supplier? The graph (click on the image to view it) shows what happened to one major UK organisation over a six and a half year period as the prices in

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Large buyers pay up to 49% more on Car Hire

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A recent benchmark between 9 large organisations from various industries indicate that up to 49% more might be available on local car travel deals. “One would expect that buyers with a larger procurement spend in this area will be the more cost competitive, but it turns out that quite the opposite is true,” Alan Low,

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