In recent years, the on-going quest for efficiency and flexibility and the impact of emerging technologies, innovation and ever-changing customer demand, has seen the South African supply chain mature from a corporate function into an enabler of growth and a strategic weapon, providing value for customers’¹, Tech-Pro Personnel tells SmartProcurement. Highlighting the increasing importance […]
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Africa’s buying behaviour must change to support the continent’s long-term industrialisation, job creation, SMME growth and development efforts, said CIPS Africa Advisory Board Chair, Prof. Douglas Boateng. “While I fully acknowledge and respect the fact that Africa is part of a global community, we must support made-in-Africa goods and services and purposefully embrace the
Phil Weir initiated and led procurement reform for the New Zealand government. In this month’s SmartProcurement he shares how his department developed efficiencies in 350 government agencies that expend NZ$20-billion. However, if you’re expecting a complex recipe for public procurement soufflé you will be disappointed. “The key lesson,” says Weir, “is that developing efficiencies
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Absa officially opened an exclusive entrepreneurship centre in Newtown, Johannesburg, in collaboration with various corporate and public partners including the City of Johannesburg. The centre is aimed entirely at the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector in South Africa, to which Absa has already committed R250-million in non-traditional lending in 2013. “The goal we
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“Gaps” – or business prospects – challenge what entrepreneurs offer the market and how they offer it. This makes it important to assist them to identify the right gap before they start a business, as well as continue to test its ongoing relevance as their SME grows, says Shawn Theunissen, head of CSR at
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Placing greater weight on supplier and enterprise development under the new BEE codes may lead to a greater number of SMME development initiatives (as is the government’s intention) in South Africa. However, the character behind and the quality of the SMME one chooses to develop is the most important factor in whether the SMME
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South African supply chain consulting specialist Resolve SP has partnered with Irish software company SourceDogg to deliver effective e-sourcing. The partnership will bring SourceDogg’s e-procurement solution to the South African market. The announcement was made during the Enterprise Ireland trade mission to South Africa led by Minister for Trade and Development, Joe Costello. Resolve
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Millennials in the developed world are driving the adoption of technologies that facilitate commerce in the supply chains of the developing world. As developed nations mobilise their workforce and embrace new models of business, such as The Networked Economy, developing nations are benefiting from the wave of simple, streamlined and mobile solutions, for which
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The global financial crisis has placed significant pressure on corporates to find new ways of earning adequate returns on shareholder investments and in the case of the public sector, to find better ways of achieving value for money, said Kenneth Brown, Chief Procurement Officer for National Treasury, speaking at the industry event Smart Procurement
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The seasonally adjusted Kagiso Purchasing Managers’ Index™ (PMI™) increased by 1.7 index points to reach 52.4 in November. This brings the average for the first two months of 4Q2013 to 51.6, said Abdul Davids, Head of Research at Kagiso Asset Management. PMI™ subcomponents indicate that manufacturing production in the final quarter of 2013 should
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