We watch The Apprentice and see the ‘lambs to the slaughter’ negotiating. Not helped by their bravado and arrogance: ‘I’m a shark in business’. Cue the next clip of the poor apprentice being taken limb from limb by a shopkeeper who won’t give him 5p off a bottle of champagne. Negotiating looks hard and can […]
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News travels fast in this digital age and while it may be better for stress management to avoid being bombarded with an influx of negative news, in the case of supply chain, forewarned is forearmed. Keeping abreast of news about your suppliers enables you to mitigate risk. Staying up-to-date with what is being reported about
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Nearly half of the 10 million students that graduate across Africa each year, are unable to get jobs. One of the only ways to bring down those numbers in a sustainable way is to create an enabling environment for young entrepreneurs to not only start businesses, but to continue to run and maintain them. As
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Procurement never came across to Linda Lin as a career. She had never even taken a single module relating to procurement at university, neither was it offered as a major/function during her business school education. Linda’s heart lay with the world of marketing or strategy. But that was until Linda joined Unilever as an assistant
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The retail landscape has changed dramatically in the last decade, with technology becoming an important consideration in the customer journey. A historical buzzword, ‘omnichannel’, is now an integral part of any retailer’s strategy, with in-store kiosks, transactional iPads and social screens now commonplace in-store. Advances in technology are having a direct impact on the role
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“Procurement needs to embrace agility in 2018”, argues Guy Strafford, Executive Vice President: Market Engagement at Proxima. Much like Top Gun’s Maverick and Goose, procurement will have a “need for speed” in 2018. Your CEO is worrying about speed and agility, so you should be worrying about it too. AI, big data and digital are
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Supply chains are process and people driven. If a change situation is not correctly managed, then processes fragment and possibly fall apart and people push back when familiarity and control are taken away from them. In this current environment of uncertainty, it is crucial that Supply Chain Practitioners can quickly move from paralysis to
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Adverts for government tenders will no longer be placed in newspapers, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday. The president, during his reply to the State of the Nation Address debate, said the use of a tender portal would be compulsory for all departments from April 1.
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The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) Africa continues to support Smart Procurement World as South Africa’s definitive procurement and supply chain forum. As part of leadership, Smart Procurement World has launched the Western Cape event: the regional event will give delegates a chance to develop new contacts in the industry and raise
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