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The tendency of some South African entrepreneurs to scale back their involvement in the economy, or retire all together, once they are financially secure is contrary to the spirit of BEE, Nonkululeko Gobodo, Executive Chairperson of Chartered Accounting firm Gobodo Incorporated and lobbyist for sustainable black business, tells SmartProcurement. Many successful black South Africans who

A lack of understanding regarding the concept of supply chain management (SCM) and its inextricable link to long term quality service delivery, human capital development and associated socio economic growth, may be the root cause of problems beleaguering government and the people at large, says Dr. Douglas Boateng, founder, president and CEO of PanAvest International

The ever changing needs and demands of customers, coupled with high market opposition, has provided Procurement professionals with more avenues than ever before to deliver value to their respective organisations. To provide support in identifying these opportunities SmartProcurement will publish a World-Class Procurement Practice series over the next 15 months, penned by Ronald Mlalazi (MCIPS),

Supply chain management recruitment specialists TechPro Personnel has opened applications for its Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) Bursary. The Bursary covers the expenses of completing an Association for Operations Management (APICS) CSCP program and includes attendance to the SAPICS Supply Chain Education Awards Dinner and the SAPICS 2010 Conference as a guest of Tech-Pro. “Tech-Pro’s

Controlling more than 7-million public sector personnel who collectively expend £200-billion annually: a relevant UK expenditure authority’s example of delegation. How to monitor and manage the expenditure practices of those in the public sector, who, in the course of their contributions to the sector’s service deliveries, have requirements for goods and services sourced from outside

Priority Procurement issues for the new South African Government to address – if they aren’t addressing them already – must be how to organise public sector procurement so that it can deliver the budget balancing procurement savings they so urgently need, and to then measure whether Procurement is delivering the promised, more competitive prices on

Second peer review: The law of Government Procurement in South Africa Isac Smith, Director Supply Chain Management, Department of Health, Provincial Government Western Cape, and speaker at the upcoming Supply Chain Management Summit, offers his comments in the second of his review series of Prof. Phoebe Bolton’s legal work, ‘The Law of Government Procurement in

Santam is currently looking for a Demand Management Consultant who will be responsible for managing and analysing business demand to continually identify avenues to drive down consumption, and implement those opportunities whilst ensuring that business requirements are met and risk is managed. Job Purpose and Principal Accountabilities: Scope, plan and manage iterations of the Demand

SmartProcurement was invited to the recent Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) breakfast at the Westin Grand Hotel, Cape Town on the 22nd of August 2008.  The topic of this breakfast was the prickly question:  “Where is the money falling through the cracks?”, with particular reference to car rentals and unused tickets. Who is ACTE?