The South African government values our relationships with suppliers and want to build strong partnerships for mutual benefit. The Office of the Chief Procurement Officer at National Treasury has started to reform the government supply chain operatio...

Many small businesses have given up hope of winning business with government. The perceived challenges are: bias towards big business, complex tender processes with high costs and heavy bureaucratic burden and then also an uneven playing field when it ...read more

Suppliers or service providers generally have 21 days to respond to a tender. This is the result of recent analysis from our database of tenders over the past 30 months. We have analysed the number of days between the publication date and the date when ...read more

Downplaying criticism of government's public procurement and tender policy, Eastern Cape Treasury audit and risk management chief director Andries Louw has argued that small, medium-sized and microenterprises (SMMEs) are easily able to access the ...read more

I found the lack of media coverage on the launch of the new Central Supplier Database (CSD) for the South African government last week astonishing. It is almost as if the significance of this event was not recognised. Finance Minister, Nhlanhla Nene, ...read more

A series of supply chain events for suppliers wanting to get involved with the £1 billion Tidal Lagoon infrastructure project in Swansea has launched. The “awareness events” are aimed at introducing Welsh construction and advanced manufacturing ...read more

An approach by an SAA director requesting that Bidvest transfers 30% of its aircraft-toilet-cleaning subsidiary business to an SAA-nominated black-owned small business has been politely but firmly kicked into touch. This seems to be a very similar request ...read more

Why should a CPO take advice from a Marketer? The crux of Inbound Marketing is investment : genuinely understanding and caring about the needs of your target, and working to solve their problems and empower them. Inbound marketing works because ...read more

Further the the article from yesterday on Eskom's plans to take an equity stake in suppliers, the utility also has plans to take over intellectual property (IP) rights developed during the course of any work that its contractors are currently performing ...read more

Pretoria - An incubator establishment handbook has been launched to help improve the quality of applications for the establishment of business incubators in South Africa. ...read more

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has announced a further set of product designations for local procurement by the public sector and has indicated that efforts will be stepped up during 2015 to improve compliance across all government departments ...read more

Information and communications technology (ICT) major Telkom on Thursday unveiled its new R100-million plus programme to incubate and develop starting up and existing entrepreneurs and small, medium-sized and microenterprises (SMMEs). The ‘FutureMakers ...read more

Pretoria - There is no confusion regarding the implementation of the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act, says the Department of Trade and Industry (dti). ...read more

Enterprise development expert says introduction of the empowering supplier status measure in the amended BEE codes will create new levels of opportunity, writes Stephen Timm ...read more

When assessing areas of risk facing their departments, nearly half (45%) of Chief Procurement Officers named supplier risk as a top concern, according to a new survey by Consero Group. The results were reported as part of the 2015 Global Procurement ...read more

Global companies are wasting more than $30 billion (£20 billion) a year because they do not share information about suppliers, according to business information provider Achilles. ...read more

Every audience that I ask agrees that change is occurring at an ever-faster pace. Yet when it comes to the impact of change, most tend to see it in terms of greater complexity, additional workload or confused priorities. There are few who can express ...read more

Do you believe that your suppliers think it is worth the time and effort to bring you the innovations you are looking for to grow your business in a sustainable way? Procurement can be a key driver if the right resources, processes, incentives and metrics ...read more

2015 will be the year of the supplier; everything procurement teams do will have to connect back to the supply base. In this series of guest posts, Procurement Leaders asks solution providers in the procurement space for their predictions on the ...read more

The profession's increased involvement in wider business strategy has altered the skill set needed by those working in the function. Generally speaking this has manifested itself in a focus on skills related to relationship management and strategic ...read more

The supply base plays a pivotal role in any organisation’s success. Without a robust system to evaluate supplier performance, a business can never reach the point at which it can derive real value from its suppliers. CPOs need a system in place ...read more

Cabinet approves implementation of programme to ensure compliance by government departments with policy on procuring goods, services from local suppliers ...read more

These types of brands are more likely to spend more time with suppliers and understand them at a personal level, the study says. Often design-led, luxury brands are also always pushing suppliers’ capabilities and testing their flexibility. Procurement ...read more

Shell Supplier Diversity is introducing a new strategy and technology to create efficiencies while helping potential suppliers interested in doing business with Shell. The new Shell Diverse Supplier Pipeline Management System, which Shell developed, will ...read more

Traditional methods of supplier “management” through fear and threat are, hopefully, in decline. Banging the table and screeching for another cent of cost savings are increasingly rare behaviours. Influencing and persuading skills ar...