When we start focusing on Procurement effectiveness things start to fall into place. Too many Procurement functions give overriding focus to the numbers, an understandable trait given that we operate in a numbers-driven commercial world. Even in organizations ...read more

SASOL’s polymer business is unprofitable — hence it is uncertain if it would make the investments necessary to modernise, says the petrochemical giant’s senior vice-president for strategic projects Norbert Behrens. Mr Behrens and his ...read more

Twenty years ago, Joseph Pine published a book titled “Mass Customization.” This was followed by a Harvard Business Review article, similar McKinsey articles, and various related movements, including agile manufacturing, which was promoted ...read more

Pretoria – President Jacob Zuma has appointed new members of the Presidential Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Advisory Council. ...read more

Government’s plans for reining in the country’s public procurement would be outlined in the Public Procurement Review, which will be published next month. Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene told Parliament on Wednesday that the document would ...read more

Knock-on effects include inability to repay loans and to obtain tax clearance certificates for tendering purposes ...read more

Starting tomorrow a group of government officials and experts belonging to the world’s leading anti-money laundering organisation – the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – will be meeting in Paris. On the agenda is the adoption of a ...read more

The South African economy is stuck in first gear. Slow economic growth, high levels of unemployment and high inflation is likely to continue for some time. With South Africa facing such difficult economic circumstances, it is expected that in his Medium ...read more

MAJORITY of more than 900,000 active tax-paying companies operating in the South African economy will be affected by the new empowerment codes that are coming into effect from May next year, the Department of Trade and Industry said on Friday. The new ...read more

COUNTRIES wanting to sell their nuclear technology will be able to parade their wares in a pre-procurement workshop to be hosted by the Department of Energy that will include representatives from other state entities. On Sunday, the Department of Energy ...read more

THE three most advanced coal companies in the Waterberg region — Exxaro, Resource Generation (Resgen) and Waterberg Coal Company — are working together with Sasol to develop the area’s coal resources most efficiently and sustainably ...read more

The upcoming contract management event – organised by Bespoke and the International Association of Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) – promises to deliver international leading practice knowledge on contract management and supplier ...read more

The upcoming contract management event – organised by Bespoke and the International Association of Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) – promises to deliver international leading practice knowledge on contract management and supplier ...read more

The Coega Development Corporation (CDC), operator of the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ), announced today it will establish a Multi Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) complex for the automotive assembly and components manufacturing sectors ...read more

The Procurement Leaders Zurich 2014 Forum panel discusses the role and benefit of using big data within procurement. Big data has many definitions, ranging from “unstructured” to “a lot of data” but the panel discussion on ...read more

Old Xstrata recollections were reignited on Tuesday as former Xstrata CEO Mick Davis announced that his new X2 Resources had garnered in another $1-billion to take the incipient mining company towards financial reserves of close on $5-billion. A number ...read more

Her Majesty’s Privy Council agreed the recently proposed changes to the CIPS Charter and Bye-Laws © iStock Related articles CIPS members vote in favour of name change and introduction of Chartered Status A higher standing Global Congress debates key issues ...read more

Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport Dr Ismail Vadi on Tuesday announced the appointment of a consortium of transaction advisers to conduct the feasibility study (FS) for the proposed extensions to the Gautrain rail system. The SMEC Consortium comprised ...read more

More than 80 automotive component manufacturers under investigation for allegedly colluding to fix prices and dividing the market for the past 14 years ...read more

Pretoria - Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies has gazetted the second phase of the Amended Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Codes of Good Practice for public comment. ...read more

NATIONAL Union of Metalworkers of SA boss Irvin Jim has had some incredibly rude things to say about South African automobile manufacturers, but National Association of Automobile Manufacturers boss Dr Johan van Zyl says more things unite than divide ...read more

President Jacob Zuma has given authority to Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson to sign an agreement for the safe use of nuclear energy with France. “President Jacob Zuma has, in terms of section 231 of the Constitution of the Republic of South ...read more

ROSATOM, the state-owned Russian nuclear company, spent on Thursday afternoon trying to disown its earlier claim of having been awarded a contract to build SA’s proposed fleet of power stations. The company blamed a poor translation for its late ...read more

Eliminating fraud from our food supply chains is imperative but it’s easier said than done. Modern supply chains have become increasingly intricate and larger supply chains inevitably have a greater exposure to risk. In this guest post, Procurement ...read more

PLATINUM miner Lonmin on Wednesday announced it had returned to full production earlier than forecast. In its third-quarter results, released earlier this year, it had said production to June had been severely affected by the five-month Association ...read more