Do you negotiate in the same way at work as you do at home? Many of us often forget the tactics and strategies we employ in our personal lives when we get to the office. This was the view put forward by Susanna Mason, director general (commercial) at ...read more

Seattle — A consortium of partners including Brazil, Canada, India, Norway, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States will fund a new phase of Grand Challenge initiatives. At an event in Seattle commemorating the tenth anniversary ...read more

As a two-year grace period soon expires, thousands of U.S. corporations are still scrambling to overcome severe obstacles to gather and authenticate a complex web of supply chain information to meet conflict minerals reporting requirements. “In ...read more

Durban – In a latest effort by government to promote industrialisation, the Dube TradePort in Durban will formally become a special economic zone under the new Special Economic Zones Act 16 of 2014. ...read more

It’s been previously stated here at CPO Rising that the business travel category has been on both a budgetary and strategic rise over the past half-decade; as more and more enterprises rely on business travel to foster customer relationships, spark new ...read more

The world of work's just so much more interesting and rewarding today that it was even five years' ago ...read more

Entrepreneur forced to sell up and move in with his grandmother in Soweto because government failed to pay him on time. Although the government is big on promoting small businesses and creating jobs, it kills small businesses and loses jobs because ...read more

The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) warned on Friday that the metals and engineering sector could contract by between 2% and 3% in 2014, owing primarily to the fallout from a month-long strike in July. The ...read more

JPMorgan Chase announced yesterday that the customer information of 76 million households may have been compromised. The personal data, which was under its care, was stolen in a hacking attack. Currently, the bank is undergoing the blame game. Who is ...read more

Launched earlier this year in hard and soft copy, this comprehensive competency framework will enhance organisational and individual performance as it offers a benchmark for all levels in the profession and can be used for all sectors. The Global Standard ...read more

The UK government is introducing new infrastructure procurement principles, for projects such as the Thames Tideway Tunnel, to address industry concerns about inconsistency. ...read more

Johannesburg - State-owned freight logistics group, Transnet and BHP have signed a whopping R24-billion on a 10-year take or pay export coal deal. ...read more

There is a massive opportunity in South Africa for logistical and transport companies dealing with fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), according to Nicholas de Canha, CEO of Imperial Fleet Management. “The transportation of fast moving consumer ...read more

A review has uncovered R34.9 billion (£1.9 billion) of “irregular expenditure” around public works in South Africa. Issues that have been uncovered by the review included tenders not being advertised properly, a minimum number of quotations ...read more

Kellogg’s has announced a new commitment to enable improved productivity of 15,000 smallholder farmers in its agricultural supply chain, with a focus on rice, as well as support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The company made the announcement ...read more

Toshiba’s Westinghouse Electric Company on Monday launched an expedited review application in the South Gauteng High Court challenging Eskom’s decision to award a R4.3-billion contract to Areva, of France, for the replacement of steam generators ...read more

Pretoria - The fight to eliminate fraud and corruption at the Department of Public Works is continuing in earnest, as more than 100 cases involving more than R1.1 billion have either been finalised or are being investigated. ...read more

South Africa's nuclear cooperation deal signed this week with Russia is part of a tender process that will involve other competing countries and is not a contract to build power plants, government officials said on Tuesday. The Russian atomic agency ...read more

New legislation will stimulate industry and protect it from international competitors that have lower wage rate. On August 21, the South African Department of Trade and Industry issued an instruction that any future shipbuilding for the state or state ...read more

Many companies around the world know the benefits of open innovation and crowdsourcing with speed and diversity being the most important ones. The combination of the two can enable companies that are successful with open innovation to bring better ...read more

FAW South Africa (FAW SA), a subsidiary of China’s FAW Group, has established a joint venture with the Pamodzi Group, focusing on truck sales in South Africa and other countries in sub-Equatorial Africa. The new company, Pamodzi-FAW, is 51% held by Pamodzi ...read more

Project to double capacity of Dar es Salaam port moves a step closer with the signing of an MoU. The aim is to increase the capacity of the port to 28 million tons by 2020, compared with the 14.6 million tons handled in 2013/14. The aim is to increase ...read more

Transnet Port Terminals CEO Karl Socikwa says the assembly of rolling stock will be beneficial for the development of the local manufacturing sector. Speaking at the South Africa Local Content Summit for oil and gas in Cape Town on Wednesday, Transnet ...read more

Nestlé South Africa announced plans on Wednesday to invest a further R2-billion over the coming five years to grow its domestic manufacturing base, which would increasingly be used as a platform to supply into fast-growing sub-Saharan African markets ...read more

More than 80 per cent of chief executives in Africa say bribery and corruption is a threat to growth, according to PwC’s Africa Business Agenda 2014 . It also found that almost a fifth of CEOs are tackling fraud by developing supply chain management ...read more