Procurement corruption ‘killing’ SMBs

Corruption within the public sector has had a devastating effect on small businesses. This is the word from Lindiwe Zulu, minister of small business development, who told the Procurement Indaba in Durban that this was one of the factors that has kept small businesses...

Tender policy hampers procurement changes

Professor Douglas Boateng of the Unisa Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL) is Africa’s first Professor Extraordinarius for Supply and Value Chain Management. Ahead of his Executive Insights into Negotiations in Supply Chain Management workshop to be held at...

Productivity drives ICT procurement

A genuine belief that technology can boost productivity is driving the increase in volume and size of investment in ICT. This is the view of experts focused on the human capital management (HCM) area who say that today decision makers have a plethora of...

Universities target procurement savings

Higher education buying departments expect to save hundreds of millions of rands through PURCO SA Online, their new e-procurement and travel management platform. Purchasing Consortium Southern Africa (PURCO SA), the higher education procurement consortium, concluded...

Local procurement fraud solution from SAS

On 19 March 2014, SAS South Africa will be launching its locally developed Procurement Fraud Solution, which it believes will change the way companies detect, manage and prevent fraud. In South Africa, 59% of companies surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers reported that...