Several important new questions and implications arise for the procurement fraternity that will drive purchasing strategy regarding the Gazetted BBBEE codes of good Practice.

During this short one day session you will learn tools and tips that can save your organisation money and your staff and you time. The content includes:

• Hear from leading legal, procurement and corporate governance experts regarding the South African BBBEE Scorecard and its implications for the procurement function
• Certain parts of the spend will get your company points faster than other areas. How to identify and fast track these areas...
• What preparation does our procurement department need to do to, and what strategy should we follow to achieve a succesful rating?
• Understand which areas you can exclude from your procurement spend.
• How do we transform our spend quickly?
• Where do you get Bonus Points? Are there any grey areas and how do we deal with those?
• What about BEE suppliers that we assist and develop?
• Which rating agency certificates should you accept as a procurement department?
• Understand the role of rating agencies and what their own BBBEE criteria should be like.
• How to choose and recommend a good rating agency.
• How do we deal with Fronting in this context?
• Can we / should we determine Supplier Ratings ourselves?
• How should your company change its procurement systems to accomodate the requirements of the codes?
• What preparation should the procurement function do in order for your company to be rated?
• Where should you spend your time in getting your procurement spend transformed... quickly?
• What about smaller suppliers?
• How do you get 100% recognition from your spend with companies with a turnover of less than R5m.
• How to deal with suppliers whose turnover is between R5m and R35m?
• How will the Procurement function be evaluated based on the latest codes of good practice?
• How should Suppliers be evaluated in the future? Discuss how to deal with existing supplier relationships.
• Sector charters vs. the scorecard - which will prevail?
• Understand in more detail how the various parts of the scorecard are calculated especially from a procurement perspective
• Be able to calculate equity points based on the revised flow through principle
• Be clear on when "narrow based" empowerment criteria are to be replaced with "broad based" criteria
   

In conjunction with EES-Siyakha

 You will learn tools and tips that can save your organisation money and
your staff and yourself time. Guaranteed.

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What previous attending delegates had to say about this workshop:

Pele Mavela, Strategic Sourcing & BEE Consultant, Telkom SA
"Eye-opener to nitty-gritty of the score card. What to look in improving the level of supplier. What segments exist in classifying suppliers. How to calculate the scores to reach a certain level."

Dale Lottering, Impala Platinum Ltd, Rustenburg
“I found the course content extremely informative, professionally presented and full of useful tips to optimise on scoring opportunities.”

Nicholas Mbambo, BBBEE Consultant, Telkom SA
"More detailed analysis of preferential procurement and enterprise development and the presenters kept to quality time management."

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Three reasons that Guarantee your Satisfaction:

Reason one: We have trained and consulted to more than 140 leading local and international organisations (both private and public) such as:

Absa, Absa CRES, Anglo Platinum, Appletiser, AfriSam, Avis, Barloworld, Barrick, Bamangwato Concessions, Bidvest, British American Tobacco, BHP Billiton, Broadband Infraco, Boart Longyear, Cadbury, Cell C, Ceres, Chevron, City of Cape Town, City of Jo’burg Property Company, City Power, Clover SA, Coca-Cola SABCO, Correctional Services Management, CTICC, Daimler Fleet Management, Denel, De Beers, Drake and Scull, Dept of Health Western Cape, Dept of Science & Technology, Dept of Transport Western Cape, Dept of Water & Forestry, Derivco, The Development Bank of Southern Africa, eThekwini Metro Municipality, Engen, Eskom, Exxaro, Fedics, First National Bank, Free State Development Corporation, General Mills, Gold Fields Shared Services, Goodyear, Govt of the North, GSSC, Hatch, Hewlett Packard, Hulamin Limited, Investec, Johannesburg Development Agency, Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market, Johannesburg Social Housing Company, Johannesburg Water, Joy Mining Machinery, Kraft Foods, Kumba Resources, Letseng Diamonds, Lesotho Electricity Corporation, Liberty Group, Lonmin, Limpopo Treasury, Metro Rail, Metropolitan Life, Mittal Steel, Mobile Telecommunications Namibia, MQA, MTN, Murray & Roberts, Multotec, Namakwa Sands, Namibia Dairies, National Brands, Nampak, National Ports Authority, National Treasury, Nissan SA, Nedbank, Old Mutual, Optimum Coal Mine, Parmalat, PBMR, PFG, Plessey, Premier Foods, R.B.C.T., Richards Bay Minerals, Rand Merchant Bank, Rand Water, Resourcery Limited (Nigeria), Road Accident Fund, Rotran, SAA, SABS, SABC, SA Breweries, Samancor, Sea Harvest, SAPPI, SASSETA, SASOL, SANDF, SARS, Shaft Sinkers, Siemens, Sishen Iron Ore, SITA, Spar, Standard Bank, Total SA, Transnet, Transvaal Sugar, TCTA, TFMC, Tigerbrands, The Rare Group, UCT, University of Westville Durban, Wits University, Umgeni Water, Vodacom, Xstrata Alloys and many others.

Reason two:

Most of our customers rate us as being either "Very Good" or "Excellent" with many of them attending our other courses or sessions once they've attended the first one

Reason three:

We will provide a 100 % Iron-clad MoneyBack Guarantee. If you aren't satisfied with the session, just tell us afterwards and we'll refund 100% of your purchase price. No questions asked. We only ask that you return the manual!

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To your success!

Bernie van Niekerk

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