State-business accord sets buy-local target of 75%
Business, government and labour pledged on Monday to increase their expenditure on goods and services from South African producers to 75%. The move is a bid to boost industrialisation and create employment in the country.
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Sustainable supplier and enterprise development
Many of the 6 000 000 small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa are struggling and a high percentage will fall by the wayside, Yvonne Themba, Director of Corporate Affairs at Shanduka Black Umbrellas, told delegates at SmartProcurement World.
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PPPFA amended - A big day for B-BBEE
Effective 7 December 2011, government departments will be forced to consider compliance to the Codes of Good Practice when evaluating tenders for government business. The publication of the amended Preferential Procurement Regulations, issued in terms of the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA), has been eagerly anticipated following the circulation of draft amendments for public comment in August 2009. The new regulations are the last component in executing B-BBEE as contemplated in the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act and require that all tenders be accompanied by a valid B-BBEE certificate, issued by an accredited verification organisation.Wade van Rooyen of iquad verification services discusses the changes in this month’s SmartProcurement.
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BEE codes do not speak enterprise development
The best way for an organisation to become involved in enterprise development is through its own supply chain, said Claudia Manning, MD of development consultancy ECIAfrica and a member of President Jacob Zuma’s BEE advisory council.
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Cabinet to align treasury procurement regulations with BEE Act.
Cabinet announced in March that it will approve the alignment of the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act (PPPFA) and the Broad-Based Black Economic empowerment Act (BEE Act).Public entities follow the regulations of PPPFA to procure goods and services.
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Preferential Procurement Struggle: Promoting and assisting small business
"We struggle to get large corporates to assist the many small businesses we mentor on the long and hard road to success," Bella Cebekhula of Shanduka Black Umbrellas told SmartProcurement.“Procurement in South Africa is built around big companies and has very little to do with small business. We feel that government policy is not clearly directed for the benefit of the thousands of small to small to medium enterprises (SMEs) scattered across our national economy."
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The Role of Strategic Procurement in Supplier Development
It is imperative that supplier development forms an integral part of a buying organisation’s strategic procurement role to ensure a continuous supply of cost effective products and services, Thapelo Petje, Independent Supply Chain Consultant, tells SmartProcurement.
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Black-owned firms penalised for using white talent
The chairperson of South Africa’s largest wholly owned black auditing firm has expressed concern over BEE codes which penalise black-owned firms who expand their skills base with white talent.
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Inclusive supply chains support poverty reduction
Procurement and Supply Chain Management have a role to play in a recently launched initiative for holistic poverty reduction.“Procurement that is ethical and value-based, that incorporates a community into its entire value chain” has a place in the Business for Development (B4D) Pathfinder Initiative, said Benjamin Mkapa, former Tanzanian President, at the initiative’s launch last month, attended by SmartProcurement.
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Enterprise Development: The little-known golden nugget in the BBBEE pyramid
The business world normally associates the term Enterprise Development with some or other form of philanthropy. An example of this would be where the ‘principal’ donates something (usually money) to improve the knowledge-base and to develop the skills-set of the ‘beneficiary’.
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Enterprise Development unlocks Preferential Procurement value
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nterprise Development, along with Socio-Economic Development and Skills Development, should be a fundamental cornerstone of any well-structured South African BEE Procurement strategy. Andrew Bizzell, co-founder of the Institute for Enterprise Development and a BEESA consultant, told Smart Procurement how procurement organisations can make Enterprise Development (as a BEE strategy) work for them...Posted by StaffWriter at 11:31 AM | Comments (0)
