Carbon emissions tax - another TCO cost element
Purchasing or Fleet Managers should not over-react to the carbon emissions tax on new vehicles, but should rather look at the tax’s impact on vehicle total cost of ownership (TCO), Ashleigh Young, Chief Executive of the TransAuto Group, tells SmartProcurement.
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Procurement function one of most important drivers of future business success
The procurement function has a significant role to play in an organisation’s future business success in the global market, far beyond its past role of simple order processing, said Gerd Kerkhoff, CEO of Kerkhoff Consulting, tells SmartProcurement.
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Rethink your paper usage - SA company projects savings of 40%
After seven months of proven savings, a South African Financial Services (FS) company of more than 3 000 employees has projected annual savings in excess of 40% in paper and associated printing and faxing costs, Rethink Consulting’s Francois Bedeker, tells SmartProcurement.
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Green Procurement - Paper Management Programmes
We’re all very well aware of our need to reduce carbon emissions and care for our planet. In Corporate South Africa more and more organisations are asking a key question: How much paper are we consuming for our marketing efforts? Indeed, this is a very good question, however, the usual response from Procurement or Marketing departments is “how must we manage what cannot be measured?” The reality is that very few organisations have an answer to this question, yet they have enormous cabinets full of Corporate and SocialResponsibility briefings, Christian Bell, Sales and Marketing Manager at local Print Management Company POINT tells SmartProcurement.
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Green procurement in SA - The local imperative
While the agreements and targets reached at Copenhagen are still a shadow of the outcomes the world was expecting (and required?) from the environmental talks, Green Procurement will still need to be the way forward for companies to meet their CSR and to unlock sustainable value in their supply chains.
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Reducing SA's Carbon Footprint - the Procurement profession's role
Reducing Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) has become a priority for South African business and the Government.What role will procurement professionals play in this regard?
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Green procurement: changing the way we think and live
It’s an exhilarating time. The environmental revolution is here and companies all over the world are coming up with extraordinary products and ideas that will change the way we think and live, Howard Stephens, CPO at Nedbank, tells SmartProcurement.
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Green Procurement: Material flows and logistics in 'cradle-to-cradle' approach essential
Discussion presented at the Environmental Trade Show and Conference.
Cradle-to-cradle thinking, which suggests that everything created by humankind can contribute positively to the environment and the economy, may be one of the next movements to influence the future of supply chain management (SCM).
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