Warehousing in China - implementing a strategy
This month SmartProcurement publishes the third article in a series considering China’s warehousing options, as presented in a report by C.H. Robinson Worldwide Considering China’s Warehousing Options. This month considers the key actions in implementing a warehousing solution in the world’s second largest economy.
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Warehousing in China? Challenges to consider
This month SmartProcurement publishes the second article in a series considering China’s warehousing options, as presented in a report by C.H. Robinson Worldwide. This month considers the challenges of warehousing in the world’s second largest economy.
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Why warehouse in China? Exploring the benefits
China’s business relationship with Africa and South Africa is strengthening with every passing day. But while South African business enjoys the prospects of investment from the east, it may have overlooked some reciprocal investments that can be made in the world’s newly second largest economy.This month’s SmartProcurement considers the benefits of China’s warehousing options, as presented in a report by C.H. Robinson Worldwide.
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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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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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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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Overcoming business barriers with China and gaining savings
One of the key strategies in Strategic Cost Management is the option of sourcing your 'direct' or even 'indirect' commodities from Low Cost Countries (LCC’s). This would be done due to various factors, but primarily because LCC’s are sometimes in substantially more price competitive positions than organisations at home. Several countries are now classified as an LCC, but by far the most well-known and attractive, is China.
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Report back on SmartSourcing Conference 2008
SmartProcurement hosted its 2nd annual SmartSourcing Conference on the 7th and 8th of October 2008 at the Irene Country Lodge in Centurion, Pretoria. This two-day event, sponsored by Purchasing Index, Tech-Pro Personnel, Commerce Edge Procurement Training, Volition, IPSA, BEESA Boxsmart and EES-Siyakha, attracted more than 100 local and international delegates from all corners of Procurement and Supply Chain Management (SCM) in both the private and public sectors.
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'The China Game' and the Value of Scenario Planning In Turbulent Economic Times
SmartProcurement recently hosted its 2nd annual SmartSourcing Conference on the topic of ‘Strategic Cost Management in Turbulent Economic Times’ at the Irene Country Lodge in Centurion, Pretoria. The conference’s first day’s keynote address was presented by internationally acclaimed scenario planner and popular motivational speaker, Clem Sunter, on the topic of “The China Game”.
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Low Cost Country Sourcing a "Huge commercial incentive". China vs India
One of the papers from the recent IPSA / CIPS Pan African Conference, in Johannesburg, sheds essential light on the subject of sourcing goods and services in the vast global marketplace that has so conveniently opened up to African organisations. In his presentation "Low Cost Economy Sourcing - Competitive Advantage or Threat", David Noble, Group Supply Chain Director at IMI Plc, writes from a background of considerable experience in this highly volatile and risk-sensitive field of doing business globally.
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Pan African Procurement - A view from the Flight Tower
"Many large companies consider the continent of Africa (excluding South Africa) as an enigma. Historically, these organisations have resigned to the fact that operating in Africa will be relatively inefficient in terms of their procurement, and sometimes other activities." Greg Buckley of Volition tells Smart Procurement that "The justification for this has traditionally been the combination of small market share, challenging logistics, uncertain politics, inconsistent trade protocol, fragile currencies and unsophisticated administration."Posted by StaffWriter at 2:25 PM | Comments (0)
