B2B and B2G Supplier Pricing Strategies
The attractive deals posed by product consolidating vendor/distributors (e.g. Office Supplies and Catering Products) can be just as deceptive as supermarket’s ‘buyonegetonefree’ (BOGOF) pricing, says Wally Johnson, Chairman of Purchasing Index UK, in this month’s SmartProcurement.
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SCM Summit feedback: Intelligent databases further Preferential Procurement
Technology is an effective support for Preferential Procurement Policy implementation and compliancy, Catherine Hills, Client Services Director for Quadrem Africa, told SmartProcurement.
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Transaction switching - managing electronic transactions between buyer and supplier communities
A complete e-Procurement and Supplier Network solution enables purchasing organisations to make contracts operational through contract catalogues and to manage transactional exchanges between an organisation and its suppliers, Catherine Hills, Client Services Director at Quadrem, told SmartProcurement.
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Taking BEE Procurement To The Next Level : Verified BEE Supplier Database
South Africa's second piece of equity legislation passed in 2004, the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Act, lacks government enforced sanction, yet many public and private sector companies have embraced this vital initiative. This acceptance suggests that South Africa's social policies have finally reached a turning-point. Posted by StaffWriter at 2:40 PM | Comments (0)
Free State Province signs with QUADREM for centralised, verified supplier database
Johannesburg and Amsterdam - March 2008 - Quadrem Africa has recently been awarded a three-year contract to implement and manage one centralised verified supplier database for South Africa's Free State Provincial Government and four Public Entities in the province.Posted by StaffWriter at 8:54 PM | Comments (0)
Seamless reporting on your monthly/ quarterly/ annual BBBEE spend now available
It's Friday noon hour and you're about to leave for a supplier meeting when the CPO buzzes and says that the FD just flew in from HQ and urgently ( for their impromptu Board Meeting at 14h00) requires your Commodity Report on your total BEE Spend:
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Detailed 60 000 BEE SUPPLIER and verification information available electronically
In the recent past Supplier Directory’s matched the procurement departments enquiry with the required goods or services and ranked the supplier(s) according to region, reputation and such like criteria. The BBBEE Codes of Good Practice, as issued by the Department of Trade and Industry and, gazetted in February this year, changed all that. Detailed Supplier information is now an essential component of the procurement departments ability to fulfil its internal and, external transformation objectives and strategies.
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More than 8000 qualified BEE suppliers now available
Purchasing departments and Procurement professionals have always required accurate, reliable and up- to- date supplier information system. With the introduction of the BBBEE codes of good practice the requirement to locate good BEE suppliers has escalated exponentially. Des Heath, Managing Director at EZEE-DEX, told Smart Procurement that their electronic product now includes 8 000 BEE companies that are listed in conjunction to over 60 000 supplier companies that are included in their “Ezee-Dex DISC”.
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