Call Erieka Santos at 0861-33-4326 or REGISTER HERE

If spend analysis has ever been an issue for you, or if getting procurement information is like extracting teeth, Smart Procurement would like to invite you to spend a productive day with us, where we will:

Show you the "secret" tools that consultants and CA's use to come up with all their fancy tables and graphs. These Microsoft goodies have been available since before 1997, and yet most procurement professionals do not know how to use them properly.

Smart Procurement will demonstrate how to do complex analysis, that sometimes take days and weeks to complete, in a flash. (Literally in seconds!)

Usually when procurement is looking for a non-standard report, it has to go to wait for ages until the internal (or is that infernal?) IT department has produced it. And there's also waiting in the queue for everybody else to get their data as well! Usually once you get the data, you realise that you wanted to know something else as well!! And then its back into queue!

Smart Procurement will show you how to have incredible flexibility in defining what reports you want and how to obtain them NOW and not LATER when its too late!We will go through examples of spend analysis and complete them before you've even told your secretary what to tell internal IT!

You probably also have issues with BAD INFORMATION. We'll go through methods on how to make the most with incorrectly codified and classified procurement data!

In fact, after you've attended the workshop, you'll be able to get your spend analysis set up and done BEFORE IT comes back with the report you asked for last week!!

 
Here is a summary of THE BENEFITS you receive:

In a full day session you will learn tools and tips that will save your staff and yourself many days, if not weeks in the years to come!

• We will go through a step by step approach to analyzing the spend using Microsoft Excel Pivot Tables - so please bring along your lap-top!
• We will provide you with a detailed reference manual for future reference
• You will receive a comprehensive Electronic File with sample reports using sample procurement information, that you can use
• Using actual sample procurement information, we will extract reports that procurement can use for the following applications:
  o Strategic Sourcing and Commodity management. If you are about to embark on strategic sourcing or if you're a commodity manager about to start optimising an area of the spend, these tools will be crucial
  o Asking questions such as Who spent What with Which Suppliers and When is easily answered.
  o Analysis of transactions - per supplier, per division, below certain values or transaction trends can be quickly obtained.
  o How to do instant Supplier Bid evaluation
  o How to compare prices between various parts of your organisation instantly!
• Even if your information is not properly categorised, we'll go through methods to make sense of BAD Information!

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 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. In fact lunch will be on the house! We only ask that you return the manual!

Don't take my word for it. Listen to what our customers have to say about us...

Lettie Marais, Procurement Manager at Transnet Rail Engineering: "The best training I received this year [2009] - thank you; this is going to reduce the time I spend... I am excited to go back and practice."

Sylvia Dhayalan, Admin Officer: Contract Management; Western Cape Dept of Health
"The facilitator is well informed on the topic and was able to impart this knowledge."

Praveshni Naidoo, Procurement and Admin Manager for Continental Beverages (Pty) Ltd. "The use of Excel and the conversion to Pivot tables per grouping, was very informative."

Most of our Clients rate us as either "Very Good" or "Excellent"

SO: What does it cost?

Keeping in mind that:

• The information contained in this full day session will literally save you days in trying to analyse data...
• That accurate spend information could identify millions of rands of savings opportunities
• ...and that we provide a 100% money back no-questions-asked, iron-clad money-back 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. In fact lunch will be on the house! We only ask that you return the manual!
   

 Date and Venue :
8 December 2010 - Centurion 

Time: 8:00 for 8:30 till 12:00

Costs:
Seminar fee: R975 + VAT per delegate for the 1/2 day event. The fee includes the event,
the reference manual, a comprehensive electronic data file and breakfast.

TO REGISTER call Erieka Santos at 086 133 4326

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Remember, there's absolutely no risk. If you aren't satisfied with the the event, we'll refund 100% of the fee. No questions asked.

To your success!

Bernie van Niekerk
Editor: Smart Procurement

www.smartprocurement.co.za

0861-334-326

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