Dti, Unisa and WITS create Management Development Programme

Government procurement has buy-in and burning platform, says Collington

Jaguar Land Rover wants ''rich mix'' of purchasing experience

Employers seek buyers with networking skills

What skills do you need be successful in procurement?

Procurement 'in the spotlight like never before' David Noble at CIPS Conference

‘BEE remains vital to business success’

The Urgent Need For Talent Upgrade in Supply Chain and Procurement

Procurement has an image problem

Growing demand for supplier relationship managers

Articles in category: Talent Management

1. Talent Really Can Transform Your Organization Explore Sourcing Innovation (Nov 10 2011) Talent Management DuPont is a company that did more than just give their talent lip service and put their corporate money where their corporate mouth was and this is a key to their recent success (which saw a year over year EPS growth of 32% last quarter) and their plans to cut 3.7 Billion in cost from their supply ... (Read Full Article)

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2. The use of temporary labour is expanding Explore procurement-iu.com (Nov 8 2011) Talent Management Recent figures have announced that companies are increasingly expanding their headcount of contingent workers. There are two interesting conclusions to draw from this. Firstly, it is an indication that employers are not planning to reduce output and thus may belie greater economic health for current business operations. Figures from Adecco’s largest markets – France and the US – saw a significant increase in demand, at 7% and 5% respectively. Secondly, the rise in the flexible labour sector may also indicate changing attitudes within businesses and also country cultures. Recent more anecdotal evidence from Asia has pointed to employees' increasing propensity to ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   IBM   Asia   France

3. The Talent War Has Just Begun! Explore Sourcing Innovation (Nov 7 2011) Talent Management This was a central theme of the NPX keynote by Don Klock, Clinical Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management & Marketing Science at Rutgers Business School, a Senior Global Procurement / Supply Chain Executive with over 30 years of experience with multiple major multinationals, including Colgate Palmolive. Even though unemployment is still near a fifty-five (55) year plus all time high, which was around 10.5% back in the early 80s, it's becoming harder and harder to fill vacant positions due to the shift in the North American economy which resulted in most Blue Collar jobs being outsourced ... (Read Full Article)

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4. Should Your Sales Organization Go To School on Procurement? Explore Spend Matters (Nov 2 2011) Leadership , Talent Management A topic that's rarely discussed in procurement publications and reports is how sales organizations can begin to apply tactics to either break sourcing processes or benefit from them. I have known a number of sourcing consultants over the years that h... (Read Full Article)

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5. Boom in buyer career opportunities Explore supplymanagement.com (Oct 30 2011) Careers , People on the move , Talent Management Huge rise in purchasing and supply chain professional jobs, compared with the same period in 2010. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   CIPS   David Noble

6. 'We must do more with less' Explore iol.co.za (Oct 26 2011) Procurement Ethics , Public Sector , Talent Management “We must borrow to invest in infrastructure – not for government consumption.” Steering the country’s economy through “dangerous times” needs a collective effort to do more with the resources available, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has warned, with the uncertainties of a crisis-torn global economy posing considerable risks to South Africa. The government had to make “a key shift” by curbing spending on consumption, such as salaries and wages, goods and services, and ploughing resources instead into long-term assets such as infrastructure and its maintenance. “This means that we must see a moderation in the growth of the wage bill and ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   South Africa   Parliament   Pravin Gordhan

7. How Gen Y Want to Learn Explore dachisgroup.com (Oct 21 2011) Talent Management How would you create your ideal learning experience for work-related learning? What would it look like, where would you be? Who would you be with? How long would it last for? Would you be creating anything, interacting with anyone, discussing, reflecting, listening, watching, experiencing? (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Australia

8. Supply Management Salaries on the Rise Explore mypurchasingcenter.com (Oct 21 2011) Talent Management “The past two years have seen a pickup in hiring within the sourcing and procurement links of the supply chain as cost sensitive companies are focusing on internal cost management when external growth conditions are more challenging.”.... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Institute for Supply Management   New York

9. What’s wrong with category management? Explore Procurement Blog (Oct 19 2011) Leadership , Talent Management Having blogged earlier today about the various advantages of bringing in a category management strategy, it shouldn’t have been a surprise that when you ask a group of CPOs what they think about category management, a sea of hands shoot up in the air with questions. (Read Full Article)

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10. Bumpy road ahead for car industry Explore iol.co.za (Oct 16 2011) Supplier Diversity , Manufacturing & Automotive , Talent Management Support provided to the motor industry by the Automotive Production and Development Programme (APDP) is insufficient to enable it to meet the government’s target of more than doubling vehicle production to 1.2 million by 2020. This is the view of National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of SA (Naamsa) president David Powels, who told the CAR conference at the Johannesburg International Motor Show last week: “If we don’t build something on the APDP and don’t address other key roadblocks in this industry we will not get much beyond 600 000 units and certainly not get to the ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Japan   Roy Cokayne

11. Banks may ditch financial charter Explore fin24.com (Oct 16 2011) Supplier Diversity , Financial Services , Talent Management South African banks are considering pulling out of the Financial Sector Charter, according to a newspaper report. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Australia   Johannesburg   Pravin Gordhan

12. TfL recognised for supply chain skills boost Explore supplymanagement.com (Oct 13 2011) Sourcing , Talent Management Transport for London (TfL) has been recognised for its work to boost apprentice places in the supply chain. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   London   Thailand

13. Financial skills programme aims to boost service delivery Explore Home - BusinessDay (Oct 13 2011) Procurement Ethics , Public Sector , Talent Management Training municipalities to manage their finances will bring better service delivery, Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande said on Thursday. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Johannesburg   North West

14. Recruitment gets "sophisticated" Explore Home - BusinessDay (Oct 13 2011) Electronic & High Tech , Talent Management The number of big recruitment companies using new digital management systems globally has increased, and South Africa’s Adcorp has joined the move towards high tech that chief executive Richard Pike calls "technological sophistication". (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   South Africa

15. Let MoD pay buyers more Explore supplymanagement.com (Oct 11 2011) Sourcing , Talent Management The restriction of civil service pay scales, limits [the MoDs] ability to compete with industry on an equal footing. Review of Single Source Pricing Regulations, published Monday, called for the formation of a new body within the MoD to oversee the overall efficiency and value for money of single-source procurement. It argued that in order for the body, provisionally called the Single Source Regulations Office (SSRO), to be successful and provide the required strategic procurement advice to MoD staff, civil service pay restraints must be released. Lord Currie of Marylebone chaired the review of single-source procurement used by the MoD ... (Read Full Article)

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16. Government procurement has buy-in and burning platform, says Collington Explore supplymanagement.com (Oct 6 2011) Public Sector , Office Suppliers , Leadership , Talent Management The UK government's CPO tells the CIPS Conference 2011 that good progress is being made in common spend categories. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   John Collington   CIPS

17. Procurement 'in the spotlight like never before' David Noble at CIPS Conference Explore supplymanagement.com (Oct 5 2011) Leadership , Talent Management David Noble told attendees at the CIPS Annual Conference and Exhibition that it is now easier for procurement to engage business leaders and for them to listen. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   London   CIPS   David Noble

18. Procurement and retention of talent - the challenges in SA Explore SmartProcurement.co.za (Oct 5 2011) Talent Management Global recruitment and talent retention is changing globally, not just in SA. According to Manpower, 46% of senior human resource managers surveyed in the latest global annual survey said that their talent gap was making it harder for their organization to implement its business strategy. Only 27% said that they had the talent they needed. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   India   South Africa

19. Dti, Unisa and WITS create Management Development Programme Explore SmartProcurement.co.za (Oct 5 2011) Talent Management The B-BBEE Management Development Programme (MDP), created by the dti and Unisa School of Business Leadership (including Wits), has recently been launched. The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) partnered with these two prominent institutions to develop a standardised national Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Management Development Programme (MDP). (Read Full Article)

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20. ‘BEE remains vital to business success’ Explore iol.co.za (Oct 3 2011) Supplier Diversity , Talent Management South African private business owners still regard BEE as vitally important to business success, with 64% believing it is an important factor in winning new business. This figure has remained relatively constant throughout the years, with 61% affirming this fact in 2010 and 63% in 2009. This is according to global audit, tax and business advisor Grant Thornton's 2011 International Business Report (IBR) which surveys over 11,000 Privately Held Business (PHB) owners across 39 economies and measures executives' perceptions on factors that influence profitability and growth. Tony Balshaw, managing partner at Grant Thornton East London says: “The view ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   South Africa

21. The Purchasing Leader’s Guide to a More Successful Team Explore Supply Chain Management Review (Oct 3 2011) Value creation , Talent Management If you’re like most purchasing leaders, you are only partially satisfied with the results your team is producing. You are expected to deliver bigger and better results, but you worry that the skill levels possessed by your team may limit your ability to achieve your goals. (Read Full Article)

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22. JNJ and BSX Settle Non-Compete Dispute over Michael Mahoney -- Part of a New Hurd Mentality? Explore Spend Matters (Sep 23 2011) Careers , Talent Management Spend Matters welcomes this Healthcare Matters cross-post from Tom Finn. Non-competes are executed to store leverage for your employer so when it's time for you to move on, regardless of who makes that decision, you're still not quite done. Just a... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   IBM   Apple   Oracle

23. Defence purchasing should be recognised career path Explore supplymanagement.com (Sep 22 2011) Defence & Aerospace , Talent Management A Labour Party defence review has recommended the creation of a Weapons Engineering Service to make equipment procurement a professional path for military officers. (Read Full Article)

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24. Procurement's people problem Explore procurement-iu.com (Sep 22 2011) Talent Management How can procurement expect to attract talent when that talent has never heard of procurement? What do you think? How did you enter the procurement function? (Read Full Article)

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