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January 15, 2007
EVENT: PROCUREMENT BEE CODES WORKSHOP
"The BBBEE Codes have been approved! ... WHAT are the LATEST implications for the Procurement Profession regarding the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Codes (BBBEE) of Good Practice? Workshops are being held in Gauteng, Cape Town and KZN that will be answering key questions that procurement professionals need to know about and these include:
How to develop a Strategy for implementing BBBEE in your spend?
How should Suppliers be evaluated in the future based on the new codes of good practice?
How should Procurement be evaluated?
Which areas can be excluded?
Charters vs. the Scorecard?
Where should you spend your time in getting your procurement spend transformed… quickly?
About your presenters:
JAN MUNNIK is the Managing Director of EES-SIYAKHA. He facilitated the development of The EES Process and The EES Manual, which set an industry standard for the successful implementation of Employment Equity. Jan is regarded as one of the leading experts in EE Transformation in South Africa, and has delivered papers at numerous conferences on EE and BEE. He consults to a number of leading organisations and Government institutions. Jan also specialises in BEE and EE Strategy development through a facilitative process.
BERNIE VAN NIEKERK has advised and trained many leading organisations in a variety of industries on World Class Procurement, e-Procurement, eB2B, e-Logistics, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Management and other leading concepts within the supply chain. He was responsible for creating South Africa’s first e-Procurement exchange. Bernie also served as the COO of an international e-Procurement service provider African Operations and oversaw the creation of seven e-Procurement service providers throughout the African Continent. At Ernst & Young Management consulting he created and managed the company’s Sourcing and Supplier Management consulting area.
RobertThorburn
is an analyst at National Empowerment Rating Agency (Pty) Ltd (NERA).His focus areas are Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment, corporate sustainability and business ethics. This includes BEE verification, supplier sustainability studies and strategy formulation. Robert has been involved in conducting, supervising and reporting on the assessment of more than 600 South African businesses.
Contact Deliena Erasmus at 082 550 4318 or at admin@commercedge.net for more information or alternatively Smart Procurements office at 012 665 1509
Dates are as follows:
24th January 2007 in Cape Town Sea Point Peninsula Hotel
31st January 2007 in Centurion at the Centurion golf Estate
12th March 2007 in Durban (to be advised)
Posted by bernievn at January 15, 2007 8:49 AM