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1 month ago | 
theindependent.co.zw | Charles Nyika |Tafadzwa Mhlanga |Mthandazo Nyoni |Gamuchirai Nyamuziwa
IF there are any lessons that have been learnt over the years, it is that everything we do in life will remain unknown and uncertain. In this volatility, finding calm and clarity becomes even harder. In the intricate and high-stakes business arena of supply chain management, it would appear the hours in the normal working day are not long enough to accommodate the procurement’s ever uncertain workload, resulting in a workday that never truly comes to an end.
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1 month ago | 
theindependent.co.zw | Charles Nyika |Tinashe Kairiza |Gamuchirai Nyamuziwa |Tafadzwa Mhlanga
PROCUREMENT practitioners, who are not having sleepless nights over the current unpredictable economic order, are most probably not reading newspaper headlines. The profession is suffering under the unbearable weight of omnipresent instability in a disruption-filled business environment. The world economic order is increasingly characterised by constant changes to product lines, due in part to rapid technological changes.
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2 months ago | 
newsday.co.zw | Charles Nyika
IN an era where change has become the only constant, businesspeople will continue to question the status quo.
It would appear old school business practices are finding themselves on shaky ground. The current VUCA environment has clearly demonstrated the vulnerability of the traditional linear supply chain model.
Over the past few years, supply chain disruptions and pandemics have taught us that businesses do not resolve such bottlenecks, supply chains do.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
theindependent.co.zw | Charles Nyika |Tinashe Kairiza |Julia Ndlela |Mthandazo Nyoni
EARLY supplier involvement has recently been hailed as a strategic imperative by those procurement departments that are determined to achieve significant savings for their respective organisations across the globe. The concept of early supplier involvement is highly regarded as a leading-edge business activity, which recognises that suppliers have more to offer to organisations than simply producing an item according to specifications late in the product development cycle.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
newsday.co.zw | Charles Nyika
EARLY supplier involvement has recently been hailed as a strategic imperative by those procurement departments that are determined to achieve significant savings for their respective organisations across the globe.
The concept of early supplier involvement is highly regarded as a leading-edge business activity, which recognises that suppliers have more to offer to organisations than simply producing an item according to specifications late in the product development cycle.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
newsday.co.zw | Charles Nyika
THE current economic tailspin has not been kind to supply chain practitioners. Everywhere you go, business leaders are caught in the cross hairs.
There appears to be a unique confluence of negative economic factors that seem to be pulling everyone back. It is unfortunately a sad reality of our present circumstances.
The current business environment is characterised by an endless minefield of obstacles.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
theindependent.co.zw | Charles Nyika |Tinashe Kairiza |Julia Ndlela |Tafadzwa Mhlanga
THE current volatile business environment has witnessed organisational profits being squeezed to the point of disappearing. Often times, this kind of squeeze ordinarily forces supply chain professionals into a panic mode to scout for sources of cost savings from all over the shore. Coupled with this, the world business landscape has witnessed a significant change of consumer habits and tastes. The change process is unfortunately becoming even more complex in the years ahead of us.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
newsday.co.zw | Charles Nyika
LARGE scale infrastructure projects are undoubtedly the biggest challenge of our time, but they present a big opportunity for public and private sector entities to align their interests around a common goal.
Public sector officials charged with shepherding the use of public funds are increasingly looking for better ways to deploy resources in the most productive way possible.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
newsday.co.zw | Charles Nyika
ED Ainsworth once said: “Big data has been described as being like teenage sex, everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, and everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims that they are doing it too."
The above statement sums it all. Nobody really knows what big data is and can do. But others will often claim that big data “is the bedrock upon which the foundation of spend analysis is built”.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
newsday.co.zw | Charles Nyika
PROCUMENT planning has been there since the dawn of industry and commerce. But for some organisations, this very important business process has been regarded as a poor second cousin of other procurement functions.
In some instances, it has been treated as but one of those small unwanted spokes in the wheel. But others have also acknowledged (begrudgingly of course) that it is an important spoke - a spoke that really matters in the professional life of a procurement practitioner.
