Knowledge Library

Risk Management Framework for Healthcare Commodities
Risk management is an important aspect of procurement and supply management. A recent study developed a risk management framework ...

Risk: Benefits of Risk Management
Supply chain risk management is more than a helpful addition to your operations. It will determine how effectively your organisation ...

Risk: Business Continuity Plan
It is not possible to prevent all disasters and incidents can happen quickly. When a major incident seriously disrupts a supply chain, ...

Risk: ISO Risk Standards
ISO (the International Organisation for Standardisation) is the world body for agreeing common standards across trade and and industry ...

Risk: The Interview
Listen to the podcast or if you would prefer to review the transcript below. Mpho: Welcome to Health Procurement Africa. The community ...

Roles and Responsibilities in Procurement
Our procurement departments are there to make sure our organisation’s have all the products and services they need to deliver orders to ...

Separation of Duties
Definition The term separation of duties means that the processes involved in procurement and supply are divided between two or more ...

Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
A service level agreement defines the level of service a buyer expects from their supplier. It sets out how the level of service will ...

Simple Procurement Cycle
The Procurement Cycle is a series of steps you take when you buy a product or service for your organisation. There is no one ...

Sourcing Strategies
Strategic sourcing is a systematic, long term and holistic approach to acquiring the current and future needs of an organisation. It ...

Specifications
Specifications set out the detailed requirements for the products or services you are buying. They make sure that the products and ...

Specifications - 5 Rights
In procurement, a specification is a detailed description of the goods or services required. It forms part of what are known as an RFQ ...