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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 ...

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Risk Management

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 ...

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Risk Management

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, ...

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Risk Management

Risk: ISO Risk Standards

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

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Risk Management

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 ...

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Leadership and Organisation

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 ...

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Risk Management

Separation of Duties

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

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Contract Management

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 ...

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Sourcing

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 ...

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Sourcing

Sourcing Strategies

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

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Sourcing

Specifications

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

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Sourcing

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 ...

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