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B-BBEE consultants · South Africa
Supply and Value Chain Transformation
At Gestalt, we understand the challenges that organisations face in meeting the elevated requirements for procurement from black-owned and black female-owned suppliers.
- Advising South African businesses since 1998
A comprehensive look at your entire value chain
Our services go beyond traditional approaches by taking a comprehensive look at the entire value chain of your business. We aim to identify feasible and sustainable alternatives to drive Supply and Value Chain Transformation.
Transforming procurement
To transform your procurement, you have three primary options:
- Encouraging current suppliers to be more compliant.
- Finding new suppliers that meet the required criteria.
- Developing emerging suppliers through targeted initiatives.
However, true transformation often requires thinking “outside the box” and reassessing your entire value chain, including strategic acquisitions and the sale of assets.
The Supplier Project
The Supplier Project offered by Gestalt focuses on assessing the comprehensive scope of your business’s value chain. Through this project, we establish an effective supply chain strategy and transformation plan.
It typically begins with a supply chain review workshop, followed by a data-gathering and assessment phase. Finally, the project concludes with the approval of the Supply Chain Transformation Plan.
Our approach
Our Approach
Our approach starts with a thorough review of the current compliance status of your supplier base. We explore various options to advance transformation within the vertical supply chain. Gestalt conducts a supplier assessment to identify opportunities for a supplier transformation project. This assessment enables us to map out a proposed strategy for Procurement and Supplier Development.
During the assessment, we test several opportunities against your current procurement practices. This includes evaluating procurement clustering, revising insourcing and outsourcing strategies, distinguishing between core and non-core activities, and reviewing both supply and distribution channels.
Based on the findings, we present and discuss the proposed strategy. This includes planning, policy creation, and objectives for procurement. The strategy is then transformed into a detailed project plan, which may include a review of your procurement policies and objectives.
Supplier and enterprise development contributions: development management →
Let us help you transform your supply chain — with feasible, sustainable alternatives that improve your procurement recognition.
Frequently asked questions
How does procurement affect my B-BBEE score?
Procurement is part of the enterprise and supplier development element. Your points depend on how much of your spend goes to suppliers with strong B-BBEE levels, with extra weighting for black-owned and black women-owned suppliers.
Do all suppliers need to be 51% black-owned?
No. Spend with any compliant supplier earns some recognition, and spend with higher-level and black-owned suppliers earns more. Suppliers must be able to prove their status with a valid certificate or affidavit.
What is the difference between procurement and supplier development?
Procurement is buying goods and services from suppliers. Supplier development is the support you give to qualifying existing suppliers, such as finance, training or mentoring, to help them grow.
How do we find black-owned suppliers without increasing risk?
Verify each supplier’s certificate or affidavit, check capacity and quality as you would for any supplier, and build a vetted supplier base over time. We help you structure this so points and performance move together.
What evidence do we need from suppliers?
A valid B-BBEE certificate or affidavit for each supplier, a record of your spend with them and a process to check expiry dates. Missing or expired evidence means spend may not count.