Bareki Management Consulting (Pty) Ltd
BAREKI Consulting About Bareki Bareki Management Consulting (Pty) Ltd is a 100% Black owned and managed consulting and advisory company, registered in 2008. All shareholders of Bareki are also Directors, which means that we are serious about what we do. Bareki was formed in 2006 and registered in 2008 by a seasoned Procurement and Supply Chain expert Mr. Chabeli Ramakatane who has extensive experience in Procurement and supply gained at various blue chip companies including SAB, MasterFoods, Telkom Internet, Nampak, SABS Letsema Consulting and Wits University. Our people Bareki has a staff complement of seven (12) skilled consultants with senior and middle management roles. Bareki's people have a broad range of skills, including strong analytics, deep sourcing process and category know-how, and effective team leadership and change management. This makes for a very powerful combination, and ensures that results are delivered quickly and effectively Bareki s success is based entirely on the caliber of our people. With this in mind, we recruit only high caliber procurement and supply chain experts with many years procurement and strategic sourcing experience gained at blue-chip companies. Our people possess a track record of success with most of the leading global consulting firms, excellent educational backgrounds and a burning desire to get things done. To be successful our people have to be well-rounded and not only have an excellent understanding of procurement techniques, but also possess highly developed analytical, strategic and change management skills.
Bareki is founded on the belief that we cannot hope to add value to our clients if we do not provide superior people and it is this belief that drives our human resource strategy. Working with Bareki Bareki is a fresh force in the procurement improvement space. An impartial provider of high caliber advice, we deliver results and deep insight. We have a track record for helping leading organisations drive more value and deliver more savings from their procurement function and supply chain. Delivering more from your procurement and supply chain Bareki works with leading South African and Global organisations across a range of industries. They often have well performing procurement functions but are looking to us to help them reach the next level of excellence and raise the profile of the procurement function. Understanding the needs of the client Their issues range from delivering cost savings to the bottom line; sourcing effectively from low cost regions; working together with suppliers to deliver value for the longer term through to developing talent within the procurement team. These challenges are often intensified by addressing them in complex, international, multi-functional environments. Providing exceptional value When companies hire Bareki, they know that powerful results will follow. However, it is our collaborative and approachable style which ensures that the change delivered is sustainable. Our focus on results speaks for itself as fees are intrinsically linked to the savings delivered. Delivering sustainable results In the long run, the true measure of success lies in our ability to transfer skills and know-how that allow the client to own, sustain and build upon the results delivered during a project.
Flexible approach Bareki provides a range of client tailored services and are flexible to the needs of the client. We can help drive a holistic procurement transformation programme, we can help with specific people for specific projects or we can provide an Extended Sourcing Team whereby organisations tap into our expertise and resource pool on an as needed basis. Management Team Bareki is managed by its senior practitioners who collectively represent many decades of world class procurement and supply chain experience. Chabeli C Ramakatane (40) CEO Cell: 079 079 1111 E-mail: chabeli@bareki.co.za Mr. Ramakatane is a founder of Bareki, and serves as the company s CEO. He has over 10 years experience in Finance, Business Systems, BPR and over 8 years Procurement, Supply chain experience gained at various blue chip companies like SAB, Masterfoods, Telkom, Nampak, SABS, Letsema Consulting and Wits University, with extensive experience in procurement transformation and supply chain optimisation. Chabeli holds a Registered Accountant Professional Qualification and is a Registered Member of the ACCA and LIA, Mr. Ramakatane also hold various certification on ERP (Financials, procurement & Supply chain) implementations with SAP, Oracle and JD Edwards(PeopleSoft). He is currently enrolled for an MSc Purchasing & Supply Chain Management at Aberdeen Business School Robert Gordon University(UK). Stephen Ntebele (37) Executive Finance & Operations Cell: 082 632 5879 E-mail: stephen@bareki.co.za Stephen Ntebele has extensive experience as a Senior Manager Management Accounting & Supply Chain ISSET SETA with focus on in Management Accounting & Reporting, Spend Management, Contract Management and Procure to Pay Optimisation. Mr Ntebele Previously Worked for Denel Aviation as Management Accountant. He Possess a National Diploma in Cost and Management Accounting from Eastern Cape Technikon. Mr Ndebele has Extensive Financial Modelling, Business Systems(ERP) and Financial Reporting Skills.
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How we re Different Bareki has the credentials of a top tier firm, with the depth of expertise and execution focus of a flexible niche player. It is this combination that explains our success in a mature and crowded market, and that enables us to win business in competition with the more established firms time and time again. Bareki s aim was to address changes in the procurement consulting market. Our experience suggested that Chief Procurement Officers and Procurement Directors were raising the bar when looking for external help. No longer willing to pay exorbitant day rates for reports that collect dust on the bookshelf ; they were increasingly looking for experts, not generalists, for more senior teams, for deep category expertise, for measurable results and for skin in the game commercial arrangements. Not just another consultancy Since its inception, Bareki s mission has been to debunk the kinds of criticisms increasingly leveled at consultancies. Our aim is to provide what the market wants: More senior teams, with more sourcing experience Deep category expertise Real value, not reports Reasonable fees, linked to results, and ensuring a strong RoI for the client Objectivity and a focus on the job at hand, not on the next big sale. Blue-chip consultancy heritage with a niche focus Whilst having the benefits of a small niche player, our blue-chip consultancy heritage remains key to our success. So in everything we do we provide the levels of quality and professionalism associated with larger firms. With this in mind, we recruit top talent from the leading consulting firms; people who have impeccable credentials, and who have the combination of experience, analytical skill, and interpersonal / change management capability to effect real change within blue-chip clients.
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Services Strategic Sourcing Procurement is defining its own culture: processes have had to become sharper and faster to be able to deliver in ever-tighter competitive environments. Sourcing no longer equates to instant cost gratification, but is now defined as a strategic component used to drive maximum competitive advantage. Strategic sourcing is itself a benchmark. It relates to getting the best products and services at the best value. It is designed to segment external spend and ensure that procurement resources are focused on the most important categories. What sets strategic sourcing apart is its continuous attention to improving and re-evaluating the purchasing activities of a company, thus enabling organisations to adapt to changing market forces. Supply Chain Management The growth of consumer knowledge across globalised economies has meant that the notion of instant gratification by people is now a given. If companies are unable to rationalise their processes effectively, the degree to which they will maintain competitive advantage can be seriously compromised. Companies must deliver, and this is reflected in effective Supply Chain Management (SCM). The aim, ultimately, is to reduce inventory and risk. Procurement Outsourcing With the increased focus on cost and compliance, the procurement function has been elevated to a strategic component of value creation and a rich source of competitive advantage. To achieve this, rather than creating a world class procurement capability in-house, many companies have simply outsourced it. Procurement outsourcing is often undertaken to leverage economies of scale and improve the execution and control of underperforming or non-core tasks and poorly managed spend categories. In doing so companies can realise reduced supply and operational costs, improved compliance and enhanced
performance and cycle times. It is important to recognise that outsourcing the procurement function does not necessarily mean a complete transfer of control but more likely the utilisation of third-party services. At a simple level procurement outsourcing can involve migration of infrastructure: people, technology, systems and supplier management. A step further and more complex procurement-related processes can involve, for example, transferring procure-to-pay (P2P) and/or requisitioning. At a higher level, value-added functions such as strategic sourcing can be transferred. Taken to its full conception, strategic responsibilities can be given over, which might include the formulation of business rules. Services Procurement Services procurement encompasses the strategic management and procuring of complex category services such as contract labour, consultancy services, marketing, print, travel, telecoms and legal services. Services spend represents an enormous expense and while companies try in earnest to control the costs, few have the same visibility into their services expenditure as for goods and materials. It is estimated that nearly 50 per cent of corporate procurement spending is for services, and for even the most proficient enterprise, services spending can still be an abyss of unsourced buying and lost savings opportunities. Consequently leading organisations are looking at methods for tracking this spend and the significant savings a correctly centralised services procurement strategy can deliver. Spend Management Procurement leaders are making a step-change in spend analysis and are looking at spend management as a platform to support an analytical, data-driven approach to managing procurement and operations on a sustainable basis. Not simply about good data, successful spend management should highlight compliance leakages, be repeatable, results driven and realize savings. Spend management is crucial for all companies, and in gaining visibility of spend across companies with big ERP systems it is hot on the agenda.
Supplier Relationship Management As the need to maintain quality, coherence and deliver tangible savings across the supply chain has increased, so the focus has turned to procurement departments to realise the benefits through supplier relationship management (SRM). Improving the selection and management of global suppliers is a key issue for many large organisations. Effective management of the supply base is critical. When companies are confident they are working with the most capable and economical suppliers, processes can be streamlined. Companies can reap the rewards by managing relationships in a more strategic fashion Global Sourcing As the need to gain competitive edge tightens, companies that were once content to cultivate their local and national markets are now keen to globalise their operations and tap into new markets. Global sourcing, and specifically low-cost country sourcing, is a hot topic. Legitimised by early pioneers, offshore providers proved their value as alternative resources. Companies initially questioning why you would source from low-cost countries are now asking: why wouldn't you? As familiarity with the available opportunities has increased, so more enlightened companies have come to focus less on achieving incremental cost improvements and, instead, are evaluating all their capabilities to define a winning global sourcing strategy. They see global sourcing as a long-term strategy rather than a tactical solution for short-term goals. The global deployment of work has its critics, but it can be argued that it holds huge opportunities for procurement: companies can benefit from lower costs, faster times-to-market and access to a massive pool of skilled resources, resulting in substantial value to the bottom line. Outsourcing Outsourcing, or Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), is at the top of many corporate agendas in today's economy. With a focus on core competencies, more and more companies are outsourcing human resources, IT, procurement and other key business functions in order to reduce fixed costs, streamline and improve performance. Procurement plays a central role in any outsourcing agreement. From selecting an outsourcing provider to negotiating the final contract, procurement must understand every aspect of the deal and its financial impact on the organisation.
Talent Management Effective talent management is a critical business goal for all leading organisations in today's economy. The fast-paced development of purchasing as a crucial lever for competitive advantage has meant that the 'war for procurement talent' is as intense as it has ever been. The scarcity of skilled executive purchasing talent means that companies must be creative in their approach to attracting, developing and retaining the top people. A recent management article in ELP Magazine suggested: "it is far easier to teach a business manager about procurement than it is to teach a procurement manager about business." Contract Management Procure to Pay(P2P) Process Improvement Business Systems Optimisation B-BBEE Consulting and Advisory E- Procurement Bid(Tender) Process Management
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