Siza Consulting insight
Start with a controlled supplier master
Supplier analysis should use registration identifiers, spend categories, ownership-recognition status, certificate validity and supplier groupings, not only vendor names.
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Separate scorecard exposure from commercial dependency
A supplier may be low value but high scorecard relevance, or high value but difficult to replace. Both views should be visible before year-end.
Context, not causation
Do not overstate market data
Small-business or turnover statistics do not automatically measure Black-owned supplier availability or B-BBEE-recognised procurement. Those distinctions should be explicit in any analysis.
Measurement note
How to read this insight
No verified official dataset was used for this article because the relevant Stats SA source could not be directly inspected in this environment.
Procurement data has more value when it helps teams improve decisions before the scorecard is calculated.
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No authoritative public dataset was identified that directly quantifies the issue discussed in this article. The article is analytical rather than statistical.
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