SMMEs

A multi-department partnership including Group Financial Services, Group Economic Development, SARS, Provincial Department, and NYDA was formed to train SMMEs on supply chain management and tax matters to overcome barriers to entry for suppliers.

“This was a partnership with supply chain management and Group Financial Services that was managing in conjunction with Group Economic Development. You can see...We had representatives from SARS, we had representatives from Provincial Department, we had representatives from NYDA. It was a provincial issue-wide matter that we were trying to resolve.”

The City resolved that the Supply Chain Management division must conduct SMME training workshops in all seven regions, including education on migration to SAP Ariba and administrative mandatory evaluation criteria for bidders.

“A resolution is taken that the City must ensure... supply chain management Division would conduct SMME training workshops to educate committees and residents about supply chain management matters... Work shops must be conducted in all seven regions of the City. This... includes matters of migration of SAP Ariba, ensuring that administrative mandatory evaluation criteria are clearly understood by various bidders.”

In November and December 2025, training sessions for supplier development took place to assist SMMEs on the SAP Ariba system as part of the City’s supply chain management institutional arrangements.

“MR MNISI”

The procurement training included ensuring that SMMEs were capacitated to meet administrative compliance requirements and to prepare competitive bidding processes with effective pricing and contracting online.

“Inclusive within this training programme, Chair, was to ensure that the procurement training fundamentals and SMMEs were capacitated. We needed to ensure that SMMEs knew how to complete administrative compliance requirements. We needed to ensure that SMMEs were prepared and were able to prepare competitive bidding processes with effective pricing, contracting as well, online.”