Enterprise and Supplier Development for Procurement Practitioners

Enterprise and Supplier Development for Procurement Practitioners

Your ESD budget is funding compliance. It should be funding growth. Most procurement professionals know the B-BBEE scorecard. Very few know how to turn their ESD spend into a competitive advantage. This 3-day intensive changes that, permanently.

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DATE

28 July 2026 - 30 July 2026

CLOSING DATE FOR REGISTRATION

COURSE VENUE

Online

COST

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WHY CHOOSE THIS COURSE

Sound Familiar?

1. Your B-BBEE verification is approaching and your ESD documentation won’t survive a hard audit.

2. Leadership is demanding ROI data on ESD spend. You have receipts. You don’t have a story.

3. You’re spending on supplier development, but those suppliers can’t deliver at the quality you need.

4. You lost a tender because your B-BBEE rating was too low. Again.

5. The amended B-BBEE Codes changed. Nobody told you exactly how it changes your job.

6. Your ESD programme runs on the side of your desk. It’s not a strategy, it’s a to-do list.

This is the gap between knowing about B-BBEE ESD and knowing how to operationalise it. That gap costs your organisation scorecard points, lost tenders, and millions in untapped commercial value every single year.

Walk In as a Compliance Manager. Walk Out as a Transformation Architect.

This specialised 3-day virtual Enterprise and Supplier Development course is built for procurement practitioners, supply chain specialists, and transformation managers who are done with passive, theory-heavy B-BBEE training. Delivered by Commerce Edge, South Africa’s largest procurement and supply chain qualifications provider with 25 years of proven results.

You won’t sit through another generic B-BBEE overview. You’ll build a real, audit-ready ESD framework customised to your organisation during the workshop itself. By day three, you leave with a deliverable, not just a certificate.

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WHAT DOES THIS COURSE COVER?

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the revised Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE)
  • Formulate a B-BBEE strategy for your organisation that integrates skills development and ESD
  • Benchmark and establish the strengths and weaknesses of your B-BBEE scorecard
  • Demonstrate practical ESD application skills based on the specific company business case on a practical level
  • Roadmap to embed ESD within the sourcing strategy and organisation
  • Demonstrate ESD Strategy
  • Demonstrate ESD implementation plan
  • Specific enablers to be considered in the ESD plan
  • Identify “low-hanging fruits” within supply chain (data-mining process)
  • Performance metrics for ESD (scorecard and tender evaluation criteria) KPI's for ESD staff
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IS THIS COURSE FOR ME?

Career roles we recommend this course for:

  • Procurement Practitioners
  • ESD Consultants
  • Procurement Managers and Officers
  • Supplier Development Managers
  • Enterprise Development Practitioners
  • Supply Chain Managers
  • Compliance Managers
  • Compliance and Ethics Officers
  • Economic Empowerment Consultants
  • CSR Managers
  • Government Procurement Officials
  • Project Managers
  • Finance Managers
  • HR Managers

YOUR COURSE FACILITATOR

Commerce Edge

Commerce Edge has been a leading provider of World Class Procurement and Supply Chain training since 2001. We have trained hundreds of public and private sector organisations and over 10,000 individuals on various aspects of World Class Procurement, Logistics, Operations and Planning in the context of the wider Supply Chain.

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