Solutions delivered

We have worked on a range of commercial, sustainable, development solutions. Outlines of a few of these are below.

 
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SED & ESD
Dragons’ Den

The sponsor firms wanted a greater impact and return from their B-BBEE SED and ESD spend. A programme to secure and upgrade high potential empowering suppliers and customers was designed and delivered.

  • Recruitment of >60 applicants

  • Management of Dragon’s Den process

  • Due diligence & in-firm coaching: top five SMMEs

  • Loan management

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Black-owned manufacturer upgrading

Transforming this value chain is critical. It is highly incentivised, increasingly reliant on B-BBEE status. The brief was to secure and develop empowering line-suppliers to operate at world class quality, reliability and cost levels.

  • Assessment and project plan development

  • In-firm upgrading support (Lean focus)

  • Post project assessment

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Retrenchment support

When a large scale retrenchment process was undertaken the firm wanted to identify and support affected employees. Those with entrepreneurial skills were identified and supported. All but one of the 20 candidates has registered a business and is trading.

  • Assessment and Needs Analysis

  • Business Plan development

  • Coaching through start-up phase

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Black-owned SMME upgrading

The Skills Education and Training Authority for this sector was concerned about the safety risks and business sustainability of SMMEs; typically blending operations. Theoretical and practical support was delivered to address these core challenges.

  • Recruit and screen 10-25 applicants annually

  • Firm assessment & lean support

  • Unit Standard based training delivery (Business basics and SHERQ focus)

  • In-firm upgrading support

Empowering Supplier Loans

We continue to untertake due diligence on empowering suppliers to a large lead firm in preparation for multi-million Rand loans to be disbursed to them.

  • Initial screening, securing and reviewing all compliance documentation

  • Financial projections to ensure pay back would be possible over the loan term

  • Engagement with the 3rd party financier

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Buyer-supplier matchmaking

Despite it being a relatively niche value chain linkages between established and Black-owned firms were poor. As part of a national event a programme to remedy this was developed and delivered.

  • Recruit and screen 40+ Black-owned manufacturers

  • Secure sponsor funding and support marketing material development

  • Facilitate matchmaking, Dragon’s Den & ‘localisation’ exhibition (currently imported parts identified for local manufacture by SMMEs)

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Empowering supplier upgrading

A local mass market apparel brand wanted to build local empowering production capacity and capabilities to supply on a Quick Response basis. This programme was subsequently extended to their homeware division.

  • Train >600 operators across five suppliers

  • Train >60 technical graduates

  • Train >60 Team Leaders

  • Firm assessment and in-firm consulting support (Lean focus)