resources

This section is intended as a reference library for documentation related to the work of saibl. You are welcome to suggest or contribute content to this section by sending an email to info@saibl.co.za

saibl e-catalogue

In November 2010, saibl published a new 34 page e-Catalogue. The catalogue aims to assist saibl clients and their support networks to share their products far and wide. 

 

Diversity Briefs

Diversity Briefs, the e-newsletter of the South African Supplier Diversity Council (SASDC), replaces the saibl bulletin. To receive this regular e-newsletter free of charge, please subscribe here.

• Diversity Briefs Issue 1, March 2011

 

saibl bulletin

• saibl bulletin Issue 6, December 2010
• saibl bulletin Issue 5, October 2010
• saibl bulletin News Flash, 16 September 2010: SADC Rules of Origin
• saibl bulletin Issue 4, August 2010
• saibl bulletin Issue 3, June 2010
• saibl bulletin News Flash, 13 May 2010: Successful Participation by saibl Clients at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair
• saibl bulletin Issue 2, April 2010
• saibl bulletin Issue 1, March 2010

 

saibl specialty food and wine news

saibl regularly issues an e-newsletter with news headlines relating to the specialty food and wine market. Please subscribe here to receive the newsletter, free of charge.

• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 25, 09 May 2011
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 24, 15 April 2011
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 23, 18 March 2011
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 22, 07 March 2011
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 21, 21 February 2011
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 20, 09 February 2011
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 19, 24 January 2011
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 18, 10 December 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 17, 25 November 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 16, 15 November 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 15, 01 November 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 14,15 October 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 13, 04 October 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 12, 20 September 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 11, 06 September 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 10, 25 August 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 09, 10 August 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 08, 26 July 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 07, 09 July 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 06, 30 June 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 05, 11 June 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 04, 28 May 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 03, 11 May 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 02, 22 April 2010
• Specialty Food and Wine News Issue 01, 15 March 2010

 

Free Online SME Tools and Resources

These FREE resources provide enterprise with a variety of critical services, including templates for essential documents, proven management strategies, tips for business plans and much more:

tools

• Tools from Inc.com
• SME Toolkit South Africa
• IFC/IBM SME Toolkit
• Google Analytics
• Small Business CEO Tools
• Comprehensive Directory of National Small Business Services in South Africa

Entrepreneurship

• South African Institute for Entrepreneurship:  A site for South African entrepreneurs.  Tools, success stories, advice, and more. 
• Entrepreneurs and Their Communities Webinar Series:  Connect to live or recorded webinars on useful entrepreneurship related topics. 

Finance

• Financial Sector Programme: The objectives of this programme are to expand access to financial services and lower financing cost for SMEs through reforming the legal and regulatory framework affecting the financial sector and business environment and improving the commercial viability of lending to historically disadvantaged SMEs in South Africa, thereby expanding SME access to a range of high quality and affordable financial services.

Supplier Diversity

• Australian Indigenous Minority Supplier Council (AIMSC)
• Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council (GMSDC)
• Minority Supplier Development China
• Minority Supplier Development UK (MSDUK)
• NMSCD:  The National Supplier Development Council is the US nations’ premier supplier diversity and development association.  They provide both guidance and benchmarking to corporations developing supplier diversity initiatives.  The NMSDC also maintains a database of vetted minority suppliers.  The nascent South African Supplier Development Council is based largely on this model. 
• Ralph Moore and Associates:  Ralph Moore, a saibl Business Forum contributor, runs Ralph Moore and Associates Consulting.  The website offers information about RGMA mission to help corporate clients establish world class supplier development programmes.  RGMA is also contracted to provide training to clients of the U.S. National Minority Supplier Development Council. 
• South African Supplier Diversity Council:  Coming soon… the website for the newly established SASDC.
• Supplier Diversity Europe

Tourism

• Africa Travel Association:  ATA was established as an international travel industry trade association in 1975 to promote travel, tourism and transport to and within Africa, and to strengthen intra-Africa partnerships.
• Explores World Travel:  Explorers World Travel is a Safari Operator in East and Southern Africa.  Co-President Jim Heck also offers consulting services.
• Africa Answerman:  An African Affairs and Tourism blog written by Jim Heck, co-President of Explorers World Travel. 

IT and design

• EZBIZsa:  Greg Bahlmann is a web designer that focuses on Southern African SMEs.  He offers a host of free and low cost services on his website. 
• Packaging and Print Media: Online magazine

Specialty Food and Wine

• Koopmanskloof Wine Estate: a saibl client and exporter of fine South African wines.
• Stellar Organic Winery: A saibl client and the largest producer of organic wines in South Africa.
• Wines of South Africa:  The all encompassing trade association for everything having to do with South African Wine. 

Blogs

• saibl Business Forum
• Africa Answerman:  An African Affairs and Tourism blog written by Jim Heck, co-President of Explorers World Travel.
• Little Scarlet:  Portia Formento is a professional food blogger and SAIBL Business Forum contributor.
• Brand South Africa Blog

Top Ten Blogs For SMEs - As rated by the SME Technology Forum

• Online Marketing Blog
• Affiliate X Files
• Social Media Today
• Brian Solis- PR 2.0
• Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang
• Altitude Branding
• BrandSavant
• Convince and Convert Blog
• Duct Tape Marketing
• VA4Growth
  

 

reference material

Legal Material

• Legally Speaking: What You Need to Know About Legal Process Outsourcing - and How to Get Started, Patrice Gilles, Managing Director, Legal Process Outsourcing Advisory, Equaterra, May 2010 (PDF 194kb)
• South Africa: BEE Codes of Good Practice (external link)
• South Africa: BEE Act No 53 of 2003 (PDF 235kb)
• South Africa: Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act, No. 5 of 2000, G 20854, 3 February 2000 (PDF 69kb)
• USA: Trade and Development Act of 2000 (AGOA - African Growth and Opportunities Act) (PDF 233kb)

Business Linkages

• Business Linkages: Lessons, Opportunities, and Challenges. Jenkins, Beth, Anna Akhalkatsi, Brad Roberts, and Amanda Gardiner. IFC, International Business Leaders Forum, and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007 (PDF 380kb)

international Standards for Business

• Selection and Use of the ISO 9000 Family of Standards, International Organization for Standardization (PDF 1.9MB)

Small and Medium Enterprises

• South African SMME Business Confidence Index Report: First Quarter 2011, Compiled by Africagrowth Institute (PDF)
• Assessment of the Financial Literacy Needs of saibl SMEs: Results of a Survey by saibl and the USAID Financial Sector Programme, January 2010 (PDF 510kb)
• Small Business Development in South Africa. SPB Alert, August 2009 (PDF 89kb)
  

Supplier Diversity; Supply Chain Management

• South African Supllier Diversity Council In a Nutshell, February 2010 (PDF 77kb)
• Handbook on Supplier Diversity in Europe. Supplier Diversity Europe, CRÉME, Migration Policy Group, November 2009 (PDF 2.42MB)
• Bringing Local Entrepreneurs Into the Supply Chain: The Experience of Spier. Caroline Ashley and Gareth Haysom. ODI Project Briefing No 20, April 2009 (external link)
• Supplier Diversity Knowledge Summary. CIPS, February 2009 (PDF 141kb)
• Maximising the Contributions of Local Enterprises to the Supply Chain of Oil, Gas and Mining Projects in Low Income Countries. Briefing Note, Engineers Against Poverty (PDF 212kb)
• Supplier Diversity and Supply Chain Management: A Strategic Approach. Henry Adobor, Ronald McMullen. Article Published in Business Horizons, No 50, 2007 (PDF 292kb)
• Experimenting with Supply Chain Learning (SCL): Supplier Diversity and Ethnic Minority Businesses. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 1, 461–478, 2005 (PDF 100kb - abstract only)
• Avoid the Pitfalls in Supplier Development. Robert B. Handfield, Daniel R. Krause, Thomas V. Scannell, Robert M. Monczka. Sloan Management Review, Vol 41 No 2, Winter 2000 (external link)