Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the energy sector demands robust partnerships between the private and public sectors. The ability to balance business objectives with social responsibility is crucial for driving meaningful impact.
Smukeliso collaborates with energy companies and their CSR implementation partners to optimize operations and enhance financial management strategies. Our social impact solutions are designed to free up financial resources, enabling clients to allocate more funds to their programmatic initiatives. By streamlining operations and ensuring efficient resource management, we help our clients make a more significant contribution to sustainable development while maintaining operational excellence.
Years delivering procurement transformation across Africa
Engagements completed across Mining, Industrials, Financial Services, and Public Sector
In third-party procurement spend mapped, analysed, and optimised for clients
Countries where Smukeliso has delivered engagements
Sector Intelligence
Sasol Group needed its SME beneficiary cohorts — new and existing — to understand how corporate procurement actually works. We developed and facilitated a national training programme across five regions, covering 120+ SMEs on vendor onboarding, tendering, contract management, and strategic sourcing.
Up to 30% of a mid-tier company's profits are leaking from a function most leaders never look at closely: procurement. This piece names the four structural failure modes and explains why the fix is strategic, not operational.
WhyAfrica interviewed Zinhle Dube — founder and CEO of Smukeliso — on the state of supply chain in Africa: what's broken, what Covid exposed, what the AfCFTA could unlock, and why treating procurement as a dumping ground is a choice with consequences.
In volatile energy markets, procurement leakage is rarely visible until it's already costly. The Procurement Maturity Diagnostic maps your spend base across six dimensions and tells you, in rand terms, exactly where the risk and waste are concentrated.
