ADVERTORIAL OUT TASKING PROCUREMENT SOLUTIONS
Delivering a professional shared procurement service From a young student growing up in South Africa, Reshika Ramlal found herself lured by the thrill of deal-making, be it with her parents, siblings or friends. She always strived to negotiate the best win-win deal.
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any years later and this passion, coupled with her entrepreneurial spirit, have enabled her to become the founder and Managing Director of Out Tasking Procurement Solutions (OTPro). Ramlal began her journey in her mid-twenties, serving at many blue-chip companies in strategic procurement and supply chain leadership roles. During this time, the pattern emerging in these companies was that a Barrier made it difficult to buy and sell between organisations. The codes of good practice serve as an opportunity for transformation and growth in our economy. As willing as corporates are to abide by these codes, multiple challenges present themselves when forging good business relationships between corporates (buyers) and suppliers (sellers). Such challenges detract corporates from providing opportunities regularly to emerging suppliers and, thus, make it difficult for corporates to maximise their B-BBEE scorecards. OTPro, however, firmly believes that buying should be simple. OTPro is an independent house of procurement. It strives to deliver an international shared procurement service. The company’s blueprint business model caters for corporate and procurement governance in the backend, whilst their corporate buyers have the same user experience as that of retail online shoppers. OTPro’s business model is designed to deliver a new-age buying gateway for corporate buyers in different sectors and industries. It provides an online buying ecosystem for small and large corporates to collaborate and gain mutual benefits by leveraging on the reduced buying cost. OTPro has reengineered procurement processes based on 15 years of procurement expertise. It makes buying more efficient, whilst risk and governance are adhered to.
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Reshika Ramlal, Founder and Managing Director
Its strategy is based on combining procurement expertise, technology, processes and innovation for delivering efficient new-generation buying solutions and professional services. OTPro is an accredited B-BBEE Level 1, black womenowned, emerging micro enterprise (EME) and a beneficiary of enterprise supplier development (ESD). Its customers experience total cost reduction, speed to market and seamlessly contribute to localising economies. By enabling this, it collectively opens the door of opportunity for economic growth in South Africa, which has a direct or indirect impact on every South African citizen. Buying local is lekker! ‘We are all leaders and game-changers. We demonstrate this as we go on making key decisions in our lives – as parents or coaches, in our jobs or in our communities. I once accepted a challenge to list the things that could be improved if I did something to improve it.... Never did I imagine that task would one day culminate in OTPro – a shared service brand that is changing the way we procure, creating opportunity in our local economy and delivering innovation in supply chain,’ concludes Ramlal. n
Out Tasking Procurement Solutions (OTPro) T +27(0)81 525 3906 E reshika.ramlal@otpro.biz W www.otpro.biz
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