RESEARCH TITLE
ASSESSMENT ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF
PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALISM ON THE
TANZANIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AGENDA
Research Objectives
 To assess the contribution of P&SCM professionalism in
creating national wealth;
 To assess the contribution of P&SCM professionalism in
creating value for money in the Tanzania input-processoutput model for the socio-economic development
agenda;
 To assess the contribution of P&SCM professionalism in
creating employment in the Tanzania labour market;
and
 To assess the contribution of P&SCM professionalism in
adding value to Tanzania labour market.
Research Questions
How does the P&SCM professionalism contribute
in creating national wealth?
How does the P&SCM professionalism create
value for money in the Tanzania socio-economic
input-process-output model?
How does the P&SCM professionalism contribute
in the process of creating employment in the
labour market?
How significant is the P&SCM professionalism in
adding value to the Tanzania labour market
economy?
Methodology
Study Design: survey of value-laden opinions on
the contribution of the P&SCM professionalism
on the Tanzania economic development agenda.
Study Area: Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Dodoma,
Morogoro, Mbeya, and Mwanza.
Sample: one hundred and ten (110) respondents
conveniently selected. However, 94 respondents
(85.45% ) of the proposed sample were covered
under this study.
Methodology
Sampling Procedure and Units of Inquiry: sample
was conveniently selected depending on:
– Accuracy and reliability of data and/or information.
– Basic knowledge (including local know-how) of the
P&SCM professionalism.
– The envisaged respondents were encountered within
their locations (localities), enterprises and/or
institutions.
– The envisaged respondents were found within the
public and/or private socio-economic development
spectra.
Methodology
Nature of Data and Information: primary and
secondary data.
Data Collection Tools and Techniques:
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Interviews
Questionnaires
Focus Group Discussions (on the Facebook)
Documentary Analysis and Reviews
Analysis: Qualitative assessment (value-laden
opinion)
Findings and Analysis
Assessment on the Objectives of P&SCM
Professionalism:
– Perceptions on meeting P&SCM Objectivism:
somewhat agree = 42.17%; strongly agree =
23.23%; whereas on average 65.4% agree on he
P&SCM objectivism.
Findings and Analysis
Analytical assessment of the P&SCM
performance:
SN
1
2
3
4
5
6
Measurement Parameter
Effectiveness in allocating the scarce economic resources against
the socio-economic development priorities
Creation of the required value for money (VFM) in the
procurement and supply chain of public goods and utilities
especially the socio-economic development infrastructures
Efficiency in the socio-economic input-process-output (IPO)
model in creating economic value
Creation of the required knowledge, skills and ethics required for
VFM/profitability procurement in the supply chains
Creation of employment in the Tanzania labour market economy
Average
Scaling
Per cent
7.377
73.77
8.293
82.93
8.200
82.00
8.538
85.38
7.032
70.32
8.261
7.950
82.61
79.50
Efficient professionalism attributes (knowledge + skills + ethics)
TOTAL AVERAGE
Findings and Analysis
PSPTB (NBMM) contribution in P&SCM
professionalism and professionalization:
– Logical model for professionalization
– Logical framework for professionalization: knowledge
+ skills + ethics (+ inherent wisdom)
Use of traditional knowhow, skills, (ethics), and
inherent wisdom to make traditional supply
chains moving in the grains, fresh fruits and
vegetables supply chains [supply chains for
survival]
Findings and Analysis
P&SCM professionalism in the Widely
Diversified Firms:
– Said Salim Bakhressa Group of Companies (SSB)
– Summaria Group
– Mac Group
– Motsun Holding Ltd
– Mohamed Enterprises Tanzania Ltd (MeTL)
Success on these forms are based on effective
and efficient organisation of P&SCM
Findings and Analysis
P&SCM professionalism in the agro-products –
agriculture is an economic driver:
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Coffee and tea
Oil seed and edible oils
Horticulture
Food processing
Tobacco
Beverages
These depend highly on the effective and
efficient P&SCM professionalism for successes of
this sector we see today.
Findings and Analysis
P&SCM Professionalism in MKUKUTA I
(2005/06 to 2009/10)
S/N
1
MUKUTA
Variables
MKUKUTA
Indicators
P&SCM
Professionalism Contribution
Increased/Improv  2,171 new schools  Effective and efficient
ed access to
were built in
procurement and community
participation in procurement.
education
between 2005 and
2010.
 Value for money procurement
 Increased
and supply of construction
enrolment from
material supplies and
associated services.
524,325 (2005) to
1,638,669 (2010).
2
Increased/Impr  Construction of
oved access to
new health
health services
facilities –
dispensaries,
health centres
and hospitals.
 Improved supply
of drugs and
medical supplies.
 Improved health
referral systems.
 Effective and efficient
procurement of health
facilities and infrastructures
(works).
 Value for money
procurement and supply of
drugs and medical supplies.
 Effective procurement of
human resources in the
health sector.
 Effective and efficient cold
supply chain logistics.
3
Increased/Impr  Increased water  Effective and efficient
oved
supply from
procurement and supply of
accessibility of
53.7% (2005) to
water supply equipment
and facilities.
clean and
60.1% (2010) in
rural areas.
portable water
 Value for money
supply
 Increased water
procurement of water
supply from
projects in local authorities
74% (2005) to
(LGAs) and urban water
84% (2010) in
authorities and sewerage
urban areas.
(UWASA).
4
Increased/Impr  86,472 km of
 Effective and efficient
oved
which 6,700 is
procurement of
paved.
infrastructure
construction works and
maintenance.
(especially
 Over 2,200 km of
roads)
roads have been  Value for money
upgraded from
procurement and supply
gravel to tarmac
of construction and
within 2005 to
maintenance material
2010.
supplies, equipment and
facilities.
 Regional urban
roads
constructed or
repaired.
 Roads and
bridges
maintained and
made passable
throughout the
year.
Findings and Analysis
P&SCM professionalism contribution in the
key economic sectors:
– Agriculture sector
– Fishing sector
– Manufacturing sector
– Mining sector
– Land use
– Tourism sector
– Infrastructural development sector
Findings and Analysis
P&SCM Professionalism in the Traditional
Supply Chains:
– Ensures that considerable value is created and
added into the demand-supply (or else supplydemand) driven manner in a quantified, qualified
and specified (QQS) goods and services in the
logistics flows within the value chains to and from
the both ends (original suppliers and ultimate
consumers) respectively.
Findings and Analysis
P&SCM Professionalism in the National Public
Procurement Policy:
– The core principles of the NPPP, according to NPPP
(2012) include: value for money (VFM); economy;
efficiency; equity; integrity and ethics; fairness;
transparency; accountability; reliability; competition;
expertise and probity.
– These core principles can in no way be achieved
unless with the concerted and determined efforts of
the P&SCM professional knowledge, skills, and ethics.
Conclusion
P&SCM professionalism plays a major strategic
role in the economic development agenda.
P&SCM professionalism has made possible for
the growth and development of most of the
widely diversified.
P&SCM traditional (localised) knowhow, skills,
ethics and inherent wisdom do help a lot in
ensuring that 75 percent (or more) of Tanzanians
do enjoy the socio-economic development
wellbeing within and without the traditional
responsive supply chains.
Recommendations
The role of the P&SCM professionalism should be
alienated and vividly positioned in the economic
development agenda documents (such as
MKUKUTA, MKURABITA, etc.);
There should be deliberate efforts to promote the
recognition of the P&SCM profession and
professionalism so that to raise the status from
middle (in the operational) level towards playing
the higher role in the enterprise-wide contexts;
Recommendations
The professional board, the PSPTB, should
deliberately initiate tailor-made courses in simple
professional language (preferably in Kiswahili) for
the key players in the traditional and/or localised
supply chains so as to reap their potential.
The board, PSPTB, should ensure that enterprises
(both public and private) do comply with the Act
by employing registered professionals and/or
technicians according to the legal and
institutional requirements.
Recommendations
The board, PSPTB, should make necessary
efforts in aligning her course modules with
entrepreneurial knowhow and skills so that to
prepare her professionals in the highest
professional cadre (the CPSP) to have the
necessary and sufficient knowledge and skills
in professional entrepreneurship, especially in
professional consulting skills.
Policy Implications
 Traditional and localised knowhow, skills, ethics, and
inherent wisdom should be adapted into the
conventional P&SCM professionalism and
professionalization;
 Professionals and/or technicians practising in the
P&SCM professionalism in the private sector should be
helped to be given their due recognition as enshrined
in the Act establishing the PSPTB;
 There should be a thinking on establishing the public
procurement professional cadre into the public sector
to be officially recognised by the PSPTB;
Policy Implications
Setting the P&SCM professional standards in
compliance with the best practices generally (as
well as globally) accepted by considering the
practices in the selected commonwealth
countries (or else English speaking countries)
such as United Kingdom or Australia; and
Aligning the requisites of the P&SCM
professionalism into the East African model to
enable integration of professionals within the
bloc as a single labour market.
End of Presentation
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