05 July 2022
SMMEs learned many valuable lessons about the cloud during this time, such as seeing how this technology could enable them to go to market with greater speed and agility.
About Linkage
Linkage is an integrated, cloud-based digital platform that facilitates seamless collaboration and transparency between stakeholders to achieve supplier diversity and small business development.
OUR BACKGROUND
Linkage was developed by Hepsy Mkhungo and Mpopi Khupe of Zevoli Growth Partners, a women-owned company with a footprint throughout South Africa, whose focus is ESD strategy implementation and business optimisation.
They recognised that a key challenge facing their corporate clients was how to identify and retain quality SMME suppliers in order to ensure supplier diversity, build sustainable partnerships and serve their markets effectively.
Corporates don’t have an end-to-end digital solution to measure true social impact.
Corporates struggle to coordinate and collaborate internal initiatives aimed at diversifying supply chain and localizing spend in order to demonstrate shared value. This gap means that initiatives do not result in tangible access to opportunities for SMMEs because of the uncoordinated internal approach.
Supply chain teams, ESD teams, finance teams and end users (SMMEs and suppliers) do not have coordinated workflows that link their efforts as a single approach.
Lack of internal capacity to deliver impactful, bespoke enterprise supplier development (ESD) strategies.
Lack of collaboration and data sharing across departments interacting with SMMEs.
Multiple and fragmented internal SMME interfaces.
The ultimate package that has the full functionalities of both Basic and Pro packages. The Enterprise package allows for customisation and integration into other internal corporate systems.
Linkage makes it easier for large enterprises and SMMEs to work together by facilitating:
Linkage has automated and digitized this process, allowing both procurement teams and ESD specialists to work together towards a common goal of integrating SMMEs into supply chains through transparent workflows that respond to the unique challenges presented by a corporate environment.
Tel: 011 100 4727
Email: info@linkage.co.za
1st Floor, West Wing,
6 Kikuyu Road, Sunninghill,
Johannesburg, South Africa
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