Business Linkages programmes have been one of the major building blocks in many Supplier and Enterprise Development (ESD) programmes. Due to the need for localisation and black owned companies these programmes have been quite fruitful in South Africa with many of these programmes being successful for profit ventures. The goal of a business linkages programme is to create commercial linkages …
The ESD Process for Start-Ups and Entrepreneurs
The Enterprise and Supplier development process (ESD process) can have many iterations and needs to follow your ESD plan. The below process indicates a high level view of how this process could work within a company, when the process is reduced to it’s bare essentials.