A Ghanaian, Dr Douglas Boateng, will chair and moderate a panel discussion at the 2010 international SmartProcurement World Conference in South Africa. The theme for the discussion is “The Strategic Mandate of the Procurement Profession”. The conference scheduled for 16 - 18 November, 2010 will bring together panelists including some of the leading practitioners in the industry responsible for billions of Rands and USD dollar equivalent procurement expenditure. Sectors represented on the panel include, amongst others, banking, financial services, logistics, chemicals, ICT, mining, public sector, agriculture, retail and consulting. The SmartProcurement World conference is the largest functional specific commercial convention on the continent attracting aspiring and practicing professionals involved in the procurement and supply chain profession. Since its inception in 2005 it has grown to become a leading forum for the discerning professional looking to network with colleagues and peers plus gain thought-leading ideas. Dr Douglas Boateng is the Founder, President and CEO of PanAvest International a 5PSCM niche business advisory, education, training, coaching and mentoring company. The organization’s goal is to assist companies to profitably extend their market reach through the application of long term innovative, Business Development Logistics and Supply Chain Management solutions. In addition to being an editorial board member of Smart Procurement, Dr Boateng is also external examiner and postgraduate and doctoral project supervisor on supply chain management at UNISA’ SBL and President of the Institute of Operations Management Africa. Furthermore he is the Founding President of the West African Institute for Supply chain Leadership in Ghana. (aka WAISCL). WAISCL is an exclusive supply chain training public private partnership between Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and PanAvest International. Dr Boateng is a FELLOW of the (a) Institute of Directors-UK & Southern Africa (b) Chartered Management Institute -UK (c) Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport-UK and South Africa (d) Institute of Operations Management-UK. Established in 2003, Smartprocurement.net is Africa's leading Supply Chain online infomediary with more than 24 000 readers in both the private and public sectors. SmartProcurement.net has hundreds of useful articles relating to every aspect of world class procurement (public and private sector). Source: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana