{"id":12909,"date":"2026-08-05T10:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T08:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartprocurementworld.com\/indaba\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=12909"},"modified":"2026-08-27T12:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:21:25","slug":"shaun-scott","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/smartprocurementworld.com\/indaba\/speaker\/shaun-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaun Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaun Scott has consulted to public and private sector organisations in Southern Africa over the last 25 years primarily on supply chain and procurement strategy and policy. The emphasis of his work is on the practical implementation of procurement and supply chain legislation with a focus on innovation and best practice.&nbsp;<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaun has a BSc in Industrial Engineering (Wits). After graduating he joined Andersen Consulting (later became Accenture) where he was the Director responsible for their Transport and Travel portfolio in Africa. He left Accenture in 2002 and co-founded WillPower@WiL, a successful 4PL\u2122 and professional services organisation with a growing client base and offerings in public procurement and SCM.<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaun is co-author, together with Adv Helen Venter, of the Public Procurement and Supply Chain Management text book (2020).<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaun runs a weekly webinar for procurement executives, managers and practitioners, currently with over 1500 registered participants across South Africa. He administers a YouTube channel dedicated to procurement content (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCwItsS6GmWfG_KpwTv0c4OQ\">Public Procurement and SCM Collaboration Platform &#8211; YouTube<\/a>).<\/p>    <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaun\u2019s passions include his family, music and helping entrepreneurs build scalable national and international businesses.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":13290,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"speaker_year":[293],"speakers_category":[297,301],"class_list":["post-12909","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speaker_year-293","speakers_category-plenary","speakers_category-workshop"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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