As the backbone of the South African economy, small businesses are critical drivers of employment and growth. The Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) element of the B-BBEE Scorecard is designed to facilitate the support, development and growth of small Black-owned business, to help them to operate more sustainably and successfully
3% of your Net Profit After Tax must be allocated to this all-important element, so it’s critical to ensure:
ESD123 is a smart, flexible, customised end-to-end solution that benefits both sponsor and beneficiary businesses – and has helped to grow over 100 small businesses so far.
Our approach is marked by engagement: we engage with clients, to get to grips with their strategic objectives, and we engage with SME businesses, so we genuinely understand what they do and their needs.
You decide how much you need and want to spend (ours is a scalable solution aligned to your ESD budget).
Our process incorporates a full business and systems diagnostic, based on which we compile a customised Business Bundle.
In addition, the ESD123 team can explore the market to source beneficiary businesses for you – or engage those you’ve already chosen from within your existing supply chain.
The right business tools, services and skills that can mean success or failure for a beneficiary business. We analyse the beneficiary business in order to compile a unique and customised Business Bundle that unifies the value-adding products and services needed for their capacitation.
Including a website, e-commerce functionality, an accounting system, a Customer Relationship Management system, general and niche-specific software, and directories
If you’re an ESD sponsor, you can benefit enormously from ESD123’s fully outsourced approach to developing and supporting Black-owned beneficiary businesses, while ensuring scorecard points optimisation. At the same time, ESD123 is committed to meaningful development for beneficiaries, in ways that have real impact.
We conduct a Structured Beneficiary Business Analysis; carefully analysing each business’s strategic and operational requirements in order to develop appropriately synergistic beneficiaries and chart a strategy for growth.
The ESD123 analysis is hands-on, fully engaging with the beneficiary business to understand its current performance and its goals. The analysis begins with a site visit. We carefully assess the company’s operations and current business position. Building on our analysis, we establish a growth target for the beneficiary business and set a benchmark for impact reporting.
Setting a baseline for reporting takes the guesswork out of ESD initiatives. We follow a results-driven approach that ensures we achieve successful and sustainable outcomes for beneficiaries. That also means you can more effectively quantify the return on your investment.
Based on a careful analysis, we customise a solution designed to meet the goals of the beneficiary and the
corporate sponsor. We analyse where the business is currently and where it wants to be. And we create a
bespoke programme to supply the tools, knowledge and assistance the beneficiary needs to reach those goals.
machinery and equipment vehicles premises
capital investment working capital
accounting, payroll & HR software website design and hosting e-commerce functionality CRM systems sector-specific software
book-keeping and accounting payroll HR marketing, social media, and community management business gap analysis business development B-BBEE licensing, training, and support
Are you a +51% black-owned business with a turnover of less than R50 million? Let us engage with you to understand if there’s an opportunity to join our ESD program as a beneficiary.
“I value being able to engage with amazing organisations in South Africa, to support them on their transformation journey.”
“The projects that resonate most with me involve great need being met in
communities, for people who are impoverished.”
“We help bigger companies to help smaller companies, and smaller companies to help individuals, and individuals to build a country.”
“We always have new things to offer our clients, to grow their success.”
For impact, compliance and completion, YES123 provides a full offering for end-to-end YES programme facilitation, administration and management.
