SA Industry Benchmarking Initiative
Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 04:01AM Aim: Over the long-term to make Operational Bench-marking part of the SA Electricity Distribution Industry.
Convention 2010 Benchmarking Paper
Internationally benchmarking of distribution companies has been applied by regulators to compare efficiencies of entities. Of significance to the distribution industry in South Africa, efficiency analysis through benchmarking, is particularly important in the migration to a competitive industry structure with some form of market-oriented regulation. 
Benchmarking can also provide valuable data to identify cost drivers and efficiency mprovement factors from the existing distributors which would improve the viability of the industry in total.
In 2005 The City of Cape Town score card was developed as a subset of an international benchmarking score card, using comparable data from the extensive international database. This scorecard was based on the minimum number of data points that would provide a good indication of business performance across operational areas. The City's electricity distribution business has continued with the benchmarking initiative and has started to see the benefits in their over-all performance.
Proudly on the 29 October 2010, an SA Industry Benchamrking initiative amongst the Municipal Distributors will kick-off with the intent of collecting relevant business specific data, identify industry trends and areas for improvement and to use relevant best practisesto start a gradual industry performance reform.
Lee Annamalai
Participating Municipalities
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Metros
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Secondary
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Lee Annamalai
The project timeline is quite tight, and the major milestones are indicated below.
Reader Comments (2)
interesting!
Looks good, Bruce