Supply Chain Management Department is among those that provide support services in the

Ministry. The Department undertakes all matters of supply chain services in line with the
instituted legislation. It also advices the accounting officer on matters related to
procurement and disposal and consolidates departmental procurement plans into the
Ministerial procurement plan. This department also maintains conflict of interest registers. It
is headed by Deputy Director of Supply Chain Management who reports to the Principal
Secretary. The current head is Patrick Meyo, Deputy Director of Supply Chain Management.

The Department is divided into three divisions as follows:

Ministerial Tender Committee (MTC) Secretariat - which acts as the secretariat to the
Ministerial Tender Committee. It prepares tender and contract documents. It also opens
tenders, prepares tender notices as well as preparing monthly progressive reports on MTC
matters. This division is headed by Principal Supply chain Management Officer.

Ministerial Procurement committee (MPC) Secretariat and Operations which is the

secretariat to the Ministerial Procurement committee (MPC). The Division maintains and
safeguards all MPC records. It is responsible for booking air tickets and venues for
conference facilities. It also monitors execution of contracts as well as carrying out market
surveys and evaluates tenders. The Division is headed by Chief Supply Chain Management
Officer.

Stores/Warehouse that serves as the Secretariat to both the Disposal Committee and
Inspection and Acceptance committee. The Division identifies idle assets, issues stores and
receives goods. It conduct annual stock taking and certifies invoices and payment vouchers
to suppliers. In addition it prepares monthly progressive reports on their operations matters.
The Division is headed by Supply Chain Management Assistant II.

(source: http://www.energy.go.ke/index.php/procurement.html)
First, we need a reason: why and second, a vision: what. This ministry is urgently needed. In a world
in flux, we need to get away from managing vertical and functional silos and move towards
orchestrating flows. Exactly this should be the purpose, scope and responsibility of the ministry of
supply chain management or whatever name we might wish to reserve for it.

Easiest might be to build it on the basis of traditional ministries - provided available. The world and
economy are rapidly changing - in some cases we need to add new layers, in other we might be better
advices to adjust the existing ministries, institutions, agencies etc. I prefer the latter.

The magic formula of today is fluidity. Hence, we need to move from a sectorial to a process
perspective - cutting across the different industries. The ministry of supply chain management could
arise from two ministries: trade and economy. It could also absorb ministries like the ministry for
agriculture and the ministry of transport. It should closely work with the ministry of digital
infrastructure and technologies - enabler of fluidity - and could well be dubbed ministry for supply
chain and production.

The ministry of trade traditionally deals with the flow of (all) goods and strongly overlaps with
production - as trade has significantly benefitted from fragmented production networks and value
chains. Therefore, the transformation of the ministry of trade is my first choice, the ministry of
economy comes second.

The transformation of ministries from a vertical to a horizontal responsibility and approach

represents a huge change. The current vertical (telecommunication, agriculture, transport etc.)
experts need to obtain new skills. Horizontal subject matter experts must be added. Initially, the
ministerial leadership team should prepare a master plan, including precise objectives for the short
and longer term.
(source: quora)