6.5.1 Departmental presentation: In contrast to the presentation on 18 May 2010, the Department, in its presentation on 3 September 2010, did acknowledge some serious problems with Supply Chain Management within the SAPS. Problems identified included the lack of a professional supply chain management practice and understanding; a fragmented management approach and practices, including general lack of command and control, poor financial and asset management and selective compliance with the regulatory environment; the lack of availability of management information; and the lack of a coherent strategic framework, including a policy framework, no strategic planning and no development framework for supply chain management capabilities. Additional challenges included integrity challenges specifically around bid and tender processes and conflict of interests between members and service providers; management complacency with regard to undetected incidents of corruption and fraud; and ineffective alignment between performance outputs and services rendered. The present organisational culture within the supply chain management environment is characterised by a lack of service orientation and professionalism and a poor administrative attitude.