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Jonsson Workwear is a leading manufacturer of workwear for the South African market. After successfully implementing TransLution™ Software at the manufacturing site in Lesotho, Jonsson has now extended the use of TransLution™ to its Northfields site near Durban. The Northfields site deals with both Fabric and Trims.

As part of a continuing drive to improve efficiency and fast-track growth, Eurolab chose TransLution Software to implement a scanning solution that allows Eurolab to automate the Purchase Order (PO) Receiving process. This system is designed to assist users in tracking stock while enforcing consistent and reliable warehouse practices.

Cecil Vinegar has been manufacturing naturally fermented vinegar since 1936.  All their vinegars are produced from natural ingredients using the latest submerge fermentation technology.

Cecil Vinegar is part of the Libstar Group and is one of the many group companies using TransLution™ Software.

The Middleby Corporation is a world leader in three business segments: commercial cooking, industrial baking and processing and residential appliances. Middleby Corporation has long used TransLution™ Software, integrated with SYSPRO, for supply chain logistics, and has recently expanded TransLution™ to manage returns from customers.

SPG International is the world’s leading manufacturer of storage systems, producing products in steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and wire. SPG recently faced the challenge of upgrading to SYSPRO 8 ERP software, and with the upgrade decided to replace an outdated barcode scanning system that no longer met their needs.

SPG turned to TransLution™ Software as a platform for automating and streamlining data collection in the warehouse and on the shop floor.

The Middleby Corporation is a world leader in three business segments: commercial cooking, industrial baking and processing and residential appliances. Middleby Corporation has long used TransLution™ Software, integrated with SYSPRO, for supply chain logistics, and has recently expanded TransLution™ to manage EDI communications for sales order shipments.

Cecil Vinegar has been manufacturing naturally fermented vinegar since 1936.  All their vinegars are produced from natural ingredients using the latest submerge fermentation technology.

Cecil Vinegar is part of the Libstar Group and is one of the many group companies using TransLution™ Software.

Berry | Astrapak, a specialised manufacturer of an extensive range of rigid moulded, and thermoformed plastic packaging products serving the African market, is using TransLution at eight of their sites across South Africa. Plastform, the division providing the market with a wide range of thermoformed and moulded packaging, is the latest site to go live with TransLution™.

During this project, TransLution was implemented at Plastform to facilitate the movement and management of stock. The goal was to implement a scanning solution which would assist users to track stock while enforcing consistent and reliable warehouse practices.

After a thorough preparation with TransLution™ Software, SMILE Plastics has achieved their goal and successfully migrated to new servers with Exact Globe and WMS.

Artemis Brands, Africa’s leading baby brand distributor, selected TransLution Software to assist them across their entire warehouse process.

Artemis uses a two-stage receiving process in which one user scans items to be received and another reviews this data before posting to SYSPRO to create a Goods Received Note.

Astrapak JJ Precision is the fifth Astrapak site to go live using TransLution. JJ Precision’s manufacturing operation produces moulds for the food and beverage, personal care, petrochemical and industrial/ automotive sectors.

At this site, TransLution is used to print Job labels and to scan items for job receipt purposes. All job receipts are posted to SYSPRO and once boxes have been receipted, they can be packed onto a pallet as part of a pallet building process. There are also scanning functions to post raw material issues to jobs.

Rialto Foods, one of South Africa’s largest food importers, utilises TransLution™ across a number of sites around South Africa. Rialto owns their two main distribution centres in Cape Town and Johannesburg; however, they use third party logistics warehouses to store and manage their stock in all other locations. This requires careful stock tracking which is facilitated by TransLution Software.

Praga Technical provides one of the most comprehensive metal pressing, manufacturing and tool, jig, and fixture facilities available to the automotive industry in South Africa. A long-standing customer of TransLution™ Software and Afrisoft Africa, Praga recently extended their TransLution™ implementation to build Advance Shipping Notice (ASN) documents for one of their clients (Ford).

Showerline, South Africa’s Premier manufacturer and distributor of customised glass shower enclosures, elected to use TransLution to assist them with their production tracking process.

A key requirement for Showerline was the ability to track production through some custom statuses that give them additional information about the progress of the job through production. Various custom form fields were added to SYSPRO to cater for the additional detail required, and TransLution™ is used both to track jobs through these statuses and to move jobs from one status to the next. In order to save on hardware costs, Showerline implemented the solution with shared Touchscreen terminals running TransLution™ EazyTouch.

Tulisa Cables manufactures cable accessories, extrusions – plastic & PVC, and wire products is using jobs in SYSPRO to manage plant maintenance. The requirement was for a simple way for the maintenance team to interact with these SYSPRO jobs and TransLution™ Software was elected as the ideal tool to deliver the end-user simplicity they required, along with enforcing all the necessary validations in the process.

TrafFix Devices, Inc. is a 34-year-old manufacturer of traffic control devices and crash attenuation products that save lives on the world’s highways. Based in Southern California, their products are designed and engineered to meet the highway requirements of countries all over the world.

With a distribution network spanning the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, South Africa, Mexico and the Middle East, TrafFix requires streamlined productivity, high stock accuracy and most importantly, efficiency.

TOWER, a leading label and adhesive product supplier in South Africa, elected to use TransLution™ in both their Cape Town and Johannesburg sites to assist them with their stock management and production tracking processes. In Cape Town, TransLution™ Software is used throughout the process from receiving Raw Materials, through picking for jobs, job receipts transfers, picking and checking.