To make manufacturing warehousing more efficient and more profitable, materials must be managed proficiently. Ensuring a well-structured warehouse, correct stock management and shipments, and well-organised handling can all go a long way in improving efficiency of your manufacturing processes and ultimately the bottom line of your business.
Bravo Sleep Products, a division of Bravo Group, is produces four of South Africa’s leading mattress brands. Their factory in Johannesburg has elected to use
An article from McKinsey & Company looks at how manufacturers taking advantage of advanced analytics can reduce process flaws, saving both time and money.
“Many global manufacturers in a range of industries and geographies now have an abundance of real-time shop-floor data and the capability to conduct such sophisticated statistical assessments. They are taking previously isolated data sets, aggregating them, and analyzing them to reveal important insights.”
Lancashire, a South African school wear and uniform manufacturer, selected TransLution™ Software to help manage manufacturing processes in their Cape Town factory. The TransLution™ system
Afrisoft Africa has successfully implemented TransLution™ Software at a number of Astrapack sites. The latest of these is Marcom, a manufacturer of thin walled injection-moulded
TransLution™ Software LLC has recently opened an office in Cumming, GA USA in order to serve local clients and SYSPRO resellers.
The two key changes to TransLution™ in 4.3 are that we have made the ability to manipulate complex barcodes significantly easier than before. Now if
Rosh Pinah, one of the largest and most important lead and zinc mines in Namibia, elected Afrisoft to help lay the foundation for long-term plans
Pak2000, a division of Astrapak, manufactures a range of plastic petrochemical containers. plastic oil containers. Afrisoft implemented TransLution™ Software at Pak2000 to assist in streamlining the manufacturing process.
TransLution™ is proud to announce that they will be giving a presentation at the annual SYSPRO Africa Customer Event in Johannesburg on 18 May 2017.
Contactim is a South African company that manufactures rubber and plastic products, household and industrial cleaning products, plumbing equipment and more. Contactim exports to Madagascar, Namibia, Botswana and other African countries.
Falke Eurosocks South Africa manufactures fashion and sports socks for the local climate and very sporting South African culture. They also manufacture hosiery for ladies’ fashion.
The Falke Hosiery division has selected TransLution™ Software, implemented by Afrisoft Africa, to capture production data of stockings.
Inventory control is a key aspect of warehousing and distribution. Correct management can be a great area of success, but poor control can result in major losses.
Surprisingly, despite this, many businesses don’t know what is in their inventory at any given time. This often means poor and slow business operations, and sometimes even losing customers to competitors when sales can’t be completed.
Botswana Ash (Pty) Ltd is a Botswana-based mining operation that produces soda ash and salt. As a major supplier to the South African glass industry, Botsawna Ash chose to implement TransLution™ Software to help manage stock.
Weylandts is an international furniture manufacturer and retailer. The organisation has eight retail showrooms in South Africa and one in Melbourne, Australia.
How important is the integration of your Warehouse Management System and ERP? In today’s warehouses, automation of processes and access to accurate, real-time data can give an organization a competitive advantage.
More and more companies are moving toward digitization on the warehouse floor after seeing the positive impact on efficiency. But often integration with an ERP is either overlooked or fraught with complications. This leaves a large gap in a potentially streamlined process and many organizations are missing out on the benefits.
Melco is one of the world’s major conveyor equipment manufacturers, building and supplying idlers/rollers, motorised pulleys, and supporting structure for the bulk materials handling industry. Managing, monitoring and controlling stock and waste poses a significant challenge with projects that utilise such a large volume of individual components, so Melco implemented TransLution™ Software to improve stock management efficiency.
Errors and inefficiencies in the supply chain are common problems that ultimately affect the bottom line of your business. So how do we reduce waste and improve productivity?
Following on from our previous article Understanding and Managing the Bullwhip Effect, we are looking at further ways to improve and streamline the supply chain
Yamaha South Africa offers a huge range of products from motorcycles to audio equipment.
Afrisoft was approached to implement a pilot project in Yamaha’s Audio division in Johannesburg, implementing scanners with TransLution™ Software to two areas: Landed Cost Tracking for receipt of imported goods and Sales Order checking to check items that are picked against customer orders.
Inefficiencies in the supply chain can cause a phenomenon referred to as the Bullwhip Effect. The idea, first identified by MIT professor Jay Forrester, identifies a trend of ever-increasing swings in inventory in response to shifts in customer demand as one looks further back in the supply chain. In other words, small variances in demand in lower parts of the supply chain create larger variances higher up the chain as we get closer to raw materials.
Coleus Packaging (Pty) Ltd is the largest and most dominant crown supplier of metal bottle closures (crowns) for the brewing and bottling industries in Africa, producing over 6 billion crowns a year and supplying to over 10 countries.
With this large scale production Coleus required the ability to track the steel used in manufacturing, and they turned to Afrisoft Africa for a solution.
