The Rhodes Food Group’s Fresh Foods division in Groot Drankenstein, Western Cape, produces a range of fresh and frozen meals which are supplied to retails and franchise restaurants.
Rhodes uses TransLution™ to keep track of their production as it happens. Jobs related to products and movement of products in the factory are captured in “real time”, ensuring the values appearing on the ERP software coincide with the physical numbers of the products in the factory.
The wooden pallet has dominated the industry for years but changing demands have brought about new options that cater to differing needs. Wood, paper, metal or plastic, pallets come in every variety, but which is the most likely to carry forward into the future?
warehousenews.co.uk looks at the different pallet materials and how they stand up against the traditional wood variety in a number of scenarios.
CMC Design & Manufacturers cc manufactures casings and other equipment for transformers. The products are then shipped to partners who utilise the elements in their own manufacturing and production.
CMC has implemented TransLution Software to assist in the labelling of manufactured products, and dispatching these products to their business partners.
Prilla is Southern Africa’s largest independent spinning mill, with a monthly production of approximately a 1000 tons in its Pietermaritzburg operations. The company, founded in 1950, is known for its quality yarns, produced from cotton sourced mainly from Southern Africa.
At the beginning of Prilla’s production process, labels are printed for each cone on a job. The user enters the data required and labels are printed and stuck on the inside of each cone.
Tevo is a major South African retailer specialising in the sourcing, development, marketing and distribution of innovative, high-quality products. With customers across the country and a multitude of products, this extensive operation faces multiple challenges in distribution. TransLution™ Software was deployed to address these challenges by improving the organisation’s sales order checking and returns checking functions.
Product recalls are a reality faced by all organisations in the food and beverage industry. While the available data for South Africa is minimal, recalls do occur and manufacturers need to be prepared.
Factssa.com has compiled an article outlining allergen-related product recalls and what should be done to avoid them.
M-Tec Industrial (Pty) Ltd is a multi-disciplinary consulting engineering company, with expertise in the field of energy systems, both on the supply-side and the demand-side. M-Tech specialises in heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), integrated system analyses and optimization applied to the design, construction and commissioning of energy systems.
Unreliable data caused by errors in inventory is one of the most common problems in warehousing and manufacturing and can have serious consequences for a business. It is therefore essential that companies identify where these errors are occurring and take steps to remedy them.
Here are some of the areas where inventory mistakes are likely to happen and some tips on how to fix them.
FHS (Filter and Hose Solutions) is the official filtration distributor for Donaldson, Filtrec, and ASAS, as well as the official industrial hose distributor for Malcorp and Plexaco. The FHS exhaust manufacturing facility also produces customised systems for the local and international Automotive industry.
FHS has chosen to integrate TransLution™ and Pastel to improve speed and accuracy in various business processes.
Herbal And Homeopathic is a South African manufacturer of natural pharmaceutical products. Production of these pharmaceuticals is a complex process, involving tracking of many raw and packing materials in and out of the production facility. All materials are tested by the lab before they can be released into the storage area for issuing to production. Furthermore, all of the materials have expiry dates and supplier batches must be tracked throughout the storage and production processes. One of the major challenges in the process was to count the material stock in the storage area, which was both time consuming and fraught with errors caused by the incorrect recording of the stock.
Undertaking expansion in an organisation can be difficult, but it creates an opportunity to plan out not only current needs but future growth as well.
A case study on warehousenews.co.uk looks at how a UK-based company thoroughly assessed their current and future requirements to find an expansion solution that would carry them into the future.
“Piccadilly Greetings Group are one of the UK’s leading greeting card publishers and manufacturers, with a product range of over 5,000 designs as well as own label products and fully bespoke stock control for major UK and international retailers.
Speciality Foods, a division of Foodcorp (Pty) Ltd, is a major supplier of ready-to-eat and convenience food products to South Africa’s premium food retailers. Products include biltong, sandwiches, dairy desserts, salads, party foods, hamburgers, wraps, rotis, rye breads, various flavoured flat breads, ready-to-eat garlic breads and a range of heat-and-eat bread products.
Melco employed TransLution™ Software to track the progress and location of each engineering drawing as it is developed. By assigning barcode labels to each design, which are scanned at every step throughout the engineering design process, Melco has gained improved visibility throughout the approval process and reduced the chance for error when the design reaches production phase.
Riegut Marketing is a high-volume importer and distributor of furniture to South African furniture retailers. Items are purchased in bulk in order to afford retailers competitive prices.
Riegut employs TransLution™ to track product movements between different warehouses and immediately update SYSPRO in order to ensure that SYSPRO stock figures are correct, allowing sales orders to be picked and dispatched.
In the food and beverage manufacturing industry there is always a risk of contamination and the ability to trace ingredients, parts and lots to the source is essential to food safety. Efficient operations are the key to ensuring that safety regulations are met and that food production stays profitable.
An article on www.reliableplant.com outlines some of the advantages of traceability in avoiding foodborne illness and retaining customers.
EverTrade is a company that imports and distributes a wide range of commodities in South Africa with a specific focus on high value electronic items.
EverTrade chose TransLution™ to provide them with a scanner based checking solution. Every phone that is shipped out on a sales order is scanned. In addition to scanning the phone serial number, the operator also scans the IMEI number. At the end of the packing and checking process TransLution updates Syspro with the number of phones scanned and creates a dispatch note in Syspro. There is a packing list printer per order and customer branch to show each serial number and IMEI number shipped to a specific customer branch.
Johannesburg-based transformer-insulation product manufacturer and distributor Wilec is streamlining its operations, yielding faster picking rates and achieving accurate dispatches, owing to a new automated warehouse management system, TransLution™
A product recall is thought of with dread in the manufacturing industry. Even when following the strictest safety and quality guidelines, with so many factors involved sometimes things can go wrong – and product recalls can and do happen. Something as simple as undeclared allergens on food labels, in fact, continues to be one of the major causes of food recalls today.
