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CASE STUDY: Improving Production for Rhodes Food Group Fresh Foods Division

Rhodes Food Group is a leading South African food producer. Its Fresh Foods division produces a range of ready meals, pasta, pies and dairy products and supplies some of South Africa’s biggest premade meal retailers. With the strict requirements for perishable goods, as well as stringent requirements from these retailers, Rhodes Fresh Foods requires fast and accurate production to ensure consistent and reliable dispatch.

Rhodes Fresh Foods users were required to capture production data manually allowing them little visibility through their production process.

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Food & Beverage

CASE STUDY: LANCEWOOD® Automates Production Processes

Speed and accurate turnaround are vital in the high volume manufacture of food and perishable goods. Production processes need to be accurate and efficient in order to punctually produce and dispatch the quantities required.

For LANCEWOOD®, one of South Africa’s largest cheese and dairy producers, speed and accuracy were major challenges in their manufacturing process. Manual processing of data frequently put production days behind schedule. Aiming to double production in the future, LANCEWOOD® needed to address these issues through a more automated solution.

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Concord Refrigeration chooses TransLution Software for scanning project

rmarket display cases, had some specific goals in mind when they selected TransLution for their scanning project in their Durban factory. They wanted to achieve real time stock accuracy in all areas and processes, as well as improve efficiency in their material flows. They also required transactional and process integrity, removing any option for shortcuts or manual documentation.

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ABECO Tanks chooses TransLution Software to assist with stock take and production

ABECO Tanks, a South African manufacturer of water storage solutions for industrial and home use, selected TransLution Software to assist with the stock take process as well as backflushing of finished goods when production is complete.

TransLution was implemented to perform stock take on a handheld scanner without barcoded labels but rather a series of select steps which will aid in the process.

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We are delighted to announce the release of TransLution V6.3

We are delighted to announce the release of TransLution V6.3. With this release we have extended our integration to include full integration to SAGE 300 Cloud. Now, you can post data directly to SAGE 300 in real-time as you are scanning and moving products in a warehouse or on a production line.

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Top 25 Warehouse KPIs: Storage & Inventory

Part Four of The Importance of Measuring and Utilizing KPIs in Warehousing.

This article is part three of our six-part KIPs in Warehousing series. Click here to read part one: The Importance of Measuring and Utilizing KPIs in Warehousing: Storage & Inventory.
A messy warehouse is an inefficient warehouse. Further, the longer inventory stays in the warehouse, the more it costs a business. For this reason, tracking storage efficiency and inventory is essential to optimising your warehouse.

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Top 25 Warehouse KPIs: Put Away

This article is part three of our six-part KIPs in Warehousing series. Click here to read part one: The Importance of Measuring and Utilizing KPIs in Warehousing: Put-Away.
Once receiving activity is completed, the accepted merchandise must be stored in a location that is convenient to retrieve for further action. This process is called put-away which can consist of several different types of functions:

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Flowe-Pac implements TransLution™ Software for a barcoded label printing solution

Flowe-Pac, a South African packaging materials manufacturer, aims to provide quality, cost effectiveness, and short turnaround time for its manufacturer, distributor, and retailer customers. These aims led them to select TransLution™ Software for a barcoded label printing solution which would allow their customers to receive packaging more efficiently, since product would be pre-labelled for scanning at Receiving.

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Ruprecht Utilizes TransLution to integrate warehousing and manufacturing information with SYSPRO

Ruprecht is a solutions-driven meat processor and food manufacturer serving both domestic and international customers in the foodservice and retail sectors. The company processes 35 million lbs. of raw proteins and fully cooked entrees delivered as branded goods.

Having recently implemented SYSPRO ERP software Ruprecht needed to take steps to implement software geared for their warehouse and manufacturing operations that is tightly integrated and optimized for use with SYSPRO.

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Top 25 Warehouse KPIs: Receiving

Part Two of The Importance of Measuring and Utilizing KPIs in Warehousing.

KPIs, or key performance indicators, are a measure of performance of the business that provide insights and opportunities to improve. They are essentially a “performance scorecard” of benchmarks that are unique to each business, gauging progress towards the company’s goals, identifying areas that need improvement, and comparing performance to competitors and industry standards.

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Job Specification: SQL Developer

The key purpose of the role of the SQL Developer is to develop and configure TransLution™ functions to meet the clients’ requirements as defined in the Business Requirements Specification (BRS).

The incumbent will be a SQL developer who is able to design and develop T-SQL queries and stored procedures, design and deploy SQL databases using agreed best practices. Create custom reports using SSRS by extracting data from multiple sources including the ERP and TransLution™ databases to enhance the client’s operational productivity.

Critical to the success of this person will be proficiency in SQL; business understanding of ERP conventions as they pertain to manufacturing and warehouse operations.

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Job Specification: Industrial Engineer

The key purpose of the role of the Industrial Engineer within TransLution™, is to serve as the primary contact and interface with our clients. The incumbent will also be responsible for the successful roll-out of the developed solutions.

Critical to the success of this person will be a full understanding of Client business needs, interpretation of these requirements and the development of proposals and solutions, in conjunction with various team members, to bring about significant added value.

In addition, this person will play a role within project management, training as well as the development of applicable documentation such as test procedures, specifications, and training material.

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TrafFix Devices Turns to TransLution™ Software for Advanced Labor Tracking

After their successful roll-out of TransLution™ in the warehouse and in manufacturing, TrafFix extended their TransLution™ implementation to include labor tracking. TrafFix was previously using manual time and job cards to track and manage labor tracking after the event, making the process inefficient and slow. They needed a solution that could track employees in real time as they worked on single or multiple jobs simultaneously.

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The Importance of Measuring and Utilizing KPIs in Warehousing

Different warehouses have different KPIs, therefore it is important that warehouse managers and administrators work together to identify areas of importance. Each warehouse KPI analyses a specific process or operation and gives you a result that shows how well that process is doing by comparing it to past numbers and benchmarks.

While all warehouses are different, there are many commonly used KPIs that can be applied to most warehouses. However not all KPIs need to be used to reach your goals. Instead, you should choose the ones that are most relevant to your current goals.

Over the next few weeks we shall be highlighting the Top 25 KPIs in Warehousing and the processes they form part of.

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FEATURE: Changing Report Orientation in TransLution™

Previously, it tricky to print landscape reports – the solution was to change the printer settings landscape which then, of course, didn’t work particularly well if the same printer was required to print both a landscape and portrait style report.

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NEW RELEASE: The release of TransLution™ V62

are delighted to announce the release of TransLution V62. This release focusses on improving the implementation experience and I am hoping that you will be as excited by the end result as we are. We have also implemented a new release notes mechanism and have built a brief video demo to highlight how the changes can be used. The link for that video is included below.

The structure is such that you can go through all the features one after the other or you can simply dip in and choose to look at the bits that are of interest today and come back another time to look at the rest.

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