TransLution™ is delivered with a large library of standard SYSPRO validations to validate item codes, Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, and host of other data in SYSPRO. It is very important to know, however, that there is also a range of non-SYSPRO-related standard validations available to users.
TransLution™ supports the concept of a decision step – a way to manage the process flow that the end-user sees.
For example, if the user scans an item barcode for a lot-traceable item, we want to ask them to enter the lot number. However, if the item scanned is not lot-traceable, we want to miss that step.
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).
There are many times when the barcode you scan does not represent exactly the data that is required by your system. It may be that you are scanning a retail EAN-13 barcode but you need to find the stock code, or that your barcode consists of multiple elements such as ItemCode-LotNumber-Quantity. There may be some leading zeroes or trailing characters you wish to truncate.
TransLution™ offers a range of standard manipulations that you can use to take a scanned piece of data and deliver the result you need without doing any kind of programming or custom logic.
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.
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.
Version 5.7 has a large focus on extending the EazyTouch look and feel. This has been done by allowing Super Users to create and manage layouts to control font size, line colour, filtering and grouping on a per function area basis.
Additional changes include the introduction of some tools to assist with managing function area versions. In this release we have added the ability to replace one function area with another on all devices.
Montagu Foods, a Libstar group company, implemented TransLution™ Software with the vision of stock traceability through jobs. The project is focussed on finished goods and will go back to the beginning of the process in subsequent phases.
The first step in the project was labelling finished goods pallets and posting a Job Receipt to Syspro. This allows TransLution™ to build up a stock picture of all stock on each pallet in the warehouse. The system also supports pallets with mixed stock on the pallets.
Halewood Wines & Spirits is one of South Africa’s fastest growing manufacturers of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Halewood have bins in their warehouse that do not exist in SYSPRO, instead using TransLution™ to keep track of stock.
Cape Herb & Spice, a Libstar Group Company, produces a range of core herb, spice and seasoning solutions for the South African market.
The initial phase of the TransLution™ implementation at Cape Herbs and Spice was focussed on the section of the business dealing with tea. The implementation will be extended to Spices in a subsequent phase.
Amaro Foods, a Libstar Group company, produces and supplies bakery products, including soft rolls, a braai range, croissants, speciality breads, wraps and hot cross buns to Woolworths across South Africa.
The focus of the TransLution implementation at Amaro was to give the shop floor users a great deal of control over Jobs in SYSPRO while keeping the software as easy to use as possible.
Around the world, industry is starting to reopen, and businesses are slowly returning to work. While the global consensus seems to be that business should phase in their return, there are no guidelines and each country is taking a different approach.
Lancewood Swellendam is one of three Lancewood sites running TransLution Software, with the others in George and Sonnendal. Lancewood is a South African cheese and dairy producer that prides itself on its reputation for superior quality and flavour.
Lancewood utilised the services of Afrisoft Africa to implement TransLution™ Software as a full Warehouse Management System. Like the other sites, Lancewood Swellendam products finished goods, however the site acts primarily as a supply warehouse for Lancewood George. This means that rather than picking sales orders for customers, finished goods are dispatched to the warehouse in George.
Accurate, real-time data is the cornerstone of improvement strategies in manufacturing and production.
The importance of accurate data in manufacturing is indisputable. In today’s climate of fierce competition, manufacturers must continually search for ways to improve productivity and customer support. In order to maximize results, companies must utilize their data in a strategic fashion, finding the strengths and weaknesses and looking for ways to improve.
While having accessible manufacturing data is no doubt beneficial, simply capturing data is not enough. Not having said data available and on hand when it is needed significantly reduces its usefulness. Imagine how many times during a day opportunities for improvement might be squandered if decision makers don’t have access to the right information.
Lancewood Sonnendal is one of three Lancewood sites running TransLution Software, with the others in George and Swellendam. Lancewood is a South African cheese and dairy producer that prides itself on its reputation for superior quality and flavour.
Lancewood utilised the services of Afrisoft Africa to implement TransLution™ Software as a full Warehouse Management System. TransLution is used to receive purchase orders and create Goods Received Notes documents in SYSPRO.
TransLution™ Software USA has been working with American Printing House for the Blind (APH) to implement a scanning system that integrated with the organization’s existing SYSPRO system. The project has been implemented in phases, rolling out the software in different sections of the production process. After the successful implementation of Phase One for Purchase Order Receiving and Putaway, APH has now gone live with Phase Two for Production.
After a successful implementation and go live in Johannesaburg, G Fox is now using TransLution across multiple sites including the Vaal Triangle, Cape Town, KZN, Middelburg, PE, Polokwane and Swaziland.
As a proud member of the Bidvest Group, G.Fox is South Africa’s premier supplier of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and industrial consumable supplies. With eight branches, quality products are distributed all over South Africa.
The Middleby Corporation is a world leader in three business segments: commercial cooking, industrial baking and processing and residential appliances.
The Middleby project dealing with parts was implemented a few months after the initial residential project had gone live. This gave users a chance to adjust to one system before starting to learn new processes for a second system.
