CASE STUDY: Gaining Real-time Visibility of Production Processes at Ruprecht

Ruprecht, a division of Kilcoy Pastoral Company, is a solutions-driven meat processor and food manufacturer in the USA. Ruprecht produces perishable products for other companies, necessitating the fulfilment of brand requirements of multiple third parties. Clear visibility of the production process and each batch within production is crucial to ensure that goods are manufactured to meet the requirements of Ruprecht’s customers. Because they deal with a large turnover of perishable products, Ruprecht’s focus is on continual improvement in the areas of cost containment and traceability.

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Skillcraft Implements TransLution™ Software for Warehouse & Repairs Management

Skillcraft Agencies is a leading South African wholesale supplier and distributor of industrial-quality tools, accessories, and equipment. As the company experienced growth, it faced increasing challenges in managing its warehouse operations efficiently and keeping accurate track of stock. The result was that staff had very little confidence in the data on their existing systems.

In order to improve the stock accuracy and streamline processes, Skillcraft decided to implement TransLution WMS.

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CASE STUDY: Improving Repairs Management for ACS

Altron is a leading global telecommunications company, providing a range of communication and electronic services and products. One of Atron’s primary divisions, Altech Card Solutions (ACS), manages the maintenance and repair of bank credit card payment terminals, with an average of 6000 repairs completed every month.

The multiple parts and labour involved in the repairs process presented a unique challenge for ACS, specifically when creating and quoting on jobs and managing stock of parts for repairs. For this reason, TransLution was employed to implement an automation solution to assist in managing the entire repairs process.

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

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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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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CASE STUDY: Improving Productivity, stock accuracy and efficiency for TrafFix Devices, Inc.

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. On evaluation, TransLution™ Software ticked all the boxes – a comprehensive, configurable solution using barcode scanning and RF functionality from the point of receipt through to put away, transfers, manufacturing, order processing, pick and pack and dispatch with speed and accuracy.

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CASE STUDY: Spare parts management with Middleby Corporation

Middleby Corporation Uses TransLution™ Software to Manage Spare Parts for Appliances: The Middleby Corporation is a world leader in three business segments: commercial cooking, industrial baking and processing, and residential appliances. After the successful roll-out of TransLution™ Software in the Residential Appliances segment of the business, Middleby elected to implement TransLution™ to manage the spare parts for these appliances. The Middleby parts department ships approximately 250 sales orders per day, in a warehouse with about 20 000 bins containing 15 000 parts – each with a unique item code. With so many codes and such a large warehouse to manage, the goal of the project was to not only track items, but also to optimize labor usage among warehouse staff. TransLution™ was the ideal system for the project.

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CASE STUDY: Scanning and Tracking Proof of Delivery Documents at Academy Brushware

Academy Brushware worked with TransLution South  Africa to implement a system for scanning and tracking proof of delivery documents in SYSPRO

TransLution works with companies from many different industries to automate and improve a variety of warehousing and manufacturing processes. Academy Brushware, a large South African manufacturer and distributor of painting hardware and brooms, has previously implemented TransLution™ Software barcode scanning and automation across many parts of their warehouse, including stock take, checking and scanning to cages. One of their newer and unique requirements for their TransLution™ System was the ability to scan and track their proof of delivery documents within SYSPRO.

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LABOR TRACKING CASE STUDY: Airborne Systems

Airborne Systems is the world’s most trusted resource for parachute design and manufacturing. With the expertise of highly skilled engineers, craftsmen and aerospace and defense professionals, they have a foundation of nearly 100 years of designing, developing and fabricating a diverse range of products for the U.S. Department of Defense (Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines and Coast Guard) and their international allies. Due to the nature of their business it is critical that Airborne effectively track labor throughout their manufacturing process. However, they were using manual time and job cards that were then manually captured in spreadsheets by back-office staff. The process was inefficient, slow, and cumbersome and resulted in dated information available in their SYSPRO ERP software. It became clear to Airborne that this system needed to be improved.

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PRODUCTION PROCESSES CASE STUDY: St Leger & Viney

St Leger & Viney is the leading distributor of decorative fabrics and wall-coverings to South Africa’s design industry professionals. The large quantities of fabric stock moving through the warehouse requires accurate receiving, dye batch management, tracking and distribution. TransLution™ Software was deployed to address the challenges faced by St Leger & Viney in their production processes.

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STOCK MANAGEMENT CASE STUDY: Melco Conveyor Equipment

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.

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SALES ORDER CHECKING CASE STUDY: Splashworks

Splashworks, a leader in the wholesale distribution of plumbing and sanitary-ware in South Africa, is faced with the daily challenge of traceability within their product distribution. The ability to track multiple items against purchase orders ensures that distribution is accurate and efficient. For this reason, Splashworks employed TransLution™ Software to advance the checking process and ultimately improve traceability in the distribution process.

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SALES ORDER CHECKING CASE STUDY: Tevo

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.

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MANUFACTURING CASE STUDY: Foodcorp | Speciality Foods

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.

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DOCUMENT TRACKING CASE STUDY: Melco

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.

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Wilec: Warehousing Case Study

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™

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Mopani Copper Mine: Mining

TransLution™ Africa was tasked to deploy our manufacturing and warehouse information gathering software, TransLution™, to assist mining managers to accurately report back on all mining operations in real time, at all times and continue to produce quality materials, on time.

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IB McIntyre: MANUFACTURING

At IB McIntyre innovation is a process that involves thinking about their business every day and looking for opportunities to improve. Jonathan Dawson, Commercial Director, says “In today’s world a business must be like a chameleon constantly adapting to changes in the environment.”

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YIELD MANAGEMENT CASE STUDY: Food & Beverage

This company manufactures food products on behalf of a leading South African retailer. The products range from
packaged snacks such as muffins and sandwiches through to pre-prepared meals for home consumption. Products of this type have a particularly short shelf life measured in terms of a few days rather than weeks or months.

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