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Finlar Fine Foods (A division of Libstar) supplies world-standard food products to the food service and retail markets, specialising in meat and chicken products. Finlar Johannesburg has significantly extended their existing TransLution™ Software implementation to cover the complete business process, from receiving through production and dispatch.

Vibramech is South Africa’s largest manufacturer of vibrating mineral processing equipment. TransLution™ Software was selected and implemented at Vibramech to cover a large portion of the business process.

The implementation begins at receiving where inbound stock is labelled and purchase orders are received with the data posted to SYSPRO to create a GRN.

As part of a continuing drive to improve customer service for the Sub-Saharan African Market, Safequip worked with RSA Soft to implement TransLution™ Software, aiming to streamline the process in which customers sign invoices when receiving goods. TransLution™ is used for both delivery and collection.

Montagu Foods, a Libstar group company, utilizes TransLution™ across a range of functions in the organization. Now they have extended their TransLution implementation to include labor tracking. Each user logs both productive and non-productive time against a work centre and job. All job logging at Montagu is done using Android tablets.

Montagu Foods, a Libstar group company, produces and markets a wide range of wet condiments, including chutney, sweet-chilli sauce and salad dressing, under private label for all major retailers.

Jonsson Workwear is a leading manufacturer of workwear for the South African market. After successfully implementing TransLution™ Software at the manufacturing site in Lesotho, Jonsson has now extended the use of TransLution™ to its Northfields site near Durban. The Northfields site deals with both Fabric and Trims.

As part of a continuing drive to improve efficiency and fast-track growth, Eurolab chose TransLution Software to implement a scanning solution that allows Eurolab to automate the Purchase Order (PO) Receiving process. This system is designed to assist users in tracking stock while enforcing consistent and reliable warehouse practices.

Cecil Vinegar has been manufacturing naturally fermented vinegar since 1936.  All their vinegars are produced from natural ingredients using the latest submerge fermentation technology.

Cecil Vinegar is part of the Libstar Group and is one of the many group companies using TransLution™ Software.

The Middleby Corporation is a world leader in three business segments: commercial cooking, industrial baking and processing and residential appliances. Middleby Corporation has long used TransLution™ Software, integrated with SYSPRO, for supply chain logistics, and has recently expanded TransLution™ to manage returns from customers.

SPG International is the world’s leading manufacturer of storage systems, producing products in steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and wire. SPG recently faced the challenge of upgrading to SYSPRO 8 ERP software, and with the upgrade decided to replace an outdated barcode scanning system that no longer met their needs.

SPG turned to TransLution™ Software as a platform for automating and streamlining data collection in the warehouse and on the shop floor.

The Middleby Corporation is a world leader in three business segments: commercial cooking, industrial baking and processing and residential appliances. Middleby Corporation has long used TransLution™ Software, integrated with SYSPRO, for supply chain logistics, and has recently expanded TransLution™ to manage EDI communications for sales order shipments.

Cecil Vinegar has been manufacturing naturally fermented vinegar since 1936.  All their vinegars are produced from natural ingredients using the latest submerge fermentation technology.

Cecil Vinegar is part of the Libstar Group and is one of the many group companies using TransLution™ Software.

Berry | Astrapak, a specialised manufacturer of an extensive range of rigid moulded, and thermoformed plastic packaging products serving the African market, is using TransLution at eight of their sites across South Africa. Plastform, the division providing the market with a wide range of thermoformed and moulded packaging, is the latest site to go live with TransLution™.

During this project, TransLution was implemented at Plastform to facilitate the movement and management of stock. The goal was to implement a scanning solution which would assist users to track stock while enforcing consistent and reliable warehouse practices.

After a thorough preparation with TransLution™ Software, SMILE Plastics has achieved their goal and successfully migrated to new servers with Exact Globe and WMS.

Artemis Brands, Africa’s leading baby brand distributor, selected TransLution Software to assist them across their entire warehouse process.

Artemis uses a two-stage receiving process in which one user scans items to be received and another reviews this data before posting to SYSPRO to create a Goods Received Note.

Astrapak JJ Precision is the fifth Astrapak site to go live using TransLution. JJ Precision’s manufacturing operation produces moulds for the food and beverage, personal care, petrochemical and industrial/ automotive sectors.

At this site, TransLution is used to print Job labels and to scan items for job receipt purposes. All job receipts are posted to SYSPRO and once boxes have been receipted, they can be packed onto a pallet as part of a pallet building process. There are also scanning functions to post raw material issues to jobs.

Rialto Foods, one of South Africa’s largest food importers, utilises TransLution™ across a number of sites around South Africa. Rialto owns their two main distribution centres in Cape Town and Johannesburg; however, they use third party logistics warehouses to store and manage their stock in all other locations. This requires careful stock tracking which is facilitated by TransLution Software.

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).

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.