Astrapak JJ Precision uses TransLution Software to Print Job Labels and Scan Items for Job Receipts

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.

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Rialto Foods Tracks Warehouse Stock with TransLution™ Software

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.

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Praga Technical Creates Advanced Shipping Notices with 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).

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Showerline implements TransLution™ Software to assist with production tracking

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.

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Real-Time Labor Tracking with TransLution™ Software and SYSPRO

TransLution is excited to announce the official release of our new Visualization Tool. Designed to present the extensive operational data that is already captured by TransLution™, the Visualization tool provides configurable charts and graphs that can be used to analyze and improve business processes.

Made easily available from within the TransLution™ interface, these visual tools allow managers to analyze data in real time, and quickly and effectively adapt workflows and processes to address issues.

The nature of the deep level of information tracked and stored by Translution™ means that the Visualization tool can be used to monitor key performance indicators across almost any area of operations.

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Tulisa Cables uses TransLution™ Software to allow technicians to update SYSPRO

Tulisa Cables manufactures cable accessories, extrusions – plastic & PVC, and wire products is using jobs in SYSPRO to manage plant maintenance. The requirement was for a simple way for the maintenance team to interact with these SYSPRO jobs and TransLution™ Software was elected as the ideal tool to deliver the end-user simplicity they required, along with enforcing all the necessary validations in the process.

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TrafFix Devices utilises TransLution™ Software to streamline productivity and improve efficiency

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.

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Optimizing your dispatch processes using TransLution™ Software

TransLution is excited to announce the official release of our new Visualization Tool. Designed to present the extensive operational data that is already captured by TransLution™, the Visualization tool provides configurable charts and graphs that can be used to analyze and improve business processes.

Made easily available from within the TransLution™ interface, these visual tools allow managers to analyze data in real time, and quickly and effectively adapt workflows and processes to address issues.

The nature of the deep level of information tracked and stored by Translution™ means that the Visualization tool can be used to monitor key performance indicators across almost any area of operations.

Visualization Samples
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TOWER utilises TransLution™ to assist with stock management and production tracking processes

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.

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WHATS NEW IN TRANSLUTION V570

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.

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Montagu Foods uses TransLution™ to trace stock through jobs

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.

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Inventory Cycle Counts: How they can improve your stock management

Can inventory cycle counts completely replace stock-take in an organization?

Any manufacturer, distributor or warehouse manager is familiar with the concept of physical stock-take. While essential to maintaining inventory accuracy, it can be a disruptive process that causes down-time for business and leaves a lot of room for inaccuracy.

Inventory cycle counts, on the other hand, can complement or replace an annual stock-take exercise while improving day-to-day stock management and accuracy. Any strategy for verification of physical stock must include considerations for internal accounting and audit requirements.

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Amaro Foods uses TransLution™ to improve SYSPRO job control

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.

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Lancewood Swellendam implements TransLution Software to manage warehouse operations

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.

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What’s New in TransLution V5.6 – Release Date 18 Mar 2020

TransLution Version 5.6 has a large focus on extending the Android functionality to be closer to the current EazyTouch functionality. With that goal in mind, Android was extended to support the two Quality Manager overlays and also to support the ability to call a Subroutine from both a General Grid and a TL Selector grid.

Additional changes include the ability to setup the permissions for EazyQuery using EazySetup and also some enhancements to the way data is logged after doing a post to Syspro.

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Lancewood Sonnendal implements TransLution Software to manage warehouse operations

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.

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