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SafeTop® (Pty) Ltd is one of South Africa’s largest suppliers of fasteners and hardware products in the retail market. Their offering includes 4000 products in their 7000m² warehouse space with more than 150 employees to cater to their clients’ needs all over south Africa and abroad.

With a quickly expanding business, SafeTop needed a dynamic warehouse management system that could cope with a changing technological environment while not losing stability or functionality. Their key requirement was to automatically assign picking jobs to different pickers throughout different areas of their warehouse and arrange these as a whole – prioritised by order date – or as a function of the warehouse manager.

Prilla 2000, a 100% cotton spinning mill, has implemented Translution™ Software to automatically update Cotton SA’s Sustainable Cotton Cluster (SCC) programme through iQ™ Logistica on its receiving and use of cotton bales.

Finlar Fine Foods supplies world-class food products to food service and retail markets. Part of the JSE listed Libstar group of companies, they supply all McDonald’s South Africa’s meat and poultry products and deliver value-add products to Woolworths, County Fair & Spur.

Dolomite Franchi, an Italy-based dolomite refractory products manufacturer, chose to implement TransLution™ Software in order to reorganize finished goods receipting and improve sales order fulfillment.

Within the first four weeks of using Translution™ Software, 9000 pallets had been produced and more than 7000 pallets were shipped to happy customers.

G.Fox, a premier supplier of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), cleaning chemicals, paper products, and industrial consumable supplies, has implemented TransLution™ Software to check the organisation’s physical stock against the SYSPRO inventory picture.

In this initial implementation, the G.Fox user scans a barcode which is stored in a custom field in SYSPRO and uses that information to retrieve the Stock Code. TransLution™ then responds by showing the Stock Code on the screen. This code is also found on the item label, allowing the user to alert a supervisor if there is a mismatch. If the inventory item has not been received into SYSPRO, the user is able to see that from the error that is displayed.

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 American Printing House for the Blind (APH) was founded in Louisville to develop and produce educational materials and provide services for people who are blind and visually impaired.

While APH has been running SYSPRO for a number of years, their decision to implement a scanning system was based on the need to increase stock accuracy and update SYSPRO in real time.

WP Timbers, one of the leading suppliers of Pine Products in the Northern Cape, utilises Translution™ to effectively and accurately manage stock.

SAMIL is an innovative South African Company that specialises in the production and processing of natural fibres, as well as speciality spun yarns.

SAMIL operations comprise a factory and two warehouses which are located slightly apart from each other. This distance was one of the deciding factors in SAMIL choosing to implement TransLution™ Software.

Robertson Winery, one of South Africa’s foremost wine farms, also completes contract packaging and bottling.

At Robertson, TransLution™ is used to do job receipts with lots. Robertson prints their own pallet labels and TransLution™ scans these pallets to receipt the item. The lot is put on hold as soon as it is receipted.

Pressure Die Castings, an innovative supplier of brass, aluminium and zinc castings, uses Translution™ to create inventory (gasket and box) labels and to post a first level backflush directly to SYSPRO. Translution™ validates that there is sufficient quantity of the components in the first level of the Bill of Materials before posting.

MONN Carpets, a leading manufacturer of premium-quality carpets, uses TransLution™ as an inventory management tool. Users print stock labels displaying the stock code, description, lot number, receiving order, and a unique barcode.

Upon receiving stock, the labels are applied and scanned to transfer stock into a location. These labels are also scanned to transfer stock from one location to another and when dispatching stock. All stock movements are tracked and logged and the quantities of the stock in the different bin locations are updated.

Jonsson Manufacturing in Lesotho is a revolutionary workwear-focused business, supplying quality, strong and durable garments to the international market.

The implementation of TransLution™ was rolled out in three phases, ensuring that each phase was successful before moving on to the next.

Finlar Fine Foods supplies world standard food products to the food service and retail markets.

Finlar Foods’ Cape Town operation uses Translution to print detailed stock and pallet labels, each with unique barcodes. The stock labels are applied to boxes and scanned to pack a pallet. The user has an option of packing a part or full pallet.