Dickon Hall Foods, a division of Libstar, manufactures a range of culinary products including sauces, marinades, spreads, jams and dressings. They produce goods for some of South Africa’s major food brands including Unilever, Nandos, Nestle, Tiger Brands and McDonalds.
Yamaha South Africa offers a huge range of products from motorcycles to audio equipment.
Afrisoft was approached to implement a pilot project in Yamaha’s Audio division in Johannesburg, implementing scanners with TransLution™ Software to two areas: Landed Cost Tracking for receipt of imported goods and Sales Order checking to check items that are picked against customer orders.
Coleus Packaging (Pty) Ltd is the largest and most dominant crown supplier of metal bottle closures (crowns) for the brewing and bottling industries in Africa, producing over 6 billion crowns a year and supplying to over 10 countries.
With this large scale production Coleus required the ability to track the steel used in manufacturing, and they turned to Afrisoft Africa for a solution.
Established in1987, Botswana Railways (BR) forms a crucial link in the Southern African regional railway systems. Its strategically laid rail network, supported by good relationships with other rail operators, makes Botswana Railways freight services the most suitable, reliable and cost effective mode of transport to use for moving bulk commodities. Botswana Railways Freight Service targets bulk commodities that may be operational challenging for transport by other modes of transport.
Silverton Engineering is one of the largest heat exchange manufacturer in South Africa, producing radiators, power transformer oil coolers, transmission oil coolers, and mining and agriculture products.
Burcap Plastics specialises in innovative rigid plastic packaging that is typically injection moulded and decorated by quality In-Mould labelling. They produce both plain and decorated products, in several size ranges, for various industries including paint, chemical, medical waste, food and edible oil.
PFK, based in Pietermaritzburg, is a leading electronics company focussed on the design and manufacture of innovative electronics solutions. Driven by a culture of innovation, the company is supported by a strong research and development capability and state-of-the-art production facility.
The Empire group of companies, established in 2005, is one of the largest and most diverse edible nut and dried fruit businesses in South Africa.
Empire has worked with Afrisoft Africa to complete a project using TransLution™ Software to label received stock with barcodes. As items are moved to production, they are scanned and a live warehouse transfer is posted directly to SYSPRO.
Uniplate South Africa, one of the largest number plate companies in Africa, is recognised as an industry leader in the design, development, manufacture and servicing of hydraulic number plate presses, manual embossing equipment, embossing toolsets, hot foil stamping, and roller coating machines.
Uniplate has worked with Afrisoft Africa to implement a TransLution™ Software system at their factory in Pretoria. TransLution™ Software is used from the job receiving process at the end of manufacturing through to picking and invoicing sales orders.
Premier provides innovative, branded and private label solutions to customers and consumers in the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector. Premier Milling has 5 wheat mills and 2 maize mills located in South Africa and Swaziland, ensuring optimal supply with a total capacity of 800 000 tons of wheat and 600 000 tons of maize per annum.
Scientific Engineering (Pty) Ltd is the leading manufacturer of laboratory equipment in Southern Africa. Manufacturing techniques developed over 40 years in the industry have put Scientific Engineering at the forefront of quality and reliability.
Scientific Engineering recently employed Afrisoft Africa to implement TransLution™ Software into their manufacturing processes. The system is used by stores to issue materials, record shortages and create accurate, real-time reporting for the factory floor.
Revive Electrical Transformers (Pty) Ltd is one of the largest manufactures of distribution transformers in Africa, with customers such as Eskom and Botswana Power Computation.
Revive selected Afrisoft Africa to implement TransLution™ Software to assist them with their business processes. As phase one of the project, Afrisoft has used TransLution™ to automate and improve both the GRV Receiving and Warehouse transfers for Pastel.
Lancewood recently selected Afrisoft Africa to implement TransLution™ Software, aiming to improve a number of processes across its manufacturing plant in George, including the Dry Store process and the Hard Cheese manufacturing process.
The Rhodes Food Group’s Fresh Foods division in Groot Drankenstein, Western Cape, produces a range of fresh and frozen meals which are supplied to retails and franchise restaurants.
Rhodes uses TransLution™ to keep track of their production as it happens. Jobs related to products and movement of products in the factory are captured in “real time”, ensuring the values appearing on the ERP software coincide with the physical numbers of the products in the factory.
CMC Design & Manufacturers cc manufactures casings and other equipment for transformers. The products are then shipped to partners who utilise the elements in their own manufacturing and production.
CMC has implemented TransLution Software to assist in the labelling of manufactured products, and dispatching these products to their business partners.
Prilla is Southern Africa’s largest independent spinning mill, with a monthly production of approximately a 1000 tons in its Pietermaritzburg operations. The company, founded in 1950, is known for its quality yarns, produced from cotton sourced mainly from Southern Africa.
At the beginning of Prilla’s production process, labels are printed for each cone on a job. The user enters the data required and labels are printed and stuck on the inside of each cone.
Barnes Fencing Industries is a South African manufacturer and supplier of all types of galvanised wire fencing products.
Barnes Fencing Industries has recently installed and gone live with TransLution™ Software to assist them with various aspects of their business. The first phase of the project aimed to improve raw material receiving and management of various production processes, including wire drawing and galvanising.
M-Tec Industrial (Pty) Ltd is a multi-disciplinary consulting engineering company, with expertise in the field of energy systems, both on the supply-side and the demand-side. M-Tech specialises in heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), integrated system analyses and optimization applied to the design, construction and commissioning of energy systems.
FHS (Filter and Hose Solutions) is the official filtration distributor for Donaldson, Filtrec, and ASAS, as well as the official industrial hose distributor for Malcorp and Plexaco. The FHS exhaust manufacturing facility also produces customised systems for the local and international Automotive industry.
FHS has chosen to integrate TransLution™ and Pastel to improve speed and accuracy in various business processes.
Bosworth, a specialist in the manufacture of conveyor pulleys and forgings, has selected TransLution™ to assist in the manufacturing process. The first phase of the implementation – the introduction of scanning and labelling into the Bosworth manufacturing process – has been successfully completed. The second phase will post data into both Sage Pastel and Bosworth’s own Production Planning System in real-time. This two-phase approach will allow users to become familiar with the scanning processes before integrating it into their business systems.
