Driveshafts Centre upgrades SYSPRO system with EOH`s Impact Africa

Issued by EOH
Johannesburg, 20 Jan 2006

Driveshafts Centre, a leading fitter and supplier of constant velocity joints in South Africa and user of SYSPRO enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, has recently partnered with EOH business unit, Impact Africa, to upgrade to the latest version of SYSPRO V6 Issue 009.

As opposed to each branch performing its own administration staff, the upgrade has resulted in the use of terminal services centralised to the Cape Town head office.

Founded by Gary Leach in 1984, the company started off as a warehouse in Parrow. Today Driveshafts Centre has branches in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria, with seven franchises in various parts of the country. As a supplier of assembled driveshafts to the company, both Driveshafts Manufacturing factory and Driveshafts Centre are SABS accredited with the ISO 9001 status. They are also the only companies in its field to have acquired this prestigious award.

"Upgrading to SYSPRO V6 Issue 009 has made the world of difference to the business. Problems are more easily resolved due to accessible real-time information within SYSPRO, enabling management to make better informed strategic decisions," says Beverley Drape, financial manager at Driveshafts Centre. "Improved controls are also in place for more proficient staff management and navigation of the system is simplistic."

"We found Impact Africa`s service to be excellent and the team took us through a very smooth and seamless upgrade. We also experienced very little downtime countrywide during the upgrade transition," says Draper.

Realising that businesses cannot run efficiently without a real-time ERP software solution in place, Draper believes that by partnering Driveshafts Centre with Impact Africa and the SYSPRO ERP system, management of business processes, clients and staff is much more effective.

EOH

EOH is a business and technology solutions provider creating lifelong partnerships by developing business and IT strategies, supplying and implementing solutions and managing enterprise-wide business systems and processes for medium to large clients. EOH operates in the following three clusters of business units as a fully integrated business:

Consulting - Concentrated under the EOH Consulting brand are business units offering services ranging from strategic and business process consulting, project services, change management, supply chain optimisation and education. The EOH Consulting business unit is responsible for delivering IT solutions that make business sense. We focus on providing remarkable technology solutions using robust methodologies to perform along the following four dimensions of IT excellence:

* Business-alignment
* Quality
* Risk management
* Cost management

Technology - Through a number of subsidiary companies, EOH is able to sell, implement, and support a range of world class business applications including enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence, advanced planning and scheduling, e-commerce and manufacturing execution systems (MES).

Outsourcing - EOH offers comprehensive maintenance and support of client`s IT infrastructure and applications through the rendering of full IT outsourcing, application hosting and managed services. In addition EOH offers full business process outsourcing (BPO) services.

EOH has a presence in all major centres in South Africa and Botswana, and operates in the rest of Africa.

Impact Africa

Impact Africa is the company within the EOH KPMG Consulting Group listed organisation that sells, implements and supports the SYSPRO 6 and e.net solutions products from SYSPRO.

Impact Africa is a software solutions integration company with a focus on building best of breed IT solutions incorporating the SYSPRO 6 Enterprise Resource Planning system. Impact Africa services and supports over 800 clients nationally.

For more information, call (011) 607 8100 or visit www.eoh.co.za.