Impact Africa chosen as a preferred solution supplier by Cape Town Iron & Steel Works

Issued by Watt Communications & G Watt Design for EOH
Johannesburg, 14 Nov 2006

Cape Town Iron & Steel Works (Pty) Ltd (CISCO), a wholly owned subsidiary of Murray & Roberts, recently chose SYSPRO ERP software, locally distributed by Impact Africa, an EOH company, as its preferred enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution supplier.

Currently in the process of rolling the system out into all of its branches, John Tennent, financial executive for CISCO, says: "With the implementation of SYSPRO, we are able to benefit from meaningful operational reports that assist with managing the business more effectively. From a financial perspective, we are able to produce monthly management accounts within eight days, which is quicker than our previous system."

Tennent also commented that since the integration between Translution and the SYSPRO Sales Orders module, any incorrect loading at the dispatch stage has been eliminated. "Previously, stock counts were being done daily, but since the implementation of SYSPRO and the effect of bar-coding, goods are scanned immediately out of stock which has resulted in our levels being accurate and in real-time."

After a successful trial implementation, the partnership was 'set in steel' as CISCO signed a long-term managed services contract with Impact Africa, making the company its official ERP supplier.

Impact Africa

Impact Africa is the Syspro division within EOH. It sells implements and supports the SYSPRO 6 and e.net solutions products.

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.

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

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 services.

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

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