Johannesburg, 17 May 2006
Mid-market ERP solutions provider Lorge has won a R1.5 million contract for the installation and implementation of an integrated financial, business and retail software solution for wholesaler Malanseuns Pleasure Plants and the Plantland retail nursery operations in Gauteng.
The contract includes the supply of hardware, a SAP Business One integrated business software platform which will be installed at the Malanseuns headquarters at Rosslyn and into which the locally written and developed point-of-sale software, isoPOS, will be integrated to cater for the sales operations of the seven Plantland retail outlets located in Pretoria and Johannesburg.
Malanseuns grows and propagates a wide range of sub-tropical and indigenous trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants, climbers, groundcovers, conifers and bedding plants on lands at Rosslyn and Bon Accord north of Pretoria. Plants are also exported to Africa, America, Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Far East.
The SAP Business One system is expected to go live at the Malanseuns Rosslyn head office on 1 June and the Plantland centralised back office consolidation system at the same location by 1 July.
IsoPOS software will be installed at the Plantland retail nurseries with dial-up synchronisation to the Rosslyn office for transfer of data, including sales, stock checking and inter-branch transfers. The isoPOS back office facility will also integrate to the SAP Business One back office for data updating and consolidation.
"The solution will provide Malanseuns and Plantland with data to track and control debtors, creditors, production, stock and distribution as well as full point-of-sale functionality for the retail operations through isoPOS," said Eugene Olivier, general manager of Lorge`s SAP Business One business unit.
"Once the entire system is live, the production, wholesale and retail operations will be fully integrated, giving management quick access to current information that will lead to cost-savings through improved efficiency."
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