NutriLida Healthcare, a Gauteng-based supplier of over-the-counter nutritional supplements and other healthcare products to pharmacies and wholesalers, has implemented SAP Business One to better manage the company's rapid growth.
"South Africans are becoming progressively more health-conscious, triggering an ever-increasing demand for quality healthcare products, as a result we've been growing very quickly year-on-year," says NutriLida Healthcare financial manager, Heilke van Loon. "Our original financial management systems weren't coping with the extra demands we were making on them and so we looked around for an application that would grow effortlessly with us.
"Specifically, we wanted an integrated system that would help us manage the huge volumes of the more than 40 products moving in and out of our warehouse on a daily basis and automatically tie all of that activity back to our financials.
"We examined a number of different options and SAP Business One came out on top because of its inherent flexibility."
NutriLida has extended SAP Business One to its sales branches in Durban and Cape Town, providing all 30 of NutriLida's office-based employees with operational information relevant to the effective execution of their jobs. The company has 10 concurrent SAP Business One licences.
"The solution has made us more efficient by giving us real-time information into the status of our warehousing and distribution activities," van Loon says. "That gives us better control over inventory as well as the cost of sales. And we're better able to track the sales pipeline.
"From a financials point of view, I use it on a minute-by-minute basis. It enables me to see at a glance how the business is doing."
Paul Marketos, a director of Bluekey, NutriLida's implementation partner, says SAP Business One is an ideal tool in a logistics environment because of its ability to handle high volumes of information about thousands of individual items - all the way down to bills of materials.
"There's a built-in audit trail for every single transaction you enter into, so you can drill down from your invoice to your customer all the way through to orders you placed on a supplier - giving you much tighter control over your supply chain.
"It also massively reduces the resources you need to manage the supply chain as well as your administration of both sales and purchases.
"In other words, SAP Business One helps you do much more with much less - which is the kind of tool smaller businesses in particular really need."
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