Johannesburg, 09 Jun 2016
BMG has been a customer of KCS SA for the past 10 years. They are a leading supplier of engineering products including bearings, belting, hydraulics, automotive, filtration, fasteners, drives and motors, power transmissions and seals.
By early 2005, the company's legacy systems were reaching the end of their life, and with the onset of systems with graphical user interfaces, BMG issued a Request for Proposal for a replacement system. After extensive evaluation and consideration for the project management, implementation and support, K8 was chosen. The new system, supporting a business handling over 8 000 sales orders per day, went live on 1st August 2005.
BMG currently has over 100 branches, with over 1 000 users. Throughout the years they have been taking advantage of the various service packs and upgrades KCS provides for K8 as part of the BMG annual maintenance contract. They recently implemented K8's manufacturing module. The manufacturing enhancements that KCS made to the K8 system over the years opened the opportunity to implement K8 at their subsidiaries; BMG Hydraulics and OMSA. These two subsidiaries, combined, support more than 140 system users.
BMG Hydraulics has branches in Johannesburg, Capetown, Port Elizabeth, Secunda, Durban, Witbank and Klerksdorp. They supply hydraulic solutions to their customers and have the engineering expertise to assist their customers with design, manufacture and installation of bespoke hydraulic solutions.
OMSA manufactures and supplies filtration and oil and grease lubrication systems and a wide range of industrial valves and process monitoring systems. The company is represented in Durban, Lydenburg, Rustenburg, Posmasburg, Klerksdorp, Richards Bay, Port Elizabeth, Witbank, Phalaborwa, Namibia and Zambia. They offer engineering and manufacturing services backed up by project management for the entire project. They also have a field services division that carries out installations and after sale servicing.
Campbell Fuller, Group IT Manager of Bearing Man Group, commented: "The decision to implement K8 into Hydraulics and OMSA was made to have a common system across all the business units and allows for a central reporting system. It will also add more controls for management and will allow for more accurate information to be available"
Tiaan Grobbelaar, Sales Manager, KCS SA said: "BMG is one of our largest clients and we are proud to have been associated with them for the last 10 years. The sheer volume of transactions that is processed by the BMG ERP system, is a reference to the scaleability and robustness of the K8 software. We at KCS are pleased that BMG is extending the use of the K8 software to other business operations."
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