Apex, One Channel to impact warehousing in Africa

Johannesburg, 23 Feb 2015

Apex Real Time Solutions, a local warehousing management solutions provider, has partnered with One Channel, Africa's fastest-growing ERP service provider. Apex specialises in implementing a range of warehouse management system (WMS) solutions that take distribution to the next level.

As the leading WMS experts, Apex offers solutions that provide key business information needed to make informed management decisions. It focuses exclusively on supplying consultancy, business process improvement and warehouse management system implementations to companies who manage stock through warehouse and distribution centres.

Apex CEO, Alan Richard, believes the One Channel model is ideally positioned to assist in providing Apex with the marketing expertise and reach that well help them reach new customers and provide a greater impact on businesses throughout Africa.

"We also believe the business approach of One Channel is directly aligned with ours, which is to provide solutions to our customers that raise their standards and provide them with significant advantages in what can be a very competitive world," he explains.

One Channel CEO, Bernard Ford, says Apex does not push any single software solution, but rather helps companies in the correct selection and deployment of a WMS. "With clients like Vodacom, Cell C, Ram Couriers, Bic and Spar, what more can one say. Apex helps our clients improve their warehousing systems and processes so that they can become truly world-class."

He says the traditional service provider model forces customers to make a choice of only one vendor and in the process, they often compromise skills as suppliers cannot be masters of all the disciplines surrounding modern business software and systems. "One Channel only uses qualified experts when implementing systems. It manages the implementation of any new component and ensures that customers get what they paid for."

"In order to provide you with the best possible solution we have selected partners who provide a range of high quality systems that allow us to offer you the solution that meets your precise business needs. Our partner's solutions can accommodate in both price and complexity every conceivable warehousing requirement from small manual warehouses to some of the largest and most complex facilities in the world," Richard adds.

Apex takes the risk out of the project by committing to fixed price implementations, allowing customers to budget and plan with confidence.

"We can do this because our team has years of experience in implementing warehouse and IT solutions for a wide range of customers and industries," he concludes.

For more information contact One Channel at info@onechannel.com or visit www.onechannel.co.za.

One Channel (www.expertecherp.com)

One Channel, a division of Expertech ERP, understands the need for customers to realise the best return on investment from their ERP and line-of-business systems. It also knows that the cost and disruption of changing entire systems is sometimes not worth the benefit.

Its core principals and philosophies are simple, it believes customers are for life. More importantly, One Channel maintains that if a component of one's system is not broken, don't fix it. It always considers the deployment of best-of-breed, integrated components before considering the replacement of an entire system.

One Channel only uses qualified experts when implementing systems. It manages the implementation of any new component and ensures that customers get what they paid for.

The traditional service provider model forces customers to make a choice of only one vendor and in the process, they often compromise skills as suppliers cannot be masters of all the disciplines surrounding modern business software and systems.

One Channel is an association of industry experts, software reseller solution providers and Independent Software Vendor (ISV) developers and consultants. The company operates across the African continent and assembles resources on a project requirement basis, offering end-users the best technology and people available.

One Channel implements everything from core accounting, CRM, warehouse management and automation, mobile data collection, business intelligence, enterprise budgeting, e-commerce and content management, construction software, loan management systems and electronic document management solutions.

The company is completely unbiased and independent and supports numerous master vendors such as Sage, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP and Syspro as well as many hardware and mobile platforms. Its clients include hundreds of small, medium and large corporations as well as government, NGOs and large multinational organisations.

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