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SA govt exec scoops top Oracle award

Admire Moyo
By Admire Moyo, ITWeb's news editor.
San Francisco, 22 Sept 2016
I feel proud to be associated with government, says Johan Koegelenberg, director of Government Motor Transport.
I feel proud to be associated with government, says Johan Koegelenberg, director of Government Motor Transport.

Director of the Western Cape's Government Motor Transport Johan Koegelenberg has scooped a prestigious award during ongoing Oracle Open World 2016 conference in San Francisco.

Koegelenberg walked away with the 2016 Oracle Leadership in Finance Award for Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

The Leadership in Finance Award is part of the Oracle Excellence Awards, honouring outstanding executives using technology to deliver competitive advantages for their organisations.

Oracle was impressed by the leadership Koegelenberg showed in modernising the finance function at Government Motor Transport, deploying Oracle solutions to redesign and streamline key business processes in finance, procurement, lease management and asset management.

"I was quite surprised when I learned about the nomination," he told ITWeb on the sidelines of the conference.

He said he was nominated by contractors that he works with, following Government Motor Transport's implementation of a financial system. "We were confronted with a situation where we were working on a cash-based system just like the majority of government departments. We had to change from the cash-based system that government was using to a call accounting system and we decided to use the Oracle E-business Suit. We went live with it on 1 April 2011."

Since then, Koegelenberg said Government Motor Transport obtained clean audits from the Auditor-General.

He said Government Motor Transport is an organisation established in the early 50s then known as the Government Garage.

Government Motor Transport provides government motor transport services to provincial and national client departments.

The entity's strategic objectives are to provide a vehicle fleet; an effectively utilised vehicle fleet; an excellent client satisfaction rating; an unqualified external audit opinion annually; an improved financial management capability; an improved operational capability; and an effective fleet management system.

He noted that they are managing a fleet of about 5 500 vehicles with maintenance, tracking and fuel.

"It's still a dream to me that, as a government department, I have managed to compete with the private sector," he noted. "I felt proud to be associated with government. I must also say this was not achieved by me only - there is a team I work with and I only happen to be the leader. I am an innovator and I have a team that gets the job done."

Using Oracle technology, Koegelenberg said Government Motor Transport has a database on all its transactions since 1996.

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