South African manufacturing and legal conditions are not always completely catered for in international enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Jerome Chalice, strategic solutions director at Armada, the supply chain optimisation company, says the new Armada Toolkit will assist South African BPCS customers.
"We identified a number of uncatered for local requirements. These modules have been developed and fully tested in South Africa and packaged as the Armada Toolkit for BPCS customers."
The modules are for order processing, inventory management, accounts payable and receivable and manufacturing execution on the AS/400 platform. They use plug-in techniques so they do not interfere with the international code.
"When customers apply international upgrades, they will not corrupt the local modules either," says Chalice. "We made sure that the Armada Toolkit and the BPCS software are compatible."
The Armada Toolkit licence includes automatic receipt of future upgrades and support from Armada in South Africa.
"Business markets are changing and we see the Toolkit as giving current and future value with business rules covering local business and legal requirements added to the BPCS
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