NamITech, the secure IT solutions division of the JSE-listed Nampak group, has completed the first phase of an upgrade project designed to transform the company into a globally competitive e-business enterprise.
NamITech, comprising a number of IT solutions companies, provides a full range of secure solutions, from prepaid vouchers for fixed and mobile telecommunications and other services, security printing and magstripe card solutions, through to sophisticated smart card-based services and solutions.
Its focus is on providing clients with a single, seamless interface, through which they can migrate up the NamITech value chain as their needs develop.
According to Chris Steyn, MD of NamITech, the project is designed to facilitate the expected growth in NamITech business - via acquisitions and organic growth - and fully optimise supply chain collaboration to enable exceptional customer focus and service on a global basis.
"Central to the project is the purchase of an e-business platform from Oracle South Africa - the Oracle eBusiness Suite," he says.
"This will give NamITech the additional infrastructure through which we will deliver on our strategic objectives," he says. "These include a reduction in costs and an improvement in efficiencies through the introduction of online financial and discrete manufacturing solutions as well as sales, sales forecasting and customer relationship management initiatives."
The project, undertaken by Oracle SA in partnership with Deloitte & Touche (Deloitte Consulting), will be completed by April next year. Deloitte & Touche, one of the leaders in professional financial services, is responsible for implementing Oracle`s software at NamITech.
In the first phase of the project, NamITech has purchased Oracle eBusiness Suite R11i applications, Oracle 8i database and data warehouse, Oracle Warehouse Builder and Oracle 9iAS (Application Server), including Oracle Portal, and Internet Developer Suite.
The eBusiness Suite applications comprise financials, purchasing, order management, advanced planning and scheduling with constraint-based optimisation, discrete manufacturing, sales online, mobile sales, financial intelligence, sales intelligence, operational intelligence and Oracle Tutor modules.
Pieter Bouwer, account manager at Oracle SA, says NamITech aims to run its entire business on Oracle eBusiness Suite in order to do supply chain collaboration with major customers and suppliers, and have a centralised data centre in South Africa - with multiple plants accessing information via a single sign-on Oracle smart card, using biometric verification.
In addition, Oracle will be integrated to a Manufacturing Execution System to enable NamITech to track information throughout the supply chain.
"NamITech will be the first company in SA to use Oracle`s advanced planning and scheduling system with the capability to do constraint-based optimisation," adds Bouwer.
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