Glass manufacturer PG Group has awarded a R100 million IT contract to Faritec Holdings and ERP.com Holdings subsidiary IServe.
The five-year contract involves the implementation and support of SAP products across the group.
The two companies are essentially working as a partnership. Faritec marketing manager Tara-Anne Yates explains that IServe has certain skills and Faritec has other skills.
"So in some aspects they are the main contractor and we are the subcontractor, and in others we are the main contractor and they are the subcontractor."
The partners will manage the PG Group`s entire IT infrastructure in more than 160 locations across SA, Namibia, Mozambique and Zambia.
They will also implement and support mySAP ERP for the group`s South African factories, head office and distribution centres, and SAP Business One for its dispersed distribution and retailing environments.
In addition to operating and managing PG Group`s servers, storage, network, help-desk, PCs and security, the partnership will also be responsible for the group`s core business applications including SAP, point of sale systems and Microsoft Exchange and SAP support.
At the moment, PG Group runs on disparate systems including SAP, Baan, AS400 and Delphi. The new implementation is expected to be completed by October next year.
"We expect this contract, through a process of consolidation and transformation, to enable us to reduce our ongoing IT costs by almost 30%, and ultimately improve our overall financial performance," says Malcolm Carew, PG Group finance director.
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