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Crown National optimizes growth opportunities with scalable ERP
Customer Profile
A member of the Bidcorp Food Africa group, Crown National manufactures and distributes food ingredients, packaging, equipment and sausage casings to the meat, poultry, dairy and general food industries. The company has 22 sites across South Africa, a self-managed operation in Zambia and agencies in Zimbabwe and Namibia.
The Business Challenge
Crown National is on a journey to increase the digitization of its business. As a long-term SYSPRO client, the company’s management was confident that there was a good system platform in place which needed to be driven in the right direction to accommodate the complexities of the business as well as its plans for expansion.
The Solution
Crown National is running SYSPRO 8, from Financials to Inventory Optimization, Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Inventory Bin Maintenance, Point of Sale (POS) and Lot Traceability.
The Outcome
In the Food & Beverage industry, lot traceability is critical. With the stock management and stock aging capabilities in SYSPRO’s Lot Traceability module as well as its strength as a centralized inventory management system, Crown National is able to feed accurate, up-to-date reporting and inventory management information to people across the organization.
“SYSPRO does everything we want it to do and more. It’s dynamic and has the
scalability required to grow with us as the business expands.”
– Arend Brink, ICT Executive, Crown Food Group.
