Thermopacking a smart solution with Preactor and SYSPRO

Chris Mollison, the CEO of Scheduling Solutions, the Network Partner for Preactor in Sub-Saharan Africa, says It is satisfying to see Thermopac further improve their customer service levels and inter-organizational communications via the use of Preactor.

Thermopac, a member of the Rigids Division of the Astrapak Group of companies, based in Cape Town, South Africa, specializes in thermoformed plastic packaging. Thermopac operates 24/7 and has over 700 products in the market.
Thermopac’s peak season occurs at the end of each year and this requires that Thermopac management carefully manage the allocation of capacity and delivery of customer orders against promised dates.

Putting Planning to Bed with Preactor

Steinhoff Bedding, a division within the Steinhoff group of companies, is the leading manufacturer of beds in South Africa, producing numerous brands either owned by the group or manufactured under license. The Steinhoff Bedding division grew out of a number of acquisitions by the Steinhoff Group, and soon found itself with four factories, each with its own management structure. Localized functions included order entry, customer liaison, and production scheduling.

Plastform and Preactor combine Capacity Planning and Detailed Scheduling to become leaner and increase customer service

Plastform, a member of the Rigids Division of the Astrapak Group, based in Cape Town South Africa are the leading producer of rigid thermoformed packaging for the dairy, fresh and fast-food markets in Southern Africa. Formed products are sold in both printed and unprinted form.

Preactor engineers Cool solution to Foundry’s Hot Scheduling Problem

With 25,000 different items registered in their SYSPRO system, seven operations defined per item on average, 2500 live customer orders at any point and a backlog in excess of six months on some processes MIS Engineering recognised that they needed a better way of scheduling their business. In particular they needed a more accurate way of promising realistic delivery dates to customers.

Grotto Welds Preactor with SYSPRO to Provide a More Promising Future

Grotto (Pty) Ltd., manufacturer of stainless steel tanks to order and a major supplier to the South African wine, beer, dairy and chemical industries, wanted to improve their customer delivery promising capability.They needed to know if they took another order when they would be able to deliver it! The ability to make accurate promises was becoming critical to their business.

Sharpening Delivery Promises at Grinding Techniques

Grinding Techniques is a leading manufacturer of a wide range of Abrasive products, situated near Johannesburg in South Africa. Grinding Techniques manufactures products for their own brand and under contract for other suppliers. Their products are sold in South Africa and exported around the world.