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Upat SA Streamlines Data Updating Process with Flowgear

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries	Buildings Cement
Applicable Functions	Sales & Marketing Warehouse & Inventory Management
Use Cases	Building Automation & Control Intelligent Packaging
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Upat South Africa, a leading distributor of international building and allied construction brands, was facing a significant challenge in updating imported goods data into their SYSPRO ERP system. The company imports thousands of fixing and fixture products for the building industry, requiring a robust system for tracking the whereabouts and costs of these imported products. While Upat SA had developed such a system, they needed to integrate this data into their SYSPRO ERP system for sales and accounting purposes. The existing update process was manual and time-consuming, often taking over a week. It involved gathering data from consignments, including actual stock items and counts, and costs allocated against suppliers and other agents, and then inputting this data into SYSPRO. Read More
About Customer	Upat South Africa is a leading distributor of international building and allied construction brands. The company imports thousands of fixing and fixture products for the building industry, necessitating a robust system for tracking the whereabouts and costs of these imported products. In their sales environment, the quicker a product is available on their SYSPRO ERP system, the quicker it can be sold. Therefore, the efficiency of their data updating process is crucial to their operations. Upat SA is continually looking for ways to improve their processes and leverage technology to enhance their business operations. Read More
Solution	Upat SA turned to Flowgear, Africa’s cloud-based integration platform provider, to streamline their data updating process. By implementing a workflow on the Flowgear integration platform, the time to update data from a container delivery into SYSPRO was reduced to less than two hours. The process of querying Upat SA’s imports system was automated, and a Flowgear workflow was triggered whenever new data was detected. This automation not only sped up the data updating process but also allowed the company to utilize its existing staff in more productive ways than just data entry. Following the success of this implementation, Upat SA is planning to further leverage Flowgear to automate the process of updating inventory picking and packing data into invoices. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Buildings

Cement

Applicable Functions

Sales & Marketing

Warehouse & Inventory Management

Use Cases

Building Automation & Control

Intelligent Packaging

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Upat South Africa, a leading distributor of international building and allied construction brands, was facing a significant challenge in updating imported goods data into their SYSPRO ERP system. The company imports thousands of fixing and fixture products for the building industry, requiring a robust system for tracking the whereabouts and costs of these imported products. While Upat SA had developed such a system, they needed to integrate this data into their SYSPRO ERP system for sales and accounting purposes. The existing update process was manual and time-consuming, often taking over a week. It involved gathering data from consignments, including actual stock items and counts, and costs allocated against suppliers and other agents, and then inputting this data into SYSPRO.

About Customer

Upat South Africa is a leading distributor of international building and allied construction brands. The company imports thousands of fixing and fixture products for the building industry, necessitating a robust system for tracking the whereabouts and costs of these imported products. In their sales environment, the quicker a product is available on their SYSPRO ERP system, the quicker it can be sold. Therefore, the efficiency of their data updating process is crucial to their operations. Upat SA is continually looking for ways to improve their processes and leverage technology to enhance their business operations.

Solution

Upat SA turned to Flowgear, Africa’s cloud-based integration platform provider, to streamline their data updating process. By implementing a workflow on the Flowgear integration platform, the time to update data from a container delivery into SYSPRO was reduced to less than two hours. The process of querying Upat SA’s imports system was automated, and a Flowgear workflow was triggered whenever new data was detected. This automation not only sped up the data updating process but also allowed the company to utilize its existing staff in more productive ways than just data entry. Following the success of this implementation, Upat SA is planning to further leverage Flowgear to automate the process of updating inventory picking and packing data into invoices.

Impact #1	The implementation of Flowgear's integration platform has significantly improved Upat SA's operational efficiency. The automation of the data updating process has not only sped up the availability of products on their SYSPRO ERP system, thereby enabling quicker sales, but also freed up staff to focus on more valuable tasks than data entry. The success of this implementation has led to plans for further automation in other business areas, demonstrating the value and versatility of the Flowgear platform. The Operations Manager at Upat SA, Wayne Weber, has even described the investment in Flowgear as the best he ever made.

Impact #1

The implementation of Flowgear's integration platform has significantly improved Upat SA's operational efficiency. The automation of the data updating process has not only sped up the availability of products on their SYSPRO ERP system, thereby enabling quicker sales, but also freed up staff to focus on more valuable tasks than data entry. The success of this implementation has led to plans for further automation in other business areas, demonstrating the value and versatility of the Flowgear platform. The Operations Manager at Upat SA, Wayne Weber, has even described the investment in Flowgear as the best he ever made.

Benefit #1	Reduced data updating time from over a week to less than two hours
Benefit #2	Automated the process of querying Upat SA’s imports system
Benefit #3	Freed up staff time previously spent on data entry for more productive tasks

Benefit #1

Reduced data updating time from over a week to less than two hours

Benefit #2

Automated the process of querying Upat SA’s imports system

Benefit #3

Freed up staff time previously spent on data entry for more productive tasks

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Upat SA Streamlines Data Updating Process with Flowgear

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