LATEST ARTICLES
Thought leadership articles on ERP and business software
LATEST ARTICLES
Thought leadership articles on ERP and business software
Risk Assessment and Management: How ERP Helps You Tick All the Boxes
By Anton Oosthuizen Manufacturing companies rely on software and systems to ensure their operations are efficient, effective, and profitable. However, these systems also come with inherent risks. These risks can lead to costly errors, downtime, and security breaches. For this reason, it’s critical for manufacturers to conduct thorough risk assessments and implement risk management strategies…
Is it time for an ERP health check?
A regular ERP health-check is essential for profitable manufacturing By Anton Oosthuizen If you’re in the manufacturing industry, your ERP system manages every aspect of operations and processes – from people to production, from payments to processes. Quite rightly, you rely on your ERP every single day to run your entire business. It gives you…
Quality Control a Breeze with QuickEasy’s New NCR and CS Modules
By Anton Oosthuizen For manufacturing and engineering managers, effective quality control is what keeps them awake at night, and what keeps customers from turning to their competition. Quality control is not only good for business, it is also imperative to customer satisfaction. And in some cases, for customer safety. Take for instance the recent defect…
Developing a production scheduling system? Here’s everything you need to know
By Anton Oosthuizen In the decades of implementing business operating systems, or ERP, for manufacturing and engineering companies across South Africa, I am often asked about production scheduling. It is well known that production management and scheduling improves manufacturing efficiency. For manufacturing operations who want to take their production to the next level, who want…
The Bountiful Benefits of Integrating ERP with Other Software, and Why You Should
Your business is complex, with diverse roles within a team, multiple teams within departments, and stand-alone departments within a company. Hopefully by now you’ve figured out that spreadsheets and paper don’t cut it anymore. Production and warehousing, IT and accounting, HR and sales, reporting and management: each role and department needs its own app and…
Quickeasy BOS Pro Integrates with Enfocus Switch for Greater Automation
Digitisation and automation are the buzzwords on everyone’s lips in the printing and packaging industry in South Africa today. More so with the upcoming SignAfrica Expo for all things printing and innovation-related. And, for good reason. In a recent study by Harvard Business Review, 92% of executives surveyed indicate that they believe business success in…
Business Technology – An Evolution
Business technology’s evolution has shifted the way we work. Or, it could be that the way we work has been the driving force behind business technology’s evolution. Whatever the reason for it, it is safe to say that tech is no longer the bumbling idiot it was in the 80s. From landlines to cellphones, fax…
Digitisation of delivery through ERP
By Anton Oosthuizen The march of digitisation across manufacturing and engineering companies continues. While digitisation and digital delivery notes are not breaking news, what I have found is that, whilst many business leaders agree heartily with the thinking, not many are clear on exactly how they can embrace this in their workplaces. Nor is there…
QuickEasy ERP Helps Project Managers Crush Projects on Time
Nobody has ever claimed that project managers have it easy. On the contrary. Project managers are constantly faced with new projects, each with their own challenges. Fast deadlines, tight budgets, demanding expectations, and high pressure levels are all part of the daily life of a project manager as they tackle the essential role of bringing…
The Power of Good Customer Service Management Software
By Anton Oosthuizen The most important thing about your business is your customers. Customer service software allows you to support and strengthen customer relationships. Customer service management software (CSM) is the foundation upon which a great customer experience is built. But how do you know which customer service solution to use? Here are some insights.…
Everything you need to know about EDI and BOS ERP integration
For most modern organisations, end-to-end process and system integration is the goal. As electronic commerce and Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) become more vital as core business competencies, the need for EDI data integration across enterprise systems is growing. But first, what exactly is EDI? Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) explained Unlike manual data exchange, which involves…
QuickEasy BOS Makes Seasonal Packaging
and Printing Campaigns Profitable
The packaging and printing industries are bending over backwards in a bid to stay flexible to keep up with the demand for seasonal campaigns. Combined with the flood of post-pandemic new product launches, it means it is go-time for the printing and packaging industry across the world. The days of packaging just being a boring…
How ERPs Help Business Owners with 2022 Tax and Financial Year End
When it comes to financial year end and 2022 tax deadlines, business owners turn to accountants. And for good reason. The tax deadline is looming, and the time, effort, and expertise it takes to consolidate an entire financial year’s worth of expenses, income, VAT, and more, is no job for the faint-hearted. But where do…
Business Operating System (BOS)
BOS is ERP for medium-sized businesses. Business Operating System (BOS) is the best way to integrate all the cycles within a business. What are business cycles? Every business – no matter what product or service they are in – goes through these business cycles: Sales Operations Accounts Reporting These four cycles define the processes that…
Comparison of Native or Virtual Applications Vs Browser Applications, for Fast, High-Performance ERP
We are often asked why our BOS products are not browser ERP applications, with concerns that this might place a burden on IT departments when it comes to upgrades. Our preferred deployment is a cloud server combined with virtualisation software which serves as a ‘native’ client application to Windows, Linux or MacOS. This allows you…
Business Owner: No time to Go Away this Holiday?
Tired business owners can use these five tips to break away from their offices and desks, and enjoy some R&R. By Heinrich Van Der Vyver With These 5 Tips, This Could Be Your Best Christmas Ever! When you started your own business I’m sure it was for a few good reasons – challenges in the economy,…
Manufacturers: 4 Ways to Survive the Pre-Christmas Chaos
South African manufacturers and suppliers are full-swing into the pre-Christmas production madness, and there is probably only one thought that scares business owners more than no Christmas at all – and that is the thought of empty shelves ahead of Christmas. Manufacturers across all industries are beefing up production in order to get stock onto…
How Your Manufacturing Business can Survive the Pre-Christmas Chaos
Are manufacturing businesses preparing for the pre-Christmas order rush with a sense of trepidation? Anton Oosthuizen from QuickEasy Software, answers manufacturers’ questions around how to survive the silly season without dropping any balls along the way. Q: During the build-up to Christmas my business struggles to keep track of costs and orders. How can I…
3 Ways to Ensure You Work on Your Business, Not in Your Business
As a business owner myself, I know the struggle is real. There’s a real temptation to be involved in every granular detail of your business, from production to petty cash, from staff interviews to stationery purchases. To work in, rather than work on my business. More than that, while we’re being honest here, you’ll agree…
Optimise Staff to Save Your Business
Are your staff members costing your business? By Candace de Villiers “Productivity and growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs and wealth.” – William E. Simon The longer I’ve operated my own business, the more I see that business…
