Business Background

Client is leading manufacturer of garments and is certified only for organic and conventional cotton. The manufacturing process starts from the processing of cotton to finished goods. They are a gold medalist winning company in the garment sector in Uganda.

Objectives of ERP

Prior to adoption of ebizframe, client was doing transactions manually. client being a continuous manufacturing company, requires daily updation of inventory and production levels. Client also being a totally man-power driven company requires an efficient payroll system to keep track of employee history, appraisals, promotions, transfer and separation.

Solution Choice

ESS’ flagship product ‘ebizframe‘ had been implemented at almost 200 sites in East Africa. ebizframe is the no. 1 ERP in the mid-segment in East Africa. ebizframe is a proven application for manufacturing industries and in Kampala some of the most respected companies are using ebizframe.

Pre-Implementation Scenario

ebizframe had been initially implemented in organization to automate the internal operations i.e.; Sales, Purchase, Inventory, Production, Finance, HR-Payroll,etc. Price List Master for the products along with the groups. Some of the other salient points are mentioned below:

• Payroll system to keep track of employee history
• ebizframe has also helped in capturing the actual production data.
• Complete automation of the global value chain without any problems.

Benefits

• Because of the integration with the help of ERP, client was able to control department wise activities in a much better manner and also had better control on management reporting.
• Because of this integration automatic discipline has developed amongst the departments and it has led to proper reporting to management.
• Now management is having complete control on pre-production, costing, stock reconciliation, inventory and production planning and was also able to reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs with better control on account receivables and payables.
• Easily traceability on manufactured products is now possible and we are now able to trace all processes output starting from the 1st processing of cotton to the last processing of the finished garment. (Project benefits)

Infrastructure – Ebizframe has been implemented on a Dell Server with a Xeon Processor, 4GB RAM with 1 TB space.