Quotes
“FLO was selected because it provides SAB's distribution with flexibility, reliability and cost-effectiveness. On top of that, OPSI Systems is a company that is willing to adapt their system to include SAB's requirements.” Desmond Jacobs , National Distribution Development Manager for South African Breweries (SAB)
“News from the hub (floor) is that they cannot work without FLO.” Johan Kruger , Planning Supervisor for Value Logistics
“FLO … can simulate even a very complex operation… I will recommend it to any company.” Nico Richter, AEL Contract Manager for Unitrans
“FLO has helped to create and entrench a structured and disciplined environment in which to conduct dispatch and transport operations in general...The main feature of FLO has been the adaptability and flexibility of FLO, to accommodate our specific operational requirements in line with our ERP system.” Willem Botha, Logistics Manager, Air Liquide
"FLO solved the problem of combining orders from different principals to the same customer, both from a warehouse picking, as well as an optimal routing of the combined orders on the distribution side of the business. We were able to go live with the system on extremely tight deadlines". Gerald Field, Warehouse Manager for Imperial Logistics
“We wanted to be able to give the customer an expectation of time and date of delivery at time of order placement and manage that expectation until actual delivery was made, including the tracking of the delivery to ensure the requisite security, cost effectively. I believe that CBASS can do this and more, eg. Transportation costing, facilitating quick turn-around and late loads to improve fleet utilisation and efficiency." Avi Bhoora, Sales and Distribution Manager for NPC
Coca-Cola Luanda, Angola
OPSI Systems began training IT and load planners from Coca Cola Bottling Luanda in December 2006. The implementation phase occurred shortly after that with the Coca Cola depot in Luanda Sul going live at the beginning of February, 2007. Another depot, “Mulemba”, near the capitol Luanda went live at the beginning of March, 2007. Both instances of FLO are run from one server located in the IT department in Vitoria. The two FLO planners from the depots connect to this server via terminal services.
Coca Cola Bottling run Syspro as their ERP system and FlowCentric as their route settlement system. Through a custom built interface that is configurable, FLO is able to interact with these systems, for example, by extracting specific orders for selected depots in appropriate statuses. Once scheduled, these orders are allocated to a specific vehicle and then uploaded back to Syspro. At this stage the correct status is set in Syspro and invoices are then printed with load numbers generated by FLO.
Due to the lack of street names on the digital maps of Luanda, the load planner would have found it difficult to geocode a new customer, so the Syspro-FLO-Interface automatically pulls through customer coordinates from Syspro. These coordinates are collected by the sales representatives using a hand held GPS unit.
