Syspro Software Ltd.

CA

SYSPRO continues to lead as the premier supplier of integrated enterprise software. SYSPRO is built on Microsoft. Net technology, encompasses all aspects of the manufacturing enterprise including ERP, E-Commerce, SCM, CRM, WMS, Bar-Coding and APS. SYSPRO Business Intelligence Tools round out the comprehensive, inventory-focused, end-to-end solution.

Standards Supported:

Microsoft. NET architecture; SQL; XBRL; XML and COM; ASP, XSLT, CSS, WAPI, MAPI, TAPI, FASB, GAAP

SYSPRO software is targeted at manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers as well as divisions of larger companies and multi-national organizations. The following are indicative of the range of industries served by SYSPRO software:

Equipment Manufacturing & Distribution Industrial and Commercial Machinery Manufacturing & Distribution Plastics Injection Mold & Extrusion Manufacturing; Plastics Distributors Primary/Fabricated Metals Manufacturing Automotive and Auto Parts Manufacturing & Distribution High Technology Manufacturing & Distribution Electronics Manufacturing & Distribution Furniture Manufacturing & Distribution Consumer Packaged Goods Manufacturing & Distribution Food & Beverage Manufacturing & Distribution Chemicals Manufacturing & Distribution Outside Processing Wood Products & Paper Manufacturing & Distribution Medical Instrumentation Manufacturing & Distribution Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Aerospace Products Manufacturing & Distribution

3M Healthcare ABB SA Adec Australia Amalgamated Power Eng. Annabelle Candy Apogent Technologies Arnott's Biscuits (PNG) Arrow Altech Distribution Atlantis Submarines Australian Electronic Manufacturing Services (Pty) Ltd Bellco Electrical Belle Engineering BICC Group Black Cat Fireworks Boart Longyear Buckhorn Cadac Cannon Avent Chemical Specialities Chubb Electronics Colgate Palmolive Columbus Stainless Steel Cooper Automotive (Pty) Ltd Daewoo Delta Operation Dresser Ltd DuPont Dynamic Cooking Systems Edinburgh Crystal Electrical Repairs Engineering Eliza Tinsley Group plc Exchem plc Federal Mogul Film Fun Fuch Electronics Gaydon Spares Geneva International Georgia Lighting Glynwed Industries plc Harry London Candies Hella SA Hitachi Corporation Howden Donkin (Pty) Ltd Hytec Holdings Management Division Ince Intramed John Thompson (Africa) Johnson & Johnson Johnson Matthey Kawasaki Keycorp Ltd Lakato (Pty) Ltd Lee Spring Mount Gay Distilleries NEI Power Systems Nestle China Ltd Nestle Linghai Corporation Nestle Pacific Islands Nestle Polynesie Nestle Products (Thailand) Nestle Products Sdn Bhd Novo Nordisk Nu-World Industries Oaktree Products Olympia SA (Pty) Ltd Osborn MMD Pakco Panoz Automotive Pharma Natura (Pty) Ltd Praxair Precision Aerospace Pressure Die Casting Ralph Lauren Home Products Robor Stewarts & Lloyds Royal Crown Royal Group Technology SAB Miller SA Sani Motor Industries Sasolchem Solid Doors (Pty) Ltd Sondor Industries Steinhoff Companies Struik Holdings The Balco Co Ltd The Pat Cornick Group Tom Barrow Company Toyota Racing Transvaal Pressed Nuts & Bolts Verimark Wilbur Ellis Company (Pty) Ltd Zeneca SA

CORNICK GROUP 500+ Users:

The Cornick Group is the largest furniture manufacturer in the southern Hemisphere; the Cornick Group includes leading brand names such as Pat Cornick, Edblo, Sealy, Vitafoam, Grafton Everest, Grant Andrews and Panda. The group has set a groundbreaking implementation record in the world of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. In just six months, the company has 18 of its 21sites up and running on award-winning ERP system SYSPRO. Most of the sites have about 50 users.

Delta Corporation Limited 600 Users:

Delta Corporation Limited is a focused beverage manufacturing and distribution company that manufactures beverage coolers and produces wines and spirits. In addition to SYSPROs in depth functionality, it was also chosen as one of the more cost-effective solution.

Discount Steel 100 Users:

Established in 1985, Discount Steel is a South African based steel merchant located in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. The company offers an extensive product range as well as superior service. Discount Steel incorporates a complete processing division for flat products. In addition, it manufactures and supplies steel structures for industrial and agricultural applications

Georgia Lighting 144 Users:

Founded in 1960, Georgia Lighting has six retail locations and operates the largest single location lighting showroom in the US. The company offers an extensive collection of decorative lighting fixtures, supplies, accents and accessories to commercial and retail customers. Georgia Lighting's professionals are recognized Nationally for innovative designs, merchandising and training programs.

Goodman Fielder 103 Users:

Goodman Fielder has manufacturing, marketing and distribution systems in more than 40 countries, employs 18, 000 people and enjoys a turnover of more than AU$3 billion. It is Australia's No.1 food company. Goodman Fielder will be responsible for all the breakfast cereals and cooking oil during the Sydney 2000 Olympics.

Hydrasun 128 Users:

Hydrasun specializes in the supply of industrial hose systems for critical industry applications in Gas, Chemical and Oil exploration. Headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, Hydrasun operates from nine branches based in the UK and the Netherlands. The company also has approximately 30 mobile branches in the form of highly equipped, state-of-the-art vehicles, which provide a rapid response service to customer sites.

ITW SIGNODE 500 Users:

ITW Signode is a multi-national corporation in its own right and is a division of the multi-billion dollar ITW Corporation. Signode is a world leader in packaging products, primarily strapping and strapping machines. Strapping comes in a variety of metal and plastic materials, different widths, gauges and applications. Strapping machines range from small desktops to custom-built stations designed to fit into a production line, and all variations in between. Signode UK has been a very successful user SYSPRO for several years and enjoyed great success in supporting the Signode corporate rationalization into customer facing supply chain business units. As part of that continuing strategy, Signode has implemented Pan-European business operations, as opposed to the traditional geographic territory structure. This has resulted in a very fast moving low cost business model, which is continuing to build on Signodes already impressive success. Part of that strategy has been the rationalization of business systems across vertically integrated, cross-territory units. Signode has decided to base that rationalization on SYSPRO, supported by a Virtual Private Network. This has been at the expense of a wide variety of software systems, which were present in different sites across different countries (UK Germany, Holland, France, Belgium, Spain). For some time SYSPRO has been supporting almost 300 concurrent users across a wide area network. This is growing month by month during 2001 as 14 new sites are rolled out, increasing the user count to over 500, by the end of the year.

Nestl 472 Users:

With a total workforce of approximately 230, 929 people in some 509 factories worldwide, Nestl is not only Switzerland's largest industrial company, but is also the world's largest food company. Nestls products are available in nearly every country around the world. The companys annual turnover exceeds $50 billion. Nestl has been a leading food manufacturer and major purchaser of agricultural raw materials for more than 130 years. Today, Nestl is the world's largest and most diversified food company, with nearly 500 factories around the globe, producing healthy, enjoyable food products for every stage of life.

South African Breweries International 327 Users:

Through South African Breweries International (SABI), the SAB Group has extensive brewing interests in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and Asia. SABI's operations in 20 countries include 38 lager breweries, 34 sorghum beer breweries and five soft drink bottling plants with more than 70 local and international brands in its portfolio.

Steinhoff Africa 919 Users:

The largest furniture manufacturer in Southern Africa, Steinhoff is also one of the leading furniture manufacturers in the world. The Group has 50 factories in South Africa, 30 in Europe, and more in the UK and Australia. It has an annual worldwide turnover of R7 billion and employs more than 25, 000 people, of which 10, 000 are based in South Africa. Steinhoffs product range includes Sealy, Edblo, Slumberland, Grafton Everest, Alpine and Gomma-Gomma.

Walter Alexander 400 Users:

Walter Alexander is a long-established company with its headquarters in Falkirk, Scotland. It has operations in three Scottish sites as well as in England, Northern Ireland and Hong Kong. Alexanders is one of the worlds leading manufacturers of buses and coaches. The company became part of the Mayflower Corporation in the mid-1990s, figuring centrally in Mayflowers strategy as the worlds leading manufacturer of specialist vehicles and vehicle bodies with operations in Europe, North America and Asia.

Return On Investment:

'Overall, stock holdings are now down to just 30% of what they were when we outsourced the logistic support function. The Birmingham facility is going through a major transition, and is now focusing on producing engine management systems for motorcycles, with an emphasis on rapidly increasing export sales around the world. The business flexibility offered through effective logistics management will prove vital in making the operation competitive in overseas markets.' Simon Oatley, Logistics Manager for Sagem

Six months after implementing new (ERP) software across the business, weve seen a real difference. Last year we actually made a profit, improved our cash flow, increased manufacturing throughput and improved on-time delivery performance from 40% to 94%. We couldnt have done it without new software. Mike Keaney, Managing Director for Saxon Specialist Vehicles

Purchasing staff were using engineering BOM's to order materials months in advance of production. When I arrived here the firm had a 9-month stockpile of materials for jobs. Were now operating at about 15% of this level. Purchasing now works from accurate BOM's and orders material to schedule. Mike Keaney, Managing Director for Saxon Specialist Vehicles

We spent about 120k in total: 20k on upgrading our hardware and networks, 65k on software and 35k on implementation services. This doesnt include extra internal costs such as hiring new temps to re-key purchase orders and sales data into the new software we expect the system to pay for itself within two years (by early 2003). Mike Keaney, Managing Director for Saxon Specialist Vehicles

We now have the ability to more effectively direct our efforts to bringing in orders for those products and projects which are most profitable. This ability to focus on the longer term is already seeing signs of paying off. There are new orders in the pipeline that could see us increase sales by 20% over the next few years. Sean Hammond, Sales & Marketing Manager for Tungum Hydraulics

In fact, we have reduced overall stock value from over 640 000 to 420 000. A massive bottom line cost reduction. Ian Johnstone, Controller for Tungum Hydraulics

'To close month-end and obtain all the reports needed used to take us 4-5 hours. Now it takes me hour, and that is for ALL locations! I can send a report to a printer in any one of our four locations simply by selecting a printer from my computer. This flexibility has been invaluable in terms of saving us time and attaining accurate information.' Sinclair Grant, Controller for SDMS

We had improved on-time delivery from a poor 11 percent up to 65 percent, which is very high for high-precision castings. Derren Smith, Financial Director for Doncasters Chard

The company has seen significant benefits such as greater operational efficiencies in sales order processing, tighter management control throughout and a 30% reduction in stock inventory levels. Gary Homiak, Computer Services Manager for Easi-bind International

What weve spent has only taken 6 months to pay back a really quick payback and great return on our investment. Weve eliminated a lot of inefficiency and improved productivity. Now we are running the plant at optimum efficiencies. Dave Shannon, Supply Chain Manager for InterWrap Industries

As soon as we installed SYSPRO, we had instant visibility of the entire operation and we became more efficient overnight everything was there, in real time. We had information from our supplier base that we never had before in a timely and accurate manner the number and value of shipments, average turn round times, the number of rejects and so on - and we had information available at our fingertips on location, quantity and aging of raw materials and finished goods. In fact inventory accuracy was increased from 92% to 99% - that makes a massive difference. Stella Glavin, IT Manager for Nelipak

It used to take 2 to 4 hours per company to close at month end, however, now some are as fast as to 1 hour. I would say we have reduced our paper usage by at least 75%, we now print all monthly reports to a file and store most of it on one CD. Michelle Lasuta, Administrative Assistant for Redco Group

Since 2001, Circa's Canadian inventory has been lowered by 65%. As a result of this lowering of inventory, Circa's Canadian inventory turns have more than doubled over a similar period. With reductions in on hand inventory, cash has been released back into the organization.' Matthew Dawe, Materials Manager for Circa Enterprises

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