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Doug Hunter

Doug heads up Customer and Ecosystem Enablement for SYSPRO Africa. He is responsible for Support, Consulting, and Education/User-Enablement services to SYSPRO's channel partners and customers within sub Saharan Africa. At heart he’s a manufacturing/logistics business professional - rather than an IT techie, having directly managed different manufacturing operations and supply chains. His passion now is to help such companies discover and implement innovation using people, processes and appropriate business IT.

Posts by Doug Hunter

ERP for ManufacturingERP and Lean Manufacturing

How Automation Can Activate Your Digital Transformation Journey

Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring the pandemic, many industry players were caught off guard by inefficient business systems and manual processes. As workforces are …

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ERP and TechnologyERP and Digitization

Intelligence – Not So Artificial – Is Becoming Essential

Reading Time: 4 minutesBrain Teasers Close your eyes and count to 10 – well that’s easy. Close them again and count to 51238 …

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ERP for InventoryBusiness software

How Procurement can Improve Inventory Management

Reading Time: 6 minutesOne thing that procurement departments are working intensively on at the moment is how to spend more effectively. That doesn’t …

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ERP and TechnologyBusiness software

Coming out of Lockdown – The Corona Opportunity

Reading Time: 6 minutesNow that we’re slowly “coming out” of lockdown, what is the Brave New World we find ourselves in? Will lockdown-learning fuel …

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ERP and Mobile BusinessBusiness software

Working-From-Home (WFH) – Finding the Positives and Adapting our Processes

Reading Time: 5 minutes20+ days in lockdown to stave off the Covid-19 virus – what are you learning about yourself and your environment? …

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ERP and TechnologyBusiness software

Leveraging the power of BI and Data that IT offers today

Reading Time: 4 minutesNowadays, we take information technology (IT) for granted and simply expect it to be intuitive to use and for it …

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Supply Chain Management and ERPERP and Digitization

3 Ways to Boost Your Warehouse Management with ERP

Reading Time: 3 minutesSo your warehouse is bulging – why? Because product demand is high and you’re holding buffer-stock to protect your customer …

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ERP for InventoryERP and Technology

4 Dos and Don’ts of Inventory Management for All Manufacturing Operations

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe current power crisis in South Africa is teaching all of its citizens a few lessons in inventory, distribution and …

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Planning-Purchasing-Implementing ERP

ERP Boosts Procurement Creating a Channel for Innovative Business

Reading Time: 2 minutesERP or rather MRP systems for many years (in SYSPRO’s case, for 40 years!) have enabled Purchasing via requisitions through …

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