Pioneers

 
 

You are “The Pioneers”! Selected and volunteered to assist in ushering in this exciting new system to our stores!

By dictionary definition, a pioneer means:

1. To be the first to prepare the way
2. To take part in the beginnings of something
3. To lead the way for a group of people

We all understand the specific roles we will be playing in this project and,
needless to say, there’s a lot of hard work ahead of us. But, “no problem is
insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination, a person can overcome anything” (B Dodge).

This intranet page is exclusively designed for this project – but more importantly – for you!

Here you will find project updates, upcoming dates and events, go-live information and much more in the upcoming weeks leading to go-live.

Should you have any suggestions or specific information you would like included, please do not hesitate to email Jill Brand at jill.brand@consequent.co.za.

 


* WATCH THIS SPACE *

Pioneer Alerts coming soon!

 



There are a number of improvement initiatives currently underway at Commercial Cold Storage, namely:

• Financial performance improvement
• Reduction of clerical staff manual effort and processes
• Streamlining data and improving data integrity as part of the Accellos One 3PL implementation.
• Reduction of miss-ships and associated costs.
• Providing CCS customers visibility to transactions and balances with Evista. (Next phase)
• Improving warehouse transparency, to increase visibility in regard to key operational touch points such as warehouse space and labour utilization.
• Increasing billing automation.

To assist in these improvement initiatives, CCS is in the process of implementing a feature-rich WMS solution, namely Accellos One 3PL as a long-term solution.

The project kicked off in September 2009 with proposals and project plan discussions. It will span over 6 months with a go-live target date set at Monday 26th April 2010!

We are currently in Phase 2 of the project, with BPR sign-off, Data migration planning and Gap analysis underway.

So far so good! We are on track and running full steam ahead.

 

Accellos One 3PL provides users with a flexible warehouse management system enabling companies operating in a dynamic environment to improve accuracy, productivity and efficiency within the warehouse.

Customer Service

Today's 3PL customers demand system access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our customer self service tool enables you to personalize your system for each of your client's specific needs, such as:

  • Personalized branding, enabling you to have a client specific logo for each customer 
  • Inventory management hierarchy that is client specific using each customer's own terminology 
  • Personalized self service reporting 
  • On demand supply chain visibility 
  • Workflow assurance 
  • Automated report delivery 
  • Order and receipt booking 
  • Customer to customer extendibility 
  • Document management

A few members of the project team are:

• Simon Cummings – Project Sponsor (CCS)
• Francois Dowling – Project Manager (CCS)
• Paul Wilbraham – Oversight (Oceana)

• Colin Hay – Implementation Consultant (Accellos)
• Martie Bothma – Implementation Consultant (DoveTail)
• Winston Barnes – IT Lead (CCS)

• Carron Hinton – Change Manager (Consequent)
• Jill Brand – Change and Training Consultant (Consequent)

 

February

10 – 12 Pioneers intranet page launch

10 – 12 Project posters up at all stores

10 – 19 Project meeting with all staff

15 – 26 Configuration set up and Data Conversion

22 – 26 End-user Operational training

(TBC)  Pioneer training launch

"Coming together is a beginning,

staying together is progress,

but working together is success."

- Henry Ford