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Johan Du Toit

Johan du Toit is the Chief Sales for SYSPRO Africa. He has more than 20 years’ experience in delivering complex technology and business transformation projects in Africa, Europe and the Far East. Renowned for finding practical solutions for complex problems, serving and contributing to the IT Steering Committees of a number of blue chip organisations on a continuous basis. Johan is dedicated to growing and maturing the SYSPRO Channel network.

Posts by Johan Du Toit

ERP for ManufacturingManaging-Operating ERP

Optimizing shop floor processes with Manufacturing Operations Management

Reading Time: 4 minutes Today’s manufacturers face many challenges in a business context complicated by factors such as ongoing loadshedding, soaring raw material prices, …

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Supply Chain Management and ERPERP and Lean Manufacturing

What is vertical integration and why is it a growing trend amongst manufacturers?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Supply chain issues brought on by the pandemic have been particularly challenging for any industry and sector. To overcome these …

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ERP for ManufacturingERP and Lean Manufacturing

Can ERP minimize the risks of outsourced manufacturing?

Reading Time: 3 minutes I love my job. Every day I get the opportunity to visit and walk through a new factory or operation, …

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ERP ImplementationERP Implementation

Executive guide to ERP Part 6: The operation stage

Reading Time: 7 minutes At the end of the animated film ‘Finding Nemo’ are these last lines: “We did it!” “Now what?” That is …

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ERP ImplementationERP Implementation

Executive guide to ERP Part 5: The steps in ERP implementation

Reading Time: 8 minutes When an organization implements an ERP system, the role of the executive decision-maker is critical in the way the project …

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Planning-Purchasing-Implementing ERPERP Implementation

Executive Guide to ERP Part 4

Reading Time: 8 minutes Part of the process of selecting an ERP system is to appreciate how the software is going to be used. …

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Planning-Purchasing-Implementing ERPSelecting ERP

Executive guide to ERP, Part 3: The ERP selection process

Reading Time: 8 minutes In this third part of the series, Thinking about ERP, we begin covering the issues that a business and its …

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Planning-Purchasing-Implementing ERPERP and Digitization

Executive Guide to ERP Part 2 – The Dimensions of Change Model

Reading Time: 8 minutes My Industrial engineering background taught me how to apply scientific concepts to understand complex systems, designs and processes. It takes …

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