AFRICA
REGIONAL
CHANNELS
AFRICA
When Darling Romery, part of the
15 company strong Darling Group,
needed to replace an outdated
legacy system and streamline its
business processes and position
itself for growth it deployed Sage
X3 as its business management
solution. Times 3 Technologies
oversaw the rollout of the software.
Henk Bothma, Head of Finance for
the Darling Group, explains how the
company has positioned itself for
future growth and efficiency for at
least the next 20 years.
DARLING ROMERY POSITIONED FOR
GROWTH AND EFFICIENCY
WITH SAGE X3
Darling Romery, a dairy
manufacturer based in the
Western Cape, has streamlined its
business processes and positioned
itself for growth by implementing Sage X3 as
its business management solution.
Times 3 Technologies, winner of Sage’s
2018 Partner of the Year awards for
implementation and customer retention,
oversaw the rollout of the software.
In addition to helping implement
the core finance, distribution, sales
and manufacturing modules, Times 3
Technologies developed a delivery manifest
module and an electronic data interchange
(EDI) interface to support the unique needs
of Darling’s business. Implementation was
conducted over six months, replacing a
custom-developed legacy system that no
longer met Darling’s requirements.
Henk Bothma, Head of Finance at
Darling Romery, said: “We opted for Sage
X3 after an extensive search. It offered a
rapid implementation cycle, the flexibility
for customisation to our industry and its
business processes and a close fit with our
business needs. Times 3 Technologies was
able to deliver customisations that took
the software from an 85% fit for our
business to a near-perfect fit against an
aggressive timeframe.”
It offered a rapid
implementation
cycle, the flexibility
for customisation to
our industry and its
business processes
and a close fit with our
business needs.
Darling delivers up to 1,500 orders
from multiple depots daily, a process that
involved a great deal of data capture and
transactional reconciliation in the past.
The company has achieved significant
cost savings by automating most of the
paperwork and data capture for orders,
deliveries, invoices, returns, receipts and
claims through the custom-developed
Delivery Manifest module and various
custom EDI interfaces.
The customisation supports the
challenges and nuances of a typical agribusiness,
which differs substantially from
processes experienced in other industries.
These custom developed enhancements,
performed using native Sage X3
technologies, start with the order intake and
extends to pricing, which could change prior
to delivery and days after order confirmation
– pricing flexibility is therefore key.
The Delivery Manifest then allows the
sales co-ordinators to manage numerous
orders linked to routes, which could result
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