ISB opens new office in South Africa to serve Waste & Recycling
In January 2012, ISB opened up a new office in South Africa, to focus on the Waste and Recycling industry.
Although ISB has operates in the region already with SAP consulting, business transformation projects and SAP Business One software development, ISB is now going to focus on selling, implementing and supporting their SAP Waste and Reycling Solution, throughout South Africa, using the local SAP Partner Network. ISB for the last 12 years has been successfully operating in the United Kingdom, where it focuses on the waste and recycling industry, and therefore wants to enhance its global presence, in South Africa due to its ties, operational experience and growth in the region.
SAP Waste & Recycling One (WR1), is a module within the SAP Business One platform, that provides a fully integrated operational, financial and reporting solution to all sub vertical requirements of the waste and recycling industry.
With WR1 implementations throughout the UK, Germany and now in the US, all these developed best practices will now be available to South African waste and recycling companies, in an affordable and effective solution.
ISB and Waste & Reycling One have been awarded the global Software Solution Partner (SSP) status by SAP. This gives customers the security in knowing that SAP fully supports and endorses the solution globally.
Chris Williams, Managing Director, ISB Global UK, comments, " we are very excited about our new office, and with our involvement already with 2 large waste companies down their already, we are keen to support our team in South Africa."
Computer Salvage Specialists successfully goes live with SAP Waste & Recycling One
Computer Salvage Specialists (CSS) went successfully live with SAP Waste & Recycling One in November 2011.
Key benefits already realised include:
- streamlined End to End Process
- visiblity of Stock
- effective Staff Redeployment to more useful tasks, thus saving money
“Due to the integration, project management, a platform for growth, functionality, suitability and price we went with SAP…” Lance Pearce, Operations Manager, Computer Salvage Specialists
More Control, Planning & Intelligence – Manufacturing for SAP Business One
Extend Integrated Operations by Using Variatec BX Production for SAP Business One.
Define with work centres, shifts, plans and timings. Manage assemblies according to optimised lot size and routes. Calculate optimum price and costs. Utilise MTO and work within order specific material planning. Get a complete view of operations in GANTT planning and maintain feedback from production in shop floor data collection.
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Are Your Inventory, Production and Distribution Process' Optimised? - Warehouse Management with SAP Business One
Today, the wholesale distribution industry faces some of the greatest forces of change in its history. Industry leaders must find ways to respond to powerful business trends, including:
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Like many decision makers in businesses, you want to focus on growing your business but instead find yourself dealing with a flood of daily operational details, ad hoc requests for information, and nonstop competitive moves. Meeting these challenges is difficult and time-consuming. When key pieces of information reside in different systems or locations, response times can lag and create customer dissatisfaction. And disjointed sales, accounting, and operational processes inevitably result in bottlenecks and reduced productivity. Multiple systems also mean additional work – such as duplicate data entries – which in turn causes errors and delays. Meanwhile, your competition is making it hard for you to find and keep customers.
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ISB Signs with Eco Plastics to Confirm Leadership in Plastics Recycling Market
ISB has signed an agreement with Eco Plastics to deliver SAP & WR1 the Business Management Software specifically designed for the Waste and Recycling Industry, and now very much established as the leading solution for Plastic Recyclers.
ECO Plastics Ltd is the UK's leading and highest quality reprocessor of recyclable materials. They currently operate Europe’s largest and most technically advanced Mixed Plastic Bottle sorting facility. This plant sorts 140,000t of plastics each year, sourced primarily from Waste contractors and Local Authorities throughout the UK and Ireland. ECO Plastics Ltd is currently the only UK business producing ‘food grade’ quality PET pellet and as such their materials can be found in many UK household brands.
Can your small business afford ERP - Can you afford not too?
Small companies often face a dilemma in deciding how to invest for the greatest return. In pure start up mode, business must invest in an operational foundation that will directly build the business.
Management by walking around is common, reporting is adhoc, supported by manual processes and spreadsheets, decision making is driven by gut feel rather than data and hard facts. These methods maybe effective in early phases, neglecting to invest in appropriate enterprise business systems can significantly hinder continued growth and profitability.
Many stumble along with a combination of spreadsheets and disparate applications thinking an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution is beyond their reach.
In reality though rather than assuming they can’t afford it small and growing business should ask instead “Can we afford not to invest in ERP”?
Trimming The Waste - CIWM Journal Article - 707 Resource Management and SAP Waste & Recycling One
In troubled economic and changing times, companies in the waste and recycling sector should look internally to try and become more efficient and manage resources more effectively, as ISB Global’s Matthew Gawn explains...
SAP Business One Demonstrations
SAP Business One Online Demonstrations by Richard Duffy - Integrates all core business functions – including financials, sales, customer relationships, inventory, and operations. A single application, eliminating the need for separate installations and complex integration of multiple modules.
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Computer Salvage Specialists Choose SAP Waste & Recycling One Software
Computer Salvage Specialists have been a leading provider of electronic recycling services to commercial and industrial sectors for over 20 years. Today they offer a full range of WEEE Recycling services including television and monitor recycling, ensuring safe and correct disposal of these hazardous products.
Computer Salvage Specialists undertook an extensive vendor selection process, over a considerable amount of time. In the end, industry experts ISB Global won with SAP Waste & Recycling One as they were able to provide a fully integrated industry specialist solution, designed for rapid deployment, this would also meet the needs for company growth and the platform for technology to add to in the future.
ISB Global were able to demonstrate considerable value in migrating from a separate accounting, operational system and the use of Spreadsheets. Other benefits included reduction in cost, data integrity, scalability, web and mobile enablement, standardisation of data, work flow and processes; outstanding reporting, business intelligence (integrated SAP Crystal Reports) and regulatory compliance as a standard reporting suite (WEEE Reporting).
Computer Salvage Specialists were particularly impressed with ISB Global's flagship electronic recycling installation of SAP Waste & Recycling One at MDJ Light Brothers, who have used Waste & Recycling One in order to realise greater control, operational efficiencies, cost reduction, profitability and growth.
Lance Pearce– Operations Manager Computer Salvage Specialists (CSS):
“Computer Salvage Specialists had been in touch with ISB Global for a very long time, we were always interested to know how a fully integrated system would impact our business. So when we confirmed our growth plans we decided to invite ISB Global in for a meeting.
ISB Global demonstrated how each area would operate in SAP Waste & Recycling One and all of the benefits around the functions of the software, the integration and how it would impact the business by speeding up processes by using one set of Master Data and a slick end to end process.
Computer Salvage Specialists looked at lots of different solutions, the nearest fully integrated solution was almost three times the price and not as tightly integrated as SAP Waste & Recycling One. We’d already had a failed installation by an industry leading separate operational software solution and Cloud Solutions just didn’t offer the industry specialisation and flexible platform for growth that we required.
In the end, due to flexibility, growth, integration, a platform for new technology like mobiles, industry suitability and helping to transform our business, and of course price, we awarded ISB Global the implementation project.”
SAP Business One - Software for Small to Midsize Businesses
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Demonstration - SAP Waste & Recycling One Master Price Lists
See how SAP Waste & Recycling One manages Master Price List information to ensure that your Waste, Recycling or Materials Handling operation is always profitable. Save time and money on administration managing price by Customer, Supplier, Site, Waste Type, Container, Date or Weight Ranges and Promotions, and Unit of Measure to name a few…
707 Resource Management - SAP Business One from Day One Pays Off in Uninterrupted Business Growth
"When we got down to two finalists and checked them out in-depth, we found that SAP Business One is the best integrated, hands down. Nobody else has integration covered like SAP.” David Adams, Director, 707 Resource Management
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SAP Crystal Reports Business Intelligence Solutions - Interactive Dashboards for Decision Makers
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Cloud Computing Launched for WR1, ISB Partner with CoreSystems
ISB Global is pleased to announce a partnership with Coresystems as to bring Cloud Computing to the Waste and Recycling Industry.
The first stage of the project is to present operational WR1 reports to our customers from the cloud, which can be accessed via iPhone, iPad , or laptop.
We'll be in touch with our customers soon to discuss the opportunity.
SAP Crystal Reports for Business One
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SAP Waste & Recycling One - Marketing Brochure
In today’s waste, recycling and associated industries, companies have to be skilled in a multitude of disciplines, not just their core activities. Finance, Logistics, Supply Chain, Human Resource Management and Customer Relationships, are just some of the additional expertise required. All these skills equate to the huge challenge of survival in an emerging market; a market so dynamic that best practices, procedure and legislation change on a frequent basis, as governments are lobbied and put under pressure from a demanding, socially and environmentally aware public.
SAP Business One Mobile Application for iPhone - Demonstration Video
Please view this iPhone SAP Business One demonstration video.
SAP Business One Mobile Application for iPhone
More and more, your business is on the move. And the SAP® Business One application helps you keep pace with the mobile world by providing a fully integrated mobile application for iPhone. The SAP Business One mobile application for iPhone is designed to help you and your sales teams stay connected and informed at all times. You can gain access to the most relevant business information so you can be more productive and effective on the go.
Palladium Group White Paper - Operational Excellence
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Aberdeen Group - Whitepaper - The ERP / Business Intelligence Connection
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707 Resource Management Web Portal
In launching 707 Resource Management in 2008, the team had envisaged a very customer-focused service, one built on trust, honesty, maximum efficiency, and interaction through information flow to customers, with minimum administrative intervention where possible. 707 Resource Management, who had previously built and managed several successful waste and recycling companies, decided that to differentiate their service from the competition they must utilise new technologies.
SAP Waste & Recycling One - Process Flow Diagram
Follow, step by step, the Best Practice Business Process behind the SAP Waste & Recycling Logistics and Recycling Depot Management Process
SAP Waste & Recycling One - Reporting, Analysis & Intelligence
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Streamline your Business Accelerate Profitable Growth
Like many decision makers in small businesses, you want to focus on growing your business but instead find yourself dealing with a flood of daily operational details, ad hoc requests for information, and nonstop competitive moves. Meeting these challenges is difficult and time-consuming. When key pieces of information reside in different systems or locations, response times can lag and create customer dissatisfaction. And disjointed sales, accounting, and operational processes inevitably result in bottlenecks and reduced productivity.
SAP Crystal Reports for Business One
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ISB Global, Implico UK Ltd & Closed Loop Recycling Partner at The RWM Exhibition 2010
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ISB at RWM 2010 Stand 600
ISB will be attending the RWM show in Birmingham, Sept 14-16th. Come and see us on Stand 600 which we are sharing with one of our Key Customers, Closed Loop Recycling.
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Responding Quickly to Changing Markets
Market change is relentless: ever-higher customer expectations, shrinking product life cycles, and new rivals on the scene all accelerate the pace. But small businesses and midsize companies have one distinct advantage over larger competitors: agility. With fewer organizational layers and less-rigid processes, smaller businesses can act much faster than the big-gun competition. When your business is poised to handle challenges with agility and speed, market changes become opportunities to excel.
Responding Quickly to Changing Markets
Market change is relentless: ever-higher customer expectations, shrinking product life cycles, and new rivals on the scene all accelerate the pace. But small businesses and midsize companies have one distinct advantage over larger competitors: agility. With fewer organizational layers and less-rigid processes, smaller businesses can act much faster than the big-gun competition. When your business is poised to handle challenges with agility and speed, market changes become opportunities to excel.
707 Resource Management Success Story
“We chose SAP Waste & Recycling One as it was a fully integrated solution that contained everything we needed to run a state-of-the-art, customer focused service. It adhered to our goals of streamlining and automating operations, saving money and providing a solid platform which allows us to progress rapidly by offering a unique service.”
Streamline your Business Accelerate Profitable Growth
Like many decision makers in small businesses, you want to focus on growing your business but instead find yourself dealing with a flood of daily operational details, ad hoc requests for information, and nonstop competitive moves.
MDJ Light Bros.
“We chose SAP Waste & Recycling One as it would increase efficiency and optimise centralisation of job management, scheduling, financial reporting and operational business intelligence, cutting administration, processing time and financial routines significantly across multiple sites. We also wanted a partner who could continue to work with us in the development of a solution to ensure our continued competitive advantage in the sector.” Pete Burrluck (IT Manager); Jonathan Light (Director) MDJ Light Bros. UK Ltd
Closed Loop Recycling
“We chose SAP Business One because it would help improve efficiencies within our operations, facilitate increased profitability, and comply with the robust legislation that governs the recycling industry. The potential to enhance the system to meet our changing needs as we expand in the future was an additional attraction. ISB completed the implementation on time and within budget.” Chris Dow Managing Director Closed Loop Recycling UK Ltd
The Hinkcroft Group
“We chose SAP Business One Waste & Recycling One because it would help improve efficiencies within our operations, facilitate increased profitability, comply with legislation and provide us with the seamless ability to expand through organic growth or through acquisition.” Peter Alexander Hinkcroft Group UK Ltd
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Software Investment - SAP Business One
Like many decision makers in small businesses, you want to focus on growing your business but instead find yourself dealing with a flood of daily operational details, ad hoc requests for information, and nonstop competitive moves. Meeting these challenges is difficult and time-consuming.
SAP Executive Insight – Accelerate Value Creation
Corporate IT spending continues to grow. Since 1994, the IT spending per worker has more than doubled, from US$3,500 to US$8,000 per worker...
