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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.

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Planning-Purchasing-Implementing ERP

We Keep ERP Simple in Africa for Good Reason

Reading Time: 2 minutesI was born in Europe – Scotland actually, but now I’m a South African living in Johannesburg. As an inhabitant …

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Supply Chain Management and ERP

Is Your ERP Functionally Fit? – It Depends On Your Perspective

Reading Time: 2 minutesAre you a supply chain guy or gal focusing end-to-end rather than on one area like distribution or manufacturing? Or …

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Supply Chain Management and ERP

ERP Can Help With Sustainability

Reading Time: 2 minutesMany decisions involve yes or no. They appear clear-cut, simple. A head politician survives a motion of no confidence yet …

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Managing-Operating ERP

Use the Recession to Your ERP Advantage and Come Out Winning

Reading Time: 3 minutesSouth Africans we’re in recession, technically, for the first time in eight years! Why? Q1 2017 contracted 0.7%, negative growth …

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Episode 2: Join the Dots Conference –The ERP Digital Pivot

Reading Time: 2 minutesRound two. Minds now expanded and caffeine onboard, a series of SYSPRO executives took the crowd through the SYSPRO Product …

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Planning-Purchasing-Implementing ERPERP Implementation

Episode 1: Joining the Dots with SYSPRO’s Africa Customer ERP Conference

Reading Time: 2 minutesAttending our customer conferences across the country reminded me of how important technology innovation is to optimize and future proof …

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Applying and Operating ERPMaintaining/Upgrading ERP

To Boldly Go in ERP Where Few Men Have Gone Before

Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m a supply chain guy but I started with a narrower focus, in manufacturing, in Glasgow. Glasgow – famous for …

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Supply Chain Management and ERPMaintaining/Upgrading ERP

Just Like in ERP the Right Support was Vital for This Atlantic Crossing!

Reading Time: 2 minutesPlanning before a journey starts is recommended and typically done. But once the trip’s underway realization can dawn too late …

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Applying and Operating ERPERP Implementation

Half Way There – What Does this Mean for ERP?

Reading Time: 2 minutesSo you’re half way with your ERP implementation. Does this mean you’re about to race downhill to the finish, or …

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