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Meryl Malcomess

Meryl is Managing Director: SYSPRO Africa. She has been with SYSPRO for more than 18 years and is involved in determining the strategic direction of its marketing activities. By the age of 21 Meryl became both the first female and the youngest Financial Manager at a large financial company. Since her early beginnings, she has accumulated experience in commodities and advertising sectors, including a stint running a trucking and airfreight business. Meryl consistently achieves success by monitoring market forces, including customer behavior patterns and trends highlighted by industry analysts. She also liaises closely with SYSPRO group marketers world-wide.

Posts by Meryl Malcomess

Managing-Operating ERPEducation

Networking For the Young Business Leader of Tomorrow

Reading Time: 2 minutes Nelson Mandela famously said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” I have …

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Services and Support for ERPEducation

Pairing Education and Technology for a Brighter Future

Reading Time: 2 minutes This month we celebrate Youth Day in South Africa. Youth Day, while not a uniquely South African observance, has a …

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Supply Chain Management and ERPERP and Financial Management

Recession Proof your Business with ERP

Reading Time: 2 minutes The year is off to a flying start, but recession, drought and lacklustre commodity prices are making for some tough …

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Supply Chain Management and ERP

Providing Greater Value to the Value Chain

Reading Time: 2 minutes Have you ever looked down at something you are using and wondered about how it came to be? How it …

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ERP for ManufacturingERP Implementation

How African Markets Leapfrog onto New Technology

Reading Time: 2 minutes The recent Gartner Symposium has highlighted the need to not compare apples with oranges when talking about the latest IT …

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Applying and Operating ERPERP and Analytics

Going up… Ensuring the Direction of your Business

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sometimes awkward elevator silence can be filled with meaningful dialogue. The other day I was making my way up to …

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Supply Chain Management and ERPSoftware development

Flexible ERP Delivering Value

Reading Time: 2 minutes Recently, a colleague’s daughter travelling between South Africa, England and the US bought, a return train ticket for £48 but …

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ERP for DistributionERP systems

ERP and the Evolution of Packaging

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ERP for ManufacturingSupply Chain Management and ERP

No one-size-fits-all ERP solutions for Mining

Reading Time: 2 minutes Most ERP vendors offer ERP solutions for Mining, but is there such a thing as a single ERP solution that …

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