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DIGI TALISATION

a complementary workflow and spend management manual to digital tasks, remove low-value repetitive
system. Customers have found that ease of use and jobs and improve employee productivity. Supporting
process streamlining have produced significant people through this change requires a behavioural
benefits – in particular, cutting costs and increasing shift in re-educating employees right through the
staff efficiency. company. The pandemic has demonstrated that
dramatic changes in working practices (home
RS also offers eOrdering and eInvoicing, which working, for example) can be made with positive
are extensively used by some of South Africa’s results for all. The key is ‘test and learn’. Make
largest beverage and automotive manufacturers. evolutionary, small changes in a structured way.
These value-added solutions automate the Work with the people to see that the change is
procurement process for small and medium orders achieving the required effect.
for maintenance, repair and operations (MRO)
products, helping to save valuable production time. For sure, digitalisation will cause disruption to
processes and major changes to culture and working
One of the major causes of hesitation in the practices, but COVID-19 has certainly provided us L O GI S T I CS NEWS
wider adoption of digital acceleration is the change it with a painful demonstration of how much greater
engenders in the workplace. The aim is to shift from the cost of disruption could be without it. •

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