Cape Five NL
Etten-Leur, 17-06-2011 - ‘‘The software that you use has to facilitate the possibility of a quick growth." From this starting point CEO Pieter Klok Of Cape Five NL started his search in 2011 for a fitting ERP solution. Three years ago Cape Five NL was founded as European trade organisation for Cape Five in South Africa. Ever since, the importer of Cape fruit has seen a tremendous growth in terms of distribution of especially apples, pears, stone fruit and citrus fruits.
At an earlier stage, SAP Business One was chosen as the ERP system to support this growth. This solution missed critical functionality such as making sales reports. While looking for an ERP system with specific AGF functions for at least 4 users, Cape Five NL came in contact with Schouw Informatisering from Etten-Leur.
Schouw Informatisering offers company-wide solutions based on Microsoft Dynamics® NAV and AX. These solutions focus on general features such as Finance in combination with Purchase, Sales and Warehouse. To serve the special needs of the food industry, Dynamics® NAV and AX are supplemented with in-house developed standard software for the food industry: SI Foodware®.
Cape Five NL noticed that the benefit of this combination is that the ERP solution can be as simple or as complex as is necessary for your organisation. CFO of Cape Five NL Gerrit Klop: "At this moment Cape Five NL only needs basic functionality such as Purchase, Sales, Finance, Consignment and the creation of Sales Reports. In the future we can add SI Foodware modules such as Quality and EDI to the existing solutions. In this way Dynamics® NAV and SI Foodware can grow with the organisation which is a big advantage. "The growth options for this combination is always available and you only pay for what you need," according to Gerrit Klop .
About Cape Five NL
Cape Five NL is the European trade organisation of Cape Five in South Africa. Besides the import of South-African fruit (mainly from the Cape Town region), Cape Five NL also provides the marketing of these products in Europe. Other activities of Cape Five include the import of Chilean products and the export of Dutch apples and pears. For more information: www.capefive.nl.
