SA HEALTH challenges , where we may have to go and have a conversation . But also where we can see that suppliers are going above and beyond , and there may be opportunities . I want those early indicators . The benefit is for our contract managers to be actually out with our customers and talking to suppliers and preparing the whole life cycle management of contracts , looking for better ways of working , preplanning for the next tender or whatever is next .
“ We ’ re not there yet , but we ' re stepping towards it , and that certainly is our end objective . Much of the transactional work can be automated , so we can really get into those other analytical pieces and opportunities , hence the technological transformation that we need to go through to get there .”
“ Oracle is our ERP system , and there are additional Oracle modules we ' re looking to implement . Certainly , I think that having everything on one platform will help us . We are bringing in service partners to come in and help complete implementation for us . We ’ re supply chain management experts . You can ask us how many SKUs we have in distribution , or you can ask us about negotiation strategies , but we ’ re not ICT experts , so we do need help from our Digital Health department and from service providers to do that .”
The Distribution Centre “ We are constructing a new distribution centre , and I went out to see it last week , it ’ s looking brilliant . It ’ s about 11,000 square meters with office areas on top of that . And we ' re looking to automate as much as we can . We ’ ll be putting in a new procurement system and warehouse management system . Our new goods to person picking
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