Our Sparta ERP is perfect for wholesalers and distributors that import or export product – to and from anywhere in the world! Our software works great for a variety of Sub-industries such as:
Food & Beverage / Apparel / Consumer Goods/ Industrial Products / Electronics and more!
While Ethiopia still depends on import for most of its consumer goods, the export market has seen a boost in the last decade. Realizing that Ethiopian commodities such as lentils, sesame seeds and coffee are of high quality in the foreign markets, companies have benefited from sharing the rich cultural exports to the open market in exchange for much needed foreign currency.
Where the gap lies
This has in turn proved to be a beneficial move as the currency has been reinvested to import either common goods like breakfast cereal, health and beauty products, stationary and more.
These transactions are proving cumbersome for most companies involved in the Import/Export business. Preparing export documents, planning shipment bill of materials, calculating product cost and tracking inventory are just some of the issues that seem to trouble these companies.
Our Sparta ERP will help integrate your business into an easy to manage whole. The challenge facing most exporters is being able to manage all of their business processes and ever-growing number of operational systems. This is when they would usually begin implementing an Enterprise resource planning (ERP) tool, integrating the many different operational areas of the company to provide a much more intelligent, streamlined and automated approach.
FYI: Ethiopia's main export product is coffee; the country is credited to be the birth place of coffee and it has long been its major export product. Not only that, coffee plays a central role in the Ethiopian social fabric.
Using Sparta ERP you can:
✔ Easily Manage Your Warehouse Inventory
An ERP software like Sparta ERP can help you make things simpler with your inventory management. If your ERP is customized to fit your business needs, it can help you track your inventory so you can manage your exports and imports according to your needs.
A storage warehouse can also be managed by integrating such a system into your business. You can track the inventory at your warehouse for items, track items that have arrived or been dispatched from a warehouse or basically anything else that you think will make your business more efficient. Sparta also calculates the best way to make use of available space and helps you keep on top of problems like the expiration dates on perishable items.
✔ Track and Manage your Shipments
One of the main aspects of an Import-Export business is handling the shipping of products. Whether you need to import or export an item, tracking it is necessary to make sure the product reaches the destination from/to the country of origin/destination. our Sparta ERP, can give you all the tracking information you need at your fingertips.
Shipments costs can also be calculated automatically with the help of an ERP system that has been integrated properly into your business. Weights of containers can be shown automatically, to deal with further shipping processes or to ensure packages when required.
✔ See through that orders have the necessary documents
As with many in the Export business here in Ethiopia, many outgoing orders are shipped without a lot of traceability. One way of curbing this issue is with our Export Document Management System (EDMS).
This feature allows orders to be documented and tracked. Not only does the EDMS add transparency to the process of order fulfillment, you can now access digital copies of every document at any given time. Any user with the right permission set will be able to see what documents are received and in place, enabling them to take swift action.
How we can help...
There’s so much that can be done to close these gaps. Our Sparta ERP offers modules that are customize-able to these needs.
As an industry that doesn't get involved in manufacturing, the import/export sector presents the opportunity to show our inventory management system in depth, as well as product costing feature that calculates the final import or export price of goods.
Add to that the connection to the back offices (Accounting, HR, and so on...) and you will get a streamline of other modules with Finance, Sales, Procurement and much more.
