OUR WORK
While FLEX Digital is a relatively young company, many well-known organisations, across various industries, have already placed their trust in us to help them maximise the return on their operational assets. As a result, they have experienced significant improvements in their operational efficiencies. This can be seen by the sample of satisfied customers below.
And more to come... Watch this space!
De Beers Group
The De Beers Sightholder Sales department is responsible for the cleaning, sorting, grading, and selling of the diamonds that they receive from their various mines. This process is dependent on a large number of assets and was rather manual and inefficient. The De Beers team partnered with FLEX Digital to help streamline this process. Our smaRTE Assets solution was first deployed to track their various IT equipment, using RFID technology.
Furthermore, our smaRTE Stock solution has been implemented to provide real-time tracking and tracing of the boxes and briefcases that the diamonds are transported in, using BLE technology. This provides substantial improvements in the real-time monitoring, management, and security of these assets, which has unlocked an extra 2 hours per day of production time.
INDUSTRY
Mining
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smaRTE Stock
smaRTE Assets
Massmart Group
Massmart is the home to some of Africa's most loved brands. Through their widely recognised and differentiated retail and wholesale formats, represented in over 300 stores in 9 sub-Saharan countries, they have leading market shares in the general merchandise, liquor, home improvement and wholesale food markets.
Massmart's eCommerce department is the fastest growing area of their business and because the eCommerce industry is becoming ever-more competitive, providing a consistent and excellent customer experience is essential. On-Time delivery then becomes a critical success factor.
FLEX Digital has been contracted to design and deploy a bespoke "smaRTE Stock" solution that provides real-time visibility of every parcel that is packed as part of their eCommerce fulfilment process, leveraging our RFID technology. This solution assists the Massmart team to act quickly and concisely, whenever an exception is detected, to minimise any delays and maximise their On-Time Delivery performance.
INDUSTRY
Retail
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Stock
We Buy Cars
WeBuyCars (WBC) had been battling with a major operational challenge for over 4 years, with no realistic solution, until they engaged with FLEX Digital. Each of their sales warehouses around the country has over 1,000 vehicles in them at any one time.
Manually identifying and counting each vehicle on a daily basis was inaccurate and was wasting about 2 hours per day for their sales staff, instead of them spending that valuable time with customers. Also, managing the movement of these vehicles in-and-out of each warehouse in an efficient and secure manner, was proving to be a huge challenge.
Having explored various other avenues, they entrusted FLEX Digital to solve these challenges for them. We combined our RFID stock management solution with our AI-driven facial recognition access control solution to substantially improve their stock counting process and accuracy, while also automating and streamlining their vehicle-and-staff access control in/out of their facilities.
INDUSTRY
Automotive
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Assets
smaRTE Secure
Pace Car Rentals
PACE car rental had a major challenge managing the 6,000+ keys for their fleet of vehicles. They were struggling to perform quick and accurate stock takes, locating keys, as well as controlling and tracking the access to these keys.
FLEX Digital was entrusted to provide a smaRTE Key Room solution that combined RFID technology with our AI-driven access control solution. The results were phenomenal. Stock takes reduced from 3 days once per month, to 3 minutes daily and the accuracy improved from approximately 60% to 99%. Finding specific keys reduced from days to minutes and the management of who took what keys at what times became far more accurate, which enabled the leadership team to hold staff more accountable. Also, PACE is now able to bill their clients more accurately when there is a call-out for spare keys, as this is now much more auditable.
INDUSTRY
Automotive
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Keys
smaRTE Secure
FirstRand Group
Since the advent of COVID, the FirstRand Group has migrated to a hybrid working culture where staff can work from home and the office. This has led to a significant rise in controls required around their large number of assets that are either supposed to remain in the offices, or move in-and-out of the buildings. These include PC's, laptops, monitors, and other IT equipment, as well as desks, chairs, and even artwork.
The FirstRand Group engaged with FLEX Digital to assist them to provide better management and tracking of these assets. Our smaRTE Assets solution was implemented, using a combination of RFID and BLE technologies. This has allowed the FirstRand team to perform quick and accurate daily stock-takes of non-moveable assets, as well as enforce better control of how moveable assets are moving in-and-out of their buildings. BLE-based tamper sensors are also placed on their valuable artwork to alarm if they are being removed without authorisation.
INDUSTRY
Smart Buildings
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Assets
COCT - City Of Cape Town
The Transport and Urban Development Authority (TDA) of the City of Cape Town (CoCT) is responsible for the management of all public transport infrastructure in the city. This extends to their Public Transport Interchange (PTI) facilities at major transport hubs (rail, taxi, and bus), the MyCiti bus stations, as well as the area traffic control team responsible for all traffic light systems around the metropole.
The TDA has rapidly expanded its operational technology footprint to all these locations throughout the city and has connected these via its converged IT infrastructure. However, the TDA team had limited visibility of this operational technology environment. They recognised that they had to balance the benefits of connectivity and convergence with modern cyber-physical risk factors. Our smaRTE Splice solution was deployed to protect their OT environment by employing a combination of continuous monitoring, automated
AI-driven anomaly detection, and real time response.
INDUSTRY
Smart Cities
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Splice
smaRTE Assets
smaRTE Keys
Zeiss Vision
Zeiss vision is a specialist in eyeglass manufacturing and assembly. They manufacture the lenses in Germany and then assemble the eyeglasses in South Africa. They had 2 main challenges around better management of their stock of lenses and frames, as well as optimising their assembly line.
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Their stock was managed and counted manually, which led to many inaccuracies around replenishment of lenses and shrinkage of frames.
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They also had no automatic way to confirm that the right lenses were assembled with the right frames, as well as being able to measure the efficiency of their assembly line and staff.
FLEX Digital was employed to assist Zeiss with these challenges. Our smaRTE Stock and Indoor Asset Tracking solution is used to get their stock accuracy up to 99% using RFID technology, while also using our BLE technology to track their job trays throughout the assembly line. This enables Zeiss to automatically check the job compilation and alert if incorrect before the eyeglasses are assembled, as well as measure and optimise the performance of their assembly line and staff.
INDUSTRY
Manufacturing & Assembly
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Stock
smaRTE Assets
Solenco
Solenco sources and distributes international award-winning air treatment and lifestyle products from their warehouse is in Port Elizabeth. Their customers are many of South Africa’s leading lifestyle retailers such as Yuppiechef, Builders Warehouse, Clicks, Hirschs, etc. Solenco print RFID labels at their warehouse in Port Elizabeth. The labels are then couriered to their suppliers overseas who apply the pre-printed and encoded labels to the products on Solenco’s behalf. The RFID labled products are then shipped in a container via sea to Port Elizabeth. On arrival of the container, Solenco use an RFID handheld reader to receive the shipment to item level quickly and accurately. Solenco are also using RFID to perform regular stock takes, and locate specific units in the warehouse, as well as ensuring 100% picking and dispatch accuracy.
INDUSTRY
Warehousing & Logistics
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Stock
Cape Town Infusion Centre
Cape Town Infusion Centre (CTIC) is Southern Africa’s largest specialised high risk infusion centre focusing on inflammatory bowel disease and anaemia. Upholding the governance surrounding these highly specialised infusions is extremely administrative and labour intensive. CTIC have adopted RPA to reduce the burden of mundane and repetitive administrative load on their infusion staff, which has allowed them to focus on the patients and ensure that they can provide the highest level of care.
INDUSTRY
Healthcare
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Workforce
smaRTE Assets
GvH Landscapes
GvH Landscapes employs a small fleet of vehicles to transport staff and products from their garden route base near Plettenberg Bay to and from their numerous clients. Tracking and managing the movement of these vehicles was a significant challenge. The aim was to track and manage their fleet in real-time to reduce fuel and usage costs, as well as bill their clients accurately, based on time-on-site. The FLEX smaRTE Assets solution for fleet management was deployed with great success, reducing their fuel and usage costs by a monthly average of 25%, while ensuring 100% accurate billing of clients.
INDUSTRY
Landscape Architecture Services
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Assets
Socrati
Socrati is an exclusive ladies' & men's footwear, belts & bags retailer that imports their products from the catwalks of Italy, Greece, Turkey & Brazil. They offer their limited edition products through an online eCommerce platform, as well as 7 stores in the Gauteng province of South Africa.
Socrati had a significant challenge around stock accuracy and inter-branch transfers. These processes were manual, inconsistent, and inaccurate. FLEX Digital was employed to assist with the deployment of an RFID solution to enable 100% accurate, weekly stock counts, as well as a digital process to ensure 100% dispatch and receiving accuracy between the various stores and the warehouse. The additional benefit of the solution was a sizeable reduction in shrinkage and loss.
INDUSTRY
Retail
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
smaRTE Stock
Harley Davidson - Cape Town & Durban
Harley Davidson is the most desirable motorcycle and lifestyle brand in the world, buying and selling new and pre-owned bikes, as well as offering a rental option. In addition to this, the company also sells motorcycle accessories, mens' and womens' clothing and apparel, as well as collectables. Finally, they also service bikes and provide spare parts. This results in a large amount of stock that the company has to manage on a daily basis, which presents a number of challenges and risks to the operational team.
FLEX Digital was contracted to deploy an RFID-based stock accuracy and stock security solution in their Cape Town and Durban branches. This solution enables weekly stock-takes in each store with 100% accuracy, as well as automated security checks at the entry/exit doors to minimise stock theft.
INDUSTRY
smaRTE SOLUTIONS
Automotive & Retail
smaRTE Stock
smaRTE Secure
NUtec Digital Ink
NUtec Digital Ink manufactures and supplies UV-curable, water-base and solvent inkjet ink for the global wide-format graphic arts, textile and industrial printing markets. The company supplies its inks to numerous international distributors, predominantly across Europe.
NUtec's challenge was to enable 100% accurate, daily visibility at their manufacturing plant in Cape Town of their ink stock levels across their broad network of distribution clients. This was to assist them to better plan their production and distribution of ink to substantially improve their delivery lead times to the end-clients and consequently, improve customer satisfaction.
FLEX Digital implemented a global RFID-based "stock accuracy" and "stock track-and-trace" solution for NUtec that enables quick and accurate, daily stock-takes at each distribution location in Europe, as well as a digital "dispatch-and-receiving" audit trail that ensures 100% dispatch and receiving of each consignment. NUtec can now plan their production and distribution of ink to all their international clients to ensure 100% client satisfaction.
INDUSTRY
Manufacturing
smaRTE SOLUTIONS