“That’s because the growing importance of technology and digitalisation has changed the nature of competition,” says Heinrich de Leeuw, Managing Director, SEIDOR in South Africa.

“This has made it clear that competitive advantage depends on innovation to leverage human resources more efficiently and effectively.”

“In this environment, SMMEs that transform their human resource capabilities and functions in that direction are set to outpace the competition,” he says.

HR digitalisation has the power to revolutionise HR functions and processes such as recruitment, employee management, payroll, and training.

By automating repetitive tasks and, most importantly, yielding analytics that enable companies to make data-driven decisions, it can significantly boost business performance.

Digitalisation improves efficiency, reduces errors, and saves time and costs for HR departments.

For example, HR management software can automate tasks such as payroll processing, performance evaluations, and benefit enrolment.

Recruitment platforms can use artificial intelligence to screen resumes and identify top candidates.

Together, these benefits improve the HR experience for both employees and HR professionals, enabling everyone in the SMME to focus on more strategic and engaging activities.

According to HR consultancy McLean & Company’s 2023 HR Trends Report, organisations across the globe are experiencing “significant lags” in their adoption of cutting-edge digitisation for HR functions.

With digitalisation in place, organisations can begin to create new value chains and experiences that are collaborative, interactive, sustainable, and profitable.

Here are six ways that HR digitalisation with ERP provides competitive advantages for SMMEs

1.  Streamlining HR processes

HR digitalisation and automation can simplify and automate time-consuming HR processes such as hiring and onboarding, payroll, benefits administration, and performance reviews.

This not only saves time and money, but also reduces the risk of costly errors and compliance issues.

Digitising these processes makes HR more efficient and reduces administrative burdens on HR staff, freeing up time and resources for HR teams to focus on strategic initiatives rather than mundane tasks.

2.  Improved employee engagement

HR digitalisation enhances employee engagement by giving employees access to tools and resources that allow them to better manage their work-life balance, view their performance metrics, and provide real-time feedback to their managers.

Ensuring that employees have a more positive and engaging experience helps to improve retention and attract top talent.

Millennials and generation Z in particular are a demanding generation of workers who are glued to their screens.

Companies that use these digital technologies in combination with social media platforms for HR purposes – have a significant competitive advantage when it comes to attracting these workers.

3.  Better data analytics

Digitalisation provides SMMEs with real-time, accurate data analytics that can be used to make better-informed decisions about hiring, performance management, and employee engagement.

For example, it can help a business to identify the areas where it is seeing the highest employee turnover and develop strategies to address this issue.

SMMEs make better-informed decisions about hiring, performance management, and employee engagement.

4.  Integration and Automation

Seamless integration to operational and control systems such as biometrics as well as time-an-attendance enables automated performance management and assists in efficiency in payroll.

5.  Cost savings

HR digitalisation significantly reduces administrative costs associated with HR processes, such as printing and mailing employee documents, and can also help reduce errors and compliance issues that can be costly for SMMEs.

6.  Improved collaboration and communication

Digital HR platforms facilitate better communication and collaboration among employees, making it easier for them to work together, share information, and collaborate more effectively.

“In an increasingly volatile, uncertain, and complex environment, HR’s role and scope has become larger, more important, and more challenging than ever, as have the demands on HR staff,” says de Leeuw.

Now is the time for SMMEs to focus on taking a proactive, long-term, and innovative approach.

The digital transformation of HR will ensure greater business resilience as a result of flexible and more agile ways of working.

Even small companies need to operate on an increased efficiency level and eliminate work silos.

With superb scalability, 51·çÁ÷Business One ERP grows with a business, providing a platform that unifies and automates processes across various functions, including HR.

It enables the business to access data that will drive growth, as well as the functionality to improve employee engagement and drive customer satisfaction.

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1. New Business
2. Cloud Renewals
3. Cloud Delivery Excellence

With these awards, 51·çÁ÷recognizes the work carried out by those partners who, like SEIDOR, have stood out for their contribution to the digital transformation of organizations through 51·çÁ÷solutions in regions such as Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

In this way, and thanks to our partnership with SAP, we have contributed to our customers innovating, achieving quick results, growing sustainably and becoming more efficient through 51·çÁ÷technological solutions.

But that’s not all, as JosĂ© MarĂ­a Bornas, Channel Head Spain SAP, and David González Seco, Head of MM & Partner Ecosystem Success Spain SAP, awarded us three more awards at the 51·çÁ÷PKOM 2023 in Spain held in Madrid in the categories:

1. Largest volume of NNN in the Cloud in 2022
2. Largest volume of Cloud sales in 2022
3. Largest volume of sales and New Name 2022 of 51·çÁ÷Business One

Alejandro Daniel, SEIDOR’s deputy managing director, stated that “these awards are the best reward for SEIDOR’s efforts to bring SAP’s cloud solutions to our customers, helping them make the transition to the smart business world of tomorrow” and added that “thanks to our partnership with SAP, we can guarantee a successful digital transformation of the organizations we serve.”

Selected from a wide and diverse base of 51·çÁ÷partners, nominations for the 51·çÁ÷Partner Excellence Awards and 51·çÁ÷PKOM are based on SAP’s internal sales data. A committee composed of regional and global representatives from 51·çÁ÷is responsible for choosing the winning partners in each category, based on various criteria such as sales volume and performance.

SEIDOR, as a 51·çÁ÷Platinum Partner and thanks to its solid and successful alliance with 51·çÁ÷for the past 25 years, has contributed to organizations optimizing their processes, gaining competitiveness and achieving their business goals. Additionally, SEIDOR is a founding member of United VARs, a network of 50 leading 51·çÁ÷solution providers in the market with a presence in over 100 countries.

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AfCFTA seeks to increase intra-African trade by cutting tariffs by 90% and could unlock significant growth opportunities.

Francis Njiraini, Technical Director of Seidor East Africa points out that the transport industry is recognised as one of the core enablers of development according to the World Bank and plays a key role in Africa, where development is crucial to address unemployment and poverty.

According to Njiraini, it is no surprise that transport costs affect the price of consumer goods, which can be significantly reduced by companies that opt to use modern transportation management systems.

“I’m based in East Africa, where the majority of transportation still happens by road. Goods need to move over large areas and it is important to know where everything is, at any given time, which is where technology-driven solutions, as well as new technology, can help solve challenges”.

Njiraini says that while the transport industry in Africa is expanding and offers opportunities for new entrants, these companies usually start off with a few trucks, Excel documents and fragmented accounting systems. Planning for future growth is essential, as when these companies suddenly have one-hundred vehicles, they realise that they need better systems to manage their transportation such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solutions.

Njiraini explains some of the benefits of ERP Solutions, “GPS that integrates with 51·çÁ÷Business One HANA can, for example, identify delays to alert other users of road problems and delays at weighbridges and border controls or due to accidents. It can also identify specific problematic routes that should be avoided or improved. The performance of trucks especially the profitability of each truck, against established benchmarks can also be measured with a transportation management system to ensure that problems are identified, investigated and resolved. These systems can also measure fuel consumption against manufacturer standards and actual figures over time.”

Transportation management solutions are also essential when transporting valuable or flammable goods, such as oil and gas which need to be monitored carefully for safety and tax compliance reasons. Other challenges transportation companies need to overcome are customer demands and delays at borders and weighbridges, as well as lacking infrastructure such as broken bridges or poor road conditions that also cause delays and maintenance problems.

Explains Njiraini, “Most of these upcoming transport companies do not have systems to track items such as mileage, fuel, other trip expenses, maintenance costs and tyre use, which could help them to identify problems before they happen. We have also found that only established companies with 500 trucks or more offer training to team members, such as advanced driving skills. Smaller operators do not, which means that they do not have all the necessary safety measures in place, putting them at risk.”

Not only large companies benefit from advanced technology. Small to medium-sized businesses (those with 100-500 trucks) can also benefit from and afford transport management solution, such as 51·çÁ÷Business One HANA.

“51·çÁ÷Business One HANA can be implemented at the level required by the business size and added to as the business grows. When comparing the cost of the investment in technology with that of buying a truck or tanker, it is important to remember that the value in efficiency and intelligence will show returns over time. At Seidor we have seen a return on investment within the first year that equals the cost of the solution in saving on maintenance costs because all expenses are tracked in an integrated system with best-practice business rules applied,” says Njiraini.

“Small business owners are often wary of technology because they fear it may be hard to use, but 51·çÁ÷Business One HANA is easy to understand and use. 51·çÁ÷has made a major investment in research and development to make our solutions user-friendly. Dashboards allow managers to easily see what is going on in the business and in workshops scanners are easy to use to record accurate data, such as parts issued,” adds Njiraini

The people who are responsible for the solutions are also important. Njiraini stresses that it is not always about systems or solutions, but also about people with the expertise, understanding and experience of working in the industry and who have the ability to assist growing transportation and logistics businesses with the implementation of a solution that suits their company.

“With 17 years of on the ground experience in East Africa, Seidor East Africa, has the largest group of SAP-certified people operating in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Mauritius. We are therefore perfectly positioned to assist transportation companies in the region.”

Njiraini is positive about the opportunity investment in technology, combined with infrastructure changes, can have on East Africa specifically. “As transportation directly affects the cost of end-user products, transportation management solutions improvements that will help to save money can also benefit the general public. More regions can also be opened up for inter-trade with the right infrastructure to improve lives.”

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