 |
Manufacturers want to reduce lead times, improve turnaround times and deliver better service to increasingly demanding customers. However, current proprietary manufacturing and administrative systems often hinder the system integration that manufacturers need to respond rapidly to changing customers’ demands and floor conditions. Today’s manufacturing leaders are companies that use technology to provide fast access to information and ss have positively impacted the sustainable growth of nations such as the US, UK, China, India, United Arab Emirates and the Asian Tigers have been bought about by the use of knowledge, the ability to innovatively adopt and use mechanisation as a foundation for building capacity. For us in Uganda, the timing is perfect! The time is now!
Challenges and Trends
Manufactures today face a variety of global challenges passed by technological advances and driven by competition:
|
Shrinking profit margins and rising labour costs |
|
inability to pass on rising energy costs to customers |
|
new regulations and compliance issues |
|
Such challenges have resulted in various industry-wide responses including:
|
Moving operations to remote production facilities |
|
Increased use of outsourcing and out-tasking |
|
Rapid adoption of technologies |
|
New approaches to satisfy customer needs and ensure loyalty |
|
Implementing collaboration and productivity measures |
What Manufacturers Want and Need
|
Production line efficiencies |
|
Global supply chain visibility and management |
|
Cost reductions while enhancing accuracy of inventory, shipping, and receiving capabilities |
|
Flexibility to adapt to changing marketing and customer demand |
|
Ability to shift customer perceptions from “cost” to “value”. |
Comtel Integrators Africa works with many manufacturing and understands that to succeed today, manufacturers need to respond to customers faster and create value that extends beyond a quality product. We realise that for you to make the right decisions manufacturers need access to information often hidden within their production environments.
Over the last few years Comtel has developed an unrivalled understanding of business and technology challenges in Uganda and has always geared towards being able to address the most critical business and ICT issues in a way that ensures value creation for customers.
The investment Comtel has made into Microsoft, Cisco, HP, Tripplite, Penduit, Oracle, and SaleScience has position us and given us the capabilities and skill to deliver as if our partners were in-country.
Testimony of this is in the following:
Accolades:
|
2nd place exhibitor AITEC IT show 2006 |
|
We were awarded Cisco Newcomer of the year in 2007 |
|
First Company in the region to install, configure and sign-off Cisco Hospitality Suite |
|
Implementing the first Intelligent Building and the largest IP Contact Centre in East Africa. |
Comtel, as for participation in the Manufacturing Sector space, has been supplying ICT Kit and Solutions to Manufacturers since the early days when the company was founded in 2005 by 4 entrepreneurs who realised the urgent need for a system integration company in the East African market. Since the company’s inception, it has become the number one ICT systems integrator in East Africa.
Comtel Integrators Africa like any business entity with a passion to win over new customers and retain existing ones will employ a mix of strategies to achieve this.
True to our VISION of branding Comtel Integrators Africa as the ultimate choice for ICT integrated services and innovative solutions throughout Africa by providing quality and professional services and hence becoming the leading systems integrator of business solutions that empower customers to achieve their goals in the region, our aim is to ensure that we maximise on every opportunity to engage our vendors Key .
Furthermore in true fashion of our MISSION, of becoming the leading ICT Company in Africa by providing value added products, solutions, and services. We develop human resources and align these to customer needs and priorities such as: productivity, cost savings, and returns on investment using creative and innovative concepts, we wish to contribute our cents worth to the development of our region into a knowledge based society capable of competing globally and achieving the worlds MDG’s or Millennium Development Goals.
We wish to assure Manufacturers that every effort possible to satisfy your business need is met by our unequivocal ability to use technology for your benefit.
We look forward to the opportunity to serve you in a Services Engagement.
|
|
