Westcon-Comstor, the leading value-added global distributor of security, unified communications, network infrastructure and data centre solutions, is pleased to announce that customers in Zambia will now benefit from the global rollout of SAP, which is today live in 54 countries.<\/p>\n
The announcement follows a three-year transformation programme, which now sees the conclusion of Westcon-Comstor\u2019s global rollout, with the implementation of the Africa businesses being the most recent addition to the company\u2019s single, unified use of SAP around the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are pleased to announce that as part of Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa, we are now able to leverage a single process-driven solution that will bring operational efficiencies to us, our vendors and our resellers and solution providers,\u201d states Deirdre Bailey, Regional Manager at Westcon-Comstor in Zambia.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith this common business platform, which spans across five continents, we can gain a cohesive view of our worldwide operations, as well as provide customers with a complete, 360-degree analysis of their business,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
According to the company, some of the key benefits of the global deployment for customers include:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Global customer and order management<\/strong> \u2013 Real-time availability of global orders, inventory and system-based tax and invoicing capabilities In addition to the deployment of SAP, the Westcon-Comstor business in Zambia is currently rolling out the company\u2019s BlueSky digital logistics platform, onboarding resellers to the system. Where they can now digitally engage with vendors and customers, as well as procure cloud-based technologies and solutions online. The BlueSky solution is integrated with SAP, ensuring that it delivers on its promise as a fully integrated e-commerce engine.<\/p>\n \u201cAs part of a global organisation, we are in the fortunate position to be able to leverage global know-how, vendor relationships and tailored services, in order to better meet the needs of customers who want to scale their own offerings to end users. We believe that we are now in a prime position to be able to offer customers in Zambia with a host of ICT technologies and services that will help them drive their customer\u2019s digital transformation aims,\u201d ends Bailey. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Westcon-Comstor, the leading value-added global distributor of security, unified communications, network infrastructure and data centre solutions, is pleased to announce that customers in Zambia will now benefit from the global rollout of SAP, which is today live in 54 countries. The announcement follows a three-year transformation programme, which now sees the conclusion of Westcon-Comstor\u2019s global […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":13793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[399,19,183],"tags":[385,2195,188,530,1906],"class_list":["post-13713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-news","category-regional-news","category-software","tag-africa","tag-ict-technologies","tag-sap","tag-westcon-comstor","tag-zambia"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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