MTN Business wins Best Project award

These awards, which are a collaborative effort between the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in South Africa, the Consumer Goods Council of South Africa and Supply Chain Today magazine, are designed to recognise excellence and reward companies that are making a genuine and sustained effort towards minimising the environmental impact of their supply chain processes.

"MTN believes that business can no longer afford to relegate environmental issues to the back burner. The challenges posed by greenhouse gas emissions cannot simply be the sole preserve of NGOs and governments," said Nomalanga Nkosi GM, MTN business marketing. "We are making a concerted effort to ensure that all our business practices are aligned to a sustainable model that will reduce our carbon footprint.

Totally paperless processes

"Our cost-effective solution is a first for Africa. It enables totally paperless processes by providing an enterprise mobility platform, bundled with cellular data contract, providing all businesses requirements in terms of software, hardware, data, support and services. This state-of-the-art system will literally save businesses millions in upfront hardware and software costs while increasing efficiency and productivity, creating paperless processes and reducing waste," he added.

Key benefits to this solution include:

• Improved asset and resource utilisation
  
• Improved field visibility
  
• Real-time, electronic field data
  
• More proactive customer service and service recovery
  
• Improved risk and incident management
  
• Efficiency and productivity improvements
  
• Field worker management, tracking, communication and radio costs
  
• Data capture, document scanning/imaging/storage
  
• Improved call centre operations and service
  
• Minimising goods lost in transit
  
• Risk management, claims, credit notes, reducing debtor payment delays
  
• Fuel consumption
  
• No paper trail required

"Greening the future does not stop and start with just our solutions to market. We take our leadership in energy and environmental issues across Africa very seriously, with sustainable business practice an imperative for MTN to significantly reduce and manage our own energy consumption and carbon footprint and, of course, our solutions to market help our customers reduce theirs," concluded Nkosi.