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Technology solutions that work.

Essense is a Business Analysis and Foresight services company that assists businesses to solve real-world problems through sustainable technology solutions.

Our 
Services

A sense-making and solution-seeking service that can assist you to bridge the gap between business challenges and effective, implementable solutions.

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Business Process Mappings

Unsure about all your current business processes and how these processes overlap or interact?  Let us visually map all your business processes for you. This ...

Business Efficiency Evaluations

Are you concerned that there are tedious, manual operations in your organisation that are often erroneous and ineffective? Let us evaluate your business processes and ...

Business Process Gap Analyses

Do you feel that your organisation operates in silos? Let us identify the areas where there are process gaps, missing touchpoints or misalignments. Get your ...

Software Assessments

Are you possibly using ineffective, ageing or irrelevant software for your business? Let us assess and benchmark your current software to identify if it can ...

System Analyses & System Requirements

Do you have a high-level idea of what your IT system should do, but unable to move from idea to reality? Let us convert your ...

System Integration

Do you have multiple systems, but these systems are isolated whilst existing, much-needed information needs to be recaptured? Let us assist you with linking your systems ...

Project Planning & Project Management

Do you have a need for project management skills or require assistance with your project planning? Let us provide you with additional resources to assist ...

Building Business Cases

Are you unsure how to evaluate if a project is worthwhile? We can help you to quantify a potential business solution and do a cost-benefit ...

Root Cause Analyses

Let us help you dig and get to the real cause of business problems. Move beyond merely witnessing and responding to events or crises. Start ...

Problem-solving & Critical thinking;

Do you feel completely entangled and overwhelmed when thinking about business problems? We can bring a fresh, unbiased and objective perspective to see and solve ...

We have a passion to fix problems and bring you solutions!

Our WORK

Our latest projects we worked on.

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Bespoke WMS

Developed, managed and implemented bespoke warehouse management system (WMS), used across 7 countries by the largest single brand discount retailer in Africa

ERP and WMS integration

Designed and developed custom integration platforms between Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and various WMS sites

Third-party system ERP integration

Managed integration projects with several third-party systems; integrating ERP with software packages for clients such as DSV, Sage HR & Payroll, Blue Yonder (JDA), Mi9 ...

Creation of PLM software

Designed, planned, managed and implemented bespoke product lifecycle management (PLM) software

ERP replacement project

Cross-functional programme management of multimillion-rand ERP replacement project.

Multi-currency product costing software

Developed multi-currency product costing software for retailer with 300+ stores.

Insights & Lessons learned

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Managing expectations:

Expectations are managed by listening to all stakeholders and assuming the responsibility of connecting the boardroom with the factory floor. Value the knowledge and opinions of people on the ground; they are your business!

Intention is everything:

Know the true reason and value for doing what you are doing. Our mental models (interpretation of the world) give rise to organisational structures, patterns and events. Failing to reflect, understand and change our thinking, we are bound to recreate the same structures and repeat previous patterns.

Quantifying outcomes:

An organisational change (such as automation) can have a relatively small effect on the bottom line, but can have a massive effect on a company’s personnel, their morale and creating a positive climate. 

Balancing an organisation’s financial prosperity with people’s development and self-actualisation is key!

Working environment:

Egos, bureaucracies and corporate politics are everywhere – see it for what it is and accommodate it. Do not get consumed by power plays, stay focussed on the task at hand and persist to achieve your intended goal. 

The best way to prove your credibility is getting the job done!

A changing world:

Improving your organisation through a certain initiative is a “living” and constantly evolving experience…. what makes sense today might not make sense tomorrow. The value-add of processes should constantly be re-evaluated with critical thinking, and be adapted to stay relevant and be sustainable.

Multiple viewpoints:

There is a right time to keep doing what others have done before you and a right time to innovate, rethink, experiment and be bold. Any one approach is not always right; ensure you are flexible enough to consider multiple solutions and have a free mind to select the option that fits your particular situation.

The full picture:

Getting a holistic understanding of a business problem is not dependent on people giving you the right answers, it requires you to ask the right questions.

Success:

The success of a project is not defined by the completion thereof; it is defined by the difference it makes in creating real-world solutions where there once were problems. 

Success is the outcome of making things better!

Process before system:

You need the right people (and attitude) with the right processes for a system to have any impact. Critically evaluate your business processes, find the gaps and visualise those desired processes. Find a system that will enable and support those processes. 

No system can fix a poor process! 

Systems thinking:

The importance of connecting the dots to understand what actions will impact which systems – especially if it is outside your silo. Alignment is key: know when to include the right people in your communication.