Pupkewitz MegaBuild is one of Southern Africa’s largest and most professionally run building and hardware supply operations. They service their customers through a chain of owned branches, multiple depots and franchises. They have been a leading supplier of building goods since 1925.
Megabuild operates from 16 branches across Namibia. The latest branch was opened in December 2014, in Windhoek in the Grove Mall. This branch is a retail focussed outlet, where the other operations are more trade and contractor based. The new retail store will act as a proof of concept and the blueprint used to enhance their overall retail offering. This model will be rolled out to other branches in order to extend the retail focus of those branches.
The new store required 50 additional K8 users to their current compliment of 320. The system is hosted at SALT, a Kerridge Commercial Systems partner data-centre based in Windhoek, and will be managed remotely by KCS Managed Services.
This is one of the largest hardware retail stores in Namibia with 6,000 m² (66 0000 ft²) covered space and a 6000 m² yard. The store features 19 till points with advanced bi-optical scanning technology as well as Point of Sale pole displays and automated flip lid cash drawers. In addition, electronic shelf “talkers” have been installed, each with an interface to K8, to automatically update selling prices.
Megabuild has been a KCS customer since 1998. KCS also recently implemented K8 at their sister company, Megatech, a reseller and distributor of electrical products.
Danie Du Toit, Financial Director, Megabuild said: “Rolling out K8 for the new store was easy and cost effective. We have been using K8 for 17 years now and the K8 software is key to our growth”.
Des Nangle, Managing Director of KCS South Africa, said: “Pupkewitz Megabuild has been a long-standing customer of KCS and I have really enjoyed working in partnership with them, and watching how their business grew. K8 is a very scalable and flexible product, proven with the ease with which Megabuild has been able to rollout K8 to their retail store, where speed is of the essence. K8’s ability to simultaneously process many POS transactions live to General Ledger is a key benefit for this environment”.
