We had recognised early that the role of Information Systems will play an important strategic role in the company. Currently there is full integration of the financials, purchasing, sales and inventories. We are almost through with the integration of the Production System (for footwear division) with all the above and the strategy was to complete this in phases starting with the footwear division and moving to the confectionery division. The confectionery division Production System was started being implemented in mid 2006 and is still in progress. This currently provides us with Precise and up to date information; Systems to enable the management to control the operation’s better; Increasing efficiency of the KI employees.

There are numerous plans in place including Implementation of the manufacturing control system in the new factory; nvestment in both a CRM and a SCM system to further increase efficiency and enhance control; VOIP has also been successfully installed at KI; The connection between the new factory and the current one has also been completed successfully using latest wireless technology.