A day in your life with QBCon
We all go though life oblivious to the ways in which the world is interconnected and how people we may never have met and companies we may never have heard of affect our lives. Think of any product you use. Regardless of the brand name on the label it requires testing, management and control during its manufacturing. Everything that is produced follows a long and complicated path from producer to consumer. Every product, no matter how seemingly insignificant, depends on the company that produces it. Companies, in turn, depend on systems to keep the profits rolling in. Now think of a company, like QBCon, and how it plays a part in your life every minute of the day.
Your first QBCon encounter happens when you brush your teeth. The water you use was probably tested by QBCon’s Lab-i LIMS or a similar system at one of the big water suppliers or the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) laboratory that makes use of QBCon’s Lab-i system. Your breakfast cereal was bought at a retailer, such as Woermann and Brock, that uses QBCon Enterprise, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) programme, as it runs the entire sales process from delivery to sale. The mealies or wheat in your cereal was probably bought from a farmer, who grew it from seed he bought from one of the large agricultural companies, such as AFGRI, who, in turn, sell the wheat or mealies to a miller using QBCon Enterprise.
Not thinking about the complexity of your cereal, you drive to the office. The car you drive runs on fuel that is transported and sold by Brent Oil using a customised QBCon business solution. At work, as you research your company’s database with a business information tool called EasyAsk that answers your everyday, plain English questions without the help of technologists. You look out the window and marvel about how little the environment is affected by your company’s activity thanks to the environmental audits you complete with the help of Green Gain Consulting, running custom QBCon software.
You are anxious to get home as you remember that an important letter will arrive today, that will be transported by the FTL division of Crossroads. FTL managed the Post office long haul parcels, and delivers to your door by Skynet, both are subsidiaries of Crossroads for whom QBCon provided programming and support services. The soft fruit consignment your are sending to your customer in Germany is leaving on time at the best possible price with Afropro thanks to ProdX, the QBCon export solution for all traceability and costing issues. The last job you have to do before leaving the office is collect your outstanding debt. Once again you are touched by QBCon when you phone Asset Control for help.
On your way home, you stop at Barney’s Paint and once again meet the QBCon retail solution.
Just before you doze off after a long day’s work, it occurs to you that everything seemed a little easier today than it was yesterday. Not thinking about how QBCon affected your life today you briefly wonder how that happened and fall asleep.