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Tech that talks to pallets

10 Jul 2025
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Ceres Koelkamers first joined forces with FarSoft a year shy of two decades ago. Since then, the partnership has grown from strength to strength, with the most recent improvements delivering significant benefits across their operations. Last season, the ViTrax team, working...
Kalos Farming

Latest ViTrax kid on the block

13 Jun 2025
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It’s always exciting to welcome a new member to the ViTrax family. And so it was when Kalos Farming kicked off with ViTrax QC, as well as Bin and Pallet Tracking in April this year when packing Howbill’s fruit. FarSoft’s Etienne van Zyl said the company intended to implement...

Less work for more gain

09 Dec 2024
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From bin intake to final shipment at Dutoit Vrugte’s cherry plant in Ceres, FarSoft’s ERP integration with the Unitec sizer works like a charm. Dutoit’s IT production systems manager, Edrich Botha, is particularly chuffed. ‘The integration of bins, rebins and pallets has improved...
The FarSoft team

United we stand!

02 Nov 2024
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Small wonder that each member of the FarSoft team looks over the moon in the accompanying photo. Guided by experienced facilitators Richard Boome and Sarah Lamond, FarSoft staff and management recently participated in an insightful and successful two-day life coaching event at...

This is a no-brainer for cold stores!

01 Oct 2024
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To propel its new 4000-pallet movable racking cold store depot to the next level, Ceres Fruit Growers not only installed FarSoft’s ViTrax system, but also commissioned new mobile technology to optimise storage. Forklifts, fitted with Appsource’s rugged tablets and mobile...

Celebrating a decade x 4

08 Jul 2024
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They say the first 10 years at a company are the hardest, but for Hanneke Alberts, Ben Louw, Mariska Cubitt and Darrell Cloete the past decade at FarSoft passed in a flash with many highs. To put it in perspective, they each notched up a total of 120 months, which accounts for...
Green Valley Nuts

Turning QC on its head

26 Mar 2024
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By trying something new with Karsten Group’s Green Valley Nuts, FarSoft managed to change ViTrax QC radically after all these years. ‘Nuts just happen to be the first commodity to use the dynamic control-based QC,’ said FarSoft’s Mariska Cubitt. ‘The possibilities are now...
CF Carton Labelling development team

Raving about CF Carton Labelling

05 Feb 2024
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Transforming the working lives of clients is what FarSoft does best. It was no different at Augrabies-based Southern Cross Marketing & Management (SCMM) when the team implemented CF Carton Labelling late in 2023 for the exporter’s date and grape exports. SCMM inventory and...
Bella Frutta's Andrea Viviers

Simply marvellous!

27 Nov 2023
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When Bella Frutta signed up for FarSoft’s Boxtac system in 2022, little did they know just how much the system would transform the daily grind while packing. “It’s only since it was fully implemented in March this year that we realised how it has revolutionised our pallet...
ViTrax CF Business Rules

Good, better, best

14 Nov 2023
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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, enter ViTrax Business Rules. Powerful in its versatility of enhancing ViTrax’s functionality, it has allowed the Du Toit Group for one, to automate data validation and verification by checking values against preset business rules....
Triple D Farms

Pulling together

03 Nov 2023
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Triple D Farms near Kakamas got a dose of side-by-side attention recently. Not only did the FarSoft team pitch up to train Triple D newcomers, but delegates from SATI (South African Tablegrape Industry) also joined in. FarSoft’s Mariska Cubitt led the training, with Hanneke...
Ernst du Toit and Jaco Witsche

Acing financial headaches

04 Oct 2023
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Enthusiasm is at fever-pitch with the expanded ViTrax Central Financial. The latter is typically used by fruit marketing companies to manage fruit sales and costs, in addition to calculating and administering grower payments. So, the system does it all: from bookings with...
Dutoit group

Eight happy years and counting

23 Jun 2023
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Since 2015 the Dutoit Group and FarSoft have walked the road towards superior packhouse solutions on the ViTrax system. It all started with Dutoit Agri, followed by the Dutoit depot in Johannesburg two years later and Dutoit Groente in 2021. So when Dutoit Eastern Cape’s three...
Stephanie Brown

Red-hot support

10 May 2023
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Spearheading the phenomenal FarSoft support desk team, Stephanie Brown is a package of drive, dedication and enthusiasm. “Client satisfaction is my priority. And getting positive feedback certainly makes the hard work ever so worthwhile,” she commented. After five years in the...
ViTraxMobile

Thumbs up for ViTrax Android QC

20 Mar 2023
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A ViTrax devotee since 2003, Graaff Fruit recently upped the stakes when they converted the quality control module to accommodate Android handheld devices. And all credit goes to quality control manager Hanna Visser who spearheaded this switch. She said, “Although we’d been using...
FarSoft's Boxtac system

As easy as pie

10 Mar 2023
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Not only is it no sweat whatsoever, but the Boxtac system that FarSoft implemented over a period of four months at Ideafruit has improved pallet accuracy to the max. It works like this: the Boxtac device is strapped to the operators’ wrists and every box or bag is scanned with a...
FarSoft's ViTrax packhouse solution

Another rollout …. another happy client

08 Feb 2023
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After a two-year journey, ViTrax Money is now live at Môrester Vegetable Packhouse in Ceres. And no-one is happier than Marietjie Loff, who’s in charge of admin and logistics at the packhouse. “It took us a while to understand everything, but now we’re flying. What a difference...

Exciting times at DuToit Groente

01 Dec 2022
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Having started the journey implementing ViTrax bin tracking on Android in November 2021, DuToit Groente is now up and running with both the bin tracking and pallet tracking modules. And IT production system manager Edrich Botha is as pleased as punch with the results. “We do...

Interns rock!

27 Oct 2022
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Having taken on interns since 2019, FarSoft believes this practice will create a pool of skilled talent to fill future roles within or outside the company. “We want to provide training and work experience to school-leavers, students and recent graduates,” explained FarSoft senior...

A day worth remembering

14 Sep 2022
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At a recent FarSoft Highlights Day held at Diemersfontein, clients were treated to the very latest ViTrax developments, as well as some all-important industry talk and networking. MD Freddie Roux kicked off the sessions by outlining the ViTrax roadmap: detailing where FarSoft...
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