ENTERPRISE

MANAGEMENT SERVICES

An integrated collection of services and solutions to help you process and manage municipal funds in line with National Treasury requirements

National Treasury requires that all municipalities transact in the same way and manage their finances in a consistent, uniform manner – to avoid confusion, increase accountability, and reduce the risk of fraud and corruption.

We were one of only five vendors appointed by National Treasury in 2015 to help develop a standardised, country-wide ERP system for municipalities.

Our Enterprise Management Systems offering is a bespoke ERP system that is purpose-built for municipalities. We built it from the ground up, took no shortcuts, and used no third-party plugins (unlike some other vendors), to preserve data integrity and reduce the risk of security breaches.

The system gives you all the tools you need to manage your municipality’s finances effectively, and in a way approved of by treasury. Transactions, and other relevant information, are automatically pushed through to NT, ensuring compliance.

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MODULES

Inzalo EMS Enterprise Management Systems consists of eight modules complementary and cross-connected modules.

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

  • Processing of requisitions, invoice quotations, tenders, and purchase orders
  • Payments processing and payments (pushed automatically to the bank)
  • Automated tender process – helps you decide on the vendor, perform price preference calculations, and recommends the best supplier
  • Assists with contract management; remaining duration of contracts, contract rollover, monitor contractor performance, check on creditor’s history, etc.
  • Vendor database audit trail established; vendor rotation, uploading of required documentation, vendor grading, selection, and vendor payments
  • Vendor database regularly updated with information from the Central Supplier Database (CSD)
  • Vendor database integrates with National Treasury’s national vendor database
  • Automated sharing of procurement documentation with relevant vendors
  • Creditor system interfaced with inventory, costing system, cashbook, fixed assets, and general ledger
  • Easily add, update, and make amendments to creditor information
  • VAT calculations are automatically performed by the system and are posted to a VAT control account
  • Validation processes included that prevents duplicate capturing of the same transaction
  • Complies with Chapter 11 of the MFMA, and adheres to the regulation on supplier rotation management, the formal and informal tender process and contract management

LEDGER

  • Summarises captured monthly transactions from all other modules that have financial impact
  • Used for the preparation of financial statements and monthly reporting
  • Includes general ledger and transactional string (reported to NT monthly)
  • Helps with bank vs. cashbook reconciliation, management of investments, and much more
  • Produces sub-ledgers and general ledger, with entries drawn from a database shared with other ERP-managed processes
  • Consolidates reports and monthly transactions from other modules

BILLING

  • Issue statements via SMS, MMS, and email
  • Prepaid services can be integrated with, or handled via, vendors
  • Multiple tiers, tariffs, tariff rebates, zones, bulk meters, and demand meters, and meter routes (meter books)
  • Fully integrated with debtors, general ledger, and valuation roll management
  • Includes a register of automatic and applied indigents – ATTP (assistance to the poor)
  • Debt recovery functionality
  • Integrated repayment plans
  • Tariff and additional rebates catered for
  • Incorporates with our prepaid vending system (InzaloPay) that allows for real-time account payments, updates, amendments, and direct interaction with municipalities
  • Standard Transfer Specification Association (STS) accredited
  • Seamlessly integrates the following functions:
    • Valuation Roll and All Rates-Related Calculations
    • Revenue Cycle (Consumption Management)
    • Point of Sale (Revenue Management)
    • Smart Metering (Water and Electricity)
    • Billing Procedures
    • Debtor Management
    • Credit Control
    • Debt Collection
    • Reporting

PLANNING & BUDGETING

  • Helps municipalities align project-driven budgets with planning documents and strategies
  • Budget planning, IDP alignment, and budget rollout
  • Capture projects
  • Budget forecasting – prepare for the next three years in advance
  • Budget consumption reports – see how much has been spent at various points of the project to see it is on track
  • Supported and informed by sub-ledgers and/or sub-systems, e.g. as HR/Payroll, Revenue Management, Assets, etc.
  • The following planning functionalities are implemented during this phase:
    • SDBIP
    • OPEX Schedule
    • Funding Matrix
    • Management Project Planning and Budgeting Prioritisation Model
    • Projects Register
  • In line with Section 21 of the Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA)
  • Uses the Project segment of mSCOA to align with the municipality’s IDP
  • Integrates the SDBIP (Service Delivery and Budget Implementation Plan) and the MTREF (Medium-Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework) into the ERP system
  • Seamlessly integrates the following functions:
    • Valuation Roll and all rates-related calculations revenue cycle (consumption management)
    • Point of Sale (revenue management)
    • Smart Metering (water and electricity)
    • Billing Procedures
    • Debtor Management
    • Credit Control
    • Debt Collection
    • Reporting

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

This service is offered on a stand-alone basis or as a module within EMS. Click Here for more information

ASSETS

  • Covers the whole asset life cycle, other than maintenance
  • Can take on assets from our legacy system (FMS)
  • Can acquire assets from SCM and take on assets from inventory
  • Perform transactions, disposals, revaluations, depreciation, impairments and reversal of impairments, fair value adjustments, etc.
  • Complete asset register
  • Change items already in the asset register
  • Project asset unbundling

INVENTORY

  • Understanding all aspects of your stores/warehouse stores environment
  • Issue capital expenditure, high-value transfer, correction of errors, stock transfer, and adjust invoices

HR / PAYROLL

  • Manages employee information and helps your municipality comply with legislated HR requirements, e.g. reporting, organograms, job descriptions, performance evaluation, wage agreements, leave and disciplinary procedures, etc. – all of which are populated in the ERP system
  • Configurable to suit any municipality’s HR needs and allows dummy payroll runs to simulate a payroll before it is finalised
  • Fully compliant with SARS requirements
  • Includes the following standard HR functionality:
    • Employee Self Service
    • Performance Management
    • Disciplinary and Grievance Management
    • Leave Management
    • Payroll
  • The Payroll portion of the module can generate payment instructions, calculate earnings and deductions, and calculate tax deductions

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