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Built for enterprise

Can you trust us with the whole network?

The question every procurement director, IT lead and legal team asks before the first order. Here are the answers, including the ones that are still "not yet".

What this page is

The page to send to procurement, IT and legal.

Before a network buys from a supplier, three different people ask three different questions: can they actually deliver at our scale, will their systems talk to ours, and what happens when something goes wrong. This page answers those in order, and says plainly where the answer is “not yet”.

PROCUREMENT ASKS

Can you supply the whole network?

One warehouse, per-location catalogues, replenishment before stockout, and a chain we hold from the paper mill to the counter.

IT ASKS

Will it integrate?

Web-based and mobile-ready, API-enabled, and built to sit alongside your PMS, ERP or ordering system rather than inside it.

LEGAL ASKS

What are we signing?

A registered South African entity, a published privacy notice under POPIA, an IP register with real numbers, and no claim on this site we cannot evidence.

Continuity

Nineteen years, same ownership, same phone number.

ConsumeX was established in 2007 to supply large multi-location businesses — a head office with many branches that need the same product, to the same standard, at the same time. That is still exactly what it does, under the same owner, which is the shortest honest answer to a continuity question.

The chain we control

  • Artwork and specification
  • Compliance and approval
  • Production — our own, plus global manufacturing partners
  • Warehousing of your stock, not ours
  • Replenishment and distribution to every location

What that removes

  • A different supplier, quality and lead time at every site
  • Local purchasing at local prices, invisible to head office
  • A stockout at the site that runs out first
  • Four vendors pointing at each other when something is late
Standards and accreditation

What we hold, and what we do not.

Accreditations only mean something with a number, an issuer and a date against them. Ours are listed below; where a scope is not certified, this page says so rather than implying an audit that has not happened.

Held

  • ISO, FSC and BRC compliance across our production and packaging
  • IATA-conformant baggage tag stock
  • 100% minority-owned; NGLCC and PLUS certified
  • Partner to Zebra Technologies and Honeywell

Certificates on request. Certificate numbers, issuing bodies and expiry dates are supplied in the supplier information pack, sent the same working day. Request it here.

Not yet

  • No SOC 2 and no ISO 27001 on the software side — those are information-security certifications and we have not been through either
  • Manufacturing ISO and information-security ISO are different scopes; nothing on this site claims the second
  • No formal SLA is published here. SLAs are agreed per contract, with the measurement window and the exceptions written down

Saying this plainly is deliberate. A supplier that claims every certification is a supplier whose claims all have to be checked.

Software and integration

Written here, run here, and it stays outside your systems.

The ordering platform, the guest-facing systems and the airport tools were designed, built and are maintained by ConsumeX. Nothing is rebadged and nothing is outsourced, which means the person who answers an integration question is the person who wrote the code.

How it connects

  • API-enabled — your ERP or PMS can requisition directly
  • Web-based and mobile-ready; nothing to install at every site
  • Runs alongside your systems, not inside them — no keys, no ports, no change request
  • Hello Customer runs on AWS in Cape Town

What we will tell you

  • Where each system is hosted, and by whom
  • What data it holds, and for how long
  • Who has access, and how that access is controlled
  • What is not built yet, before you ask
Intellectual property

Rights with numbers against them.

The eReceipt tag and the system behind it are protected by granted patents and registered designs. Rights are territorial, so the register states, for each one, exactly what is protected, where, and its status — including the one that is still pending.

The full IP register →

Legal and data

Who you are contracting with.

The entity

  • MBG Product Solutions CC, trading as ConsumeX
  • Registration 2007/105287/23
  • The Pavilion Building, Cnr Dock & Portswood Road, The V&A Waterfront, Cape Town
  • 164 The Common, Holt, Trowbridge, BA14 6QJ, United Kingdom

Data protection

  • A published privacy notice under POPIA, with a named Information Officer
  • Enquiries stored on our own service, not a third-party form provider
  • PAIA manual available on request at no charge
  • No advertising or analytics trackers on this site

Privacy notice →

Tell us where your customer meets you.

We will come back with what we would make, how it reaches every location you operate, and what happens after it is in their hand. Every enquiry is answered within one business day.