The Emirates Group has completed the implementation of an Oracle based e-business transformation aimed at centralizing and streamlining many of its core business functions, stated a press release.
The Emirates initiative, based on the Oracle E-Business Suite 11i, has integrated the accounting, human resources, procurement, and order management functions across the entire group, it enables more than 9,000 employees to access key business applications and information through the Internet.
Within each of the Group's divisions, the new Oracle-based e-business processes will offer specific advantages. From a financial perspective, the Emirates Group can now reduce finance and administrative costs, cut IT costs, establish appropriate accounting controls and manage key financial drivers. The human resources system will lower cost per employee via its Internet-based, self-service functionality, and permit the Group to maximize workforce training, productivity and loyalty across the entire enterprise.
With more than 6.7 million passengers carried by Emirates in the last year alone, supply chain management and logistics are vital areas of optimization and consideration for the Emirates Group. On the partner and customer facing sides of the organization, the new order management and procurement solutions supply comprehensive transaction execution capabilities for managing and fulfilling all forms of customer demand. In addition, the Emirates Group can now reduce purchasing costs and create buying efficiencies by identifying savings and supplier improvement opportunities.
The Emirates Group includes Emirates Airline, Dnata Travel Services, Emirates Engineering, Emirates SkyCargo, Emirates Holidays and Emirates Training, as well as Airport Operations and Cargo.
Emirates Airlines is one of the fastest growing airlines in the world. With the recent addition of new routes to Casablanca and Khartoum, the airline can now flies to more than 58 destinations in 41 countries in Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, Africa, Asia and Australia. — (menareport.com)
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