S.A. Al-Rajhi Holding Company has chosen Sage Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to manage its businesses in Saudi Arabia, aiming to improve operational efficiency across the group's business units.
The first phase of the implementation will involve installing an 80 concurrent user system in six factories including National Factory for Foodstuff, Riyadh Carton Factory, Al-Watania Plastics, Riyadh Modern Factory for Containers Manufacturing, Al-Watania Metal Can Factory, Al-Watania Block (Bricks). Algosaibi Information Systems Comapny, a Sage Enterprise Partner plans to roll out the entire implementation in 11 months.
With the first phase of the implementation progressing smoothly, Al-Rajhi is now planning to rollout Sage ERP in other group companies including Al-Watania, Dajen restaurant chain, Al-Rajhi Property, Real Estate Investments and the Head office, according to a company press release.
”The implementation of Sage will help the Group companies achieve four important goals. First, it will help improve control within the group companies through better integration. Second, it will help lower inventory holding. Third, the system will help reduce operation costs. Fourth, better reporting will lead to more informed decisions,” Al-Rajhi General Manager for IT Zeyad Al-hekail said.
“In the final round, we evaluated seven vendors on 26 different criteria with different weights. The complete evaluation process took over eight months. We chose to begin the rollout by implementing Sage Finance and Distribution modules in the industrial business units. Future plans include installing a manufacturing solution,” said Zeyad.
The S. A. Al-Rajhi Group of Companies was established in 1977, and is currently a Top 10 Saudi Group. The group employs over 10,000 employees and has business interests in poultry, manufacturing, trading, real estate and retail. The group comprises of four main companies: Al-Watania Poultry, the largest poultry in the Middle East, Alwatania for Industry, Alwatania Agriculture and the trading company which own and operate Dajen Food Chain. The group also includes S.A. Al Rajhi Property & Real Estate Investments.
Algosaibi Information Systems (AGIS) is an Information Technology (IT) solution provider in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) with offices in Dammam, Jeddah, Riyadh, Bahrain and Dubai.
With over 2.8 million customers, Sage is an international supplier of business management software to medium sized enterprises. Sage revenues exceed $700 million and it employs over 5,000 people globally. — (menareport.com)
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