Bee'ah awarded Middle East's CIO top 50 for innovative waste management solutions technology

Bee'ah Waste Management Operations Update with New Technology for Efficient & Sustainable Practices

Sharjah, UAE - 7^th February, 2013:  The Middle East's leading integrated environment and waste management company, Bee'ah, has been selected for and awarded the Middle East CIO 50 Awards in a ceremony organized by CPI at the Address Hotel in Dubai Marina. The award distinguishes the region's top 50 organizations for their use of information technology in innovative ways to deliver business value, which optimizes business processes, creates competitive advantage, enables growth and improves customer service.

This award comes as the company's first in recognition of its IT solutions technology which is being introduced to improve its waste management operations into a more efficient and sustainable operating system. In the past year, Bee'ah has also won awards as the 'Best Waste Management Company in the Middle East', distinguishing its innovative contributions to waste management within the regional facilities management industry.

His Excellency Salim Bin Mohammed Al Owais, Chairman of Bee'ah commented: "Bee'ah was created in accordance with the wishes of the ruler of Sharjah, His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, to address the pressing issues about our environment. It is indeed a great honor for us to receive this award for our accomplishments and technologies. We are proud of our great team who all has invested their expertise and hard work to making this achievement possible; we hope to continue this progress towards our ambitious goal of zero-waste to landfill by 2015 for the Emirate of Sharjah."

"Bee'ah's IT strategy has been reformed to reflect solutions that are unique to the operational needs of Bee'ah as a waste management organization," said Mr. Amin Al Zarouni, Head of ICT at Bee'ah. "We have identified three strategic points which we have begun implementing; an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, fleet and bin management and the waste management system solutions. Their main purpose is to enhance, automate and optimize the current processes of our waste collections and disposal operations at Bee'ah."

The fleet and bin management system initiated by Bee'ah, in partnership with Etisalat, is the first of its kind in the Middle East. Bins located around the city of Sharjah are fitted with sensors that monitor and track the volume of waste. When a bin is almost full, these sensors transmit data back to the control center, and provide the best route for the fleet to take, in accordance with the team's schedule and vehicle's next availability. Moreover, all 500 of its waste collection vehicles are fitted with GPS tracking and computerized route-optimization systems, which are used to maximize vehicle service productivity and develop more efficient routes, thus reducing the environmental impact due to emissions from excess fuel consumption.

Bee'ah has also automated the current transactions at the landfill, allowing a smoother and more effective process of its waste management disposal system. With the help of leading technological vendors, operators at the entrance to Bee'ah's waste management centre use wireless hand held devices integrated with the weighbridge operations to process transactions within the waste management system. All customers at the facilities are identified by RFID (radio frequency identification) cards to initiate the transaction flow.

Bee'ah is fully committed to investing in innovative technology and ensuring that its expertise is utilized within the waste management industry. Therefore, Bee'ah's long-term strategy for growth would position the company as the leader of environmental change not only in Sharjah, but beyond the emirate's borders as well. Thus, Bee'ah is also looking at expansion plans to other regions of the U.A.E. in the near future, and is potentially looking at its growth towards emerging markets in the long term.

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About Bee'ah:
Bee'ah, headquartered in the Emirate of Sharjah, is an integrated environmental and waste management company, founded in 2007, through an Emiri decree by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, as a public private partnership (PPP) with the Sharjah City Municipality.

Bee'ah touches and transforms thoughts, attitudes and behaviours in individuals, communities, businesses and cities enabling them to lead positive sustainable growth by providing the infrastructure, tools and support that they require to achieve their environmental goals.

Bee'ah, through adopting international best practices, aims to enhance the environment and achieve added-value commercial ventures, while upholding its commitments to stakeholders.

In 2012, Bee'ah was awarded "Best Waste Management Company in the Middle East" by the Facilities Management Award, for the second consecutive year, and by the Frost & Sullivan Award. Bee'ah was also awarded the Arabia CSR Award in 2011, in recognition for its educational and community commitment initiatives in the Middle East.

Media contact:
Rawan Saqqa                                                                                                        
PR & Communications Manager                                            
Bee'ah                                                                    
Email: rsaqqa@beeah.ae                                       
Tel: +971 6 572 9000 ext 1809                                              
Fax: +971 6 572 9333                                                            
Mob: +971 50 462 7010                                          
 
Nidaa Al Ahmadi     
PR & Communications Coordinator
Bee'ah
Email: nalahmadi@beeah.ae
Tel: +971 6 572 9000 ext 1804
Fax: +971 6 572 9333
Mob: +971 50 632 6180

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