SAP Retail Industry Solutions Implemented in Multiple Stores Across the Middle-East Region
UAE, Dubai - SAP, the world's leading provider of business software solutions, has announced accelerated revenue growth for the SAP Retail Industry Solutions. The booming retail industry across the Middle-East region has selected SAP to improve their business processes and create a strong and adaptive environment for business growth and profitability.
Leading retail corporations across the Middle East such as Emke Group, ETA Ascon, Spinneys, Batha Group, and Easa Saleh Al-Gurg Group join a growing list of companies that have chosen SAP solutions to enhance their critical business processes. These processes include distribution, transportation and logistics, inventory visibility, financial transparency, compliance and point-of-sales data management.
Emke Group chose SAP's suite of enterprise applications and retail-specific software across its 50 retail outlets for the Gulf region, powering the company's retail processes of direct selling to consumers.
"As we continue to grow our presence through the region, we needed a single, enterprise-wide IT platform to manage our increasingly complex operations," said Mr. Madhava Rao, Group IT Manager at Emke Group of Companies. "We selected SAP for its proven retail expertise, and regional solution scope. SAPTM NetWeaver platform is helping us improve our key processes, enabling us to drive competitiveness throughout our outlets and, ultimately, deliver better service to our customers."
"These SAP software implementations amongst these retail groups illustrate the growing market momentum for SAP's Retail Solutions as the platform for business growth and innovation in this region," said Ghassan Darri, Sales Manager, SAP Arabia. "By leveraging SAP's retail solutions, companies can use a services-based approach to more flexibly respond to changing business
needs. This further solidifies SAP's position as a dominant force in this market, dedicated to helping our customers leverage IT for agility and competitive advantage."
Darri continues: "In an industry faced with the daily pressures on margins, performance and the bottom line, SAP offers retailers proven solutions to succeed today and customer-focused innovation to adapt to the changing industry landscape of the Middle-East market."SAP was one of the largest exhibitors at Gitex 2005 with several business partners including CIC, Seal, CA, Sun, Axon, Siemens, Satyam, Sugar, and HP.
While information will be available on the wide array of SAP solutions for nearly 27 vertical markets, SAP specific focus topics at Gitex 2005 will include its solutions for the mid-market / SMB segments; core verticals for the MENA market, SAP solutions and software designed for the Arabic market, SAP's market-leading solutions for customer relationship management (CRM) and the SAP NetWeaver integration and application platform.
Demonstrating leadership and vision for the retail industry in the MENA region, SAP has continued evidence of its global leadership in providing retail solutions, past one year.
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About SAP for Retail
SAP for Retail is an industry solution that combines mySAP Business Suite solutions with a broad set of integrated retail applications to help companies profitably serve consumer demand across multiple channels. Today, more than 2,500 retailers worldwide are SAP customers, 400 of which are using industry-specific applications from the SAP for Retail portfolio. Built on the open architecture of the SAP NetWeaver platform, SAP for Retail includes core capabilities for financial management, human resources, supplier relationship management and customer relationship management, as well as support for industry-specific merchandise management and planning, store and channel management, demand forecasting, replenishment, sophisticated allocation, workforce management, POS data management and RFID. (Additional information at http://www.sap.com/retail/)
About SAP
SAP is the world's leading provider of business software solutions. Today, more than 28,200 customers in over 120 countries run more than 96,400 installations of SAP software--from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small and midsize enterprises to suite solutions for
global organizations. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver platform to drive innovation and enable business change, mySAP Business Suite solutions are helping enterprises around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. SAP industry solutions support the unique business processes of more than 25 industry segments, including high tech, retail, public sector and financial services. With subsidiaries in more than 50 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP." (Additional information at
Established in 1994 in Jeddah and Dubai, SAP has enjoyed huge success while in charge of deploying SAP solutions in 19 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. It employs 100+ people and provides support and services covering e-business, finance, logistics and human resources processes at approximately 250+ Middle Eastern Companies, 25 per cent of them in the oil & gas sector. The company has offices and training facilities in Jeddah, Dubai, and Cairo dedicated to bringing support services closer to customers and partners across the Middle East & North Africa. The company is committed to the regional market, through its team of professionals working closely with customers to ensure they gain maximum return on their SAP investment.
(*) SAP defines business software solutions as comprising enterprise resource planning and related software solutions such as supply chain management, customer relationship management, product life-cycle management and supplier relationship management.
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For more information please contact:
Jai Tolani
Bates PanGulf PR
Tel: 97150 7985145
E-mail: jai@batespangulf.com
Sairah Mojib
SAP Arabia
Tel: 971 50 625 3216
E-mail: sairah.mojib@saparabia.com
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