mySAP Business Suite selected for its ability to perform across the value chain
Dubai: Saudi International Petrochemical Company (SIPCHEM), a Saudi joint stock company with a fully paid up capital of US$133 million, has selected mySAP Business Suite to enhance its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) functionality. SIPCHEM successfully went live with financials, human resources, project systems, materials management and plant maintenance modules.
The deployment of mySAP Business Suite will allow SIPCHEM to facilitate real-time, electronic collaboration of employees, suppliers, customers and partners, as well as offer the capability to act across the entire value chain.
“SIPCHEM’s goal is to grow into a major petrochemical manufacturer within ten years by setting up petrochemical, chemical and other hydrocarbon industries using local resources, infrastructure and expertise,” said Ahmed Al Ohali, President of SIPCHEM. “Such an ambition needs to be powered by an efficient and adaptable infrastructure for enabling our core and support business processes. In such a situation advanced ERP solutions are crucial to ensure availability and timely information for effective decision-making. Our choice of mySAP Business Suite was prompted by its advantages over other business solutions and the success stories it has created among many users across the region.”
The choice of mySAP Business Suite is part of SIPCHEM’s strategic plan to serve markets in the Gulf and internationally through carefully chosen partnerships. The deployment of industry leading solutions and innovative marketing is key to SIPCHEM’s goal of producing superior products backed by quality of service.
“SAP the world’s recognised leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market; we are proud to be associated with the ERP empowerment at SIPCHEM, a giant corporation in the making,” said Essam Enany, President of SAP Arabia. “mySAP Business Suite is a highly flexible and adaptable Business that requires minimum intervention and a small team to support it.
“With mySAP Business Suite, SIPCHEM can be assured of dynamic online collaboration among all segments and a capability that covers the entire value chain, from the buy-side to production to the sell-side. The constituent applications of the solutions will also integrate to allow SIPCHEM’s information to flow seamlessly throughout the enterprise,” said Enany, adding that SAP Arabia is strongly committed to serving the needs of businesses in the region through its innovative and cutting edge solutions that have helped enterprises around the world dramatically enhance performance levels.
Phase 2 of the implementation is scheduled to start in September 2004 and the implementation of the sales and distribution, production planning, environment, health and safety, and quality management modules is to be completed in Q1 2005.
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SAP Arabia is the exclusive regional distributor for SAP AG, Germany. SAP AG is recognised as the leader in providing collaborative e-business solutions for all types of industries for nearly three decades. SAP Arabia, established in 1994 in Jeddah and Dubai, has been offering SAP solutions in 19 countries in the Middle East and North Africa including Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. SAP provides support and services covering e-business, finance, logistics and human resources processes to more than 70 companies in the Middle East, 25 percent of which belong to the oil and gas sector. SAP Arabia has offices and training facilities in Jeddah, Dubai and Cairo dedicated to bringing support services closer to customers and partners across the Middle East and North Africa.
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