Savola Group Egypt Executes Key Operations within Minutes, Standardizes Business Processes
 
 

Savola Group Egypt Executes Key Operations within Minutes, Standardizes Business Processes

  • Oracle Customer:  Savola Group Egypt
    Location:  Cairo, Egypt
    Industry:  Consumer Goods
    Employees:  2,500
    Annual Revenue:  $100 to $500 Million

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The Savola Group, founded in 1979, is one of the most successful and fastest growing multinational food companies in the Middle East. It is ranked12th by revenue, among the top 100 Saudi companies in the 2009 report published by Saudi Arabia’s leading daily newspaper, Al Eqtisadiah.

Savola Group Egypt operates four business units—edible oils, sugar cane, sugar beet, and other food products―in Egypt.

To enhance operational efficiency, Savola Group Egypt needed to integrate key business processes and data, including charts of accounts, product codes for finished food products, raw materials, and packaging. The company also required real-time access to stock levels to accurately forecast and optimize purchasing ingredients required to produce its semifinished food products. In addition, as the company continued to expand, it needed to quickly integrate new acquisitions into its business operations.

Savola Group Egypt implemented Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 to standardize business processes between headquarters and its companies in 14 countries. By leveraging Oracle Financials, the company can now send financial information to the corporate office in minutes, which eliminates administrative tasks and frees time for further analysis. The group used Oracle Human Resources Management System to standardize human resources data and can now quickly and accurately transmit and report this data to corporate headquarters. Lastly, with Oracle E-Business Suite, Savola Group Egypt was able to quickly onboard newly acquired Alexandria Sugar Company at only 30% of estimated integration costs.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from Savola Group Egypt

  • “Our implementation of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 spurred a major change in the company. We dramatically increased our efficiency with standardized and automated processes, integrated newly acquired business units in minimal time, and executed key operations within minutes—something that previously required enormous effort. Our company is more agile and efficient because of this implementation.” – Ayman Mostafa Ahmad, Senior IT Director, Savola Group Egypt

  • Integrate Savola Group Egypt’s four business units with its Saudi-Arabian headquarters to standardize and simplify business processes and ensure identical master data management for charts of accounts, finished food product codes, raw materials, packaging, and supplier and customer codes
  • Achieve fast and cost-effective data consolidation and retrieval for benchmarking and analyzing numerous aspects of the company’s operations—such as stock prices, raw materials costs for food production across markets, balance sheets, profit and loss data, and cross-border sourcing
  • Optimize purchasing activities by gaining real-time access to stock levels and accurate forecasts of ingredients required for semifinished food products
  • Enable fast and cost-effective integration of new business acquisitions and business units running on legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems into the corporate structure

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Worked with Oracle Partner Mahindra Satyam to implement Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 as the foundation for standardizing business processes across Savola Group companies in 14 countries and to substantially increase the efficiency of each Savola Group Egypt business unit
  • Used Oracle Financials to integrate the group’s financial management processes with its headquarters by utilizing an established, automated process that takes only a few moments to execute and ensures error-free financial consolidations, saving time for more meaningful analytical tasks
  • Utilized Oracle Human Resources Management System to consolidate human resources and employee vacation plan data across business units in a matter of minutes—a task that was previously almost impossible to achieve
  • Used Oracle Enterprise Asset Management to reduce downtime due to plant maintenance and minimize the number of mechanical spare parts needed for food production machinery
  • Enabled corporate executives to access stock levels and forecasts the ingredients required to complete semifinished food products, in real-time, to optimize purchasing activities and ensure that necessary ingredients will be available when needed
  • Facilitated rapid and cost-effective integration of business units and acquisitions, such as newly acquired Alexandria Sugar Company, which Savola Group successfully integrated at only 30% of projected integration costs
  • Enabled establishing its own data recovery center and reduced its dependence on the group’s main data center in Saudi Arabia

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