Oracle Customer Success—Zahran Holding Company

Zahran Holding Enhances Industrial Project Performance with Oracle Cloud

With Oracle Cloud, we can manage over 100 diverse government projects more efficiently and with greater budgetary controls—on a single platform. We reduced process time for financial, procurement, and HR activities and significantly improved reporting across all functions, projects, and group companies.

— Abdullah Hosny, Applications Manager/Projects Manager, Zahran Holding Company

Zahran Holding Streamlines Over 100 Projects and Improves Decision Making with Oracle Cloud

Zahran Holding Company is a diversified investment conglomerate with a wide collection of subsidiary companies in industries including maintenance and operation, construction and contracting, travel and tourism, financial and real estate investment, and home appliances. Zahran Operations & Maintenance is the group’s flagship company, providing services predominantly for the government sector in Saudi Arabia. Previously, using standalone, on-premises applications with limited support and reporting capabilities, the company realized that it needed a single, integrated platform to unify its business operations and enhance project performance.

Business Challenge

Consolidate all financial, procurement, and project management activities from more than 100 operations and maintenance projects to improve planning, budget control, and management reporting
Improve decision making by providing senior managers with accurate and timely information across all group business activities as well as on specific projects such as electrical, mechanical, or water works for government entities

Simplify human resources (HR) and payroll for 30,000 employees working across a wide range of companies and regions
Automate project support across finance, procurement, and HR to minimize errors, reduce labor-intensive tasks, and enhance productivity
Reduce the time and cost needed to support and maintain siloed, on-premises applications and ensure availability for hundreds of business users

Increased project agility, reduced operational cost, and streamlined support functions by implementing a unified Oracle Cloud across the company’s finance, procurement, HR, and industrial project management functions
Boosted project planning, monitoring, control, and performance by deploying a fully integrated Oracle Cloud with automated processes—significantly improving the management and execution of more than 100 concurrent operations and maintenance projects

Streamlined financial operations by automating accounting processes and more than 300 cash transactions daily—eliminating human errors and accelerating monthly and annual financial closing, which previously took considerable effort, using Oracle ERP Cloud
Automated monthly payroll totaling more than US$20 million using Oracle HCM Cloud—saving considerable HR administration time and effort and eliminating salary errors
Enhanced strategic group decision making by gaining the ability to rapidly consolidate reports across different companies operating in different industries
Enabled faster and better operational decisions thanks to improved project monitoring on intuitive dashboards with Oracle Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Cloud
Increased HR productivity and efficiency by automating processes for more than 30,000 employees on a single cloud—which is fully compliant with strict Saudi Arabian labor laws and provides HR staff and managers with instant access to archived employee documents
Improved project budget controls by using Oracle PPM Cloud to capture and allocate accurate costs and revenue for all ongoing government operations and maintenance projects
Streamlined procurement for material requisitions across more than 100 projects in 6 regions by deploying Oracle Procurement Cloud for 500 users—minimizing approval time and ensuring that all project timetables can be met
Enhanced supplier management across dozens of public-sector operations projects using Oracle Procurement Cloud—significantly reducing errors, accelerating issue resolution, and improving vendor communication and relations
Simplified IT administration by moving from standalone on-premises applications to a fully integrated cloud—eliminating the need to manage and maintain a data center, while ensuring that all business applications and any necessary support are always available

We selected Oracle over SAP and Infor because of its superior application availability, stability, integration, and continuous enhancement. Also, Oracle is a leading and highly trusted name across all our group’s industries and provides a wealth of resources in terms of training and support.

— Abdullah Hosny, Applications Manager/ Projects Manager, Zahran Holding Company

About Zahran Holding Company

Headquarters

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Employees

More than 30,000

Zahran Holding Company

Established in 1975, Zahran Group of companies, known today as Zahran Holding Company, operates a diverse collection of subsidiary companies active both inside and outside Saudi Arabia. While each subsidiary maintains its own recognized specialty and competencies, the Zahran Holding Company provides shared services, experience, and expertise across the board, offering customers a one-stop shop for the wide range of services offered by the group.

Partners

Zahran Holding worked with Oracle Partner Impact EMEA for the implementation of its Oracle Cloud solution. Impact EMEA followed the Oracle Unified Methodology and successfully completed the project in less than a year, while providing support throughout the full implementation lifecycle.

“We selected Impact EMEA because of its expertise in integrating Oracle Cloud applications. Impact provided us with highly qualified and skilled business and applications consultants, who were key to the project’s success,” Abdullah Hosny said.