Al Safeer Group to roll out Oracle Retail

UAE retail conglomerate the Al Safeer Group has selected Oracle business applications to help it improve management of its operations.

The group will deploy Oracle Retail applications, E-Business Suite and database, across all of its operations in retail, real estate and entertainment, which will replace a diverse base of legacy systems. The new systems are intended to allow the group to have better control and insight into financial operations, and to improve supply chain efficiency.

“Oracle will help enable Al Safeer to improve our business performance by streamlining and integrating processes into a single cohesive enterprise and taking a best-practice approach to managing our information. This can only help us serve our customers better,” said Mahesh Kalwani, COO, Al Safeer Group.

The Oracle retail applications will be used to give better management of inventory and better insight into performance of retail stores, Al Safeer Group’s core activity. Services company Satyam will provide implementation, consultancy and training services to the group to enable it to get the most from the deployment.

Patrick Bohannon, vice president, EMEA, Oracle Retail commented: “Al Safeer’s selection of Oracle Applications will help its decision-makers to turn reliable and timely information into make insightful and profitable business decisions and deliver an enhanced customer experience.”

Author: Mark Sutton @ www.arabianbusiness.com

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