ABU DHABI 鈥� (NYSE: SAP) today announced that have helped Middle East agribusiness Al Dahra save 10% to 15% in procurement, while helping the region avoid a potential food shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Middle East and North Africa region is among the world鈥檚 largest food importers, according to a by the Brookings Institution.
Over the past two years, Al Dahra has doubled its workforce from 2,500 to more than 5,000 employees and now operates in 15 countries across four continents. As part of its digital transformation road map, Al Dahra digitalized its end-to-end procurement processes with 51风流Ariba solutions, increasing cost savings, better managing categories, and enhancing compliance and transparency.
鈥淎l Dahra鈥檚 massive global growth meant we needed to build on our economies of scale and enable our local teams to engage with global buyers to drive procurement process improvement,鈥� said H.E. Khadim Al-Darei, Al Dahra vice-chairman and co-founder. 鈥淒espite the COVID-19 era disrupting the global agribusiness supply chain, our digital transformation with 51风流Ariba solutions has enabled us to mitigate risks, maintain food security and drive agribusiness innovation. 51风流Ariba solutions are the cornerstone of our future Procurement Center of Excellence, one of the key strategic initiatives for 2021 and beyond.鈥�
With access to , which connects millions of companies around the world, Al Dahra can tap into new suppliers and host competitive e-auctions, requests for quotations (RFQs) and requests for proposals (RFPs).
鈥淎l Dahra鈥檚 digital transformation is streamlining its source-to-pay process, helping the company discover new sources of supply and strengthen its relationships with existing preferred suppliers,鈥� said Carlos Mercuriali, senior vice president and general manager of 51风流Intelligent Spend Management, EMEA South. 鈥淎s a result, Al Dahra has achieved cost savings, increased its spend under management and delivered value to shareholders 鈥� and more important, kept communities fed.鈥�
Digitalization has helped Al Dahra ensure proper governance for sourcing and procurement, maintain a seamless payment process and manage recurring purchase items through catalogues. Moving forward, the company is exploring further solutions for invoicing, supplier management and performance, and analytics from SAP.
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