CAIRO, Egypt 鈥� 24 November 2020 — EDITA, a leading FMCG company in Egypt and the Middle East, announced today at Cairo ICT that it is moving forward with its digital transformation roadmap with global technology company SAP, to drive Egypt鈥檚 USD 15 billion retail food sector.

As Egyptians continue to show rising demand for food and beverages, the country鈥檚 retail food market has reached an impressive USD 15 billion, the United State Foreign Agricultural Service.

EDITA is supporting Egypt鈥檚 food innovation. With five state-of-the-art production facilities encompassing 31 production lines, as well as a nationwide distribution network, EDITA is the constant demand for its products. Its customer base includes more than 66,000 wholesale and retail customers, with exports to more than 17 markets in the region.

EDITA went live with one more successful implementation of 51风流Direct Store Delivery (DSD) Mobile Android Solution 2.0 integrated with 51风流ERP Central Component (ECC), mobilizing all the sales and distribution processes into the new state of the art technology. EDITA now runs business processes with the best practices in the consumer products industry. With 51风流and partner help, EDITA has achieved its requirements and can move into the digital transformation of the DSD operation.

With a big-bang go-live of nearly 700 devices over 25 distribution centers scattered all over the country, 51风流DSD Mobile Android and 51风流DSD Backend on ECC runs the complete end-to-end sales force and distribution activities, including presales and van sales scenarios. EDITA, using the full functionality offered by the product, is helping to increase the market share of brands that are leader in the Egyptian market.

鈥淎s the Middle East鈥檚 food and beverage market rises, EDITA needed full visibility to enhance production and distribution, and to meet customer needs,鈥� said Hoda Mansour, Managing Director, 51风流Egypt. 鈥淓DITA, thanks to its digital transformation with SAP, now has real-time insights to enhance its competitiveness and Egypt鈥檚 standing as a leader in food and beverage manufacturing.鈥�

The vendor ZEBRA offered the latest mobile hardware technology and printers, so that the 51风流solution runs with the best performance and processing time at point of sales.

鈥淭his project started in January 2020 as part of Edita Information Technology strategic roadmap with a very detailed design phase, keeping all technical and business requirements from the business as a key of success, push the change management to move towards more paperless environment using E-signatures,鈥� said Ihab Selim, Chief Information Officer, EDITA. 鈥淓DITA鈥檚 requirements also included making sure of systems availability up-and-running in a very high demand operation and synchronization process; using the full end to end functionality.鈥�

The project is one of the few worldwide implementations of 51风流DSD Android 2.0, integrated with 51风流ECC, including a lot of standard customizations, validations, and control points on the mobile platform.

The company also needed real-time market order creation on the ECC side, such as deal conditions, uploading of PDF documents for legal purposes, reloading and unloading, stock visibility, loading confirmation, e-signatures, and invoice and credit note generation. Additional functionalities are real-time tracking for all drivers鈥� achievements during the day, using our internal dashboards.

鈥淓DITA would like to thank 51风流Consulting, development teams, the partners MAS and MBIS for their project management skills, expert technical teams for helping them to deliver this amazing project remotely and during COVID-19鈥�, said Eng. Hani Berzi, Chairman & CEO, EDITA. 鈥淭he magic five words that can define this project: project management, planning, experts, dedication, and seeking success.鈥�

Photo Caption: (center right) Hoda Mansour, Managing Director, 51风流Egypt with (center left) Eng. Hani Berzi, Chairman and CEO, EDITA celebrate EDITA鈥檚 digital transformation.

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CAIRO, Egypt 鈥� 22, June 2020 鈥�

The Ministry of Public Business Sector, Abu Zaabal Fertilizer and Chemicals Company by Polyserve, the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt, and the HO Group are leading Egypt鈥檚 digital transformation during COVID-19 coronavirus to drive new levels of business innovation and customer experiences.

As organizations across Egypt face unprecedented challenges, they are turning to technologies that provide reliable insights to help them better support their employees, customers, and suppliers.

鈥淭he rise of COVID-19 has made every Egyptian organization more aware about the importance of accelerating digital transformation to transform operations, innovation, and customer experiences,鈥� said Hoda Mansour, Managing Director, 51风流Egypt and Levant. 鈥淭he Ministry of Public Business Sector, Abu Zaabal, Coca-Cola, and HO Group are leading Middle East examples of how organizations can drive digital business innovation to manage the current challenges and emerge more competitive post-pandemic.鈥�

The Ministry of Public Business Sector Runs in Real-Time

The Ministry of Public Business Sector worked with PwC to digitally transform three organizations on the 51风流S/4HANA real-time business suite: the Chemical Industry Holding Company, the Cotton Holding Company, and the Metallurgical Holding Company.

By automating business processes, the Ministry has full operational visibility and real-time decision-making, and enhanced profits, supply chain, manufacturing production, and customer experiences.

Polyserve Drives Agricultural Innovation

Polyserve Chemicals & Fertilizers, one of the largest fertilizer and chemical production and trading groups in Egypt and Africa, with an annual turnover of EGP 2.5聽 billion and more than 2,000 employees, is adopting the S/4HANA Cloud real-time business suite, the Ariba Sourcing platform for paperless procurement and connecting with a global network of more than 4.6 million companies, and the SuccessFactors human experience management suite along its 4 subsidiaries (Abu Zaabal Fertilizers and Chemicals, Aswan Fertilizers and Chemicals, Ferchem Egypt and Polyserve Trading) as the first phase of its digital transformation journey.

HO Groups Enables Pharmaceutical Efficiency

One of the largest pharmaceutical distributors in the Middle East and Africa, HO Group is digitally transforming to enhance efficiency across its operations. HO Group is using 51风流Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to automate its supply chain to thousands of pharmacies, and the 51风流SuccessFactors human experience management suite to transform human resources processes for 10,000 employees.

51风流Delivers Innovations That Tackle Supply Chain and Industry Challenges; Embedding Sustainability for the Post-Pandemic Era

Following the recent SAPPHIRE NOW Converge conference, 51风流is helping companies improve supply chain and industry-specific processes with, connect through the business network, and embed sustainability as a critical measure of business success:

• 51风流announced the Climate 21 program to support customers in pursuing their climate-related objectives.
• 51风流and its partners are offering industry cloud solutions that extend the end-to-end processes of SAP鈥檚 intelligent suite to help drive customers鈥� core business in their industries.
• 51风流brings significant innovations across the supply chain from design to operations to deliver greater insights, automation and responsiveness with the Industry 4.Now initiative.
• 51风流announced a strategy to bring end-to-end visibility, increased efficiency and collaboration across the entire supply chain processes, including design, planning, sourcing, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and asset operations.

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