Scala Business Solutions has announced the signing of a significant ERP implementation deal with Ahmad Hamad Al-Gosaibi & Bros National Bottling Co, the Pepsi bottling plant in the Kingdom’s Eastern Province.
Discussing the details of the ERP installation at one of Pepsi’s key bottling plants, a Scala spokesperson said the implementation of the next generation ERP tool, iScala 2.2, would help the company optimize a range of its mission-critical business processes including manufacturing, asset management, financials etc., through automation and web collaboration. The Pepsi bottler will implement all modules of iScala 2.2.
“We are excited about the Pepsi win which we consider a very important milestone in our regional business growth. The deal also gives us enormous mileage in the food and beverage industry where Scala ERP solutions are making headway,” said Ziad Aqrabawi, regional managing director, Scala Business Solutions Middle East.
He said the adoption of iScala 2.2 would help Ahmad Hamad Al-Gosaibi & Bros National Bottling increase their return on investments through cost-efficiency and time-scheduled business processes in line with the company’s growth target.
Explaining the reason for selecting iScala 2.2, Hassan Zatar, financial manager, Ahmad Hamad Al-Gosaibi & Bros National Bottling, remarked, “Our operations have grown many times over since we started our business in 1956. We are the leading player in the beverages market in the Eastern Region of the Kingdom and have a market share of over 76 percent. It was high time that we deployed IT solutions to streamline our operations across the board for better control as well as to lower costs. We are confident that the implementation of iScala 2.2 will make a positive impact on the company’s bottom line since it will reduce costs through better management of time, skills and assets as well as through better production management schedules in line with market realities.”
Commenting on the bottling company’s choice of iScala 2.2, Khalid Shafa, IT manager, Ahmad Hamad Al-Gosaibi & Bros National Bottling, said: “We chose Scala after a detailed scrutiny of a range of ERP solutions available in the market. We found iScala 2.2 to be an open system allowing us to integrate with any other system in other parts of the world. An important criterion for us in selecting Scala was its excellent integration capabilities since the ERP system will have to link a range of business processes seamlessly covering the whole gamut of our operation. Another compelling factor in favor of iScala 2.2 was its lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) compared to many of its competitors in the market. The advantage was getting an ERP system which gave us higher Tier 1 functionality at the cost of a Tier 2 ERP.”
