The rapidly growing manufacturing sector in Saudi Arabia is enthusiastically implementing ERP solutions. This is due to the need to optimize resources through deft balancing of production volumes, costs and stocks with the help of real-time demand and supply information inputs.
According to a forecast by IDC, uptake of ERP manufacturing solutions is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 10 percent in the Kingdom through 2008 for discreet manufacturing and over 7 percent in the case of process manufacturing.
Quoting IDC statistics, Ziad Aqrabawi, regional managing director of the Dubai Internet City-based Scala Business Solutions Middle East said, “The market for ERP manufacturing solutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as well as in Saudi Arabia has been growing at a fast pace. In 2003 it was at nearly $30 million in the Kingdom alone. Globally, the use of ERP solutions has proven to be a boon in intelligent manufacturing and the increasing adoption of solutions like iScala 2.2 MPC tool is a significant indicator of the maturity of the IT market in Saudi Arabia and the region in general.”
Aqrabawi commented that nearly 90 percent of the existing Scala ERP users in the Kingdom have implemented the MPC solution, which proves that the technology has found a strong niche in manufacturing, a focused sector in all GCC countries as a part of non-oil economic diversification.
Saudi Arabia is the fastest growing and largest market in the region for Scala’s ERP solutions. Companies in Saudi Arabia using the iScala 2.2 MPC software include leading names like the Arabian Tile Company Limited, part of the AGGAD Group, air conditioning company York, ceramic tile manufacturer Al-Jawdah Industrial Complex, Rana Confectionary Products, Schneider Electric Saudi Arabia, Saudi Mechanical Industries Company and many others.
