Massive amount of SAP deployed

UAE conglomerate ETA & Star Group has announced the completion of a massive implementation of SAP’s mySAP Business Suite across over 70 companies in a nine-month, US $7 million project. mySAP ERP and mySAP Customer Relationship Management were rolled out across the conglomerate “in a bid to unify its business processes, improve performance across its operations in twelve industries and support its expansion plans.” Now that’s heavy labor.

Arif Rahman, ETA & Star Group director of finance, sounds sold on the deal, reporting to IT Weekly that “Before we were not able to conduct very effective treasury operations. We have over 100 bank accounts and treasury operations were very complex and not real-time. With SAP, everything becomes real-time.”

According to IT Weekly, “The initial SAP rollout included full implementation of all ERP modules at three of ETA’s companies while the financial and human capital management modules were implemented across all 70 companies during a nine-month project carried out by one of SAP’s global implementation service partner, Larsen and Toubro.”

On those expansion plans, Abid Junaid, executive director of ETA Star Property Developers, stated that they’d soon be jumping further from the lands of the UAE: “We are not just expanding internally, we are also looking at overseas expansion. If we have systems in place then rollout will be easier in other regions.”