Al Tayer Group streamlines business operations with Oracle JD Edwards upgrade

Al Tayer Group, a prominent player in the automotive, engineering, fashion and jewellery, interiors and contracting, perfume and cosmetics, publishing as well as real estate, travel and logistic sectors, has been a JD Edwards EnterpriseOne for several years and has decided to upgrade to the latest release after it has gained confidence in roadmap for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne now supported by Oracle worldwide and in the Middle East. The system implemented was completed successfully.

Evan Powell, Al Tayer Group's General Manager - IT, said: "Al Tayer has been successfully running JD Edwards ERP system, in 36 group companies, since 2001. We trust the new Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 8.11 solution to provide even greater flexibility and corporate visibility across the entire business."

Senior executives at Al Tayer Group now expect the investment in Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to help the management adapt more easily to the ever-changing business environment. In addition to streamlining Al Tayer's finance, logistics and warehouse management processes, the Group has also chosen to deploy Oracle JD Edwards solutions for customer relationship management (CRM). The new CRM modules will empower Al Tayer's employees to provide even better service and care to the group's elite customer base.

Dwight Mitchell, General Manager of Mitchell & Associates, the Dubai-based system integrator (SI) that installed the system, commented: "We were immensely pleased with the success of the project. Mitchell & Associates has been working with the JD Edwards product line for 20-years, and we have worked on hundreds of client solutions in the enterprise resource planning arena. Al Tayer is one of Dubai's most widely recognized brands and we were happy to be chosen as the solution provider to help support its continued growth."

As a single suite of robust, industry-specific business applications, Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne is an ideal solution for organizations that need to maximize resources and utilize budgets more effectively. Offering a lower total cost of ownership, the system already has a track record of delivering outstanding value to thousands of businesses, increasing business agility and enabling them to do more with less.

"Al Tayer's incredibly successful implementation of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne demonstrates the quality of our partners and is a reflection of Oracle's commitment to the product's long term future," said Ayman Abouseif, Managing Director, Oracle, Gulf States. "It is a solution which is ideally suited for organizations that manufacture, construct, distribute, service, or manage products or physical assets. Furthermore, in the past two years, there has been significant and numerous product enhancements to the system, with more planned in the future, including Oracle's plans for Project Fusion - the next-generation enterprise applications," he concluded.