The National Agricultural Development Company, NADEC has successfully implemented SAP Signavio, leveraging the technology to advance the company’s digital transformation strategy. The initiative is aligned with the Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, and aims to enhance the efficiency of NADEC’s services, supporting diversification of its products and enabling it to enter new sectors in the food industry.
It will also support expansion into local, regional, and global markets while improving customer satisfaction and product quality.
Supported by the SAP Customer Success programme, NADEC achieved the deployment within just five days, and customers, staff and partners are already benefitting from the results. In total, 51 business processes have been transformed, including finance, procurement, warehousing, production, quality control, sales, transportation, and plant maintenance.
Saad Saud Alhowaimel, NADEC, Vice President, Digital and Technology, said, “Through the SAP Signavio business transformation project, we have integrated and streamlined our business processes, automated tasks and gained greater visibility, insight and control over our diverse operations.”
Omar Bukhari, Head of Consumer Retail Services, SAP Saudi Arabia, commented, “SAP Signavio is an end-to-end business process transformation platform that enables enterprises to quickly understand, benchmark, improve, transform and manage their business processes rapidly and at scale.”
The NADEC SAP Signavio project was so successful that it outperformed competitors across global industries to win the category of Best Achievement in a Business Process Management Programme at this year’s prestigious Business Transformation and Operational Excellence Awards held in the US.
The goal of the transformation project was to create a single source of information to evaluate where NADEC could best integrate its business processes to acquire real-time system data on business transactions and inventory visibility across different verticals.
Implemented solutions include SAP Signavio Process Insights, SAP Signavio Process Manager, and SAP Signavio Process Collaboration Hub, all of which were integrated with SAP S4HANA, an enterprise resource planning, ERP solution. The integration resulted in a precise and comprehensive roadmap for business process improvements and strategies.
A total of 116 recommendations were implemented across the 51 business processes analysed. These led to significant results including a 37% reduction in average transactional time and near-perfect accuracy across product costing.
Last year, NADEC launched an ambitious strategy as part of its plans for transformation in the coming years, aiming to achieve a significant shift in the food industry and actively contribute to the policy of self-sufficiency and food security in the Saudi Arabia of Saudi Arabia, based on three key criteria: sustainability, growth, and health.
NADEC’s strategy primarily focuses on developing food projects based on quality and sustainability, achieving operational excellence, localising modern food industry technologies and methods, and training and developing national talents and skills, with the goal of contributing to self-sufficiency in line with Vision 2030 for food security.
