Ethiopia: Ethiopian sign contract with SAP for Integrated IT Solutions.Byline: pinto03 Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopian Airlines is an airline based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is the national airline of Ethiopia, operating scheduled international passenger and freight services to 50 destinations world-wide, as well as domestic services to 28 destinations and passenger and cargo charter and SAP (Systems, Applications and Products) have signed a contract for the acquisition and implementation of corporate-wide back office Information System and Master Systems Integration (MSI MSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (MicroSoft Installer) See Windows Installer. (2) (Medium Scale Integration) Between 100 and 3,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, LSI, VLSI and ULSI. ) services on October 09, 2009 at Ethiopian head quarters. The project, valued at $8.5 million, is part of the Ethiopian business transformation program designed to enhance customer satisfaction and increase employee productivity through end-to-end IT enablement and best practice business process adoption. Mr. Girma Wake, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Ethiopian Airlines, and Mr. Pfungwa Serima, Managing Director of SAP Africa, signed the contract at Ethiopian headquarters in Addis Ababa Addis Ababa (ăd`ĭs ăb`əbə) [Amharic,=new flower], city (1994 pop. 2,112,737), capital of Ethiopia. It is situated at c.8,000 ft (2,440 m) on a well-watered plateau surrounded by hills and mountains. . At the contract signing ceremony A signing ceremony is a ceremony in which a bill passed by a legislature is signed (approved) by an executive, thus becoming a law. Modern-day signing ceremonies are derived from ceremonies that occurred when the British monarch gave Royal Assent to acts of Parliament. Mr. Girma said, This contract is an important milestone for Ethiopian and it is vital to support the Airline s growth strategy through integrated and real-time information delivery. This project particularly focuses on the implementation of integrated corporate-wide back office (Enterprise Resource Planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) applications deployment, which will form and define the core technology backbone for the Airline in the foreseeable future. On his part, Mr. Pfungwa Serima said, The contract is a landmark for SAP and we are proud to partnership with Ethiopian during this time of the Airline s information empowerment needs. As the success of this project is key to Ethiopian, it is far more important to SAP in building airline partnership in Africa. We would like to assure our full commitment towards the successful implementation of the project. This project, which takes effect immediately, includes financial systems, human capital management system, supply chain management system and Corporate Portal, Data warehouse/Business Intelligence systems including Middleware system integration services. These systems when fully implemented enable faster, convenient and efficient services to Ethiopian customers. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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