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Company Message
The Al Habtoor Group Head Office Finance Department embarked
on implementing a robust Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Oracle
EBS system in 2015, given the criteria of timely accurate and reliable
MIS reporting for management decision making. The decision to invest
in an ERP was a very strategic move by the management aimed to
comprehensively manage and integrate Finance with Procurement,
Projects, Inventory, Human Resources, Sales & Marketing, Audit and
Information Technology. It was excellent team work properly planned,
supervised, coordinated and executed that resulted in successful
implementation of the ERP system. There were numerous interactive
training sessions and simulations for the entire AHG staff who put in
dedicated efforts to meet all time deadlines despite their day-to-day
routine and job responsibilities. Initially we faced a bit of reservations
and concerns from some quarters but through proper counselling and
training the company managed to achieve the desired results at AHG
Head Office and Diamondlease with Oracle EBS. The ultimate objective
would be to integrate ERP across all the Al Habtoor Group subsidiaries
to benefit from Centralized operations and Control.
Today, the Al Habtoor Group is well poised to meet all the challenges
of Reporting and Statutory submissions, including Value Added Tax
introduced by Regulatory Bodies which will come into force from
January 2018. The ERP system will also be playing a crucial and pivotal
role in the consolidation of financial reporting and other any future
business plans. AHG management appreciates and recognises the
efforts put in by all the staff members in their individual roles as well the
good team spirit demostrated by all departments.
Arun Krishnan
Chief Financial Officer