JEDDAH — Arabian International Company For Steel Structures (AIC), the leading designer, fabricator and erector of structural steel – a Jeddah, Saudi Arabia-based leading designer, fabricator and erector of structural steel and towers and a member of the Attieh Group of companies, the largest steel stockiest in the Middle East – has chosen IFS Applications to consolidate operations and provide a single view across the business. IFS, the global enterprise applications company, said in a statement Monday that under the agreement, IFS Applications will manage HR, finance, procurement, manufacturing, planning and scheduling, fabrication, and maintenance for the company's steel structure, tower and galvanizing divisions by better resource and capacity planning and supply chain management. In addition, AIC Steel will be able to manage engineering, procurement & construction contracts for the erection of the steel structures they fabricate and also manage the rentals, transportation and trading of their heavy equipment. AIC Steel needs to replace a mixture of ad-hoc legacy systems with an integrated ERP that provides end-to- end solution to increase operational efficiencies and also to manage its global operations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Jordan, China, United Kingdom & other GCC countries. Implementing the newly released IFS Applications 9, AIC Steel will benefit by having a single platform to support multinational and multicurrency operations with access to information in real-time to better support its oil and gas and utilities customer base. IFS Applications is expected to go live in the group's main divisions within seven months, and in the company's remaining global divisions within a year. Once fully implemented, IFS applications will support 300 users. “As a growing business, we required a user-friendly, feature-rich single-instance ERP system to better support our global operations,” said Wasim A. Attieh, President of AIC Steel. “One feature that stood out was IFS Lobby, which offers us a flexible and easily configured snapshot of business units and processes. IFS applications will consolidate all of our operations into one platform to easily manage our business requirements and streamline operations to support us now and in the future.” IFS Middle East, South Asia & Africa managing director Ian Fleming, added: “We are very pleased to welcome AIC Steel to our existing strong client base in the manufacturing and engineering industries. We look forward to partnering with AIC Steel to centralize their operations, support their growth and enable them to become more efficient and agile.” — SG
