Egypt's public enterprise ministry has awarded a digital modernisation contract to SAP and Microsoft to manage the resources of 60 subsidiaries and holding companies, Daily News reported. The deal covers enterprise resource planning (ERP) in finance, human resources, sales, purchasing, warehousing and production. Fiber Misr, Wadi El Nile and Atos will act as systems integrators responsible for implementation, which is expected to start next month and take about a year and a half to complete.
The contract was put out to tender in August to select ERP technology and service integrators to implement the project, which aims to standardise, improve and automate the work systems of companies and raise production efficiency.
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