Established in 1983, Al Khairat is a privately-owned company and one of the leading suppliers of premium stationery and toys in Saudi Arabia.  With a full-fledged sales and logistics network covering most of Saudi territories, Al Khairat is keen to promptly serve its customers with the highest level of quality and efficiency.

Every September, with the beginning of a new school year, the management team at Al-Khairat faces the challenge of efficiently delivering a huge number of stationery products through its distribution network to children and students across the kingdom. 

With such a peak seasonal demand, real-time information across the supply chain with up-to-date information on stock, replenishment forecasts and sales is crucial. Al Khairat embarked on a digital transformation journey which Clariba with the objective to develop a state-of-the-art solution, allowing them to react quickly and ensure all students are perfectly equipped for the school year to begin. Thanks to the solution delivered by Clariba, the students - future Saudi engineers, nurses, doctors, lawyers and artists can rely on Al-Khairat to timely equip them with what they need to become the best-in-class from day one.

Clariba, a leading data-driven digital transformation solutions SAP partner based in Europe and the Middle East received two highly acclaimed awards at the SAP Summit 2019 in Dubai, UAE. “We are honored to be the winner of the SAP Best Intelligent Platform Partner 2019 in the Middle East. This award showcases the strength of our innovative work for clients in partnership with SAP”, says Marc Haberland, Founder & Group CEO, Clariba. “To also receive the SAP Quality Excellence Award is a great achievement and testament to the outstanding work the entire Clariba team delivers on a daily basis to enterprise customers,” he adds.

Organizations continue to use their old legacy systems for many reasons, such as them working just fine, the time and money required for redesigning them, poor knowledge of their structure or system, or outdated or total lack of documentation.

These systems may become then data silos with an unclear structure, difficulting data traceability, data quality improvement and error fixing. Moreover, many of these systems are not supported by newer software tools for data traceability, impeding organizations to get a full view of their data.

In this article we’re going to explore the benefits of connecting two SAP® tools, SAP® PowerDesigner and SAP® Information Steward on a test environment performed at Clariba.

The SAP EWM solution delivered by Clariba in under 8 months fully automates more than 15 inbound, outbound, cross-docking and other core processes.

The end-to-end integration of SAP EWM to the Schaefer Conveyor Transport System and the pick to light system from Knapp, ensures that GMG’s warehouse team can now be more effective than ever to satisfy the many inbound and outbound shipments that are processed every single day at the distribution centre.

With this highly effective warehouse management solution in place, GMG can now execute high-volume warehouse operations and manage complex supply chain logistics – delivering the ultimate in visibility and control to satisfy customers across the GCC.