Sunway Group, one of Malaysia’s property-construction powerhouses with a
13,000-strong employee base, is moving to the cloud to drive procurement
business-process transformation. And it is using solutions from Ariba,
an SAP Company to do it.
Consistent with its continuous mission to espouse innovation in
delivering high-value products and services and transform the way it
sources goods and services, Sunway has turned to Ariba for solutions
that will enable it to drive standardization and best practices across
its procurement operations.
“In today’s challenging economy, it is not enough to just identify
opportunities for savings. To be successful, we must ensure that they
actually reach the bottom line,” said Dato' KL Tan, Senior Managing
Director of Property & Construction Divisions, Sunway Group. “Ariba
offers us the scalability to expand and consolidate, improve
transparency and create a metric-driven approach to sourcing that can
deliver exponential savings and sustainable competitive advantage.”
Sunway’s association with Ariba began in 2000 when the company
implemented Ariba’s on-premise solution for managing purchase requests
and purchase orders to standardize procurement on an enterprise-wide
basis. In 2009, the company embarked on its cloud journey with Ariba®
Sourcing™ and Ariba
Spend Analysis™ to increase its visibility and drive spend
compliance across more than 100 business units.
Since putting the solutions in place, Sunway has conducted over 1,000
sourcing events that have generated savings of more than RM82 million or
USD $25 million. The company has also improved compliance and reduced
its sourcing cycle times.
Today, Sunway announced that it is expanding its portfolio and moving to
the cloud to enhance and accelerate the results it has achieved
including putting additional Ariba solutions in place, such as Ariba
Contract Management™, Ariba
Supplier Management ™ and Ariba Procure-to-Order™.
“By delivering their solutions in the cloud, Ariba makes it very easy
for us to accomplish our goals,” said Dato' KL Tan, adding that, “All of
the tools we need to effectively manage our sourcing process can be
easily accessed and shared across functions, divisions and geographies.”
Mr. Cheah Kok Hoong, Group CEO / Director of Hitachi Sunway Information
Systems, agrees. “Because they are delivered through a single interface
platform in the cloud, Ariba’s solutions will allow us to quickly and
easily consolidate all of our procurement information across functions
and divisions with less time, cost and effort,” As the extended IT arm
of Sunway group, Hitachi Sunway will apply its skills and expertise to
ensure that Ariba’s solutions are properly implemented and optimized,
and deliver the capabilities required to effectively achieve the
company’s goals.
“The economic downturn has taken its toll on the global market for
commercial real estate, and created challenges for companies like
Sunway,” said Shareen Gongular, Director, Ariba SE Asia. “By embracing
the cloud and implementing Ariba’s solutions, Sunway can enable new
processes that allow it to anticipate and quickly respond to changes in
market conditions and customer demands and maintain its competitive
edge.”
To learn more about Ariba’s solutions and the value they are delivering
to more than 1.5 million companies around the world, visit: www.ariba.com
About Sunway Group
For four decades, Sunway Group has grown exponentially from a tiny
tin-mining company to become one of Malaysia’s property-construction
powerhouses, and an influential brand, having established leadership
through 12 industries in 40 locations worldwide.
Community building, enriching lives, and innovation remain Sunway’s
principal tenets as the Group continues to transform lives through its
core businesses of Property, Construction, and synergistic businesses of
Hospitality, Retail, Leisure, Commercial, Trading & Manufacturing,
Building Materials, Quarry, Healthcare, Education and Real Estate
Investment Trust (REIT).
Underscoring its deep commitment to sustain the communities it builds,
Sunway Group supports its communities with its social responsibility
endeavors of far-reaching impact championed by Education, Healthcare and
Community Aid Reach-out Enriching (C.A.R.E.) programmes.
For more information on Sunway Group, please visit www.sunway.com.my
About Hitachi Sunway Information Systems
Established in April 2013, Hitachi Sunway Information Systems is a joint
venture (JV) company of Hitachi Systems, Ltd. and Sunway Technology - to
provide IT services in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Its core offerings
include Applications (ERP, Supply Chain Optimization), Engineering
Solutions (Product Lifecycle Management) and Infrastructure & Managed
Services (Systems & Storage, End-to-End Virtualization Solutions, Data
Management/Storage, High Availability/Disaster Recovery, ITO Managed
Services, Infra/Data/Cloud Security, Wireless Network Infra, Data Center
Outsourcing & Cloud Services). The company has established partnerships
with leading global technologies provider such as Ariba, Autodesk,
Citrix, Commvault, Dell, eLock, Galasys, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM,
Infor, NetApp, Netsuite, Oracle, Siemens, Spring Technologies, Symantec,
Trend Micro and VMware. Our list of clientele come from various
industries, namely Insurance & Financial Services, Automotive,
Manufacturing & Distribution, and Construction & Engineering.
Headquarter in Malaysia, we also have offices in Singapore, Thailand,
Indonesia, Philippines & Vietnam. For more information, visit www.hitachi-sunway-is.com
About Ariba, an SAP Company
Ariba is the world’s business commerce network. Ariba combines
industry-leading cloud-based applications with the world's largest
web-based trading community to help companies discover and collaborate
with a global network of partners. Using the Ariba® Network, businesses
of all sizes can connect to their trading partners anywhere, at any time
from any application or device to buy, sell and manage their cash more
efficiently and effectively than ever before. Companies around the world
use the Ariba Network to simplify inter-enterprise commerce and enhance
the results that they deliver. Join them at: www.ariba.com
About SAP
As market leader in enterprise application software, SAP (NYSE: SAP)
helps companies of all sizes and industries run better. From back office
to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, desktop to mobile device – SAP
empowers people and organizations to work together more efficiently and
use business insight more effectively to stay ahead of the competition.
SAP applications and services enable more than 258,000 customers to
operate profitably, adapt continuously, and grow sustainably. For more
information, visit www.sap.com
.
Any statements contained in this document that are not historical facts
are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.S. Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as “anticipate,” “believe,”
“estimate,” “expect,” “forecast,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “project,”
“predict,” “should” and “will” and similar expressions as they relate to
SAP are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. SAP
undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are subject
to various risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from expectations. The factors that could affect SAP's
future financial results are discussed more fully in SAP's filings with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including SAP's
most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC. Readers are
cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking
statements, which speak only as of their dates.
© 2014 SAP AG. All rights reserved.
SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as
their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG
in Germany and other countries. Please see http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/legal/copyright/index.epx#trademark
for additional trademark information and notices.
Note to editors:
To preview and download broadcast-standard stock footage and press
photos digitally, please visit www.sap.com/photos.
On this platform, you can find high resolution material for your media
channels. To view video stories on diverse topics, visit www.sap-tv.com.
From this site, you can embed videos into your own Web pages, share
video via email links, and subscribe to RSS feeds from SAP TV.
Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.
For customers interested in
learning more about SAP products:
Global Customer Center: +49 180
534-34-24
United States Only: 1 (800) 872-1SAP (1-800-872-1727)
Copyright Business Wire 2014