Qatar-based conglomerate Power International Holding implements solutions from SAP SuccessFactors software and SAP S/4HANA to enhance employee experience and streamline its enterprise resource planning system.
Power International Holding, which started out as a contracting company, is a diversified business conglomerate, with over 41,000 employees. Today it is a multi-disciplinary group that continues to expand globally. The group’s portfolio sits across five main sectors:
- General Contracting
- Agro-Food Industries
- Real Estate Development
- Lifestyle (Hospitality, Entertainment & Catering)
- General Services
Power International Holding deals with highly intricate and diverse business processes across these five sectors—this presented significant operational challenges to the group, which had been implementing different systems across its companies before it selected SAP solutions from SAP SuccessFactors software and SAP S/4HANA.
Now, according to Ahmed El Zeftawy, Power International Holding’s chief human resources officer, with SuccessFactors and S/4HANA, the group is better equipped in achieving its goals of driving more agile and efficient operations across all its business functions. He explains:
“We are delighted with what we have achieved through working with SAP. The solutions help us achieve our vision of becoming a model conglomerate.”
Improving Human Experiences with SuccessFactors and S/4HANA
According to a report by SAP, since Power International Holding implemented solutions from SAP SuccessFactors software for its human resource management platform, it has successfully digitalized 100 percent of its HR processes.
Other HR improvements that the group was able to achieve with SuccessFactors include:
- streamlined payroll processing
- modernized workforce management
- 90{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22} increase in operational excellence
- increased accuracy and speed of HR reporting
- automation of performance-based bonuses
Power International Holding has also been able to significantly enhance employee experience by 90{aa282f308afcc222aaa21b0478c79e01a8fedd01972e2180867097bd93930f22}. Moreover, with the global COVID-19 pandemic still at large, the group is now able to deliver exceptional remote working experiences to its more than 41,000 employees. Its modernized HR platform that leverages solutions from SuccessFactors software provides an intuitive, easy-to-use portal that can be accessed by employees online or on mobile.
According to SAP, 75 percent of the group’s HR processes are directly integrated with SAP S/4HANA to ensure a highly-functional and automated process across all its business units.
SAP S/4HANA is SAP’s next-generation enterprise resource planning system with built-in intelligent technologies, including AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics that runs on SAP HANA—an in-memory database that simplifies data models.
Jasim Abdul Rahman, Power International Holding’s group chief information officer comments:
“Our HR and ERP processes are intertwined, so it makes sense to manage them according to the same best practices.”
About Power International Holding
Power International Holding was founded by Moutaz Al-Khayyat and Ramez Al-Khayyat.
Companies within Power International Holding’s portfolio are held by four main subsidiaries: UCC Holding, Baladna Q.P.S.C, ASSETS Real Estate Development, and Aura Group.
The group’s projects include: Mall of Qatar, Banana Island, Lekhwiya Stadium, and the Doha Sheraton Hotel and Convention Centre in Qatar; the Waldorf Astoria hotel in the Maldives and; the 23-storey residential Baywalk Tower in The Pearl-Qatar.
Power International Holding is also the parent company to Baladna Food Industries (listed on the Qatar Stock Exchange).
