Juhayna Food Industries Invests $1 Milllion in IBM Infrastructure

Juhayna Food Industries is investing $ 1.15M into building a smarter computing infrastructure provided by IBM Corp.

This move is designed to improve business flexibility and efficiency as the organization ramps up for growth in the years ahead.

As one of Egypt’s largest dairy and fruit juice producers, Juhayna supports clients through its 26 distribution centers in Egypt. The company’s substantial growth plans require it to transform its business model to support current and future expansion plans.

"Juhayna Food Industries group is keen to invest in technology to boost the company s efficiency and performance", said Seif El Din Thabet, operations director, Juhayna.

The company first earmarked the use of technology to support growth in 2004, when it applied an SAP system to centrally manage critical business processes. Today, Juhayna is collaborating with IBM to build out the company’s IT infrastructure to become agile and responsive to marketplace changes.

IBM is upgrading the infrastructure to support the SAP ERP and CRM applications that it uses for finance, personnel management, materials management, production planning, quality management and sales & distribution. The company will use IBM DB2 database software running on IBM Power Systems with the AIX operating system and IBM XIV Storage System in a virtualized environment using IBM PowerVM.

The new IT infrastructure will enable Juhayna to enhance customer service and ensure business continuity with the more reliable computing platform.

"Juhayna Food Industries is effectively preparing for the future with an end-to-end development plan for its technology infrastructure", said Amr Talaat, GM, IBM Egypt." IBM is pleased to play a fundamental role in their transformation strategy with our products and field expertise."

"Our new IBM-based platform will provide Juhayna the reliability and scalability needed to manage our business growth," said Ihab Naguib, IT associate director. "In addition, IBM’s service has been exemplary conducting a seamless migration of all our data within half the time we expected without any loss of information."

The agreement was signed in late 2011 and implementation was completed this year.