King Abdullah Medical City (KAMC) has announced the completion of one of the first Oracle E-Business Suite implementations on Release 12.2.4 and ERP implementation in the cloud within Saudi government entities. Dubbed “ENJAZ”, the implementation follows a strategic direction that the Saudi government has taken in developing its technology systems to advanced solutions. KAMC's implementation of Oracle technology went live on the 9th of November 2014 and is part of a two phase process. The phase one solution brought in included Oracle Financial, Oracle HCM (HR, Payroll, Self Service, OTL) and Oracle Supply Chain (Inventory, Purchasing) running on the revolutionary Exadata & ExaLogic technological platforms implemented in KAMC's main Data Center. The Medical City is located at two sites - in the Holy City of Makkah and in Jeddah, with both locations served by four data centers. Under the direction of CIO M. Ba-Abdullah, KAMC has undertaken significant initiatives from the 2013, based on an innovative Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Strategy that saw a major restructuring exercise within KAMC. Dubbed “ENJAZ”, the five-year plan consists of 40 initiatives, 16 of which have already been completed, 12 currently in progress and the remaining initiatives in the planning phase. KAMC's CIO M. Ba-Abdullah said: “Oracle is widely implemented across Saudi Government entities and we knew that their solutions would help us develop our business operations. The E-business Suite has given us more flexibility and scalability that allows us to meet our business needs.” The Oracle systems also support drastically improved KAMC work assignments and performance evaluation systems. Purchasing and tender managers have high visibility to their teams' performance and can effectively evaluate historical transactions. KAMC runs both cash- and accrual-based ledgers, with the same chart of account structure. This will enable KAMC to present its financial statements and financial reports to the Ministry of Finance from the cash basis ledger, while the accrual basis ledger will enable KAMC follow recommendations for best business practices by having accrual based accounting which is not commonly used in the public sector. The systems are now fully aligned with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance's rules and regulations. “KAMC aims to become the healthcare beacon of the Kingdom by 2020,” said Ba_Abdullah. “To achieve this goal ICT is indispensable. As such KAMC has a clearer ICT strategy to continuously improve its technology, which will involve an evolving ERP system and business intelligence solution.” — SG
