Siba Food and FPT IS implement Rise with SAP solution to standardise business operations

RISE with SAP is a complete offering of cloud solutions, infrastructure, and services that bundles existing tools, technologies, and intelligence into a holistic ‘business transformation as a service’ model.

The solution is a crucial step for Siba Food in streamlining operations and establishing a digital platform that adheres to international standards, enabling the business to thrive.

This is a specific model applied to the retail industry to address specific issues in the agricultural industry.

Solutions developed on the SAP Fiori integration platform connect to each business store nationwide, meeting the streamlining of system use in stores while still ensuring rigour and convenience when checking data for the office block.

The solution is a crucial step for Siba Food in streamlining operations and establishing a digital platform that adheres to international standards, enabling the business to thrive.

Siba Food has calculated the actual cost of importing pork pieces and retailing snakehead fish at customers' stores and meat shops.

Additionally, businesses use S/4HANA Fiori at each store to perform warehouse transactions, compare and control inventory data, manage inventory to ensure accuracy and minimise reconciliation time for the accounting department.

SAP S/4HANA is integrated with eInvoice, and eBanking POS systems, providing digital value chain 4.0 applications for daily transaction operations in stores and back-office blocks.

The project is engaged by nearly 100 stories of Siba Food nationwide. It helps Siba Food to centrally manage in real time on a single platform, optimising information resources for quick analysis and decision-making.

Nguyen Anh Tuan, CEO of Siba Food, revealed that having FPT IS as an implementing partner to deploy SAP S/4HANA successfully was an important step in their digital transformation process.

“Siba Food and Tan Long Group trust in the collaboration with FPT IS, the leading unit in Vietnam for implementing SAP solutions, to operate the SAP S/4HANA system effectively. The SAP S/4HANA system can be easily expanded to meet the operational needs of Siba Food after the go-live phase, including restaurant systems, supermarket sales, and fairs. We expect SAP S/4HANA to be a significant factor in maintaining and improving our position and achieving growth goals in the future,” he said.

Meanwhile, Tran Trung Thanh, regional director of FPT IS Ho Chi Minh City, noted that building a specific solution model for the retail industry combined with processing and mixing operations on SAP S/4HANA not only solves industry-specific problems for Siba Food, but also creates a solid digital foundation for businesses to conquer business goals.

The system helps consolidate Siba Food's operations, support businesses in achieving their goals of optimising efficiency, improving productivity and promoting business. We believe that the success of the project will contribute to promoting the digital transformation process for the agricultural industry and the development of the digital economy in general,” said Thanh.

Nguyen Hong Viet, managing director of SAP Vietnam said, “RISE with SAP has helped empower Siba Food to overcome operational hurdles and lay the groundwork for exponential growth. At SAP, we're committed to empowering Vietnamese businesses like Siba Food. RISE with SAP is not just software, it's a blueprint for success. And with FPT IS by our side, Siba Food poised to unlock incredible potential for companies across the nation.”

FPT IS specifically operates the RISE with SAP, which includes the SAP S/4HANA system for Siba Food, along with subsystems such as FI, CO, SD, PP, PS, QM, and CAR. The system is also integrated with other systems, including POS, eBanking of SHB Bank, and electronic invoices FPT eInvoice.

Siba Food Vietnam JSC is currently developing a retail chain including Siba Food clean food stores and BaF Meat shop clean pork sales points, a reputable address for customers to buy BaF Meat vegetarian pork with the pigs raised totally from plant foods, herbs and probiotics.

All other food sources are committed to strict control by Siba Food in terms of traceability to ensure freshness and health for consumers.

In Vietnam, FPT IS is a Gold partner of SAP and the first company to achieve a specialised ERP implementation competency certificate.

The company aims to become an expert in implementing SAP Cloud projects, especially RISE S/4HANA for the domestic market.

FPT IS has also won several awards from SAP, including Partner of the Year 2022, Best RISE Partner of the Year 2022, Mid-market Partner of the Year 2022, Partner of the Year 2021 and DRS Partner of the Year 2021.

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