BOC first firm to bring ERP

Manama: Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) has become the first national sport organisation to bring centralised Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Management Solution to its offices in Seef.

This was per directives of Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, representative of His Majesty the King for Charity Works and Youth Affairs, Supreme Council for Youth and Sports Chairman, and BOC President, to apply system to achieve a quantum leap in accounting and financial areas.

ERP is a comprehensive business process management solution that allows an organisation to use a system of integrated applications to manage the business and automate many back office functions related to technology, services and human resources.

It integrates all facets of an operation, including product planning, development, manufacturing, sales and marketing.

It is designed to be used by larger businesses and often requires dedicated teams to customise and analyse the data and to handle upgrades and deployment.

In contrast, Small business ERP applications are lightweight business management software solutions, customised for the business industry.

BOC Information Technology Director Nawaf Abdulrahman said the system will help in managing financial and administrative operations centrally, noting that it’s presently being implemented at the Committee and soon will be applied at national sports federations.