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MeRLIN, has been chosen by the Department of Finance, Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) to digitalize its public procurement

April, 2021, Dubai, UAE: MeRLIN, has been shortlisted by the Department of Finance, Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) to digitalize its public procurement systems for enhanced efficiency, accountability, and transparency across all operations. The collaboration is well-aligned with the UAE leadership’s ongoing efforts to maximize efficiencies across public and private sector industries through digitalization.

His Excellency Mohammed Hassan Alnoman, Chairman of RheinBrücke Middle East, and His Excellency Yousuf Ali Mohammed, Director General of Department of Finance, Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) signed the project charter agreement for POC in the presence of senior representatives of the two entities.

Digitalization and a shift in consumer preferences during the pandemic has disrupted the industry across the Middle East and this trend appears poised to grow. According to the International Data Corporation, the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region is expected to spend US$20 billion on digital transformation initiatives this year and up to US$40 billion by 2022.

Under the terms of the POC project charter, Department of Finance, Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) will leverage MeRLIN, a strategic sourcing solution that offers seamlessly integrated sourcing process automation. In addition, MeRLIN is mandated to assist the department with supplier relationship management and planning and offer advanced analytics support in its digital transformation journey. MeRLIN is also set to enable the department to meet its national development objectives of enhancing the efficiency and delivery of public service, developing human capital, and boosting the private sector’s contribution to the national GDP.     

His Excellency Mohammed Hassan Alnoman, said: ‘We are pleased to partner with Department of Finance, Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) in its digital transformation efforts that will significantly optimize process and system efficiencies to ultimately ensure it surpasses customer expectations.

‘RheinBrücke’s MeRLIN is at the forefront in enabling entities to improve business processes and maximise human potential through increasing employee productivity and lowering operational costs. Our team expertise lies in finding innovative products to solve our partners’ most complex business challenges.’

He added: ‘Through implementing MeRLIN, Department of Finance, Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) will see its teams become more flexible and agile and stay two steps ahead in today’s highly competitive business environment. The digital roadmap for end-to-end automation of sourcing and procurement will significantly enhance the department’s ability to reach out to smaller suppliers and prospective customers.

The RheinBrücke team will work with Executives of Department of Finance and will work very closely with Executives of Electronic Government Authority (EGA) taking their guidance to ensure the solution meets the stringent security and integration requirements of EGA ‘

His Excellency Yousuf Ali Mohammed, said: ‘As part of our efforts to enhance our digital infrastructure and capabilities across all operations, this project will enable us to introduce the most advanced practices that comply with the highest standards in the country’s government sector. We are committed to continuously enhancing the financial planning process, budgeting and public procurement to achieve greater financial control, transparency and efficiency. Our vision is to shape a competitive ecosystem that keeps pace with the changes taking place in our industry. We aspire to lead the way in scaling up efficiencies of the financial, accounting and public procurement function in government departments. Through this synergy with RheinBrücke’, we seek to create a world-class digital Public Procurement ecosystem in Ras Al Khaimah.’ 

Department of Finance, Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) and RheinBrücke have commenced POC of the strategic partnership to digitally transform the procurement experience. The MeRLIN solution is in current phase focusing on five processes related to the procurement cycle of the government, including vendor management and registration, tendering, auction management, supplier invoice management and spend management.

MeRLIN is modular, flexible, configurable and easy to deploy platform that is will be globally available on Microsoft Azure. In the UAE, it has partnered with Moro Hub and is poised to become the go-to solution for the strategic sourcing needs of public sector enterprises and other non-public sector enterprise sourcing organizations.

MeRLIN has joined hands with Monaquasah PMC to support in running their entire technology platform.

April, 2021, Dubai, UAE: MeRLIN has joined hands with Monaquasah PMC to support in running their entire technology platform. MeRLIN will be used to run their complete e-tendering platform from supplier management to end customers registering and finding their goods and services of choice. 

Implementation of MeRLIN for Monaquasah gives them end-to-end supply chain visibility and allows them to have a highly effective digitalized platform for vendor management, tendering, auction and supplier invoice management enabling them to save time, reduce errors, increase transparency and improve efficiency. The platform will provide 100% traceability and auditability with respect to compliances. RheinBrücke’s MeRLIN Sourcing and Procurement solution for Monaquasah will provide extended capabilities such as Bid Bond management, Contract Authoring and payment gateway integrations for digital payments.

Monaqasah PMC is a Kuwaiti company established in late 2019 to serve the Kuwaiti market and the international market with a vision of transforming of business environments into an electronic eco system that is easy, flexible, accurate, credible, transparent and secured.

Visteon, a pure-play supplier of automotive cockpit electronics, and a Fortune 500 company has implemented MeRLIN

Visteon, a pure-play supplier of automotive cockpit electronics, the fastest-growing segment in the industry, and a Fortune 500 company has implemented MeRLIN as the foundation for its procurement transformation. 

Given the nature of the highly competitive industry and their huge number of widespread suppliers across countries, Visteon needed a solution to ensure they have the right materials meeting quality requirements at the right time in order to ramp up their manufacturing capacity and meet customer needs as well as satisfy all the required terms to show higher profitability. The modules implemented includes Supplier Management – Supplier Information Management, Sourcing, Catalogue Management and Analytics. The solution also includes an internet based supplier portal.

MeRLIN implementation will help Visteon to create a single source of truth for all master data including parts, suppliers, prices, purchase orders etc. and consolidate data from multiple ERP instances. The solution will enable standardization and unification of business processes, templates and business rules across all regions. The complete automation of sourcing and awarding processes and increased visibility of all parts and prices using the system is expected to significantly increase competitiveness, reduce procurement errors and free up time of procurement team members to focus on more strategic activities.