Galva Coat’s future is digital with Infor

Galva Coat Industries LLC, a landmark plant in Abu Dhabi’s industrial area that produces a wide range of steel products, has chosen Infor CloudSuite Industrial, a powerful cloud-based, industry-focused enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution, to enable the digitalization of the production process and delivery, as part of its efforts to become the region’s leading producer of lighting poles and guard rails.

Galva Coat was created in 1995 and is based in Abu Dhabi’s Musaffah industrial district. It specializes in the design, engineering, and fabrication of various steel products. For the past 25 years, Galva Coat has been the market leader and innovator in the field of lighting poles in the UAE and the Middle East. The firm is well-known for its superior value system and unwavering pursuit of excellence. Galva Coat employs cutting-edge technology, state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities, and highly trained personnel.

Omar Uwayda, general manager of Galva Coat, noted: “Our senior management team was looking for a solution that would provide real-time efficiency and optimization across the plant. Especially, the production planning needed to better reflect that we operate in a project manufacturing mode rather than the standard manufacturing scenario. We found that Infor’s cloud solution provides the required capabilities using Infor’s best business practices provided by industry-focused Infor Implementation Accelerators as part of the Infor CloudSuite.” 

As part of its digital transformation, Galva Coat has decided to migrate its ERP to the cloud and away from a legacy on-premises version. After weighing several possibilities, the company decided on Infor CloudSuite Industrial, which is hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and allows for order management with CRM, planning, shop floor operations, time sheet management, supply chain management, finance, and analytics.

“It’s yet another win for Infor in the region as it continues to establish its dominant position in the Middle East as industry cloud company driven by technology and automation. Galva Coat is ideally positioned to reap the benefits of this project to increase efficiency and productivity as it marches on in its quest to be one of the industry leaders in this domain,” said Amel Gardner, Infor VP and general manager for Middle East & Africa.

Galva Coat intends to automate and integrate its production control systems and plant maintenance solutions, as well as provide meaningful real-time analytics across operations to its senior management, by implementing the multi-tenant Infor CloudSuite Industrial, which runs on the Infor OS operating services platform and is powered by AWS.

The deployment will begin in April and should be completed by December. ITWare LLC, based in Dubai, UAE, is one of Infor’s long-standing ERP channel partners in the region, focused on Infor’s CloudSuite solutions. ITWare LLC worked closely with the Infor team throughout the presales cycle and will be driving the implementation efforts.