EMERALD Bay Resort and Casino is gearing up to open on time and on budget. Its developer LapuLapu Leisure Inc. is ensuring it keeps to this goal by maximizing the efficiency of its procurement function.
LapuLapu
Leisure is a member of the PH Resorts Group Holdings Inc., the gaming and
hospitality arm of the Udenna Group. The Emerald Bay Resort and Casino will be
one of the largest business and leisure destinations in the Philippines with
838 hotel rooms, 146 gaming tables, 1,186 electronic gaming machines, 35
high-fashion boutiques, 18 specialty restaurants, a 3,000-capacity ballroom,
and more. The five-star hotel and casino is currently under construction and
scheduled to open in 2020 on Mactan Island near the city of Cebu.
LapuLapu
Leisure needed to eliminate its manual, paper-based procurement practices to
support its aggressive growth plans, and the company decided SAP Ariba Snap was
the solution to get a digitalized end-to-end source-to-settle process up and
running quickly to support the “pre-operational” phase of the Emerald Bay
project.
LapuLapu
Leisure is now connected to the Ariba Network and the 4.6 million companies on
the digital network worldwide. The SAP Ariba solutions have helped LapuLapu
Leisure optimize its procurement process, better manage its supplier
relationships and achieve higher cost efficiencies.
Procurement in a Snap
Ariba Snap provides fast-growing
companies with everything they need to drive a simple and efficient buying
process that quickly delivers results.
“SAP
Ariba Snap has met the requirements for the procurement system we have in
mind,” said Mean Bernal, procurement manager at Udenna Corp. “It will help us
ease the process by automating the system so we can concentrate on doing what
we do best—building world-class resorts.”
As the first adopter of SAP Ariba Snap in the
Philippines, LapuLapu Leisure leverages decades of SAP Ariba experiential best
practices alongside market-leading solutions to help automate every step of the
source-to-settle process—delivering savings and efficiencies that drive real
business value. Deployed in under 12 weeks with pre-loaded content from SAP
Ariba’s supplier marketplace, LapuLapu Leisure was able to replace tedious
manual processes with more efficient digital ones that help increase the accuracy
and speed of approvals, payments and delivery so the company can focus on
business outcomes.
“SAP
Ariba will be the system we use for future projects of the PH Resorts Group,”
Bernal continued. “With the recent go-live, we believe that our procurement
processes, which were done manually previously, will be easier and more
intuitive. The success of this implementation project will benefit us with an
easy-to-use interface and attractive catalogs that will entice our suppliers to
adapt to the system seamlessly.”
According
to Elvie Bantug, IT director at LapuLapu Leisure: “Partnering with SAP for the
Emerald Bay digitalization project has made our lives easier end-to-end. We do
not have to redo the integration development processes when we roll out the system
to other departments. And SAP Ariba Snap provides us with access to the same
powerful solutions that Fortune 500 companies use for simpler, smarter
sourcing. We look forward to realizing the savings, efficiencies and innovation
we’ve seen so many others achieve with SAP Ariba.”
Jason
Wolf, senior vice president and general manager of SAP Ariba Asia Pacific
Japan, commented: “Efficiency and excellence in procurement are critical to
business growth no matter the size or location of the organization. With SAP
Ariba Snap, fast-growing enterprises like LapuLapu Leisure can move to a
digital procurement process and start realizing the benefits quickly to help
power further investment and innovation.”
LapuLapu Leisure implemented SAP Ariba Snap in
partnership with Deloitte
“Deloitte is delighted to be part of
LapuLapu Leisure’s digital procurement journey and to enable them to become the
first adopter of SAP Ariba Snap in Philippines,” said Ramon Chito Ramos,
executive director and country leader for Deloitte Consulting Philippines. “As
a result of this implementation LapuLapu Leisure has transformed its buying
experience and is on course to achieve a rapid return on its investment, the
way we’ve helped so many others achieve using SAP Ariba.”
For
more information, check out the SAP Ariba web site.
