AlWatania Accelerates Digital Growth with ExD through SAP Upgrade & Conversion

Doha, Qatar — Excellence Delivered (ExD), Pakistan’s only SAP Platinum Partner, proudly announced the successful completion of a full-scale SAP transformation at AlWatania International Holding (AWIH), a diversified business group with operations spanning FMCG distribution, food manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, IT and telecom, and real estate.

AlWatania – Driving Growth Across Qatar’s Private Sector

Headquartered in Doha, AWIH has built a strong reputation through strategic investments and diversified operations. As one of Qatar’s most dynamic business groups, AWIH plays a key role in strengthening the private sector by combining scale with innovation and operational excellence. With continued growth across multiple industries, AWIH required a robust and future-ready digital platform to unify its operations and enable long-term agility.

Overcoming Legacy Challenges with SAP

AWIH’s expanding footprint demanded a modernized ERP foundation that could handle increasing data volumes, streamline processes, and deliver insights in real time. Its legacy Oracle-based SAP ECC environment was becoming a bottleneck, limiting scalability and creating inefficiencies in data management, infrastructure costs, and system performance. Recognizing the urgency to evolve, AWIH partnered with ExD to drive a comprehensive SAP transformation.

A Full-Scale SAP Transformation Journey

ExD designed and executed a phased roadmap that modernized AWIH’s ERP backbone and positioned it for cloud-driven scalability:

• Database and ECC Upgrade – Upgraded SAP ECC to the latest enhancement packs, optimizing performance and extending application lifecycle while preparing the foundation for HANA adoption.

   

• Strategic Data Archiving – Implemented intelligent data archiving strategies to manage historical data, reduce system load, and improve overall database efficiency while ensuring compliance and business continuity.

   

• Oracle DB to HANA Migration – Migrated AWIH’s database layer from Oracle to SAP HANA, delivering in-memory computing power that dramatically accelerates reporting, analytics, and transaction processing.

   

• SAP HANA to RISE Migration – Transitioned from on-premise ECC on HANA to SAP’s cloud-powered SAP Rise model, giving AWIH a cloud-ready digital core that lowers total cost of ownership, increases flexibility, and provides access to continuous innovation from SAP.

   

This end-to-end transformation not only addressed AWIH’s immediate operational challenges but also positioned the group for long-term digital agility, ensuring that its ERP landscape can scale with business growth while unlocking new efficiencies.

Strategic Collaboration & Team Excellence

The transformation at AWIH stands as a benchmark of how strategic vision, technical expertise, and flawless execution can converge to deliver meaningful business outcomes. Excellence Delivered (ExD) brought its proven methodology, deep SAP expertise, and industry-specific knowledge to the engagement, ensuring that every stage of the transformation—from assessment and planning to migration and go-live—was executed with precision and foresight.

ExD’s role went beyond technical enablement; our consultants worked hand-in-hand with AWIH’s leadership to map business objectives to system capabilities, ensuring the new digital core was not only technologically advanced but also aligned with AWIH’s operational and strategic priorities. With expertise in complex database upgrades, HANA migrations, cloud adoption, and data lifecycle management, ExD delivered a seamless transformation that mitigated risks, minimized downtime, and unlocked immediate value.

AlWatania International Holding Leadership and Key Stakeholders:
Hassan Alkhiyami | Moutaz Korjo | Joe A. | Hisham Basheer | Muhammad Zeeshan Khan | Hussein Hamza | Wissam Elhage | Alaa Jaber | AbdulKareem Kanaan | Ahmad Alito | Ahsan Danish | Shadi Abdo

ExD Team:
Sajjad Syed – Chairman
Wasil Amjad – Chief Executive Officer
Ashar Kazmi – Chief Operating Officer
Ahmad Iqbal – Regional Business Manager, EMEA South
Muhammad Qasim – Head of Operations
Rizwan Bashir – SAP BASIS
Imran Aslam – SAP Consultant
Zain Ullah Khan Faroorqi – SAP Consultant

Enabling Future-Ready Growth

With this successful transformation, AWIH now operates on a high-performance, cloud-enabled ERP platform that reduces costs, enhances agility, and provides real-time data insights across its diversified portfolio. The project underscores ExD’s ability to deliver complex SAP transformations that align with both immediate business needs and long-term strategic goals.

Excellence Delivered (ExD), as Pakistan’s top SAP Platinum Partner and United VARs member, continues to empower leading organizations across the region with next-generation SAP solutions. Our deep expertise in SAP transformations ensures that businesses like AWIH can confidently embrace digital change, unlock their full potential, and lead in an increasingly competitive landscape.

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