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Welcome to the third edition of CORE Newsletter!

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I would like first to wish you all a happy Ramadan Mubarak. May this Eid be as bright as ever with full of joy, health and prosperity to you and your family.

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In June we’ve been able to:

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6- Testimonials

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7- Next Steps - July / August

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8- Quote of the Month

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9- CORE on EMAC

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10- Feedback

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1- Editorial

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Finalize the CORE Impact Analysis Sign Off to all entities.

Enhance the improvement for the Data Migration.

Update the Early Training list for August.

Thank you for your continued involvement and appreciate your gift of time, energy and enthusiastic support to CORE project.

LATEST CORE ACHIEVEMENTS! 

Build 100% completed

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Aligning final understanding of the key CORE impacted processes.

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Identifying risks, actions and owners.

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Understanding process changes between BAAN and CORE.

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Updated Early Training list for August.

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Finalised the selection of 16 nominees for Train the Trainers for the stores.

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Installation of Portacabin in Riyadh warehouse for training rooms.

Olivier Leblan – CIO It is with great pleasure that we announce the promotion of Olivier Leblan to a Chief Information officer effective 1st of July, 2015. He will be taking over Group IT responsibilities on top of his current assignment.

He has more than 12 years’ experience in project management and Finance and worked on different projects in North America and Europe.

In his new role, Olivier will continue reporting to Anthony Chalhoub.

Please join us in congratulating Olivier on his new role and supporting him in his new appointment.

INTERVIEW – Hassan Dawood/DM-FTC What is your understanding on CORE Project?

CORE is more than an ERP system!

The way of applying and improving this software makes CORE a great event especially in business retail.

CORE will save our time, our efforts and will speed up our processing.

What are the challenges that you are expecting?

I expect some difficulties especially when moving form Baan to CORE. As employees have been using this software for over 10 years, the change will not be that easy and that is the biggest challenge in this area.

Are you and your team ready for the coming For me Early it’s anTraining? exciting opportunity to work with the team and face this challenge.

At the end of the day I can trusthead myself put Early training is an advance testing step asnew I believe the Chalhoub Group is always a step ontoany FTC’s name on the top. project. Today early training is that step.

We are going to test gaps that we were defending in the fit gap sessions, and going to test the system and the functions; that will be great at all different levels.

Please define your day to day relation with CORE team?

CORE team is the most important factor of CORE’s success. They are really amazing and professional. We have been dealing with them since the beginning and I would like to thank them. (thanks Core team) What is your conclusion?

My last word would be “Core is the future of the Group”. We all have to work together to make this programme a success. I encourage everyone to take this opportunity to return to their learning environment and appreciate more the training courses.

As a conclusion, CORE is the best way of managing over the world.

Testimonials The only thing constant in life is change and for us the change was difficult but a crucial one as we went from a company with an in house software to one step closer in becoming a recognized global company with a universally accepted accounting system. With the start of Core boundaries have been dissolved and we now work as a better integrated unit “Chalhoub Group”.

Elroy Pereira, Chief Accountant – Salhia Head Office

Despite the many obstacles we have all encountered since Go Live, I can proudly say that Kuwait Users have gone the Extra Mile and accepted the Change!

Personally CORE was a huge challenge at first, highly time and energy consuming; however today I can definitely see the difference as it has completely changed my whole work life environment, in the best way. It was certainly not really obvious in the beginning… now I am really happy to say that indeed “TOGETHER BETTER”.

Hasna Raissi, Kuwait Retail Operations Executive

The change from MIS to Oracle was challenging but not too much for me, since I was still new to the company when the transition happened. I think the change was very useful and efficient in certain aspects but more complicated and time-consuming in others. The automated report in the system and the ability to generate/create any report is very useful to us & relatively simple.

That being said, occasional lags that occur between different modules can be quite disturbing, not to mention the process of logging an incident and ensuring prompt follow-up. I think although we have faced so many problems with CORE in the past, it is beginning to stabilize at least in terms of my work in the system (BI/RMS).

Silvana Fares, Brand Analyst; Salhia Head Office

NEXT STEPS – JULY / AUGUST •

Solution testing & User Acceptance Testing preparation are in progress.

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Organisational alignment based on the agreed change.

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Management Sign Off for the Stores Point of Sales Roll out strategy.

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Early Training to start on 2nd of August.

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Data migration on UAT environment.

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Recruiting Process Implementation Coordinators.

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Quote of the Month “Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.”

- Ted Key

CORE on EMAC Multiple documents (training materials, training plans, glossary, FAQ)… related to CORE are available on EMAC under Competence Centres / CORE. You are invited to check those pages to get an overview of CORE. You can also find your training session on EMAC under CORE – Training schedule.

FEEDBACK If you have other questions about the projects do not hesitate to send an email to the project mailbox: CORE_Together_Better@mailmac.net