NAHCO embraces technology to aid operation
By Wole Shadare
 1st OCT 2006

IN its bid to change the landscape of passenger handling services operations in Nigeria, the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc, (NAHCO) has introduced into its operations, the Oracle e-business suite, a tool that has the capacity to consolidate data from Oracle and non-Oracle applications for easy accessibility for all users.

Speaking at the commissioning of the NAHCO Oracle e-business suite recently, the General Manager of NAHCO, Bates Sule, said basically, the Oracle Business Suite was a bundle of applications built on unified information architecture to process business data, analyse information and generate current performance metrics.

The Oracle financial, an aspect of the suite, is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tool for financial and accounting management. The company according to Sule was mindful of its new status as a public liability company and saw the need to entrench corporate governance ethics into its operations.

He explained that the Oracle e-business suite, which now has integrated operational and accounting data from the various segments of the firm's operations, has now made it transparently accessible through the use of internet by all users.

Through the Oracle e-business suite data from Ramp services, passenger and cargo services and its out stations are networked into a single pool of information.

The system, which cost about N10 million, will handle NAHCO's account receivables, general ledger, account payables, fixed assets, cash management and inventory.

Sule reiterated that technology had gradually taken the world far away from the cumbersomeness of manual operations, adding that "NAHCO can never be left behind."

He said "we made a promise to our investors and stakeholders on the eve of our privatisation that NAHCO will build its operations around experienced personnel, modern equipment and robust automated system."

The Managing Director of ExpertEdge, the installer of the equipment, Mr. Austin Okere, noted that for ages, it had been difficult to compile, lamenting that what would have ordinarily taken minutes to find took over five hours.

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