May 5 (SeeNews) - Sofia Airport has signed a contract with Greece's Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation, OTE, for the installation of a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, as part of the airport's digital transformation plan worth over 5 million euro ($5.5 million), concessionaire SOF Connect said on Friday.
In the next few months, the airport will also start implementing three more key IT systems, which are part of the plan - an airport operations management system, as well as enterprise resource and human resource management systems, SOF Connect said in a press release.
The ERP will enable the automation of some of the airport's core processes, which have until now been manually performed. These include operational and financial flows within the company, in addition to goods deliveries, order processing, cash payments and other operations to contractors and customers. The new ERP system will also improve processes such as account receivables, cash collection, inventory and procurement management e-auction and related operations. Another benefit will be the digitalisation of internal information flows and the addition of tools for managing stakeholder relations, the airport also said.
SOF Connect launched a tender for implementation of the new ERP system in November, as part of over 140 million levs ($78.65 million/71.6 million euro) of planned new investments in the first five years of its 35-year concession contract which began in 2021. The upgrade of Sofia Airport is in part supported by a 40 million loan euro loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) under the Connecting Europe Facility.
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