Case Study: Oriental Weavers Group achieves up to 80% reduction in communications costs and a 180‑site SD‑WAN rollout in 3 months with Fortinet Secure SD‑WAN

One of the World’s Largest Carpet Producers Rolls Out SD-WAN in Record Time for Elevated Customer Service Levels and Reduced Operating Costs up to 80%

Oriental Weavers, one of the world’s largest carpet producers with headquarters in Cairo and 180 national showrooms, needed to improve SAP performance, reliability, and security while meeting a new Egyptian Tax Authority mandate for real‑time e‑invoicing. The IT team also had to lower communications costs and protect critical operational‑technology systems as they planned to move from MPLS to more flexible local broadband connections.

They deployed Fortinet Secure SD‑WAN (FortiGate NGFWs, FortiClient, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer and FortiSIEM) to provide centralized control, strong threat protection, and edge internet access. The rollout brought all 180 showrooms online in three months, cut branch communications costs by up to 80%, maintained zero application downtime, sped transaction processing, improved stock and logistics efficiency, and ensured regulatory compliance and stronger security visibility.

Oriental Weavers Group

Ahmed Dawood

IT Director