Case Study: Drake & Scull International (DSI) achieves triple transaction speed, cuts procurement from 45 to 5 days and reduces payroll from 6 days to 1 hour with Oracle

Drake & Scull Triples Transaction Speed, Cuts Procurement Time from 45 to 5 Days, and Shortens Payroll from Six Days to One Hour

Drake & Scull International PJSC (DSI) is a Dubai‑headquartered leader in construction, engineering, rail, oil & gas and water projects with 25,000 employees across the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and South Asia. As it grew from 4 to 45 companies, DSI faced fragmented, paper‑based processes, slow spreadsheet consolidation and limited visibility for project financials, procurement, HR and mobile field workers—and needed a scalable, reliable ERP and hardware platform to automate budgeting, forecasting and payroll.

DSI implemented Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1 and Oracle Hyperion on SPARC T4 servers and Sun Storage, delivered with partner CSC in a phased rollout. The integrated solution created secure e‑procurement and single payroll/treasury systems, slashed material procurement from 45 to 5 days, cut payroll processing from six days to one hour (for 7,000 employees), reduced reporting consolidation from 15–20 days to real‑time dashboards, tripled benchmark transaction speeds, sped onboarding to under 24 hours, and freed finance staff for higher‑value analysis.

Drake & Scull

Terence Sathyanarayan

Corporate IT Director