Case Study: National Marine Dredging Company achieves 40% shorter procurement cycles and 10-day faster month-end close with Oracle E-Business Suite

National Marine Dredging Company Shortens Procurement Cycles by 40%, Transforms Financial and Human Resources Enterprise Resource Planning

National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC), established in 1976 in Abu Dhabi, operates dredging and land‑reclamation projects across the UAE with a fleet of vessels and mobile workshops. Facing an aging COBOL mainframe inventory system and slow, fragmented procurement, finance, and payroll processes, NMDC needed a modern, integrated ERP to gain visibility and control over parts, transactions, and people across 24 departments and vessels.

NMDC implemented Oracle E‑Business Suite 12.1.3 in 12 months, using Oracle Procurement, Purchasing, Financials, Payroll, and Inventory to replace legacy systems. The deployment cut procurement lead times by 40%, shortened the monthly financial close by 10 days, enabled near‑instant ordering of critical spares, delivered business‑wide visibility into a roughly $50M parts inventory, reduced payroll processing time, and made NMDC the first offshore dredging firm in its niche to adopt a comprehensive ERP.

National Marine Dredging Company

Yasser Nasser

Chief Executive Officer