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Batelco Signs MoU with American University of

Bahrain

Batelco signed an MoU with the Chief Operating Officer at AUBH. As part as well as movie screenings on subjects
American University of Bahrain (AUBH), of the agreement, the AUBH student body like technology, and events that range
the Kingdom’s first American-style will have the opportunity to take part in from cultural and artistic to seasonal and
University, to jointly launch academic and summer and semester-long internships athletic. Commenting on the agreement,
extracurricular initiatives, which aim at at Batelco, and join executive experience Shaikh Bader said, “We are delighted to
enriching the students learning experience programmes, giving them a chance to work be working with the American University
and prepare them for their future. The on some of Batelco’s current projects. of Bahrain, that like Batelco is part of the
signing ceremony took place at the AUBH Students will also be able to volunteer for Mumtalakat portfolio, and look forward
campus in Riffa in the presence of a number and help organize projects that fall under to collaborating with them to support
of officials, and the MoU was signed by Batelco’s CSR programmes. The two education in our society. This fits well
Shaikh Bader bin Rashid Al Khalifa, General institutions also plan to create initiatives to with Batelco’s continuous commitment
Manager, Corporate Communications and benefit the community and intend to hold towards education and equipping students
CSR at Batelco, and Mr. William D. Hurt, panel discussions on topics of interest, with the right skills and knowledge as part
of our focus on quality education in line
with the UN Sustainable Development
Goals.” “Through this agreement, we
aspire to achieve our mutual goals by
bringing together academic excellence
with corporate knowledge and technology,
to create a complete educational
experience for the university’s students.,”
he added. Mr. Hurt said, “We are honored to
enter into an MOU with Batelco, and jointly
collaborate to enhance educational and
internship opportunities for our students,
in line with our mission to provide an
accessible American-style education to
the youth of the Kingdom of Bahrain and
worldwide.”

BNET launches e-Marketplace to Manage Supply Chain Operations Under
a Single Digital Platform

Bahrain’s National Broadband Network BENT`s commitment to adopting the latest management of supplier and vendor
(BNET) announced today the launch of technological innovations and software, relationships. This positively reflects on
its e-Marketplace platform, a unified as well as its pursuit of best practice and BNET’s overall performance and the level
digital platform dedicated to the excellence in managing procurement and of services it provides to its direct and
management of supply chain operations supplier relations. In addition to digitalizing indirect customers. The project is aligned
and supplier relations. The launch is part supplier operations, SAP Ariba solutions with BNET’s direction to adopt digital
of the company’s digital transformation provides real-time and predictive analytics cloud solutions across all its operations
efforts, to accelerate autonomy and that turn data into actionable insights. and to optimize processes by employing
automation of internal processes and This supports BNET with preparedness to innovative technologies and solutions.
enhance operational efficiency. BNET keep pace with rapid changes and future Mr. Mohamed Bubashait, BNET`s CEO,
partnered with SAP Software Solutions developments. The system also integrates said: “BNET’s e-marketplace is an
to implement its e-Marketplace project advanced technologies including “Internet innovative solution in line with our digital
by deploying SAP’s Ariba e-procurement of Things”, “Blockchain”, “Artificial transformation goals and supports our
and supply chain cloud solutions for Intelligence” and “Machine Learning”. efforts to expand our network of local and
enterprise systems, a leading solution The newly launched e-Marketplace aims international suppliers, in order to enhance
in digital collaborative commerce that to improve the assessment and approval competition and modernize our operations.
guarantees ease of access. This supports process of supplier offers and simplify Employing innovative technologies is

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