Cognizant(NASDAQ: CTSH) announced that it has actually been selected by Riyadh International Food catering Company (RICC) as a tactical partner to make it possible for McDonald's restaurant chain in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to end up being a digital business, changing consumer experience and management platform.

RICC has and runs McDonald's in the Central, Eastern and Northern areas of the Kingdom under developmental permit from McDonald's Corporation of Delaware, US. RICC has 154 quick-service dining establishments and strategies to increase its impact to greater than 200 electrical outlets by 2020. To assist RICC meet the needs of rapid business growth, Cognizant will certainly take advantage of its deep digital business, technology and restaurant industry proficiency to design and construct a business planning and management platform.

Making use of SAP Success Aspects and ECC software, the platform will be developed to offer RICC with real-time presence into everyday procedures and quality control across all its outlets in KSA. As part of the involvement, Cognizant will certainly simplify and systematize key supply chain, food and labor force procedures, making them flexible and responsive to business needs. Cognizant will additionally enable RICC to harness customer and operational intelligence to own faster, more educated decision-making, and maximize client experience, speed-to-market, business throughput, and return on properties.

" The success of McDonald's in KSA is underpinned by our dedication to supplying our customers the greatest criteria of high quality, solution, sanitation, and worth," claimed HH Royal prince Waleed Nasser F. Al-Saud, Vice President, Business Support, RICC. "As we launch an aggressive development prepare for McDonald's, it is important that we provide our digital-era customers the experiences they anticipate, while also encouraging and engaging our modern workforce. Modern technology has actually ended up being central to opening the complete potential of venture resources and turning information into an affordable asset. Cognizant's deep digital know-how and huge industry experience will aid us end up being a smarter, a lot more dexterous venture for the demands of tomorrow."

" We value the chance to drive essential, technology-enabled modifications across core business features at RICC for it to complete and win in this new innovation- and data-intensive world," stated Narayan Iyer, Vice President, the Middle East and India, Cognizant. "In today's digital period, it is ever before more important for restaurant chains to re-engineer and digitize their most vital business processes to improve user experiences, change solution shipment, and provide much better results. We anticipate aiding RICC build a robust and scalable venture system throughout its McDonald's outlets in Saudi Arabia, in addition to create affordable benefit with procedure excellence and business agility. Our market-leading digital and process capabilities, combined with our long-lasting partnership with SAP , will certainly help us satisfy RICC's critical goals for McDonald's in Saudi Arabia."