Smart City Playbook

Business, Industry & Logistics

Usecases

Industrial Collaboration Platform

The industrial collaboration platform aims at serving as an industrial cluster that brings business stakeholders together without the need for physical proximity. Besides their strategic importance in all nations around the world to accelerate economic growth and development, economic clusters are key to build opportunities for collaboration and cooperation among businesses. This includes experience sharing, partnership opportunities, and building transactional relationships. By utilizing digital technologies that blur distances, the platform will allow businesses to register on the platform to receive key resources such as relevant reports, news and documents along with the opportunity to collaborate and engage with other businesses in similar or adjacent fields. This would foster sharing expertise, resources, and knowledge, an activity that can be deemed limited in the region. Not only will the platform act as a catalyst for growth and a means to manage limited resources, but it will also increase the quality of local products and goods.

KEY

CHALLENGES

Supply chain phases are not planned and managed effectively

The business environment in Al Madinah lacks supporting services and tools

KEY EXPECTED BENEFITS

Less Costs

Ports will benefit from accelerated disposal of unclaimed items due to a wider audience reach, eventually minimizing associated warehouse costs

Optimized Resource Utilization

Rare and specialized talents will be effectively matched with activity fluctuation due to the control center, which will continuously maximize utilization and productivity

ALIGNMENT TO SMART CITY OBJECTIVES

Innovative

Streamlined

TARGET USERS

Business Owner/ Manager

Business Enablers

Start-Up

USE CASE

JOURNEY

Saleh is an owner of a factory that heavily relies on imported metals for its production processes, for which he needs to forecast in advance the quantities required to prevent disruption of his production cycle. He is currently looking for means of reducing costs, while also increasing sales.

While browsing, Saleh comes across Al Madinah’s “Industrial Collaboration Platform” and signs up to it. While accessing the app’s marketplace, he finds out that the resources he needs can be locally sourced at a significantly reduced cost, so he places an order for next day delivery. He further discovers that other factories have a need for his products. Through the platform, he reaches out to the listed procurement managers and shares with them his product catalog.

Given the efficiency and convenience of the platform, Saleh continues business with the other factories and leverages the platform to regularly purchase metal parts for his factory. Within a year, Saleh was able to increase his sales, improve efficiency, and optimize his costs.

POTENTIAL SERVICE FEATURES

Online auction and marketplace

Knowledge sharing through experts

Social networking tool

KEY TOUCH POINTS

Website

Mobile App

Implementation
Timeline

Within 6 months

12 – 18 months

Over 24 months

Technology Commercial Viability

Currently commercialized

1 – 3 years to commercialize

5+ years to
commercialize

Regulatory Conduciveness

No New Policies and
Standards

Some Policies &
Standards to be
Introduced

Complex Policies to be
Introduced

Investment Requirement

Low

Medium

High

Use Case Ownership

Government Driven

Piloted by Gov. & Transitioned to Private Sector

Private Sector

Startups & Entrepreneurs

IMPLEMENTATION CONSIDERATIONS

Product standards (size and weight) for autonomous robots

Policies to manage data collection from suppliers and its potential usage

Integration with procurement systems for automated PO creation

POTENTIAL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

IN THE MARKET

Business, Industry & Logistics

Use Cases

Smart Warehouse Management Solutions

Industrial 3D Printing

Smart Factory Solutions

The Human-Tech (Augmented) Workforce Solutions

Real-time Fleet Management

Work in Al Madinah Digital Companion

Industrial Collaboration Platform

Made in Al Madinah E-Commerce Platform

Smart Lockers “Ameen”

Al Madinah Loyalty Program “Madenati”