Yazeed Awwad manages enterprise resource planning systems at SAMI Advanced Electronics in Riyadh. His teams maintain the Oracle software that handles human resources, finance, and supply chains across the defence contractor.
SAMI Advanced Electronics, founded in 1988, employs 3,058 people across defence and digital systems in Riyadh. Awwad oversees the Oracle platforms running human capital and finance modules, coordinating migrations between on-premise servers and cloud tools.
Upgrading software across large defence businesses carries operational friction. Legacy databases resist quick transfers. For Awwad, the immediate task remains standardising data governance across supply lines without disrupting everyday manufacturing.
