ABDUL KADER SAADI

Founder and MD eighty6.shop

Background

My career in F&B spans 30 years across three continents, including Europe and the MENA region. This has not only allowed me to gain a wealth of experience but also gave me a keen insight to problem-solving from a global multifaceted perspective.

Tech solutions

Eighty6 provides an application for buyers and a complete dashboard for suppliers. Suppliers benefit from access to a growing customer base, increased ease of order completion and the removal of data entry with communication and tracking. On the other hand, Eighty6 grants restaurants access to thousands of SKUS, ease of order features, digital tracking and communication, as well as POS integration.

Eighty6 empowers employees on both sides — the restaurants and the suppliers. The technological advantages and implications also trickle through the entire process to include saving time (by up to 50 percent), reduced price fragmentation, transparency and improved data to better manage procurement and sales.

Ultimately, Eighty6 technology serves to bring efficiency to the procurement process by enabling us to digitize and track the entire process. As a byproduct, this also allows us to reduce paper wastage, which is another cost-saving achievement.

Talking new tech

We were one of the first to tap into the B2B space from our tech platform, allowing us to provide solutions for customers who were previously reliant on Whatsapp, phone calls and other more traditional communication tools. Everyone is dependent on technology to some extent, so we have been able to combine the novelty of the format with an efficiency-building platform.

In terms of innovations, we have also created wallets within the system to counter outdated petty cash payment methods and dashboards to aggregate the suppliers, allowing for a dynamic up-todate market list.