INTRODUCTION:
Brow Furrowed and J.K Puri (the executive director of optimization) sat back at the Delhi office to solve the complexity of issues they faced such as
• deregulated oil and gas sector in India,
• unfamiliar with competitive environment,
• Not using IT in a proper way.
He had been charged with the responsibility of placing the informational infrastructure properly which would give the Indian oil corporation the increase in competitiveness it needed in order to operate within the rapidly expanding and deregulated oil and gas sectors in India. Further there was an urgent need to revamp company’s aging and often ailing systems and the top management have finally decided to approve IT re-engineering in the corporation which
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IOCL was involved in many other sectors like refining, transporting and marketing petroleum products throughout the country. In the year 2002, IOCL was ranked No. 191 which had been state owned enterprise to build national oil security and competence in oil refining and marketing.
• IOCL had over 53 percent of the market share in petroleum products all over India.
• The refineries division operated seven of the country’s 18 refineries.
• The pipeline division operated design, engineering and construction of the country’s largest network of pipelines.
• The research and development division was entrusted in research of lubricants, refinery process and pipeline transportation.
COMPANY ATTRIBUTES
a) Business strategy:
Since the project had several difficulties during the implementation, there were few strategies followed in order to surpass them. As the response time has been slowed it had a huge business and organizational implications. The front end transactions have been delayed which resulted complaining from the customers. Hence at this point of time a business strategy has been implemented in April 8, 2003 the top management to slow down the implementations at the remaining sites within 10 days. Then the strategy of implementing the suitable ERP software’s has been done. There were several other business strategies like
As Calletta’s CEO, Jan is facing a number of problems such as: lack of support from board members/investors, increasing employee costs, and protests against Calletta’s offshore facilities due to the growing concern of working conditions. Jan key issue on hand is the lack of support from board members and investors. Board Members and investors right now are not supporting Jan or her proposal due to a poor return on investments. Board Members are concerned about the rapid increase of employee cost the company is incurring. Calletta is incurring a 12% cost increase annually compared to an industry average rate of just 4% in the
Although all of above factors played very important role in the success of ERP implementation, the most important one should be the clear understanding of its strategic goal. Cisco did correctly to define themselves and realize the current problem and make plan
The development and manufacturing of the oil pipelines would bring a tremendous amount of job opportunities to the Canadian economy. Creating more jobs is important in the development of a country. According to CBC, it is projected that the development of oil pipelines
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software system aims in integrating the vital functions of an enterprise leading to a better communication and flow of data through the different units of an enterprise, regardless of their geographical locations. A standard ERP system constitutes of a software component, hardware infrastructure and a process documentation component. An ERP package integrates several functions like production, finance and accounts, supply chain management, asset management, logistics and many more. Different types of ERP software are available in the market catering to the needs of all types of business and corporate houses. Large global organizations require complex ERP package to support more
Brown et al., (2012) stated that responsibilities would be distributed among the triad as co-leads with each individual responsible for different aspects of the project, Wilson for technology, Beutler for business coordination, and Davis for change management. The co-leads met daily to coordinate efforts, discussed issues and made decisions together, so as to work together as one team in order for strategic plan to align with the business plan and continue to meet the strategic goal. The co-leads planned for every conceivable scenario that could happen along the path in implementing the new ERP system. Communication played a key role with the co-leads and the other project stakeholders. The co-leads communicated every issue and asked for input from the entire firm to ensure no process or step was overlooked so as to capture the processes in the planning stage. The project had management’s support as well as a project champion which assisted in positively encouraging management and the staff on the benefits and advantages of the new
Up to a greater extent, this has enabled the company to control its material management (MM) and sales and distribution (SD), and the cost controlling (CO), but still there is a lack of standard efficiency and the material management barriers prevail in the organization. With this ERP model, the company has achieved estimation of accuracy, project time cycles, but still the administration is lacking to find a comprehensive profit and loss picture for each project in process across different business
The major problem in the first implementation was the ineffective change management practice followed. The stakeholder communication about the ERP system was not managed properly. There was no shared ownership or strategic alignment of the employees to the vision of the company in implementing this system. The employees were not clearly communicated the reasons for getting this ERP system at Bombardier. While some perceived that it would make life easy, others were skeptical. Managers did not show enthusiasm for the project and in many cases, even abdicated their responsibility to propagate the vision and passed this crucial task to the operational level employees. Some stakeholders amongst employees perceived the project to be a top-down initiative and felt disconnected with the broader vision of streamlining the inventory management, which in fact would have positively affected them. Delays further derailed the projects. Business teams and the project teams did not work with a common objective.
In this system, the whole company is based on a matching database, matching application system, and a continuous interface. In addition, the ERP system combines human resources, accounting marketing, production, and the delivery and supply chain management into one system (Chamg, Wu, & Chang, 2008). When the ERP system was first presented, companies began to handle information more accurately and correctly, and thus reformed and enhanced the quality of the accounting and financial processes. The implementation of Section 404 was very difficult and time consuming; however, businesses have been able to find a little relief by implementing an ERP system to help with the transition. Software companies have taken advantage of companies with few internal controls accentuating that the focal feature of the ERP system is the use of built-in controls that can copy a business’s organization (Morris, 2011). This allowed companies to implement the internal control requirements of Section 404 with a little more
To help the company get back on track, the following three ERP modules are recommended as a start for the company. These modules will help the company integrate data across its plant sites, generate timely reports so the leadership can make real time decisions, and streamline the work processes across Stoney’s facilities (Annabi, 2015).
To quickly meet customer’s demand. The market and customer information, order information, products and customer service feedback process through the ERP system analysis, and timely delivery to the ERP system and corporate planning departments, enhance the dynamic response capabilities, full reflect the needs of manufacturing companies according to market the idea.
In the modern world energy has become very important since it helps drive most industrial as well as home based activities. For more than a hundred years, oil has been used to provide to this vast energy requirements. Oil companies around the world have facilitated the exploration, drilling, refinery and distribution of oil in their defined regions. The industrial part that oil companies play can be considered to be much greater than the domestic role. Oil companies produce diesel, petroleum, liquid petroleum gas and other products which are used to drive industrial machines used in production of various commodities. By this virtue, oil companies become an integral part of an economy (Marcel, Valerie, and John V. Mitchell, 98).
Poor planning is a recipe for ERP project failure as planning is a vital part of the whole project process. A lot of organizations do not carry out enough straightforward planning before they start down the path. It is good that in the initial attempt of Leadtek Corporation, the standard ERP implementation methodology of involving a Definition Phase was done since it is during this phase where in requirements
This report is produced for the purpose of critically analysing the project life cycle of the ERP implementation at ABC Technologies. To begin with the ERP implementation at ABC could be called as a project when analysed against different definitions in theory. Due to the characteristics such as availability of a time, cost and resource plans. On the other hand the project is following a specific life cycle which could be defined with major
1. How has the global economic downturn, discussed in the opening profile and throughout this chapter, impacted jobs outsourcing in the BPO industry?
The oil refining industry is the backbone of a modern economy (Senevirante, 2006). Refined petroleum product remain fundamental to our economic life – in everybody’s daily life and economic activities of a nation (Wauquier and Favennec, 2001) ranging from domestic cooking to transportation, employment, etc. In terms of the refining capacity India ranks eighth in the world (U.S. EIA 2009). The private sector owns about 38% of total capacity while the public sector owns the rest. End of 2013, India has 4.35 million bbl/day of refining capacity, making it the second largest refiner in Asia after china. There are projections that there would be an increase in the refining capacity to 6.3 million bbl/day by the year 2017. Indian oil Corporation Limited is the major company which controls most of the refineries in India. In total there are 22 refineries in India. The total refining capacity of India has increased from 175.9 Million metric tons (MMT) in 2007 to 215.06 Million metric tons (MMT) in the year 2014. Reliance industries a private owned petroleum company has the largest refining complex in the world and it is located in Gujarat in India. It has a capacity of 1.24 million barrels per day. Based on the current proposed growth and projections India plans to add 1.6 million bbl/day of refining capacity by the end of 2015. India is steadily emerging as an international destination for oil refining as the investment is less compared to other Asian counterparts. According to