Honam Petrochemical Company (HPC) is a multi-billion dollar diversified producer of petrochemicals and advanced synthetic resin. They are manufacture of a variety of petrochemical products from two facilities in South Korea. Their main primary product is ethylene. Honam is rank among leading producers of polyolefin, High-density polyethylene "(HDPE)" and polypropylene. They also work with other downstream products like ethylene glycol.
Honam was established in 1976. It is a part of the Japanese conglomerates latte 's Koran Network. Honam also acquired Malaysia 's Titan Chemicals for $1.27 billion dollars in 2010. Their main headquarters is located in Soul South Korea. Honam is one of the largest industrial conglomerates in Korea; it has
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List and describe the information requirements of HPC’s new management system.
HPC’s needed to develop an intelligent business solution for the executives to have a good deal of up-front specific gathered information. They needed access anytime to quarter’s numbers. They also wanted real-time data; Up-to-minute reports, they also needed access on their PC, desktop or via the Web on mobile devices. The goal was to have data shared easily across various business units and to support the companies function, and expansion geographically. This would require a selection process. Honam information system looked over a number of different software, products and vendors. After reviewing HPC selected SAP BusinessObjects dashboards and SAP BusinessObjects Web intelligence as their choice to implement.
SAP in a dashboard drag-and drop visualization tool designed with interactive analytics for powerful, personalized dashboard base on SAP.
What platform was the new system designed to solve?
The old system provided outdated data reports and “Sanitized”. This caused some managers to fabricate and manipulate their data information to make their departments “look better” to general management. The managers needed accurate and correct information daily. This gave them realistic view of what was occurring in the sale office and the plant floor. They did not want to be overloaded with data that was unnecessary. They needed to have real information that they
Dashboard is a data visualization tool that displays the current status of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for an enterprise. Also, dashboard consolidates and arranges numbers, metrics and sometimes performance scorecards on a single screen. They may be tailored for a specific role and display metrics targeted for a single point of view or department. The essential features of a dashboard product include a customizable interface and the ability to pull real-time data from multiple sources. An Executive Dashboard gives a clear picture of the data and the insights visually to the corporate executives.
Loblaw used to save store and vendor information in different types of Legacy systems, for example, the vendors’ sales data is stored in the system called Bi-query, and the vendor stores payment records can be found in Customer Information Control System (CICS). However, given the size and complexity of Loblaw, it is hard to remain competitive without a system that can integrate information from all business areas and provide real-time information updates of critical information so that an entire enterprise may function as one. Therefore, Loblaw starts to transfer store and vendor data from Legacy systems, into a more efficient and powerful system called SAP.
This figure illustrates the future of BI for CTC. Independent data sources have been incorporated into a single BI system, within a global data model. All data will be loaded into corporate EDW via ETL. The EDW will feed the financial data mart for enterprise performance management, so business users will be able to conduct planning and budgeting functions. On the right side of the EDW, BI specialists will assist in organizing data marts into four categories: Supply Chain, Vendor,
The article of discussion is been published in The Economist on 7th Feb 2015, it’s about the Brazil’s oil industry’s major player Petrobras ( 'Pitfall at Petrobras ', 2015). Petrobras is tangled in scandals money laundering, commissions paid to politicians for favour’s, and targeted for artificially inflating the company real vale from the investor to raise debit which eventually led for the resignation of the only women CEO of oil an company .Will the change in such top ranking official fix the problems of this oil giant and how will it effects on its economy, global image and future investments, in such a volatile market were the price of oil is highly dependent on the consumer demand internationally. Real change in company’s culture & strong Global leadership skilled CEO (Expert power) is needed to bring the change.
The IT staffs were certain that the existing SAP software will provide all necessary computer support. They believed that even if the SAP would not fit their business processes precisely, it may be an investment that provides greater long-term flexibility and better solutions to the company’s problem.
The Pacific Oil Company a well-established oil company with an assorted diversified product line including “Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM)”. (Lewicki, 2010, p. 583) As one of the pioneer producers of VCM, Pacific Oil cornered the market share for contracting, distributing and selling their niche product, VCM worldwide. One of Pacific’s longtime customers was Reliant Corporation. This partnership was more than a decade old and was strong. However, if Pacific Oil decided to further diversify its product line to include Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) a VCM derivative, “it would not want to be in the position of supplying a product competitor with the raw materials to manufacture the product line, unless the formula price was extremely
A management dashboard developed with the help of SAP shows how smoothly a critical process is running at a certain point in time. Information from the dashboard helps Burtons users identify inconsistencies a problems that should be monitored more closely.
As we discuss the possibility of emerging into business intelligence software we must keep in mind the overall purpose of using any type of software is to reach strategic goals in order to increase market shares. I will discuss how business intelligence software will allow us to meet those strategic goals. We will establish what type of information and analysis capabilities will be available once this business intelligence software is implemented. We will discuss hardware and system software that will be required to run specific business intelligence software. Lastly, I will give a brief synopsis on three vendors (IBM, Microsoft Microsoft and Oracle) that are dominating the business information software
Paying dividends will reduce the available funds of the company but is a way to increase shareholder value. Increasing or decreasing of DPR spells out the standing of the company to its shareholders. Reduction or not giving dividends for a period will reduce AFN but will mean that the company is struggling to provide enough profit. Shareholders may see this as a signal that further investments for the company are riskier.
Petrochemical complex (Company P) was established in 1972, and began to work in 1977 as social owned companies in former Yugoslavia. Until 1992, all factories have been produced over one million tons of petrochemical products per year. The
Carl Zeiss Group wanted a future-proof basis for integrated processes and to develop additional synergies. Participating in the SAP Ramp-Up program and using key SAP NetWeaver platform components, the firm made the transition to my SAP ERP solution in just 4 months.
Tactical dashboards: They track departmental processes and projects and emphasize analysis more than monitoring or management. It has intermediate time horizons, uses mostly internal information, and has structured decision process. They display results in a business intelligence (BI) to monitor a projector process that they manage; it uses OLAP tools, parameterized reports, advanced visualization tools, and scenario modeling tools to encourage users to explore information to identify trends and ascertain the root causes of problems or issues and let them create plans that contain multiple scenarios. This dashboards use workflow tools to make users share their findings and request approval, also monitoring and auditing tools to track users adoption and
The petroleum industry includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transporting (often oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing petroleum products. The oil is used as feedstock for many chemicals, including drugs, solvents, fertilizers, pesticides and plastics. Industry is generally divided into three main components: upstream, midstream and downstream. Crossing operation usually included in a lower category.
This is a wholly owned division of Oxy and is a leading manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resins, chlorine and caustic soda in America. These products form an important part of a variety of products such as plastics, pharmaceuticals and water treatment chemicals. The manufacturing facilities are mainly concentrated in US, Canada and Chile.
A wide range of petroleum products which include gasoline, diesel, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and aviation fuel is produced by Petron Port Dickson Refinery (PDR), which has a rated capacity of 88,000 barrels per day and operated by Petron Malaysia Refining & Marketing Bhd. Petron subsidiaries in Malaysia has eleven strategically-located depots and terminals to distribute their world-class fuels. Therefore, they are able to ensure a continuous and dependable supply of quality fuels to their various customers through this potent distribution network.