Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited

	A two-tier multi functional MIS Report, tailor-made for the Kochi Unit had been implemented since 1993. It consists of computer generated Exception Report and Control Reports'
	Pre-defined exception boundaries are applied to sieve out critical information from the data drawn from all the departments. Parameters like specific raw material consumption, Manpower productivity, Marketing productivity, Energy Index, Downtime, Delay in office processes, safety and quality standards etc. are being monitored. y-o-y/m-o-m comparisons are made, depending on the nature of the parameters. Certain parameters are subjected to season-wise comparison also
	The follow up activity on the control report is conducted at unit level and that on the exception report by the corporate office; the feedback is conveyed to the respective departments, to complete the information cycle.
	MIS report is made available on HOCL intranet portal through BI tool. The MIS facilitates effective monitoring and continual improvement in the performance of the unit.

	In HOCL all the business processes are performed by SAP ECC6.0 ERP package.
	A campus wide Local Area Network(LAN) supported by Optical Fibre Cable at the backbone, facilitates the deployment of SAP.The Data Center is situated at Kochi and a Disaster Recovery Center at Rasayani. For providing ERP application access from all the HOCL locations, a data communication network has been setup using MPLS and Internet based VPN technologies supported by M/s BSNL. For MPLS, which is the primary connectivity, the circuit bandwidth is 2 Mbps in DC site and 1 Mbps in DR and Mumbai sites.
	Connectivity is also established with all the branch offices.

The ERP package implemented at HOCL is SAP ECC 6.0 with Oracle 10g RDBMS at the back end. The business processes are performed by the following SAP modules:

	Human Capital Management
	Sales and Distribution
	Materials Management
	Financial Accounting and Controlling
	Production Planning
	Quality Management
	Project Systems
	Plant Maintenance
	Environment Health and Safety
	Business Intelligence
	Enterprise Portal
	Employee Self Service

A Centre of Excellence is functioning in the Kochi Unit to harness maximum benefit of ERP, in a sustainable manner .The Centre undertakes the review, updation, modification, license management, change management and refresher training programmes as and when required.

	Plant operations in Kochi Unit are done with Distributed Control System, a class of latest state of art. Availability of Data in memory helps in decision-making compared to the earlier conventional Control System.
	The tank monitoring system gives the detailed stock of raw materials finished products and Intermediate products.
	Automatic drum filling of phenol and automatic carboy filling of Hydrogen Peroxide gives accurate weighment.
	The Distributed Control System is also used to dump process data into the management information System network, enabling the concerned managers to view the plant conditions in pictorial form