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 seasonal 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 the network nodes of each department. The MIS facilitates effective monitoring and continual improvement in the performance of the unit.

	HOC Kochi unit initiated the IT activities in the mid eighties by utilising. the ‘Net Pack‘ Project Management software of IDL, UK during the construction stage
	On commissioning of the plants in Kochi, all the core business activities were linked through an RDBMS based integrated software to enable on-line processing . Right now, a campus wide Local Area Network (LAN) supported by Optical Fibre Cable at the back bone, facilitates the deployment of the integrated software. The major functions of the on-line software are as below
	Payroll and related reports Attendance reports and inputs to payroll Personnel Information System On-line generation of delivery chalans, invoices and sales accounting On-line generation of enquiries, purchase orders and purchase management information On-line generation and valuation of MRV, inventory control and other stores management functions Raw materials and finished products monitoring PF accounting Production information System Interface of plant DCS with the LAN with a facility of data retrieval upto 5 minutes interval On-line generation and transmission of quality control reports Electrical and instrumentation information system Financial accounting and related reports Overall MIS report consisting of control report and exception report
	The facility for down loading data from the distributed control system(DCS) which controls the plant operations are also available. As a result, the plant mimics is made available to selected nodes
	The work force had been transformed into an IT savvy group, by imparting IT training periodically in a structured manner.
	The software had been refined further, incorporating the suggestions made by the I.T. audit team, deputed by the Government of India

	Plant operations in Kochi Unit is 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