HCL Infosystems Re-Engineers Application Landscape for a Renowned Chemical Manufacturer.

1. HCL Infosystems Re-Engineers Application Landscape for
The client is India's largest manufacturer and supplier of rubber chemicals.
They are part of a well known business house in India with diversified business
interests. The company offers a range of rubber chemicals such as rubber anti-
degradant, rubber antioxidant, rubber accelerator and rubber pre-
vulcanization inhibitor. The client has several manufacturing plants and use
state-of-thearttechnologyformanufacturing.
The products manufactured by the company are used by the tyre industry and
all other segments of rubber-processing industry. These chemicals not only
accelerate the vulcanization of rubber, but also extend the life of rubber
productsinadditiontoimprovingtheirperformance.
Client Brief
a Renowned Chemical Manufacturer
Manufacturing

2. ClientRequirements
The client had a fragmented IT landscape
consistingofdisparatesystemsleadingtono
real-time integration with other IT systems.
As the client is pursuing its expansion plans,
they decided to optimize IT infrastructure
and migrate the applications and its users to
thelatesttechnologies.Theobjectivewasto
improve business processes, reduce costs
and optimize back-end operations which
were critical to their dynamic business
growth.
The client had been working on the legacy
system for quite some time and any change
in the business solution landscape was
expected to pose major change manage-
ment challenge for the organization. This
promptedtheclienttolookforanenterprise
solutions partner who besides devising a
new solution that would complement their
legacy ERP, would also help them in
successfully mitigating the organization-
widechangemanagementchallenges
SolutionsOffered
HCL Infosystems was chosen as the
implementation partner by the client. In
order to reap maximum benefits with
optimum utilization of resources and time,
HCL Infosystems along with the client took a
mutual decision to divide the project into
twophases–
Phase - I: Implementation of Core ERP
Application (SAP ECC 6.0 with Enhance-
mentPack5)
Phase - II: Implementation of SAP Busin-
nessObjectsforReporting
SAP's chemical industry best practices
were used along with the core modules
such as Finance, Costing, Materials
Management, Sales & Distribution, Produ-
ctionPlanning,QualityManagement,Plant
Maintenance, Project Systems & Business
Workflows. The SAP solution was extended
to client's depots and interfaced with
consignment agents system to enable
capturingofagentsalesperiodically.
Phase - I of the project went live on April 1,
2012. HCL took 28 weeks for the total
implementation to cover 8 modules. All
resources for the project catalyst were not
exclusive; instead they were made to
handle SAP besides routine business
operations.
Process Improvements – HCL carried out
following process improvements through
SAPImplementation
Ÿ Availability of real-time costing
information though not in the ideal
business requirements of the client
(limitedduetoSAPdeficiency)
Ÿ Better control over agent sale
recording and availability of
information in SAP. (Control being
exercisedmoreeffectively)
Ÿ LogisticsTrackingSolution
Ÿ End-to-end solution for project
trackingandcontrolling
Ÿ BettervisibilityoftheJob-workprocess

3. BusinessBenefits
The following benefits are visible to the
client from the implementation of Phase- I
ERPApplication
Ÿ Standardization of business processes
leading to better management of
resources
Ÿ Integration of all business processes
across the company will ultimately
result in reduction of operational costs
andmanualintervention
Ÿ Addressing financial and operational
reportingrequirements
Ÿ The client is still in the process of
buildingafewmoreenhancements
Phase II consisting of Analytics is yet to be
implemented. Once Phase II gets
implemented, improved tools will enable
the client to take quick decisions thereby
improvingtheoperationalefficiency.
CustomerTestimonial
“We partnered with HCL Infosystems for the implementation and would like to
appreciatetheirsincereeffortinunderstandingandmappingourbusinessrequirements
to the ERP. We found them to be flexible and committed to deliver within the
schedules/timelines. The consultants adapted themselves very well to company’s
processesandhandheldtheusersinthepostgolivephasebeautifully.”
CFOoftheCompany

4. About HCL Infosystems
HCL Infosystems Ltd, with revenue (LTM) of US$ 2.4 billion (Rs.10,754 crores) is India's premier
hardware,servicesandICT systemsintegrationcompanyofferingawidespectrumofICT products
that includes Computing, Storage, Networking, Security, Telecom, Imaging and Retail. HCL is a
one-stop-shop for all the ICT requirements of an organization. India's leading System Integration
and Infrastructure Management Services Organization, HCL has specialized expertise across
verticalsincludingTelecom,BFSI,eGovernance,PowerandDefence.
With India's largest ICT services network that reaches to every corner of India, HCL's award
winning Support Services makes it the preferred choice of enterprise and consumers, alike. For
moreinformationpleasevisitusatwww.hclinfosystems.com
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