Sindh Employees’ Social Security Institution

Sindh Employees’ Social Security Institution

Assignment

Business Law

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Impact of Motivation on Workers Productivity in Alahad Textile

Methods in Business Research

Impact of Motivation on

Workers Productivity in Alahad Textile

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GER Case Study

GER

Case History:

GE railways operate a passenger train service in Holland. The directors have always focused solely on the use of traditional financial measures in order to access the performance of GER since in commenced operations in 1992. The director wants assistance with the help of balance scorecard to measure the performance of the GER.

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PREMIER STONE SYSTEMS Pakistan

PREMIER STONE SYSTEMS

Premier Stone systems, deals with natural materials such as marble, and onyx. Top quality materials are imported from the mountain ranges of Baluchistan and Afghanistan. We supply locally to the Canadian market and cater to the U.S market. Tiles of different sizes, for building materials and countertops for kitchen and bathrooms are available in different colors and shades.

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Bennet

Short review:

The director of bennet are evaluating a proposal to the enter in market for single product which has an estimated life cycle of four year. The company has recently paid $200,000 to a market research consultancy for work done in respect of the proposal.

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Cement industry of Pakistan

Cement industry of Pakistan

Cement Industries of Pakistan

Cement industry of Pakistan

Cement Industries of Pakistan 

Introduction:

“Working Capital management is concerned with the problems that arise in attempting to manage the current assets, the current liabilities and the interrelationship that exists in between them. The success of an organization to a greater extent depends upon the effective management of working capital. The present work therefore is a modest attempt in this direction by undertaking a study of working capital management.”

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Hotel management system In Pakistan

The functional requirements of Hotel management system are as under:

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Johnson and Johnson Pakistan

Introduction of Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson embrace research and science - bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people.

Johnson & Johnson comprises:

• The world’s sixth-largest consumer health company
• The world’s largest and most diverse medical devices and diagnostics company
• The world’s fifth-largest biologics company
• And the world’s eighth-largest pharmaceuticals company
  
  

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Samsung Electronics Co Case Solve

                               Samsung Electronics Co

INTRODUCTION TO CASE:

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Paramount Books is currently using Microsoft dynamics AX 2009

INTRODUCTION:

PARAMOUNT BOOKS:

Paramount Books is currently using Microsoft dynamics AX 2009. A paramount book is a well known name in Pakistan for the publishing of course books and every book in the world can be found. Paramount Publishing Enterprise was founded in 1948. We are one of the biggest wholesale and retail distributor cum Publisher in Pakistan and distributing books from major publishers in India and abroad.

“Our web site provides you access to more than a million different books in 35 different sections. In our 64th year, Paramount Publishing Enterprise continues its tradition of excellence. We believe that customers are the only reason of our success and each customer should be treated in a friendly, respectful, courteous, and fair manner.
We are physically located in Karachi and have branches in Islamabad, Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad & Peshawar”.

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Project on Waste oil usage

1Introduction

Lubricant oils are a common element in our daily lives, as they are needed to allow many engines and mechanisms to function. However, through their use, they loose their properties, become contaminated and at some point they cease to be fit for the use they were originally intended. These used oils are then replaced by fresh lubricating oils and we are left with some waste oils. Some 50% of what is purchased will become waste oils (the rest is lost during use, or through leakages, etc.).

Waste oils are hazardous waste as they display some hazardous properties. Waste oils that are found in rivers, lakes and streams threaten aquatic life. Indeed, a litre of waste oil can contaminate a million litres of water. Furthermore, severe soil contamination can result from waste oils being left on the ground.

Thus, it is crucial to collect as much as possible this very valuable resource, in order to avoid the contamination of the environment and to be able to profit from the very high recovery potential of this waste stream. Industries, consumers, garages and do-it-yourselfers have to participate, by not dumping these precious liquids but by handing them to authorised collectors that will ensure their adequate recovery & ethical placement of that profit.

2Uses of Waste oil

Used oil, or 'sump oil' as it is sometimes called, should not be thrown away. Although it gets dirty, used oil can be cleaned of contaminants so it can be recycled again and again. There are many uses for recycled used oil.

These include:

• Industrial burner oil, where the used oil is dewatered, filtered and demineralised for use in industrial burners;
• Mould oil to help release products from their moulds (e.g. pressed metal products, concrete);
• Hydraulic oil;
• Bitumen based products;
• An additive in manufactured products; or
• Re-refined base oil for use as a lubricant, hydraulic or transformer oil.

Once you have taken your used oil to your local collection facility, used oil collectors take the used oil and undertake some pre-treatment and recycling of the used oil or sell it to a specialised used oil recycler.

3Method of recycling waste oil

3.1Pre-treatment or Dewatering

Pre-treatment of used oil involves removing any water within the oil, known as dewatering. One way of doing this is by placing it in large settling tanks, which separates the oil and water.

Further recycling steps include:

• Filtering & demineralisation of the oil, to remove any solids, inorganic material and certain additives present in the oil, producing a cleaner burner fuel or feed oil for further refining;
• Propane de-asphalting to remove the heavier bituminous fractions, producing re-refined base oil; and
• Distillation to produce re-refined base oil suitable for use as a lubricant, hydraulic or transformer oil. This process is very similar to the process undergone by virgin oil.

Water is found in used oil as free water or bound water, for example in emulsions. The term dewatering is usually taken to mean the removal of free water. Where water has been emulsified with oil, the emulsion has to be "broken" with a demulsifier before the water can be separated from the oil.

Dewatering is a simple process relying on the separation of aqueous and oil phases over time under the influence of gravity. The used oil is allowed to stand in a tank (raw waste oil) and free water drops to the bottom where it can be drained, treated (waste water treatment) and discharged appropriately to sewer or stormwater depending on quality and local regulations.

Heating and stirring the used oil in a tank (A) and driving off the water through evaporation can speed up the dewatering process.

The "dried" or dehydrated oil is then suitable for further processing or for use as a burner fuel.

3.2Filtering & Demineralisation

The purpose of filtering and demineralisation is to remove inorganic materials and certain additives from used oil to produce a cleaner burner fuel or feed for re-refining.

Used oil feedstock is transferred to a reaction tank (A) and mixed with a small quantity of sulphuric acid and heated to about 60oC. A chemical surface-active reagent, called a surfactant, is added to the reactor (A) and after stirring the mixture is allowed to stand. This allows the mixture to separate into two "phases" - i.e. oil and water-based or aqueous. The reagent causes the contaminants to accumulate in the aqueous phase, which settles to the bottom of the tank (A) and is drained off as slurry. This phase contains acid, used oil contaminants, including metals and some of the oil additives. The water is dried off; leaving a solid waste that must be disposed of.

The demineralised oil is filtered (B) to remove suspended fine particles (to solid waste) and run off to storage (C) as a clean burner fuel. It can be further diluted or "cut" with a lighter petroleum product (called cutter stock) to produce a range of intermediate to light fuel oils depending on the fuel viscosity requirements of the burner.

3.3Propane De-asphalting

The Propane De-asphalting (PDA) process is an important pre-treatment step in the re-refining process producing de-asphalted lube-oil, which becomes a feedstock for the next step in a re-refining facility. The other output (which is also an input) is propane, which is recovered from both streams and re-used within the process.

The PDA process relies on the greater solubility of the paraffinic and naphthenic (ie essentially the base oil) components versus the contaminated waste material in a stream of propane.

The separation of the lubricating oil fraction from used oil is a continuous process and is conducted at ambient temperature when processing used oil.

The used oil is pumped into the middle of the extraction column (A). Liquid propane is charged to the bottom of the column (A). The oil being heavier than propane, flows down the column (A); the propane rises in a counter-flow thus mixing the input streams within the column (A). The rising propane dissolves the more soluble lube oil components, which are carried out the top of the column (A) with the propane, and the propane insoluble material is removed from the bottom of the column (A).

Propane is vaporised from both streams [ie., the de-asphalted lube-oil stream (B) and the waste stream (C)] in "stripper" units (B) and (C), then condensed and returned to the propane storage tank.

The de-asphalted lube-oil component is feed for the next processing stage. The residuum (waste) component is mixed with bottoms from the vacuum distillation tower to produce an asphaltic material.

3.4Distillation

Distillation (or Fractionation) is the physical separation of components of lubricating oil by boiling range. Depending on the type of distillation, the boiling ranges can produce gases and gasolines at the lower boiling points with heavy lubricating oils being distilled at higher boiling points. Distillation is the core process for a facility capable of producing re-refined base-oils to virgin base-oil quality.

There are 2 types of distillation, atmospheric and vacuum.

3.5Atmospheric Distillation

Atmospheric distillation is generally (but not always) considered a pre-treatment step for vacuum distillation and does not require de-watered feedstock. Atmospheric distillation is carried out at normal atmospheric pressure and with temperatures up to 300°C.

Prior to the atmospheric distillation process, the feedstock can have undergone PDA treatment, but this is not an absolute pre-requisite.

Atmospheric distillation is a relatively simple process separating lower boiling point liquids at ambient pressure. Used oil is heated (A) and charged to a distillation tower (B). Lower boiling point hydrocarbons present in the used oil (eg gases, petrol and solvents) and water are collected at the top of the tower (B). Some of these hydrocarbons can be condensed and collected for use as a fuel in the refining process.

This process is only suitable for temperatures up to 300oC, as temperatures above this can lead to "thermal cracking" of the larger molecule (higher boiling point) hydrocarbons, ie. the actual lube oil molecules we are aiming to recover.

After atmospheric distillation the oil usually undergoes vacuum distillation. Note that used oil can be sent directly from a "drying" process to a vacuum distillation unit without necessarily undergoing atmospheric distillation. However, it is generally accepted that water and lower boiling point hydrocarbon components be removed prior to vacuum distillation.

3.6Vacuum Distillation

Vacuum distillation is considered the key process in used oil re-refining. If atmospheric distillation is utilised, the oil from the atmospheric distillation column is the feedstock for the vacuum distillation column. In vacuum distillation the feedstock can be separated into products of similar boiling range to better control the physical properties of the lube base stock "distillate cuts" that will be produced from the vacuum tower products.

The major properties that are controlled by vacuum distillation are viscosity, flash point and carbon residue. The viscosity of the lube-oil base-stock is determined by the viscosity of the distillate in terms of its relative viscosity separation, eg. light, medium and heavy oil.

The used oil feedstock (usually from the atmospheric distillation unit) is heated in a furnace (A) and flows as a mixture of liquid and vapour to the heated vacuum distillation column (B) where the vapour portion begins to rise and the liquid falls. Steam can be added to assist vaporisation.

A vacuum is maintained in the column (2-10 mm Hg) by a vacuum system connected to the top of the tower (B). By reducing the pressure, materials normally boiling at up to about 540oC at atmospheric pressure, can be vaporised without thermal cracking.

As the hot vapours rise through the column (B), they cool and some condense to a liquid and flow back down the column. Similarly, some of the downward flowing liquids are re-vaporised by contacting the rising hot vapours. Special devices in the column allow this upward flow of vapours and downwards flow of liquids to occur continuously.

At various points in the column (B), special trays, called draw trays, are installed which permit the removal of the liquid from the column. If three cuts or "fractions" of oil are required to produce light, medium and heavy base stocks, then three draw trays are positioned appropriately. This can be reduced to two draw trays if, for example, only 2 cuts or fractions are required.

Some of the material does not boil even under this vacuum. This remains in the vacuum tower and is run out as the vacuum tower bottoms (VTBs). This material contains the heaviest molecules, including some lube oil additives and carryover contaminants not removed in the PDA process. (Note: not all re-refining plants have PDA units).

4Conclusion

The central idea of this whole activity is to utilized the used engine oil, we have discussed the recycling methodology in quite detail , so first of all we are starting this activity on our group level, we get the our car/bike used engine oil and sold it out to professional recycler of used oil and the handsome amount which are quite enough to help a poor family, so the theme of the project is to create awareness in our society that we should use this kind of wastage and help out those poor peoples who are needy one, here I would like to quote hadith:

“Bukhari Volume 2, Book 24, Number 512: Narrated Abu Burda bin Abu Musa:that his father said, "Whenever a beggar came to Allah's Apostle or he was asked for something, he used to say (to his companions), "Help and recommend him and you will receive the reward for it; and Allah will bring about what He will through His Prophet's tongue."

So whenever the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) would encounter with a poor person, he would tell his companions to help and give for that person, and they would be rewarded for it. The prophet would not simply ignore them and let them be, as would have been the custom of the time, rather he gave advise and teaching to his companions to help these people.”

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Charity or Social Work In Pakistan

Inspiration:

In 2007 my Grandmother got handsome amount from her property share. According to her she don’t want to buy new home, car or other expensive thing and also not interested in gave that to any of her son or daughter. Because she wants to use that in very unique propose that was to help needy student without discrimination of gender, age, family background or percentage. Her concepts totally base on our religious ground i-e Qarz-e-Hasana.

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Franchising for you Ltd (F4U) Case Solve

F4U:

Case History:

Franchising for you Ltd (F4U) markets a range of franchises which it makes available to its customers, the franchisees. F4U supplies the franchise with information of the mode of operation, detailed operation schedules and back-up advice (by telephone, internet) and undertake national advertising. Each franchisee must arrange for its own premises.

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Major Imports of Pakistan:

INTRODUCTION:

Major Imports of Pakistan:

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Discount Rate Calculation

C and C airline

Discount rate:

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CONSUMER BEHAVIOR EVALUATION ASSOCIATED WITH PAMPERS DIAPERS,

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR EVALUATION ASSOCIATED WITH PAMPERS DIAPERS

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“Zee Mart” Business Opportunity In Pakistan

“Zee Mart"

Due to the intensification of wants of the people in the city Rahim Yar Khan, We are going to open a super mart named as “Zee Mart”. There is a big opportunity for us due to less competition in the city. Two small marts (have just daily use items) are fulfilling the customer’s need but they have failed to fulfill the desire of customers in this city.

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Coke (brand Coca Cola)Report

Coke Cola Report based on Pakistan 

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CAP Case History Solve

CAP

CASE HITORY:

Cundy Aquatic pursuits (CAP) were founded in 1978 by its managing director, Jody Cundy. CAP owns and operates a chain of Aqua Parks in the country of Lizland. Each Aqua Park has a number of large indoor and outdoor swimming pools together with a range of attraction such as water-slides and surfing rides. Jody Cundy firmly believes that growth in the number of Aqua Parks is the key to success for CAP. Jody Cundy owns 55% of ordinary share capital of CAP.

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Burge Pakistan Businesses

Introduction:

Burge is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies. We are active in more than 130 countries and territories and employ 108,000 people worldwide.

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PAK-SUZUKI Payroll Structure

                    PAK-SUZUKI REPORT 

Introduction:-

Name of organization = PAK-SUZUKI

Address = DSU-13 Pakistan Steel Industrial Area, Port Bin Qasim, Karachi-75000

Contact Person Details:-

Name =Syed Nadeem Akhter Deputy Manager (I.T. Department).

Contact = 03333076576

Payroll Process:-

Payroll relates first toward the H.R department, where they use the process of “HIRING” and when a person is hired it’s all data shift toward payroll. Through This H.R and payroll are two different entities because

H.R. Payroll

Checks all dept. requirements gather personal information

Provides workforce Form salary and gives Pay slips

.

Payroll enters/gathers data on two basis

1. Attendance
2. 2. Leave
3. 3. Overtime

For Payroll IT structure is:

• Machine of AS 400
• Database of DB2
• Programing Language RPG-ILE
• Biometrics attendance machine named Limton and TIS (Times Information System)

Attendance:-

For attendance when an employee came toward office, he\she gave his\her thumb impression in Limton/TIS machine where his\her attendance with time is recorded. There are two machines one record entry or “in” and other records exit or “out”. So when an employee leaves the place he\she provides thumb impression at “out” machine which records departure of employee with the time.

Now two things happen, the data of employee compiles and pull towards DB2 and there is a service called AUTO-EMAIL, through which an email generated to employee so he\she can also have in knowledge about working hour he\she spent.

Sometimes irregularity occurs in attendance e.g. an employee is leaving and gave is thumb impression mistakenly at “in” machine instead of “out” machine. The e-mail generated to him\her now shows only “in” time not the “out” one. Now, there is a right to the employee that he\she can report his\her issue toward concern department then this issue(through email) forwards to division then finally toward H.R department, it is up to H.R whether H.R accepts or rejects the issue.

Leave:-

1. Short leave = for workers.
2. Half day and full day leave = for staff.

Three types of leave:-

1. Casual - 10 days in a year.
2. Sick – 10 days in a year.
3. Privileged - 20 days in a year.

Leave also follows the same work flow i.e. Leave request Sectional department division

H.R department

All these are computerized:-

Attendance came and H.R approves or discards and email is send to employee.

Software is there for every staff member i.e. “Notifier”, an icon on desktop provides notification about attendance / pending emails about absent or leave to H.R.

Overtime:-

It is allowed to Junior Executive and to Director Manager.

This is given due to car\convense arrangement for them which drop them home.

Overtime contains fix rates.

For overtime staff member have to provide prior application which contain a direct application + request for TRS (Transport Requisition System).

Workflow is same

Application Leave request Sectional department division

H.R department

It’s entry is after 1 previous month because of 24^th-25^th of payroll data gathering.

After 25^th of every month, H.R provides this information through Hard copy and Soft copy

Payroll

Now Payroll starts:-

The system is as follows

• The data is first pull from H.R then to payroll.
• Its validation is taken then by matching the hard copy figures (top-bottom) with soft copy figures (top – bottom check)
• When the data is check, DB2 is updated by marking attendance in payroll system.
• After checking some entries are done manually

1. Medical and other services expenses deduction
2. Entries of leave & absentees that were forgot to submit or emailed earlier by employee.
3. Variance is calculated by payroll
4. The payroll sheet is updated
5. All salaries are added after all these operations

The process flow is as follows:

1. Limton/ TIS DB2 H.R Payroll Pay slips and also with the deduction of BASIC (for permanent employee only ) Pay slips are generated.
2. Payroll J.V G.L ERP-LX 8.3v

“WHO DOES WHAT” for PAYROLL:-

S.No.	Employee	LIMTON\TIS (IT)	DB2 (IT)	Auto e-mail system (IT)	H.R	Payroll	Checks & Control
1.	Thumb impression						Correct office place for attendance1
2.		Attendance recorded through thumb impression and time is also recorded					Correct attendance at “in” and “out” Machine.
3.			Data is pull to DB2				Correct addition and updating in DB2
4.				Email is generated toward employee			Check and balance over attendance for employee and department
5.					H.R gets all this data and after 25th of a month it pull towards Payroll.		Attendance check and entry of leave and overtime request that are posted lately.
6.						Pay slips generates through all deduction and addition process	Hard copy and soft copy check for pay slips.

Linkage with other applications:-

The Limton\TIS (Time Information System),which is in H.R. , is linked to the Payroll (of IT dept.).

Work Volume at each step:-

The Pay slips making process take place in between 24^th of one month to 25^th of another month.

And Pay slips are generated at every 1^st of month.

Quality of Work and Measurement Tools:-

The quality of work is determined at each step by following checks and controls:-

• Two machines for attendance, one for “out” and one for “in”, it is because to enter the attendance efficiently and in case of irregularity the employee can report the concern dept. about it.
• The data in DB2 continuously is updating when a transaction occurs through which email is generated towards employee and report is generated toward dept.
• Hard copy and soft copy review and entries of lately submitted leave applications by employee to insure correct amount in Pay slips.

The measuring is done by following tool:-

• Limton\TIS measuring daily attendance with time of coming and leaving.

H.R measures the volume of employee coming daily and performing their duties through attendance. Then further check by IT department for payroll confirms the quality of work.

Suggestions:-

Work process for payroll is smooth at PAK-SUZUKI , to make more suitable :-

1^st they should have integrated machine of attendance, means both “in” and “out” would be in one machine. This will reduce the irregularity of mistake by employee entering his/her attendance. The employee then has to just pick the option of attendance whether s/he is coming in or leaving the office and then provide his\her attendance.

Conclusion:-

The process of Payroll is running with an ease at PAK-SUZUKI , with above suggestion may be it becomes more suitable to use.

1 E.g. if the employee belongs to H.R. then he have to give attendance to the LIMTON machine situated near dept.

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Balance of Payments Research Work

BALANCE OF PAYMENTS:

Balance of payments accounts are an accounting record of all monetary transactions between a country and the rest of the world. 

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Complaint Management System Report

Complaint Management 

System

 Project

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Environmental Issues of Pakistan

Current Affairs

Research Work Report

Topic:

Environmental Issues

Researched Report Submitted TO:

In part of fulfillment of the requirement of Course

Of Current Affairs

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  DESIGN PROBLEM

OF

CSE-364

INDEX

1. CLASS DIAGRAM

2. USE CASE DIAGRAM

3. SEQUENCE DIAGRAM

4. ACTIVITY DIAGRAM

5. DATA FLOW DIAGRAM

CLASS DIAGRAM

USE CASE DIAGRAM

SEQUENCE DIAGRAM 1

SEQUENCE DIAGRAM 2

SEQUENCE DIAGRAM 3

SEQUENCE DIAGRAM 4

SEQUENCE DIAGRAM 5

ACTIVITY DIAGRAM 1

ACTIVITY DIAGRAM 2

ACTIVITY DIAGRAM 3

ACTIVITY DIAGRAM 4

ACTIVITY DIAGRAM 5

DFD

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Vision Case study Solve

Vision

Case History:

Vision plc is a reputable manufacturer of a specialist range of optical and photographic equipment. At present, marketing activities are confined to its home market in Blinkland. The directors wish to achieve a net profit per annum of £150 million by the year ending 30 November 2009.

Financial Information

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Gul Ahmed Outlet Report Pakistan

DEP ARTMENT STORES

  IDEAS
by Gul Ahmed






RETAIL FORMAT S
 In the Clifton area on the main road where it is highly visible to the passers by, which creates a
high number of foot fals into the stores. Ideas is based at a high street location with the advantage of a large parking space.
This is one of the main reasons the company decided to locate the store here so that it would be convenient for customers, as parking is a major problem in the Clifton area.
Store Design
They have strategicaly planed it with a mix of elements to meet the needs of their customers.
The element of store design are as folows:
RETAIL IMAGE MIX
a) Employee Type and Density Ideas have employed staff to match its selling and image with in, women clothing floor
.

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BUSINESS IDEA Opening a Super Mart

BUSINESS IDEA Opening a Super Mart (http://exportpakistan.blogspot.com/)

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MERGER OF UNION BANK AND ANZ GRINDLAYS BANK WITH SCB

The Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) has initialed an agreement with a Saudi combine to acquire 66 percent of its shares in the Pakistani listed Union Bank Limited for 513.76 million dollars.

SCB is the biggest foreign owned banking entity having 45 branches in 10 Pakistani cities. The acquisition of 338 million shares of Union Bank at 1.52 dollars per share will enable SCB to extend its Pakistan network to 24 cities. The Union Bank has 65 branches in Pakistan and two branches overseas.

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Procurement Management

                                                                                                                                                                              

Procurement Management

By Alison Cole

Procurement management can be defined as the independent monitoring or tracking of manufacturing processes to purchase order requirements. An implicit assumption of Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) analysis is that the purchase price per unit is constant. In an inflationary period, this assumption is not valid. If the rate of inflation is predictable the EOQ formula can be applied.

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JOB DIAGNOSTIC SURVEY AT HOSPITAL INDUSTURY

Introduction:
We have conduct Job diagnostic survey of Aga Khan Hospital employees with the help of J.R. Hackman and G.R. Oldham survey method so it is important to know what is JOB DIAGNOSTIC SURVEY is all about.

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General Maritime (pvt) Ltd ERP BASE REPORT

    AKNOLDGEMENT

Dear Readers,

First of all I would like to thanks to almighty ALLAH that he courage me to complete this report. I have putted our best to complete this report. It is honor for me to write report of General Maritime (pvt) Ltd.

Secondly I am also thankful to my beloved parents that they are supporting me financially and morally as a result we are studying in this reputed university.

I am also thankful to my mentor and guide lecture: Sir Muhammad Khalid Khan for his constant support, guidance and supervision, which enable me to successfully achieved my task and finally come up with this report.

Sincerely,

Babar Rauf

                    

Enterprise Resource Planning:

ERP is short form to enterprises resources Planning ,is basically software, that helps us to manipulates our data, throughout the organization without needing any further interference.

Its purpose is to facilitate the flow of information between all business functions inside the limit of the organization and manage the connection outside stakeholder.

Benefit of ERP:

·        Improved workflow and efficiency

·        Track actual costs of activities and perform activity based costing

·        Reduced inventory costs resulting from better planning, tracking and forecasting of requirement.

·        Streamlining processes and workflow with a single integrated system

·        Improved customer satisfaction based on improved on time delivery, increased quality.    

·        Provide a consolidated picture of sales, inventory and receivable.

Analyzing Oracle ERP success in General Maritime:

Many organizations have not incurred the necessary benefit in terms of money and other measures there are lots who have witnessed multiple profits. Studying them will help in understanding the critical success factors for ERP implementation. They will help in deciding ERP success.

The critical success factors of ERP systems mainly include proper implementation and usage. Beside this there are several other factors that decide the regular functioning of ERP in organizations.

Company Name
Business Type
Services
Address	Suite No.403-404, Progressive Plaza, Beaumont Road, Karachi (Pakistan)., Tel: PABX: (92 - 21) 111-403-404 , 5657690 - 95 FAX: (92 - 21) 35657696 - 97
Company Web Site

Background:

General Maritime is a transport services provider with global reach.Our primary goal is to achieve total customer satisfaction. This is done through teamwork and dedication to achieve exceptional goals. With state of the art technology, innovative thinking and high quality service, we aim to maintain our position as a leader in the marketplace

Our Corporate office is situated at Progressive Plaza , which is a vibrant trade and shipping hub. We have the facilities of  fax / E-mail / Container Tracking / Mobile / beside a website for e-commerce application.

we have strong ties with leading shipping lines and can accommodate any cargo through slot agreements of our own containers to various ports of  the world.

We have branch offices at  Lahore, Faisalabad and Sialkot which cater for the up country shipper's requirements.

Services:

 Shipping Agency

• Services 10 liner and tramp vessels per month calling at Karachi Port and Bin Qasim
• Expeditius Vessels turnaround
• Full services to Master and Crew
• Prompt responce to Principals
• Post sailing follow-up

Ocean Freight Management

With efficient and hands-on professionals working within the headquarters in Karachi and branch office at Lahore, Sialkot and Faisalabad, GML Pakistan provides regular LCL & FCL services on a weekly sailings to global destinations.

Afghan Transit Trade

• Professional/reliable service to Afghanistan
• Own set-up in the region with dedicated staff
• Handle up to 400 TEU per month (Approx .10,000cbm)
• Service include: Clearance, Trucking, Loading / Unloading
• Tracking of shipments using satellite phones

Land transport (Road & Rail)

·  Cover all inland destination s

·  Provide full load & groupage services

·  Excellent network with the National Railways

Airfreight Management

Our expertise in airfreight handling has been one of the important factors for our success

Reliable,economical and flexible consolidation services to various destinations

Dedicated specialized & experienced team

Door to door delivery services

FIATA approved cargo agent

Project Handling:

• Project Planning
• Roution of a Surveys
• Select Reliable carrier
• Site Inspection & Preparation
• Tracking & Tracing
• Custom Clearance
• Final Stage Delivery / Closing

History:

Oracle Corporation is in the top three of the line developers of enterprise software, but most do not know how they got their start or how they come to be so big. This is how oracle came about. Thirty two years ago Larry Ellison noticed that companies were lacking something when it came to database software. He stumbled across a prototype that worked, yet no other company put any efforts into this prototype. Ellison and his co-founder Ed Oats and Bob Miner had their work cut out foe them. With this prototype, they knew that they could and would change business computing forever.

Oracle provides the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems, with more than 370,000 customers including 100 of the Fortune 100 representing a variety of sizes and industries in more than 145 countries around the globe. Oracle’s product strategy provides flexibility and choice to our customers across their IT infrastructure. Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack in which every layer is integrated to work together as a single system. In addition, Oracle’s

Open architecture and multiple operating system options gives our customers unmatched benefits from industry leading products, including excellent system availability, scalability, energy efficiency, power performance, and low total cost of ownership.  

Oracle was founded, more than three decades ago, by Larry Ellison. Now oracle is also the one of the largest software company in the world than 40,000 customers across the globe, using oracle’s software’s .

Oracle has been selling ERP applications designed to work with its database since 1987.

Oracle sells most of its applications to manufactures and consumers goods companies, making them a direct competitor with SAP.

Oracle Modules:

 Oracle solution includes a number of functional modules, which support transactions to execute key business processes, such as:

Ø  Finance module:

     The Financial Accounting module in Oracle is designed to capture organizations business transactions in a manner that will satisfy external reporting requirements. Local legal considerations are pre-delivered with the system and the ability to manage and report on multiple companies in multiple countries with multiple currencies is part of standard functionality. Integration with Sales and Distribution, Purchasing and Materials Management allows for the ability to select any financial transaction and "Drill Down" to the originating transaction whether it is a purchase Order, Sales Order or material movement.

Financial Accounting includes the following sub-modules:

·    GL(general Ledger)

·    AP(Accounts Payables)

·    AR(Accounts Receivables)

·    CM(Cash Management)

·    FA(Fixed Asset)

Ø  HR modules are: 

 The Human Resources module consists of all master data, system configuration, and transactions to complete the Hire to Retire (or, as some say, Fire) process. It includes the following information and processes.

Human Resources (HR) Components or Sub-Components:

·    Core HR

·    Self Service HR

·    Recruitment

·    Learning

·    Training

·    Performance management

·    Absence management

·    Payroll

·    Time and labor

Ø  Order fulfillment modules are:

·    OM (Order Management)

·    Shipping

·    Advanced Pricing

·    Release Management 

Ø  Purchasing/Procurement modules: 

·    Purchase Order

·    Requisition

·    RFQ (Request for Quotation)

·    Quotation

Ø  Manufacturing modules are:

·    WIP

·    BOM

·    Inventory

·    Quality

·    Product Development

·    Process Execution

·    Costing

Ø  Maintenance module:

·    EAM(Enterprise Asset Management)

Ø  Project modules are :

·    Project billing

·    Project costing

·    Project resource management

·    Project contract

Ø  Planning module are:

·         Demand planning

·         Advanced Supply chain

·         Inventory  Optimization

·         Manufacture Scheduling

Questionnaire:

1. What was the basic motivation in going for an ERP system?

2. What were the problems that you faced with the earlier system or process?

No problems we faced with earlier system of recording transactions and access. We are just switched to improve our services.

3. What kind of planning was done before implementation?

Before implementing ERP, you are going to put a great deal of pre-purchase effort into deciding what kind of ERP software system will be the best fit for your organization. Developing an ERP strategy is an important first step that will help you move forward with the rest of the planning. You also want to know what kind of impact implementing ERP will have on the people in your organization.

4. How you select the ERP and related Modules?

           

               As per requirements.

5. How many modules are implemented and why?

 We are using four modules in our Organization. Which are as follow?

                                I.      Finance module

                              II.      HR modules

                   III.    Project modules

                  IV.    Marketing modules

We implemented four Modules. Finance Module to capture organizations business transactions and HR Module to complete the Hire to retire process and Project Module to complete the Plan to produce process and Marketing modules helps organization out, to solve their issues concerning market and marketing department, also makes the strategies for the company in marketing.

6. How you evaluate the implementation methodology (success and problems)?

Interfaces are huge problem, Determine where master data resides, Expensive, very complex, demands highly trained staff, lengthy implementation time.

It integrates all aspects of a business. It promises one database, one application, and a unified interface across the entire enterprise. An entire company under one application roof means everything from human resources, accounting, sales, manufacturing, distribution, and supply-chain management are tightly integrated. This integration benefits companies in many ways: quick reaction to competitive pressures and market opportunities, more flexible product configurations, reduced inventory, and tightened supply chain links.

7. How long will it take to implement the ERP?

This process can take from anywhere between six months to a couple of years to finish. A lot of coordination between various members is required during the ERP implementation. If there is no coordination between the core team members, customer and managers then project will get delayed.

8. Financial, Operational, customer satisfaction and other indicators before and after implementation?

9. What is the cost of maintaining and implementing ERP?

10. Did you achieve the outcomes you expected?

11. What was and what is your employee ratio before and after implementation of this process?

Little bit improve the ratio after implementation of this process of ERP.

12. What was the IT infrastructure before ERP implementation? Did you need to bring major changes in IT infrastructure for the ERP implementation?

13. What do managers need to know about organization in order to build and use ERP successfully?

14. How can business use ERP for competitive advantage?

 Competitive advantage depends on competition, if it is very sophisticated; you may gain some ground but perhaps not an advantage. Sometimes you simply need to be able to level the playing field a bit. If your competition is on the same level as yourself, or weaker, then you should be able to gain an advantage. At least until they go through the same process.

15. Why is it so difficult to implement ERP?

ERP implementations is very difficult, several firms fail due to lack of proper implementation. There are so many challenges, during the installation process of ERP system in organizations. They are different critical issues that must be consider for the successful implementation of the ERP which include commitment from top management, reengineering or existing process, integration of the ERP with other business information system, selection of ERP consultants, implementation time, implementation costs, ERP Vendors, selecting the right employees, Training of the employees and Morale of the selecting employees. Several organizations do not understand the direct cost that associate to ERP system, when they firstly initiate to implement the system. The ERP benefits are so clear, they are totally understandable but the costs of implementation not clear before the implementation. Before implementation vendor try to aware about the cost and difficulties when they try to implement and sale to the organization.

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