Snapshot
Company: Indian Rayon Unit, Aditya Birla Nuvo
Limited
Project: Vehicle Tracking System
IT Head / CIO / CTO / Project Lead: H Krishnan,
Assistant VP(IT)
As a manufacturer, Indian Rayon
wanted to automate tracking of vehicles at its factory-based
locations, as the existing process was manual, with a lot of
inefficiencies built into the
system.
Accordingly, the firm developed a
web-based vehicle tracking system, designed to capture data right
from a vehicle’s entry at the factory gate and monitoring it
during weighbridge, loading and unloading
operations.
The main goal of the project was to monitor vehicle movement and
reduce turnaround time. Post deployment, the solution has succeeded
in enabling better coordination between various departments in the
logistics department such as security, raw material handling, and
loading. This has improved the availability and ability to handle
more trucks. For example, in 2007the number of trucks handled was
15,791, while in 2008, the number of trucks handled was 38,
860(almost twice the earlier
figure).
Statistics show that following the
deployment of the project, there has been a significant reduction
in the turnaround time and an increase in
dispatches.
The project has also intelligently used technology to tackle unique
challenges. For example, understanding that most of the security
staff at the gate were illiterate, the solution has a list of
values in drop down boxes for all key fields. This has helped in
significantly cutting down data-entry
errors.
The firm estimates that the solution
has helped in saving close to Rs 100 crore during fiscal 2007-2008,
due to better tracking of trucks within factory
sites.
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