Tata Honeywell bags Rs 50 crore process automation order 

Tata Honeywell has bagged an order of Rs 50 crore from the oil major Indian

Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) for implementation of supply chain management (SCM),

scheduling and operations, and management solutions for the entire supply chain

of its fuel business.

Dubbed as Project Manthan, the automation and integration project is expected

to churn the organisation, very much like the sea was churned during the

mythological manthan, and therefore the name.

JK Puri, GM (IS), IOCL, informed that the project is being dubbed as the

highest process automation order in the petroleum history of world, and RoI is

expected to be circa Rs 200 crore in the first year of deployement. Vinayak

Deshpande, MD, Tata Honeywell, informed CNS that the total size of the project

is expected to be in the region of Rs 65 crore, and the Rs 50 crore would be

initial deployement costs.

Project Manthan will be deployed in two phases-—the first taking 12 to 16

months, and the second phase taking another 12 months. Integration with the

existing ERP systems will constitute the second phase of the project, informed

Deshpande, adding that it will however constitute only about 10 percent of the

total scope of the project.

The project goes live this month. As part of the project, Indian Oil is

already implementing the SAP R/3 ERP package. This has already been deployed in

17 units of the corporation, and the remaining units are expected to be covered

by 2003.

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