Enterprise Solution

A case study on Wheel and Axle

Organization Overview

Wheel and Axle plant at Bangalore yelahanka is the premier manufacturing unit of the Indian Railways and is engaged in the production of wheels axles and wheel sets for the Railways wagons coaches and engines.

A $ 75 Million USD organization Wheel and Axle is an ISO 9001 :2000 which corresponds to IS 14000 of international standards.

The plant employs over 2000 personnel and has the best productivity figures in the Indian industry

To accomplish its business objectives, the activities are grouped into various functional processes, which are interactive and dependent on each other.

Each process is well defined and has a clear objective. The functions are as follows

• Engineering division
  
• Materials management
  
• Finance management
  
• Human resources

Wheel and Axle plant has envisioned an integrated approach to its over all organization objective and has planned an automated path for the above functions.

A total integrated application development was required to seamlessly connect all the processes of the various functions in the enterprise.

Solution

Pioneer offered a partnership approach for Wheel and Axle wherein it will consult and analyze the processes and develop an integrated enterprise solution, which would aim at achieving the objectives of the Wheel and axle plant. Pioneer as an IT partner of Wheel and Axle proposed the state of the art enterprise solution.

The solution adapted and deployed using Microsoft platform and the emerging technologies of .Net framework and component methodology

The architecture of the solution is n- tier and completely web enabled.

Pioneer's solution visualizes a paper less office for wheel and axle plant.

The solution adheres to single point of data collection and removes the duplication of data which would have otherwise been collected by each department or function on its own.

Higher rates of productivity by enabling information flow across the enterprise leading to better planning and decision-making capability

The integrated enterprise now would be able to work with common goals with planning

The architecture built on .Net framework has the versatility to adapt to any changes that would effect the business domain of Wheel and axle.

Being n-tier in nature creates a common data base which can be utilized for meaningful analysis by the top layer of the management

The solution is designed to cater to the internal enterprise needs of information and is designed to accommodate in future the needs of external enterprise solutions like Customer management and On line procurement .

Intranet Application

Organization Overview

WebMD, the leader in online health information and the leading provider of software and communications services to improve the way information is used by the healthcare system.

WebMD helps the healthcare system work for consumers, physicians, health plans and other providers by enabling increased efficiency, better decision making to ultimately result in higher quality patient care at lower cost. Services are provided in following three important areas:

1. Portal Services
2. Transaction Services
3. Physician Services

Problem

WebMD required to automate its internal processes to streamline its activities and also for improved operational efficiency. As part of this, WebMD also wanted to make optimum use of its resources and the requisite approval process.

Solution

Pioneer offered an Intranet Solution to cater to the requirements of WebMD, which includes:

• Online leave application.
  
• Conference room scheduling.
  
• Digital pay slips. Phoenix.
  
• Digital attendance sheet.
  
• Auto escalation.
  
• Online claiming facility for employees and many more.

Advantages

• Increased Efficiency
  
• Online Approval
  
• Employee Satisfaction
  
• Information Services
  
• Improved productivity