Sie sind auf Seite 1von 4

success story

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited


(BPCL) is India’s second largest oil
company in terms of market share. Its first

hp fuels BPCL’s vision refinery was commissioned in 1955 in


Mumbai. Today, the Rs 330-billion giant
produces a diverse range of products -
from petrochemicals and solvents to
aircraft fuel and specialty lubricants.
of gaps between vision and the challenges
current reality; and evolution of
• manage enterprise growth
a change plan to bridge these
efficiently
gaps. The overriding dimension
• be prepared for a liberalised
of this exercise was on
environment with competitive
increased customer focus. The
IT infrastructure
entire change plan necessitated
effective integration and was • achieve performance,
premised on a massive increase reliability and scalability of
in the information intensity of the applications
organisation. Information
Technology (IT) was envisaged the solution
to contribute in these areas and • As part of SAP R/3 rollout,
The company markets its thus began the project for deploy HP’s XP256 and
products through 4,510 petrol evolving an IS Plan. XP512 storage systems
stations, 967 kerosene dealers along with Ultrium tape
and 1,389 LPG distributors. The IS Plan envisaged creating a libraries for centralised
It also supplies fuel directly to comprehensive system storage and backup
hundreds of industries and landscape for supporting
several international and business aspirations of the the benefits
domestic airlines. company. A small team drawn
from IS and Business set out to • the deployment of HP’s
The Indian oil sector was under map the existing business storage boxes has made the
government control until systems (legacy systems) vis-7-vis management of enterprise
economic reform process began the needs of future characterised wide data easier and faster
in the year 1991. Subsequently, by customer focus, resource- • reduction in process
many fields viz., LPG, lubricants, optimisation, integration and hierarchy
refinery and even oil exploration flexibility. The company had a • future initiatives such as its
and production were thrown host of in-house developed Petrocard debit cards can
open for private investment. The systems which ran on PCs. The leverage on the IT
government of India has data generated by many point infrastructure
announced complete solutions got consolidated at the • enhanced operational
deregulation of the oil industry regional offices and then, again, competitiveness through best-
in April 2002. Anticipating at the central office. All this in-class technology
radical changes in its business exercise of data gathering,
environment, BPCL undertook a capture and consolidation was
massive exercise for preparing unwieldy and time-consuming.
itself to face challenges of After a detailed study, the IS
emerging free market scenario. plan team concluded the need such a large implementation
for replacing the existing batch- required meticulous technical
In India, BPCL has always process oriented legacy systems planning. Based on the
enjoyed an image of being a with a state-of-the-art ERP information and case studies
progressive organisation. It had system. A comprehensive available, BPCL identified
pioneered many new concepts technical selection process was general and potential
in the area of oil marketing, undertaken to find the ‘best fit’ bottlenecks that affected large
such as new generation retail ERP package for current and SAP R/3 implementations.
outlets, convenience stores, and future needs of BPCL.
the usage of smart cards. It was Subsequently, SAP/ R3 software The need to take care of the
also in the forefront in the field was chosen for implementation. entire enterprise’s data and
of IT, with very robust IT- manage its growth in an
infrastructure in place and In 1999, on the basis of an efficient and reliable manner
business-driven IT policy guiding elaborate technical architecture was paramount. Says K.B
its forward march. design devised by its IS team, Narayanan, the technical lead
BPCL undertook a for SAP infrastructure and Basis
BPCL’s change initiative started comprehensive review of its – Project ENTRANS (Enterprise
towards the end of 1996 with hardware requirements. There Transformation) at BPCL, “As
the help of Arthur D. Little, Inc. were not many organisations in BPCL was moving from point
(ADL). ADL’s methodology India that had implemented a solutions to a centralised
involved co-creating a vision for large ERP of the size BPCL was application architecture, the time
the company, determining its contemplating to execute. But had come for storage
current reality, conceptualisation the company was aware that consolidation.”
innovating with hp landscape), quality and test about 3,000 users accessing
systems. But very quickly, the them from over 270 locations
For fulfilling its demanding data main SAP R/3 data started across India. BPCL has recently
requirements in a centralised growing at a rate of 25 GB per put its main database (Oracle
setup as part of its re-architected month with the main database 8i), on HP’s Superdome server
IT infrastructure, BPCL chose reaching 400 GB in size. In platform. The peak load factor is
HP Surestore XP256 and XP512 order to take care of its growing as high as 1,000 concurrent
disk storage systems and Ultrium requirements and for users. According to Narayanan,
tape library. For the hardware implementing a suitable disaster in terms of depth and breadth of
and associated software, BPCL recovery plan, BPCL upgraded R/3 implementation (and
had short-listed four vendors – the XP256 to XP512 and moved geographical spread), BPCL is
HP, IBM, Compaq, and Sun. the former to the Disaster running the largest enterprise-
Says Narayanan, “We Recovery (DR) site. The company wide implementation in the
evaluated all the four vendors is taking every precaution to country. With the R/3
but finally decided on HP as it manage and safeguard its implementation, BPCL has made
had a better overall solution in valuable data. “We take full rapid progress in terms of IT
terms of servers, operating backup every day, using the HP infrastructure with its centralised
system, storage systems, tape Surestore Business Copy XP strategy.
libraries and software tools. For which enables us to back up our
a very large and geographically data without shutting down our A robust storage platform is a
spread out enterprise such as systems, ”says Narayanan. key element of the company’s
BPCL, the most important criteria Within the data centre at future technology roadmap.
for selection of IT infrastructure Ballard Estate in Mumbai, BPCL is using the XP512 for
were performance, reliability, Omniback backup solution is meeting performance levels that
scalability, support, future used to take backups of all the are required for such a large
roadmap, and research & servers on the Ultrium tape online application as the R/3.
development.” library. The company has, All the servers in the system
among other infrastructure, over landscape share this disk sub
As part of the R/3 rollout on a 15 N and L class HP servers at system. The features of this
consolidated hardware platform, the data centre. BPCL is also solution (like Business Copy) are
BPCL first deployed the XP256 using HP Continuous Access XP used to provide uninterrupted
around February 2000 with a to replicate data between the application availability for end
total capacity of 2 TB. It was primary and DR site. Today the users without affecting the daily
used by two production systems SAP R/3 application is running backup schedule. Says Asheesh
(BPCL has a separate HR in all its modules at BPCL, with Kumar, Country Business

BPCL SAP R/3 Environment


Dev & quality
Ultranet Storage Ultranet Storage
Director Director
E1 Lines

Microwave
Production Failover

MC/SG Cluster ESCON ESCON

XP512 XP256

DR-Application
Application
Servers

SAP R/3 Production


B/W Production DR-Production
Standby Database
B/W Application

B/W Quality
B/W Dev. Omniback Server HR Production

Omniback Server

DLT
L8

4/40 Ultrium Library


20/70 Ultrium Library
Primary Site DR Site
benefits galore For more information on
how working with
When BPCL was undergoing an
Hewlett-Packard can benefit
organisational restructuring in
you, contact your local
1996, it had foreseen the need
to use IT as a strategic tool in HP service representative, or
the market place. Now it is visit us through the Internet at
realising that it is payback time our world Wide Web address:
for that foresight. Having picked http://www.hp.com
up the best storage solutions as
an integral part of its enterprise-
wide IT strategy, BPCL has
started reaping the benefits that
Manager, Extended accrue in different tangible and
Manufacturing Business Unit, HP intangible forms. For one, the
India, “The high reliability and management of infrastructure
business-critical features of has simplified and therefore,
XP512 are key to eliminating easier to manage. Because of
data management headaches the central data consolidation,
for BPCL.” reduction in process hierarchy
has taken place, resulting in
However, besides having the more efficient and faster
best of software and hardware operation and decision-making.
platforms, it is very important to “From the technical point of
manage data distribution view, a significant portion of
effectively. Says Narayanan, SAP R/3’s success can be
“The underlying distribution of attributed to HP’s hardware
data within the disk sub system solutions especially in the area
is extremely important, because of storage” emphasises
when applications share the Narayanan. Now the company
same storage resource, ‘hot can manage the infrastructure
spots’ can quickly develop. This efficiently with a small number
will necessitate reorganisation of of people, he says.
data within the box. And in our
kind of business environment, Going forward on its IT vision,
where you have to be BPCL wants to extend its network
continually up and running, you of SAP user locations from the
seldom get a large enough time present 277 “primary selling
window to do that.” A large locations” to as many as 5,000
table space reorganisation in dealers and distributors. It also
SAP can take many days. Such has an eye on e-business,
delays can prove very expensive supply chain management and
in terms of hampering business- customer relationship
critical functions of companies management initiatives as and
operating in a 24x7 when they make sense.
environment. The flexibility “Data growth is a continuous
and performance of the XP512 phenomenon, its effective
comes very handy in such management is very critical in
circumstances. future” says Narayanan.

BPCL, which now conducts over


90% of its business on the HP
platform running SAP R/3, All Rights Reserved. Reproduction, adaptation, or
translation without proir written permission is prohib-
makes sure that it continues to ited, except as allowed under the copyright laws.
opt for the most reliable and All information is subject to change without any
prior notice (E.&O.E.).
manageable solution and Photo is for illustrative purpose only, actual product
anticipates its future computing may differ from time to time.
For warranties, please check with your local country
requirements with a clear resellers or local Hewlett-Packard offices.
roadmap.
© Copyright Hewlett-Packard Company 2002.
Printed in Singapore M04/2002
P/N: 5981-1472EEP

Das könnte Ihnen auch gefallen