Umair Najeeb Director Marketing Ammar Yasir Director Finance Fahim Alam Director HR Nazir Haider Director R n D VISION STATEMENT: To excel in the fertilizer and allied business at national and international level by maintaining highest standards of product quality thereby playing our role in the development of the country's economy and adding value to the shareholders investment. MISSION STATEMENT:
To become a good corporate citizen. To develop long-term relationship with the employees To inculcate honest and ethical behavior. To create safe, healthy environment and friendly atmosphere for the employees. HISTORY: Dawood Hercules Chemicals Limited was incorporated as a public limited company on 17th April 1968. It was the first private sector that was the largest ammonia/urea plant in country at that time. Initially the plant's capacity was 345,000 metric tons of urea per annum. After enhancing, the capacity increases to 445,500 metric tons of urea per annum. Dawood Hercules also won numerous safety and excellence awards.
The Vision of Information Technology Department is to facilitate organizational Resources with: latest state of the art computers, mobile phone & Blackberry devices, information systems & ERP solutions, technical support to increase their efficiency. STRATEGIC VISION Strategic Needs: Current: IBM I Series 820, 500, 250 and AS/400. MS Exchange Server 2003. Email Messaging Servers. Need : Email exchange server 2007 DAP
Information Needs of the Company: Information Needs of the Company: Managerial Needs: Current: Black berry technology.
Need : Black berry technology ( Bold and Storm ). Walky-talky system. Operational Needs: Current: DB Tool Turn Around.
Need : Prima Vira Software. SAP System. Time Management Program. Safety and security measurement.
Information Needs of the Company: Strengths: Weakness:
Training and nurturing. Low Production Safety & Security. Low Turnover Customer feed back system. DAP Own Electricity production of 14KW. Sales in Limited Areas KSE Top 25 Companies Award.
SWOT Analysis: Opportunity: Threats:
Construct new plant. Computer Virus. Govt. Subsidies to the Fertilizer sector. Competitors. Political and Economical instability. Security.
SWOT Analysis: COMPETITIVE FORCES MODEL:
Forces governing competition Rivalry Threat of Substitute Bargaining Power of suppliers Bargaining Power of Customers Threat of New Entrants STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY MATRIX:
Current Product: Bubber Sher Urea New Product DAP Current Market: Agriculture Sector Increase Production New Product Strategy New Market Agriculture Sector Product Penetration Strategy Product Diversification Strategy
To facilitate Organizational resources with latest state of art computers, Mobile, Phones & Blackberry devices, Information Systems, ERP Solutions and Technical Support to increase their efficiency
To improve quality of life for the employees.
To make farmers community prosper
To create safe, healthy environment and friendly atmosphere for the employees
To offer consistent dividend to shareholders
FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS WITH THE SUPPORT OF IT:
Proper budgeting control (it also includes proper costing)
Hiring of young professionals to make some innovative ideas for effective and efficient application of IT
Set up enhancement to increase production
Prima Vira Software should be provided to Engineers for proper graphical representation which ease their work and increase efficiency.
They Should adopt new procedures for minimizing waste to increase production
Dawood Hercules should implement SAP system properly
RECOMMENDATIONS
Efficient MIS
Employee Selection, Training & Evaluation
Out Come Based Systems
Behavior Based Systems
Consensus Approach
IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES
We have a very critical study to find out some weaknesses and threats for the company
. It was good to see that Dawood Hercules have more no of strengthens than their weaknesses.
We find some weaknesses and found about the substitutes and alternatives and recommended some new systems software and programs
CONCLUSIONS
Proper budgeting control (it also includes proper costing)
Hiring of young professionals to make some innovative ideas for effective and efficient application of IT
Set up enhancement to increase production
Prima Vira Software should be provided to Engineers for proper graphical representation which ease their work and increase efficiency.
They Should adopt new procedures for minimizing waste to increase production RECOMMENDATIONS