2) Dimensions 

What are the areas (in quantitative terms) the job has an impact on?

Dimension

Remarks

1.

No of Users

3000+

2.

Geography

5 Countries,  

6 Fibre Mfg Plants,

3 Pulp Mills

3.

Turnover

14000 Cr

 Birla Cellulose cherishes decades of market leadership with the sustainable volume supplies in the global market from its VSF manufacturing facilities spread across the multiple geographies. The production of Birla Cellulose fibre has cost competitive advantage because of its backward integration with uninterrupted pulp supply from pulp manufacturing units in India, Canada and Sweden. Business has established product of regular VSF, Dyed VSF and Modal in the market place in textiles and nonwoven applications.

With the rapid technology transformation of solvent spun fibres in the global market, the new arena has begun now for most cost effective and eco-friendly man made cellulosic fibers. It is imperative for Birla Cellulose to achieve success in the segment of solvent spun fibre and reinforce its market leadership in all major categories of manmade cellulosic fibres. In this context, all functions within P & B Business are expected to align with business needs and consistently deliver on time, superior quality and cost effective solutions to internal / external customers.

Major Challenges

• Diversity of solutions and technology platforms
• Platform connectivity with diversity of businesses and Global geography of business
• Diversity of processes and local requirements across units 
• Complex infrastructure, architecture with growing user base & tenants
• Multiple vendors and products
• Multitude of collaboration platforms and need for co-existence for scalability and 

Being in a manufacturing industry it is our constant endeavour to sustain and improve quality and productivity. We are in process of leveraging IT in our plants by implementing software’s like Historian (AspenTech, OSI PI, Honeywell, etc.), IoT, LIMS, etc.

There is a need to move to next level by identifying technologies and implement solutions in areas application based IIoT, sensors for collecting data, digitizing all manual process to ensure data consistency.   Other technologies which shall give direct value to business in terms of quality improvement or decrease in operating cost.