1C:Trade Management 11 implementation
Client company
Belneftekhim-ROS LLC
Industry
petrochemicals and underground gas storage
Base solution
1C:Trade Management
Automated areas
- Polymer materials sales department
- Industrial salt sales department
- Chemical fibers sales department
- Chemical yarns sales department
- Tire sales department
- Paints and coatings sales department
- Economic planning department
- Executive management
Results
- 35% less time spent preparing management reports
- Accounting for 3 branches (Saint Petersburg, Novokuznetsk, Rostov-on-Don) brought into a single database
- Duplicate data entry into the database fully eliminated
- Planned profit can now be calculated for each order before the sale
- The company stopped taking loss-making orders
- User guides developed
- Trained staff (more than 40 people) actively working in the new system within 3 months
- Management gained a tool for real-time monitoring of overdue receivables
- Net profit up 14%
Industry
Supply and production of chemical products
The Belarusian State Concern for Oil and Chemistry (Belneftekhim Concern) is one of the largest industrial complexes in the Republic of Belarus. The concern brings together enterprises and organizations engaged in oil production, refining, and transportation, petroleum product supply, chemicals, and petrochemicals, as well as a number of research, design and engineering, construction, repair, and commissioning organizations, and an extensive distribution network in foreign markets. The concern produces more than 500 types of petrochemical and chemical products.
Headcount
More than 8,000 employees
Software
1C:Trade Management 11 (1C:UT 11)
Number of automated workstations
More than 500
Project business goals
- Automate routine operations
- Upgrade to a new software version
About the client
Belneftekhim-ROS LLC has operated in the Russian market since August 2001. Its sole founder is the Belarusian State Concern for Oil and Chemistry (Belneftekhim Concern), which includes all of the largest petrochemical and chemical enterprises in the Republic of Belarus: oil producer RUE Production Association Belorusneft; refiners Naftan OJSC and Mozyr Oil Refinery OJSC; petrochemical and chemical producers such as the Polymir plant of Naftan OJSC, Mogilevkhimvolokno OJSC, Grodno Azot OJSC, and Svetlogorsk Khimvolokno OJSC; tire maker Belshina OJSC; paint and coatings maker Lakokraska OJSC; glass fabric and fiberglass maker Polotsk-Steklovolokno OJSC; and others.
The project involved migrating from 1C:Trade Management 10.3 to 1C:Trade Management 11 and integrating with 1C:Accounting 8.3.
Project objectives / challenges
The task was to automate the following departments of the organization:
- Polymer materials sales department
- Industrial salt sales department
- Chemical fibers sales department
- Chemical yarns sales department
- Tire sales department
- Paints and coatings sales department
- Economic planning department
- Executive management
Automation results
- 35% less time spent preparing management reports
- Accounting for 3 branches (Saint Petersburg, Novokuznetsk, Rostov-on-Don) brought into a single database
- Duplicate data entry into the database fully eliminated
- Planned profit can now be calculated for each order before the sale
- The company stopped taking loss-making orders
- User guides developed
- Trained staff (more than 40 people) actively working in the new system within 3 months
- Management gained a tool for real-time monitoring of overdue receivables
- Net profit up 14%
Conclusions
The project gave the company a robust system for automating routine tasks. Key capabilities of the system:
- Automatic data exchange with 1C:Accounting
- A single master data repository
- Automated transit (drop-ship) scheme for shipping goods from Belarusian plants directly to customers
- Automated delivery process and delivery cost accounting for each order
- Automated inventory management
- End-to-end accounting by product batch (series)
- As a result, much more accurate cost calculation for each order
- Accounting for kitting (product assembly) implemented
- Automated accounting for returnable packaging
- Financial reports generated on the fly, without Excel
- Contracts with clients printed directly from the 1C database (from the “Customer Order” document)