Today chemical and petrochemical sector of Russia and CIS countries is at the crucial development stage. Extensive growth due to production capacities of USSR is under completion, and now there is transition to the stage of radical upgrade of these capacities.

The task of investment attraction for upgrade is facilitated by a great interest of investors to developing markets. But it is not enough: besides enhancing business transparency and management efficiency, it is required to solve the tasks of planning and cost management, which could improve investment profitability performance.

Since an essential share of costs falls to the maintenance of continuous production process and equipment maintenance and repairs, use of automated systems is of great potential, allowing to organize in the optimal way resource management of enterprises with process type production, which comprise most enterprises of this sector.

Borlas Consulting Group has successfully realized more than 10 major projects for the customers — enterprises with process type production. Our customers in the chemical and petrochemical sector include JSC Sibur Holding, JSC MCC Eurochim, JSC Uralkaliy, JSC Halogen, JSC Avdeevsk Coking Plant (Ukraine), JSC Metafrax, affiliate companies of JSC LUKOIL, JSC Lakokraska, JSC Odilak, JSC Balakovorezinotekhnika.

In 2006 Expert RA rating agency named Borlas Consulting Group to be the leader in deployment of corporate information control systems in the chemistry and petrochemistry sector (rating «Map of Russian audit and consulting», October 2006, section «Information technologies — Management consulting»).

Besides conventionally used functionality (finance, sales, supply), production, quality, cost value managements, equipment maintenance and repair management, HR and budgeting management are realized in the generated systems.

ERP applications make specific demands to IT platforms , and their wrong estimation may result in considerable deterioration of technical and economic performance of the project as a whole. Experience of successful implementation of complex projects for enterprises of this sector shows with confidence that Borlas has unique expertise in this area. So, for instance, in the course of ERP project implementation at JSC Uralkaliy we were the first in Russia and one of the first in Europe to deploy a cluster on the basis of Sun Fire servers and fail-safe Sun Cluster.

This technical solution proved its efficiency during operation. The main peculiar features of the sector-specific solution developed by Borlas experts for chemistry and petrochemistry are: full-scale character, fixed cost and fixed deployment dates, maximum use of the experience accumulated at the sector`s enterprises, possibility to build the system on the basis of a prototype. Considering a great threat of chemical production for ecology, we also offer a system of technical security assurance for industrial facilities as part of the solution.

Integration component is another important part of the solution. Most companies of the sector are geographically distributed holdings, which makes it necessary to integrate IT systems of enterprises for the creation of common information environment in the holding.

Borlas Consulting Group has unique experience in this field, obtained in the course of project at JSC Sibur Holding, where the integration task of more than 30 corporate information systems is being solved.

Outsourcing of corporate information system operation actively used by the world leaders in the industry is a promising trend of enhancing investing attraction of the holdings in the sector. Establishment if outsourcing company SC Satellite Service together with JSC Uralkaliy has become the first and quite successful project in the Russian chemistry.