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How ARCL Organics connects chemical manufacturing, costing, workforce and management intelligence with Exactlly
For more than 15 years, ARCL Organics has used exactllyERP, exactllyHRMS and exactllyBI to connect production, inventory, warehouse, costing, finance, banking integration, workforce operations and management reporting.
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Why chemical manufacturing needs connected operational control
The operating pressures that make connected control matter in chemical manufacturing.
Production and materials move together
Production activity depends on the material and inventory information the business already holds. When that information sits somewhere else, production decisions are made against a picture that has to be assembled first.
Costing has to follow operations
Manufacturing cost visibility depends on operational transactions reaching the financial layer coherently. Cost information assembled separately from the activity that produced it is always a reconstruction.
Inventory and warehouse cannot sit apart
Production-related inventory and warehouse information need to remain part of the same operating record, rather than becoming two accounts of the same stock that have to be agreed.
Management needs more than transactions
ERP transactions become more useful when management can analyse the resulting information. A reporting and analysis layer over connected operating data answers questions the transaction list cannot.
A chemical manufacturer, and fifteen years of connected operations
ARCL Organics Ltd. is a chemical manufacturing business in India. It has used Exactlly for more than fifteen years.
Over that period the environment has grown to cover three products rather than one. exactllyERP carries production, inventory, warehouse, costing and finance. exactllyHRMS carries HR, attendance and payroll. exactllyBI sits over the resulting information and gives management a reporting and analysis layer. Banking API integration connects banking activity with the finance workflow.
That combination is what makes the arrangement unusual. Plenty of manufacturers run an ERP. Fewer have the operational layer, the financial layer, the workforce layer and the management-information layer in one connected environment, from one vendor, for fifteen years.
The management question underneath it is simple to state and hard to answer: how do production, inventory, costing, finance, people operations and management reporting stay connected, rather than drifting into separate systems and separate reports that have to be reconciled before anyone can act on them?
- Customer
- ARCL Organics Ltd.
- Industry
- Chemical Manufacturing
- Location
- India
- Relationship
- 15+ years
- Products
- exactllyERP, exactllyHRMS and exactllyBI
- Core Exactlly use
- Production, inventory, warehouse, costing, finance, banking integration, HR, attendance, payroll, BI and management reporting
From materials to management visibility
The sequence the business moves through, from the materials it starts with to the view management reads.
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Operations
Materials & inventory
The material and stock position the business works from.
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Operations
Production
Manufacturing activity recorded against that operating position.
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Operations
Inventory after production
The stock position as production changes it.
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Operations
Warehouse
Warehouse information held in the same record as the rest.
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Financial control
Costing
Cost information connected with the operational transactions behind it.
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Financial control
Finance
The financial record, in the same environment as the operations.
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Financial control
Banking integration
Banking activity connected with the finance workflow.
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Management intelligence
BI & management visibility
exactllyBI over the connected business information.
The sequence is what keeps these stages one record rather than eight.
Production and inventory in one operating environment
One record, not two accounts of the same thing
ARCL uses Exactlly across production and inventory. Production activity, inventory records and warehouse information remain part of one operating environment rather than being maintained separately and matched afterwards.
That is the whole point of the arrangement, and it is worth being precise about why it matters. A manufacturer that keeps production in one place and stock in another does not have two views of its operation; it has two versions of it, and someone has to decide which is right before a decision can be made. Holding them in one record removes that step rather than speeding it up.
When production activity and costing need to stay connected
For a manufacturer, cost information is most useful when it remains connected with the operational transactions that create it.
Cost that comes from the operation, not from a reconstruction
ARCL uses Exactlly's costing environment alongside production, inventory and finance. Because those sit together, cost information is derived from the same transactions that recorded the activity, rather than assembled later from separate sources.
The difference shows up in the question a manager can actually ask. Where costing is separate, the question becomes "which figure do we trust?", and answering it is an exercise in reconciliation. Where costing sits with the operation, the figure and the activity behind it are the same record, and the question can move on to what to do about it.
Operational view
What was produced, what materials and stock moved, what the warehouse holds.
Cost view
Production costing connected with those same operational transactions.
Costing sits alongside production and finance, giving the business a connected operational and financial record.
Warehouse, finance and banking in the same environment
Warehouse
Warehouse and inventory information feed the broader financial and management view rather than being held to one side. What the warehouse holds is part of the same operating record that production and costing draw on.
Finance
Finance sits inside the same Exactlly environment as the operations it accounts for, so the financial record and the operating record describe one business rather than two.
Banking integration
Banking API integration forms part of ARCL's Exactlly environment, connecting banking activity with the wider finance workflow.
Workforce operations in the same environment
exactllyHRMS carries the people side of the business alongside the operational and financial layers.
From the employee record to management visibility
ARCL uses exactllyHRMS for HR, attendance and payroll. Because it sits in the same Exactlly environment as the operational and financial layers, workforce information reaches management alongside everything else rather than as a separate monthly exercise.
- Employee
- Attendance
- Payroll
- HR information
- Management visibility
Turning connected operating data into management visibility
Production, inventory, costing, finance and workforce activity create a large operational record. exactllyBI is the layer management reads it through.
A reporting and analysis layer over connected business information
ARCL uses exactllyBI. It gives management a reporting and analysis layer over the connected business information the ERP and HRMS environments produce.
The reason that is more than a nice addition is the connection underneath it. Analysis over data drawn from separate systems inherits every disagreement between them, and the work goes into making the numbers agree rather than into what they mean. Analysis over one connected record starts from a position where they already do.
exactllyBI provides a reporting and analysis layer over the connected business information generated across operations, finance and workforce processes.
One operating model across production, finance, workforce and intelligence
Four layers of the same business, in one Exactlly environment.
Operations
- Production
- Inventory
- Warehouse
Financial control
- Costing
- Finance
- Banking integration
Workforce
- HR
- Attendance
- Payroll
Management intelligence
- exactllyBI
- Management reporting
The management intelligence layer reads the other three. It sits over the connected record rather than in place of it.
Business outcomes
What the connected environment gives the business, across all four of its layers.
Manufacturing control
- Production and inventory within one operating environment
- Warehouse connected with the wider manufacturing record
- Operational information held once
Cost & finance visibility
- Costing connected with operational information
- Finance within the same Exactlly environment
- Banking API integration supporting finance workflows
Workforce operations
- HR
- Attendance
- Payroll
Management intelligence
- exactllyBI
- Management reporting
- Analysis across connected business information
Proof at a glance
Relationship
- 15+ years
- ARCL Organics Ltd.
- India
Manufacturing
- Production
- Inventory
- Warehouse
- Costing
Finance & workforce
- Finance
- Banking APIs
- HR
- Attendance
- Payroll
Management
- exactllyERP
- exactllyHRMS
- exactllyBI
- Management reporting
Related Exactlly capabilities
The products and the sector behind the environment described above.
In the customer's words
Chemical manufacturing requires us to keep production, inventory, costing, finance and people operations connected. Exactlly helps us manage these processes in one environment, while exactllyBI gives management better visibility across the business.
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