CBL

BUSINESS APPLICATIONS &

INFRASTRUCTURE
GAP ANALYSIS

History

The Industry we selected for our MIS Project is Crescent Bahuman Ltd. Why its called Crescent
Bahuman.
Bahuman is a village of central Punjab situated in Teh. Pindi Bhattian District Hafizabad. This village is two centuries old, according
to the facts and figures, when Sikh Ruler Raja Ranjit Singh attacked on Hafizabad in 1802 he brought the area of Pindi Bhattian
under his supervision also. Later on, he captured all the Punjab. Some people say that Bahuman was the water Channel of Chenab
River once and Bahuman was established by a Dervish (Saint) named Baho on the bank of the river. In Punjabi, Maan is the bank of
the river and since Baho was his name the area was given the name Bahuman. But this story could not be confirmed because there
isnt any shrine of any Saint

Introduction to Industry
The crescent group has ascertained an outstanding reputation in Pakistan business community with over 60 years of experience in
diversified businesses in the textile, sugar, banking, insurance, food, agriculture and steel sectors.
Falling under the crescent groups vast umbrella, crescent bahuman limited is a value driven company with aspirations to establish
itself as a well renowed global denim brand. Founded in 1995, CBL is recognized as the first fully integrated denim plant in Pakistan.
This company has pioneered the local denim industry by advocating and promoting concepts of tolerance and compliance to its
people .
Subsequently, crescent bahuman has established strong cooperative values for the betterment of nearly 8000 employees and
community while ensuring an environmental friendly manufacturing process. The result has helped CBL attain a unique blend of
highly motivated individuals well equipped with a global perspective, thus enable us to aptly service any customers needs
worldwide.
Its core business consist of exporting high quality fabric and Jeanswear to the Eurpean, US, Australian and Asian pacific regions.
Through the use of high-tech equipments and modern techniques. This company is able to coop up the latest trends without
compromising on quality. This equips up to be the preferred choice of worlds top denim brands.

Introduction
Purpose
The Strategy is a business technology enablement framework to support CBL vision from an infrastructure,
business systems, support, and service perspective.
The Strategy is driven by a need to support current business scenarios and reduce applications
maintenance cost, redundant data wastes and to avail latest technology developments.
Background
There have been continuous and rapid changes in the technology and applications landscape and CBL
need to modernize its base to make full use of it. Following are the key focus areas;

Business Applications Overhaul

Data Acquisition System
Mobility Accessibility
Consolidation of Information Security Management
Infrastructure Unification
IT Governance & compliance
Data center
Storage
User Trainings
Helpdesk
IT enablement

Exisitng Systems of CBL

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning)
CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
Inventory (Raw)
Inventory (Finished)
Purchasing
QA (Quality Assurance)
PD (Product Development)
IE (Industrial Engineering)
PPC (Production Planning Control)
Order Management Textile & Garments

Oracle Financials (Finance and Accounting System)

Maximo (Assets Management System)
RFID (Production Incentive and Tracking System)
BPM (Business Process Management)

 Gap Analysis
Gap Analysis is in two categories, completely
missing functionality and gaps in implemented
functions.

Missing Functionality:
Textile/Apparel Planning/Scheduling System
PD Product data and lifecycle management
(PDM/PLM)
Pricing Product Pricing
Costing Job Order Costing
Export & Shipment
MRP Material Planning

1-Textile/Apparel planning/Scheduling system

One of the key missing functionality is missing planning system. As CBL is a
vertically integrated unit and it has many complexities in planning side, so planning
system is very compulsory. Which should cover the resources capacity planning and
timelines planning to meet the customers deadline so, our recommendation is that
CBL should purchase any standard textile/apparel planning system to cover this
missing functionality gap as soon as possible.
2-PD-Product data and lifecycle management
One of the key elements in any standard EAR is product data and life cycle
management which is currently missing in CBLs ERP system. The Boom (Bill of
material) attached with every product code has no revision and history system, due
to which product codes history is not being properly built. It is required to enhance
the system which covers all these aspects.
3-PRICING-Produt pricing
Pricing system is currently not implemented in CBL, all working is done is excel. so,
Pricing system is so very compulsory which covers the history of prices quoted
against each and every customer enquiries, online and integrated pricing system
also empowers the brand manager to quote competitive prices to customers, so. Our
recommendation is that CBL should develop an online pricing system built in ASP
(active server pages) so the brand manager can access the system anywhere as all
CBL, s customers are out of Pakistan.

 4-Costing (Job order costing)

Job order is also currently being calculated and maintained in excel and is not
integrated in ERP system. As costing is very important factor in any organization,
so CBL should also develop a costing system integrated with currently running
ERP system, so all orders costs should be reconciled in ERP system and
compared with prices quoted against that particular order, which will provide
order level price quoted vs. actual cost charged system report.
5-Export and shipment system
Export and shipment history is also being maintained in excel.CBL should also
have system to track and record the exports and shipments data, and also have
export documentations recording system, which should also enables the
customers to online track their shipments status. So we recommend that CBL
should have an export and shipment system built in-house

6-MRP (Material resource planning)

Material planning system is also missing in currently implemented ERP system is
very important for any organization, which helps the supply chain/procurement
department to plan the orders in a way that material shortages or excess
quantities can be controlled. So we recommend that CBL should also develop
material planning system to control the purchase process and inventories of
order related material.