E-HRM in Indian Sugar Industry: Differentiating Tool in Competitive Market

Abstract

The sugar industry of India is one that is highly labour oriented and has several processes, starting from cane- production, harvesting to sugar-production and sales. There are several departments in one sugar factory, which in themselves contain home to enormous functions. The application of IT to these departments give optimization of processes, which is the need of the day for Sugar Industry. The change in Information Technology is faster than any other processes in the organization. One of the major hurdles which the HR department needs to cross, is the changing technological environment. This paper studies the application of Software, like EHRM, M-Commerce and wireless technologies, for all the aspects of sugar Industry as a whole. This shall cover the scope of below three stages of Sugar Industry: cane-farming, factory processes, sugar-sales. The states of Maharashtra are focused for data collection. The need of the Sugar industry is to optimize costs by streamlining processes; and use of IT to achieve this will be the competitive advantage. We discuss the several areas where data collection, reporting, task management, delegation of responsibility can be tracked and accuracy can be improved by use of IT.