HCL
HCL
HCL
ORGAISATION PROFILE –
Float of the company—
Promoters—
Shiv Nadar with five of his friends Arjun Malhotra, Subhash Arora, Ajai
Chowdhry, DS Puri & Yogesh Vaidya , started a company named Microcomp
Limited. The company started with manufacturing of scientific calculators. This
company provided its founders money to start a company that focused on
manufacturing computers. The company was renamed as Hindustan Computers
Limited (HCL) and received support from the Uttar Pradesh government to
setup their manufacturing in Noida.
SEED CAPITAL— The founders put together Rs 2 million in the venture.
It claims a presence in 170 locations and 300 service centres. Its
manufacturing facilities are located in Chennai, Pondicherry & Uttarakhand.
FUTURE EXPANSIONS—
HCL is planning to search for new areas of
venture as
Gaming,navigation,mobile commerce,DTH and CAS & VoIP devices.the
company is planning for expansion of those product’s production and
distribution in which it has already established itself.
The areas in which HCL ventures are as
following -- laptops and laptop accessories.HCL has joined hands with apple
and is going to distribute its apple ipods in India,It is also planning to
strengthen its relations with its previous associates such as Nokia,Kodak &
Casio.
They are also planning to launch kiosk which will offer information and
transaction facilities to the consumers.
ORGANISATION STRUCTURE—
This is similar for every organization.For individual offices HCL has the same
functional structure of organization, which consists of the following department
as heads.
PRODUCT LINE
• LYFE—
Windows Vista,Wireless Home,Digital Video
Interface(DVI),2.1 ATP3 Altec Lansing Stereo Speakers with
Sub-Woofer.
• NANO—
Mobile on Desktop,Digital entertainment
appliances like LCD,HDTV.
As it will be clear from the figure, that HCL takes strict measures before
selecting a partner in its production, redistribution or retail chain for its
products.
Firstly, in the context of sales & distribution of its pc and laptops or
acquiring products for distribution of products by other manufacturers
procurement of products is done.
Warehousing of the production is done by the company itself in the
initial stages of finished product or acquired products from the
partners.Thereafter these products are dispatched to the distributors for
further progress of activities.This is the stage when inventory
management come into picture, which is handled by the distributors
which are large in numbers, 2 National and 135 Regional distributors.
They have the responsibility to make effective reach of the products
to the retailers all over the country. For this purpose required training is
also provided by HCL so the company adds value to its chain of workers
for efficient working. From these retailers the products are reached to the
end consumers.In the same way the after sales services provided by HCL
is prompt and timely, the consumers are provided with customer care
services and technical support when needed.
PRODUCTION—
HCL has a strong manufacturing objective,
that says “We shall deliver defect-free products, services and solutions
to meet the requirements of our external and internal customers, the first
time, every time”.
The manufacturing plants of HCL are in UTTARANCHAL &
PONDICHERRY & CHENNAI .
UTTARANCHAL & PONDICHERRY—
It provides facility for the production of desktops, laptops
,servers,monitors etc.
It has got strong facility base in both Southern & Northern India,
allowing to offer more enhanced value through better logistic
efficiency & lower time to market.
Takes overall capacity to 1.3 million PC’s per annum,
making HCL one of the largest ICT manufacturing facilities.
QUALITY CERTIFIED facilities and is certified with ISO 9001
and ISO 14001 certified i.e. Pondicherry & Uttaranchal
respectively.
Both the plants get tax benefits.
Other products manufactured are keyboards, Workstations,
Cabinets etc.