Indian Oil Corporations: eDARE

Functionality & Features: This system is used in conducting surprise inspections on Retail Outlets/ LPG Distributors/ other consumers as per guidelines issued by Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas (MOP&NG), Govt of India. Petrol Pumps/LPG Agencies are required to conduct business as per directions set by respective oil companies and ministry and serious deviations may lead to termination of petrol pump/LPG gas agency. Other areas of usage include reporting to concerned functions for any discrepancy observed during inspection, compliance report submission by the concerned functional department (Managing Petrol Pumps/LPG Gas Agencies) on action taken against errant dealer/distributor, and LAB samples submission and reporting. This system is also used to evaluate performance of inspection officer, and use reports for future planning.

Technology used: Java using Struts2 Framework for Business Logic development, JSP for web Pages, jQuery for Scripting Purposes, Blueprint as a CSS Framework, SVN for project Versioning, Oracle Database.

USP: Project like these are critical in bringing transparency in managing adulteration free oil distribution.
Impact: Being an internal process improvement system no financial impact analysis was done, in spite of this there has been enhanced efficiency and much needed transparency post implementation.

Overall, the importance of such a system can't be undermined for oil companies. However, from a technical stand-point, it's a routine business process automation.