It Enabled Business Process Reengineering

Today's environment is characterized by increasing levels of competition. Enterprises wanting to increase their market share or obtain profits must adapt to changes in the environment. Consequently, many changes in business methods are beginning to appear. One of them is business process reengineering (BPR), defined as the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvementsin critical, contemporary measures of performance. Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is known by many names, such as ‘core process redesign’, ‘new industrial engineering’ or ‘working smarter’. All of themimply the same concept that focuses on integrating both business process redesign and deployment of information technologies (IT) to support the reengineering work. Among the potential enablers of BPR is information technology (IT). This paper presents a case study of “Hindalco, Hirakud” employing business process reengineering techniques and the benefits that it gained from it.The main objective of this paper is to present the impacts of information technology (IT) in business process renovation.