Planning

Planning is responsible for establishing medium and long-term management strategies, and looking for new business opportunities to increase the value of the company. Planning also performs a variety of other work: communicating with shareholders, gathering and reporting issues in each division, revising internal regulations, and examining the feasibility of facility investment. As planning helps you better understand each business sector, and see the company's overall picture based on this understanding, you can broaden your view of the industry and develop your ability to think strategically.

Personnel / Labor / General Affairs

Personnel deals with all kinds of experience employees go through as they join the company and develop their careers. The team is in charge of employing excellent talent and placing them in the right area so that they can show their best abilities. It also develops and operates educational programs that allow both employees and the company grow together. It plans and operates various personnel systems that take into account fair evaluation and compensation for performance, work efficiency, employee satisfaction, and corporate culture.
Labor focuses on listening to voices of on-site employees. It establishes labor-management relations of trust and mutual prosperity, through understanding of employees’ difficulties and candid communication between labor and management.
General Affairs is in charge of managing real estate risks and other company assets, such as the sale of idle and low-interest property, management of lease contracts, and rental work at the time of site acceptance. Moreover, it manages and improves the office environment so that our employees can work in pleasant and comfortable conditions. It also plans and operates various systems to promote company welfare.

Public Relations

Public Relations consist of media relations, internal communication, brand management, and sponsorship. Through various media channels, it reports the company’s various events to the outside world while monitoring and responding to management risk exposures. Using the newsletter and webzines, it helps active communication between members, and keeps records of important events in the company. It also improves company awareness and enhances its image through advertising campaigns, C/I development, and sponsorship of cultural and sporting events.

Social Contribution

Social Contribution focuses on fulfilling corporate social responsibility. It respects ethical values and conducts a variety of social contribution activities for the harmony and balance of people, communities, and the external environment.

External Cooperation

The External Cooperation Department serves as a communication channel between the company and government agencies, and deal with various government policies. It analyzes the effects of various government policy changes on energy, the environment, safety, and establishes countermeasures to help facilitate business activities. Through the fair trade self-compliance program, it actively complies with competition orders, contributing to the improvement of corporate value.

Finance / Accounting

The main task of Finance is to raise necessary funds while operating surplus funds based on short and long-term cash flow plan according to company-wide management strategy. In order to raise company credit rating, it carries out foreign exchange management for IR activities, as well as import and export transactions. It also performs risk management for insurance accidents.
Accounting is primarily responsible for preparing the financial information that is the basis of corporate decision making. It discloses financial statements on a quarterly/annual basis, and establishes accounting policies based on changes in accounting standards and in business. It creates financial statements on the basis of: cost accounting which calculates the cost of products; accounting for tangible assets, which account for a large portion of the device industry; financial accounting to collect accounting estimates; consolidated accounting, which prepares consolidated financial statements by combining the financial statements of subsidiary companies. In addition, it maintains the credibility of preparing and disclosing accounting information through the operation of its internal accounting management system.

Legal Affairs

Almost all business activities are closely related to law. The Legal Affairs Department acts as an advisor in various fields: compliance support and new business support, not to mention traditional legal affairs, such as contract and legal review as well as litigation support. Under the principle that corporate activities today should be done fairly and in line with the law, it examines various legal risks and strives to ensure that compliance management is naturally established through regular in-house legal education.

IT

IT is in charge of IT infrastructure construction and operation, information security, ERP system operation, web program management, and factory system management. It builds and operates IT infrastructure, such as servers, networks, and databases. It also plans and operates IT security policies of the company. By building the ERP system, it organically links the various management processes of the company, and deduces and improves the task of PI (Process Innovation). It also develops and operates web programs for internal and external customers, and various work programs used at factories, which are the core of oil refining.

Purchasing

The main task of Purchasing is to procure all the goods and services needed to produce and sell the product after refining crude oil. It purchases refinery plant facilities and materials, such as additives needed for production, chemicals, and so on. It signs contracts for various construction work and purchases materials and services for the company’s overall operation, including logistics centers and gas stations. In order to achieve stable supply and demand and cost reduction, it constantly looks for new start-ups and establishes partnerships with overseas suppliers. It also makes efforts to establish win-win partnerships with our partners.

R&D

The Central Technology Research Center, located in Yongin, Gyeonggi Do, supports various technologies needed for plant operation, and conducts R&D work to develop new technologies and businesses. It analyzes problems at the factory to find ways to improve them and provide technical support. Moreover, it researches new core technologies for the company’s medium and long-term growth, and discovers new businesses for its bright future.

Production Planning

Production planning is responsible for establishing optimal process operation plans while considering crude oil, product price, refining margins, and supply and demand conditions. It instructs the adjustment of processes continuously for the established plan to be achieved. Through such process, it aims to optimize the plant by increasing production efficiency and quality, and to maximize profit. It provides basic data for accounting based on volume adjustments and enhances the process efficiency by analyzing performance. It reviews new businesses and looks for process improvement ideas through economic evaluation. It also acts as a stepping stone for synergy with subsidiary and nearby petrochemical companies.

Process Technology

Process Technology involves in all processes ranging from the input of raw materials to the production of refined oil and petrochemical products. It can be subdivided into process control, process optimization, and process design. Plant Management performs process monitoring for the safe operation of the factory, and improves processes by seeking technical solutions when a problem occurs. Process Optimization is in charge of the improvement of product quality, cost reduction, and productivity improvement. Process Design is responsible for economically designing processes at the time of introduction of facilities for increased capacity or improvement. It also searches for new business and reviews its feasibility.

Facility Technology

Facility Technology covers a variety of areas, such as fixed machines, rotary machines, piping, electricity, and instruments. In order to improve the productivity and profitability of the plant, Facility Technology engineers carry out the design, purchase, and construction of new facilities, continuously improving and complementing the existing facilities for their increased operational efficiency. They are responsible for analyzing the causes of problems when they occur. They also perform maintenance work, while establishing measures to prevent recurrence.

Production Support

Production Support covers all the necessary tasks for plant operations beside direct production, such as safety, environment, utility management, crude oil and product shipping. The most important thing for a company’s sustainable growth is fulfilling its social responsibility for safety and the environment. The main responsibility of Safety/Environment work is to systematically managing and maintaining the system to protect all employees, partners, customers and communities from disasters, and to minimize their impact on the environment. What is absolutely necessary for the stable operation of the process is a smooth utility supply. Utility Management produces steam and electricity for the production process, and carries out energy demand control and optimization. It also produces ultrapure water required for the boiler operation, and strives to minimize the impact on the ecosystem by clearing wastewater from the production process.

Sales Planning

Sales Planning is responsible for market analysis, the establishment of sales strategy and effective organization management to maximize domestic market profits. After systematically analyzing the information related to international oil market conditions, domestic market and social trends, it establishes optimized sales strategies and business plans. For the best performance of the on-site sales staff, it also sets up various systems and strategies for personnel and organizational management, as well as training in the Sales Headquarters. In order to respond to a rapidly changing external environment, it makes an effort to collect various information related to the latest industry and consumer trends, and to find future stable businesses.

Sales Support

In order to strengthen the competitiveness of domestic sales, Sales Support carries out various support services, such as quality management, safe transport, management of facility and SI of gas stations. It builds customer trust through a thorough petroleum product quality control process, and is responsible for preventing and purifying soil pollution. It is also in charge of building a strategic logistics infrastructure and systems according to production and sales goals, and of providing fast and accurate transport services. In addition, it enhances brand image through SI management of gas stations, and creates a pleasant business environment by supporting facilities and various construction.

Marketing

By scientifically analyzing the data of more than 7 million bonus card customers, Marketing develops a variety of CRM activities to attract new customers and retain existing customers. It improves consumer accessibility and brand awareness through co-marketing with leading companies in other areas, such as shopping, automobiles, restaurants, and finance. Through a support program for entrepreneurs of gas and charging stations, marketing strengthens partnerships and carries out our company’s unique promotions. It also operates a professional organization to improve the friendliness, cleanliness, and quality of gas stations.

Sales
(retail / direct / corporate)

Sales is divided into 3 types: retail, direct and corporate. Retail sales deals with self-managed gas stations, and petroleum sales agents; direct sales supports smooth operation of direct gas stations managed directly by the company; corporate sales is in charge of industry-targeting sales. In order to carry out sales activities, it is especially important to establish personal relationships by using smooth communication skills. As it deals with various parties on behalf of the company, the Sales Department must accurately and thoroughly review relevant laws, regulations, policies, and agreements.

Supply and Demand

The Supply and Demand representative is responsible for coordinating the volume of sales and production at the center of the supply value chain, and for maintaining proper inventory. Stable product supply and demand ensures smooth sales activities, and contributes to improving productivity and profitability.

Product Trading

Product Trading deals with the import and export of petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and heavy oil, and petrochemical products like naphtha, propylene and sulfur. It signs long-term contracts mainly with overseas state-run oil and trading companies, and exports about 50% of total production. It also deals with spot contracts considering monthly supply and demand, and carries out customs clearance, payment and receipt, and operating business for trading.

Crude Oil Trading

This department is in charge of purchasing crude oil considering stability and the economic feasibility, which accounts for about 95% of our company expenses. In order to secure raw materials steadily, it signs long-term purchase contracts with oil-producing countries. Other raw materials are obtained through global trading companies, considering economic efficiency. It purchases affordable crude oil in various regions in accordance with purchasing strategies established, and carries out necessary customs clearance, payment, crude oil cargo scheduling, and rental works.

Operational Optimization

Operational Optimization involves finding the best alternative to maximize profits in an uncertain business environment, like international oil price fluctuations. To do this, it utilizes scientific optimization tools, statistics and data analysis techniques. Moreover, its work area ranges from crude oil purchases, product production and sales. It defines the impact of real-time petroleum prices on profit and loss as risks, and establishes a company-wide risk management strategy to avoid them. It contributes to creating stable profits by determining major “profit and loss” factors early, including refining margins, through leading swap transactions.