One of the major highlights of Group Annual Day (10-12 August 2006), was the ceremonial recognition of performance excellence by Sanmar employees across the group. Employees of the Year and Exceptional Performance Awardees received their awards amidst the usual fanfare and reading of citations detailing their accomplishments.
J Sridhar, Chemplast Sanmar
At the PVC Plant in Mettur, Sridhar h a s s u c c e s s f u l l y implemented heat re c ove r y p ro j e c t s a n d t e m p e r a t u r e control system for EDC Stripper.
His initiatives have resulted in huge savings in steam consumption and substantial savings in variable cost.
R Rajini, ProCitius Research
Rajini is a promising researcher in our ProCitius team. She is a valuable asset to our service delivery, which she almost single handedly manages at ProCitius.
Her research capabilities and project management skills have won her accolades from our customers. ProCitius Research Rajini is a promising researcher in our ProCitius team. She is a valuable asset to our service delivery, which she almost single handedly manages at ProCitius. Her research capabilities and project management skills have won her accolades from our customers.
Vijay Nambiar, Flowserve Sanmar
V i j a y Na m b i a r ’s c o n t r i b u t i o n t o Flowserve at Surat is a result of his single minded focus on project activities a n d s u b s e q u e n t MRO sales. He lead the co- ordination
admirably between the project offi ce of the EPC contractor/ customer, the site location and the OEM branch to achieve these results. He is a fi ne example of cross-functional working, through his support to the customer and the engineering team.
Jacob John, Tyco Sanmar Jacob
John at Tyco is responsible for the significant growth in order booking and market share. Hi s r e l a t i o n s h i p management skills have helped Tyco to make inroads with major
customers in OEM and MRO segments. His leadership skills came to the fore when he was deputed to Reliance, Jamnagar, for handling the major shutdown activity. As a Sanmar resource, he was responsible for co-ordination for all products.
S Venkatesan, Chemplast Sanmar
S Venkatesan of Karaikal, played a significant role in ensuring effective co-ordination with the Project Teams a t C h e n n a i a n d Karaikal for successful implementation and
commissioning of the Caustic Soda expansion programme. He was instrumental in operating the plant slightly at a higher current density of the electrolysers, which resulted in realising additional Caustic production. His disaster management skills came through in his effective handling of the natural calamities that occurred in recent years. He has also played a major role on the PR front and has contributed to the environment protection measures at Karaikal.
Deepak Dave, Intec Polymers
Deepak Dave ensured the smooth integration of Intec Polymers, Dadra, into The Sanmar Group. He was entrusted the role of the Business Manager and the key
issues he tackled creditably were, the pressure to grow profitably, integration of Intec into Sanmar and management of some ethics issues that surfaced. This award is in recognition of Deepak’s contribution to the business and to the organisation.
K Manikantan, Fisher Sanmar
Manikantan is now renowned for his crisis management at the Reliance plant in Jamnagar. This was recognised by the Reliance team and he extended similar
support for the Reliance Hazira plant shut down. Mani’s commitment and efforts played a major role in ensuring continued confidence of Reliance on Fisher Sanmar products and thus winning new JERP business. His knowledge of the refinery process and control valve requirements is a great asset to the new refinery project at Jamnagar and he is currently working with Bechtel and Reliance on this important project.
M Raja, Sanmar Foundries
M Raja brought about a dramatic turnaround in the area of fettling which was a major bottleneck in the sand foundry. He streamlined the systems to reduce lead-time,
revamped the vendor outsourcing system for faster turnaround times and reduced the overall processing times for the foundry.
B Pankaja Shankhavaram, BPO
Pankaja has, in a short time, gained prowess in the techniques of accounting in SAP. Her contributions helped finalise tax audit of Sanmar Engineering
companies in July/August 2005 in record time and also in the preparation of the consolidated accounts of SEC. She set up a system for retrieval of quick and reliable data from SAP and independently handled statutory audit of Sanmar Speciality Chemicals from the BPO side to complete audit before the end of April 2006.
Shankar Sinha, Flowserve Sanmar
Shankar Sinha’s mastery in engineering of mechanical seals and auxiliary systems is a great asset to Flowserve. His distinctive speed and quality of response are
now well-recognised by customers and one of the major OEMs, Sulzer has openly acknowledged that Shankar has changed their perception of response time.
N Narayanan, Sanmar Corporate Divn.
Narayanan is responsible for Income Tax across the Group.Among other key assignments, his contributions are significant in the tax assessments
of certain group companies that had gone through a process of restructuring and it is due to his expert handling of appeals that significant tax gains came by for the Group.
S Sankaran, Chief Executive - Finance (Accounting), was the seniormost Sanmar employee to receive the Employee of the Year award this year. We reproduce below the text of The Sanmar Group Chairman N Sankar’s speech at the Group Annual Day function.
Sankaran has been with the group for close to 20 years. He joined us to head Chemplast’s Sales Accounting, and his career progressed steadily through greater responsibility in Chemplast, to running the over all accounting functions of the chemical business, and finally to Controller for the whole group.Sankaran is a quiet, low-key personality, not given to excessive demonstrations or strong outbursts. He does what has to be done quietly and without fuss. The big plus point with him is it does not matter how much ‘what has to be done’, expands - he just takes it in stride and does it with no drop in efficiency.
He is the classic characterisation of ‘Mr Dependable’ - so much in fact that he often tends to be taken for granted. The extraordinary and quiet competence with which he carries out his functions, the lack of fuss, means that not much attention is drawn to him. In fact the only time when we think of him is when an unexpected problem crops up or we need some special analysis or something out of the way.Given Sanmar’s stress on Corporate Governance, detailed financial analysis, standardisation of accounts and MIS, and number credibility, are crucial. On this count Sanmar comes through with flying colours with Sankaran at the helm. Completing statutory audits for over 12 legal entities and giving us the results in 11/2 months is again a challenge, that is done regularly, without fuss and in fact has been institutionalised.
Another important facet is that the figures given by Sankaran are never questioned. Confidence level is very high. This is particularly important when one realises that the figures he churns out have a
great impact on the ‘flexing’ of earnings of our employees. Some of his special achievements, just in the last few years are:
1. Introduction of SAP across the whole Group. This was one of the smoothest introductions and while we took it for granted, when we hear of some of the horror stories at other companies, we realise the extent of his achievement.
2. Setting up an internal BPO, again with the least amount of fuss. This has led to a very smooth processing of routine accounts. and more important, has enabled quick and absolute standardisation of processes and policies across all business.
3. IT outsourcing to WIPRO. This again was a difficult task and again was put through with the users not noticing any change – totally seamlessly.
For all these reasons, and for continuing to be an ideal, responsible corporate citizen, I am delighted to recognise S Sankaran as an ‘Employee of the Year’. presented a dance program, “Joyful
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The Sanmar Brand Equity Contest thrown open to employees across the Group was the fi rst of its kind.
5 August 2006 The point of debate at the Sanmar Brand Equity Contest: Should we aggressively promote the Sanmar brand? It was a day of excitement and entertainment at the grand fi nale of the Brand Equity Contest. The semi-fi nalists were short listed based on the written document the various teams presented.
Except for one team, all others presented in favour of building the Sanmar brand. The teams came up with many creative options and the interesting presentations kept the audience enthralled through the day. The team that came fi rst gave a breezy and enjoyable presentation ending with a song sung by the team members with full gusto! The team that stood second took the audience through a talk show complete with a ‘commercial break’ that had a mock audiovisual advertisement. The only team to present a contrarian view bagged the third place.
Ajoy Govindan Nair, V Shankar Ganesh and Vikas Gopinath Panicker.
K Deepesh Nanda,Mallika Sriraman and Ramkumar Shankar.
J Srinivasan, B Sriram and R Venkatasubramani.
P Viswanathan, S Venkatesan, A H Kesari Prasad and Sarada Jagan.