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Atul Ltd | Annual Report 2015-16
We are endeavouring improvements in many areas of operations of our Company,
particularly related to i) efficiencies, ii) productivity, iii) business processes,
iv) time-cycles and v) people development. Our efforts are expected to favourably
impact i) environment, ii) profitability, iii) empowerment, iv) growth and v) competence
of the team Atul as actions and results are part of the same process though having
different time-lines. Though we have a long way to go, we are happy to share some
of the several initiatives our Company undertook during 2015-16.
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Commenced structured succession planning
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Concluded 5 year settlement with the Unions at
Atul Complex
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Improved integrated development plan
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Initiated training for brand sales team
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Introduced sales incentive scheme for brand team
People
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Enabled ‘iQuote’ (open source integrated solution)
for vendor bids on mobile platform
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Enhanced ‘mobSales’ (open source integrated
mobility solution) for capturing sales orders and
providing real time sales information
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Improved ‘eLab notebook’ (open source solution for
recording, retrieving and analysing experiments in
R&D departments)
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Implemented HR processes through ‘PeopleSoft’ for
subsidiary | associate companies based in India
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Improved integrated utilisation of non-fund based
financial limits
Systems
It is what we think we already know that often prevents us from learning.
~
Claude Bernard
Operational highlights