The Business Excellence Department of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) in its active pursuit of its vision of bringing quality and excellence to the centre stage, has been taking many initiatives for achieving the same.
In this context, a limited edition annual desk calendar “Utkristata – 2016” for the financial year 2016-17 was released by S Chandrasekaran, CEO, Bhilai Steel Plant at the 33rd Synergy session held at HRDC on April 12, 2016, a BSP press release informed.
lT Sherpa, ED (P&A), PS Bhadauria, ED(MM), M Ravi ED(Works), RS Chaturvedi ED(Projects) and GV Rao, Actg. GM(F&A) were present on the occasion.
The Calendar was presented to the top management team by SPS Jaggi GM(BE), Yogesh Shastri DGM(BE) and Manju Haridas AGM(BE).
This calendar, which is a part of the Excellence series brought out by Business Excellence Department, focuses on the strategic theme of Cost Reduction and has been prepared with support from Cost Management Department.
The calendar has brought forth many aspects to limiting costs like - safety, enhancing productivity, improving processes and yields, reducing procurement costs, stopping leakages and wastages, reducing demurrage, enhancing quality, saving on energy / fuel, and focusing on behavioural changes. The calendar is also a compilation of Best practices on cost leadership from across various industries of India and abroad.
Brought together are best practices liken cost practices of Indigo Airlines, Kar Vijay Harshikhar of Tata Steel, Practising thrift by Patanjali, 1-1-1 programme of Maruti Suzuki, Target costing by Tata Nano, Cost per Touch Inventory of Ikea, to name a few.
In the years 2013 and 2014, the desk calendars focussed on the insights and learnings of iconic business leaders and quality and management gurus. For the calendar year 2015, the very important theme of safety was chosen. like previous years, this year’s calendar was conceived and designed totally in-house.
The soft copy of the desktop calendar would be available online at BSP home page and Business Excellence website as well.