Questionnaire to AK Prasad / MD Archroma

Q1: You started your career in Century Mills please share the experience as how the fabric
manufacturing & processing has evolved over the years?

Customer expectation
Quality requirements
Technological advancements
Standards upgradation

Q2: You have an experience working with BTRA please explain about process
optimization and cost reduction projects taken up during the tenure

How will we sustain cost?

Value engineering / re-engineering product

Q3: What is meant by color? How can we interpret??

How will we communicate color technically?

How color is measured?
Sample to bulk match how much tolerance acceptable internationally?
Different lights? And its implications?

Q3: Can you please explain fastness properties pertaining to different set of dyes?

Different fastness requirements and its importance?

What minimum standard we can communicate to customers?
Is there any difference in standards for Indian market and international market?

Q4: CSV is a common problem in a piece dyed goods? Do we have any solution to that?

Q5: Different quality defects pertaining to dyeing? How will we combat it?

Q6: You have worked in sourcing of raw materials please let us know how a raw material
quality impairs the quality of final goods?

Q7: What are the factors a sourcing person to keep in mind during the process of
procurement?

Q8: How procurement function has evolved over the years?

Challenges
Opportunities

Q9: How do you see the procurement as a function in next 5years?

Q10: With make in India a bigger mission of our country, how do you foresee international
procurement in coming days?

Q11: How do we maintain good and healthy vendor relationship being vendor plays a
pivotal role in outsourcing?
Q12: How do you cultivate a practice of product development / innovation in the
organization?

Is product development an individuals passion?

Is it companywide initiative

Q13: How will you funnel out the bunch of ideas into actionable ones?

Q14: Being into a service industry, how will you delight your customers every time,
everyday?

How will you cultivate service mindedness in your team?

Customer focus!
Ways to delight customer
How will you take the feedback that customer is happy about our service levels?

Q15: As number of international brands coming into the country, how you see the local
players keep up the pace?

What is missing with us?

Where they score above us?
How will we compete with them?

Q16: How do you see the current human capital?

Take on quality of people

What they do better and where they lack
Strength
Weakness
Improvements needed