Industry Visit at Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited, Ghaziabad

17th November 2009. MBA students from Skyline Business School went for Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Private Limited visit at Ghaziabad. It was a pleasure to be there and have a first hand experience of the processed being employed by the American Multinational. We learnt about the beverage industry and Coke’s strategy to continue at the top. Coke had entered the market way back in 1993 and has long years of customer trust and awareness backing it. In order to sustain this faith Coke has done stupendous work to ensure that its manufacturing facilities are one of the best in the world. Ghaziabad is the largest manufacturing facility for Coke in India and covers an area of 80 acres. The plant manufactures more than 2 million units a day during peak season which extends from March- September. All the drinks under the coke stable are manufactured at Ghaziabad.

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ANNUAL CONVENTION, 2009 OF DEPT. OF FINANCIAL STUDIES, DELHI UNIVERSITY

Venue:  Hotel Hyatt Regency, New Delhi                                           
Date: September 12, 2009

Topic: Powering Towards Financial Resurgence: New Paradigms and Strategies

AFCON, the student body of Master of Finance and Control (MFC) at University of Delhi organized its XXII Annual Convention on 12th of September 2009, on the theme ‘Powering Towards Financial Resurgence: New Paradigms and Strategies’ at Hotel Hyatt Regency. The event was an industry interface platform where finance professionals and academicians held discussions and provided insights on latest developments in finance world.

Seminar was divided into three sessions. The first session, the inaugural session began at 9:30 a.m. with the welcome of the Chief Guest, Mr. R.K. Nair, executive director, SEBI. It was followed by the key note address of Mr. Atul Kumar Rai, CEO & MD, IFCI Ltd, and session addresses by special guests Mr. Jean-Francois Pierron, Regional Director, IBM, Bordeaux, France & and Mr. Rajneesh Singh, Group Head, HR, Network 18 Group. The session familiarized us with the current financial position and Future financial predictions of India. It apprized us of their view point on the financial overview of India.

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Vertical Seminar at Skyline Business School

Hi,

This is Rohit Sharma, student at Skyline Business School, Gurgaon.

We attend a seminar on marketing and product launch. We came to know about important techniques and various things which we have to keep in mind before any product launch. We understood that when there is a need of product launch we have to conduct market research and need to collect demographic data, psychographic data and past behavior pattern of customers so that it could be utilize for better launch. We have to be very careful while making any launch that we are going for :-

• Existing Product in New Market (with/without adaptation)
• New Product in Existing Market
• New Product in New Market
• Existing Product in Existing Market
  

Carbon Marketing – Clean Development Mechanism

November 6, 2009 – Friday, was special for those students who attended the seminar by Mr. Rahul Kumar Kandoi – A marketing professional from Emergent Ventures.

The agenda of the seminar was to brief the students about the carbon industry and its relevance in a time where global warming and climate change are becoming serious threats to environment sustainability. And, an hour and fifteen minutes of discussions on global warming – it’s repercussions and international response to the phenomenon later, the students left the room an enthralled lot.

‘INDUSTRY VISIT AT Maruti Suzuki India Limited'.

31st October 2009, MBA Marketing students from Skyline Business School went  for Maruti Suzuki India Limited visit at Gurgoan. Maruti Suzuki's facility in Gurgoan houses three fully integrated plants. While the three plants have a total installed capacity of 350,000 cars per year, several productivity improvements or shop floor Kaizens over the years have enabled the company to manufacture nearly 700,000 cars/ annum at the Gurgaon facilities.

The entire facility is equipped with more than 150 robots, out of which 71 have been developed in-house. More than 50 per cent of our shop floor employees have been trained in Japan.Their success can be proved from the fact that the company annually exports more than 50,000 cars and has an extremely large domestic market in India selling over 730,000 cars annually. More than half the cars sold in India are Maruti car .

• The visit let us know the whole procedure of manufacturing cars which amazed us that a car can be manufactured in just 16 seconds.
• We have seen the entire plant and learnt their production cycle.
• We have seen the process layout and team dynamics  where every individual is doing his job dedicatedly.
• The most interesting part is to see the robotics. It helps us to understand that how company is using Artificial Intelligence for quality production.
• Our guide has explained the company’s quality parameters.
  

We are very thankful to Maruti Suzuki who gave us the opportunity to visit their plant with such a warm hospitality.

INDUSTRY VISIT AT “ YAKULT DANONE INDIA”

On the 17th sep’09, our batch of first semester went for an Industrial Visit to “YAKULT DANONE INDIA” production plant at SONEPAT. Dr. Juhi Upmanyu accompanied the students.

Naved shah,first semester shares his experience.

“Yakult factory is located in Sonepat, about 50 km from the Gurgaon campus. We reached the plant at about 11am in the morning and was greeted by Ms.Charu Pandit, the Public Relations Officer of Yakult. She familiarized us with various products of Yakult and showed us picture of different YAKULT products, newspapers cuttings, picture of Bacteria, etc. In conference room we had a presentation. Then we had a plant visit where they showed us their production plant how the YAKULT drink is made."

HRM Summit 2009 - “Looking into the Future : HR's next 5 years Agenda"

Ten students of Skyline got an opportunity to attend the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) HRM Summit 2009 on 11 September 2009 at Hotel Crowne Plaza, Gurgaon. The Theme for this year is “Looking into the Future : HR's next 5 years Agenda”.

Anjali Batra 3rd semester HR student shares her experience. “It was indeed a good experience to participate in such a seminar, where real life corporate experiences were discussed by experts from various organizations. The summit also deliberated on new stage of globalization where talent and brainpower are becoming the predominant currency. In the session titled HR’s Alignment to Business, the speakers panel comprised of Mr. Amit Bhatia CEO - Aspire Human Capital Management, Mr. Dhruv Shringi CEO - Yatra Online Pvt. Ltd and Mr. Vijay Rai - Group President of Lead Group. The speakers share their expectation on the role of HR, how it should remodel itself to alignment to business during the revival phase and how it should support the business on its road to growth. Human Resource & its Operational functions, has expanded significantly in the last few years.

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MEGA HR-CONCLAVE 2009

Delhi Management association organized their annual seminar “Mega HR Conclave-2009” on 24th September 2009 in Hotel Radisson, Gurgaon. The theme of the seminar was “HR INTERVENTIONS AS A CATALYST TO FACE POST RECESSIONARY CHALLENGES”.

Gurpreet Sethi, 3rd Semester student participated in the conclave and shares her experience. “It was a great learning experience as we got the opportunity to participate in a forum where eminent speakers and industry experts shared their views on current and futuristic trends. In the first session, Mr. K.K.Sinha, Group Director – HR of Jindal Power & Steel Limited and Mr. R.S. Dabas Chief Human Resources Officer, JBM Group spoke on “Next generation organization HR practices: Combat flight in upsurge”.

Next Generation Marketing: New Mantras for a Changing Marketplace

Five BBA Students Asangla Walling, Nasreen Khan, Md. Shahbaaz Khan, Sumit Prakash, Megha Shree attended a marketing seminar on 29th August, 2009 at S.P. Jain Auditorium, South Campus, Delhi University. The theme of the Seminar was ‘Next Generation Marketing: New Mantras for a Changing Marketplace’. The students reported the proceeding to share their experience.Marketing has always been unpredictable, due to the dynamism in the market place. The rapid pace of changes is triggered by improvement in technology, global competition, innovation and changing lifestyles. Often business houses make great efforts and incur huge expenditure to develop marketing plans only to find out that they have not been able to read the changes properly to align themselves.appropriately. The seminar provided a very good insight into the subject as the speakers analyzed various key issues and brought out new perspectives. The session concluded with an interactive question and answer session. It was a great learning experience.”

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