Weir India update February, 2014

Weir BDK hosts sales conference Declares first ever national sales award

Weir BDK sales team met at Hubli for the annual sales conference on the 3rd and 4th of February, along with key departments such as Exports, Engineering, and Plant Operations. The theme for this years’ conference was ‘Aspire to triumph’ - apt with the company’s vision set to become the top three player in the market. The teams reviewed the achievements and learning of the previous year and developed an action plan for 2014. Randeep Mahajan, President Weir BDK reiterated his message of staying extremely focused to-wards the customers and pushing the boundaries further in the pre-sent economic slowdown to en-sure a profitable business for all the stakeholders in the company. He pointed out that with the sev-eral new product introductions lined up and a much improved business operations at Weir BDK, the company had a strong chance of making an impact on the mar-ket. The teams spent two full days at the meet, and got an oppor-tunity to discuss the company’s chosen vision, its perspective,

changes that have taken place in operations, supply chain and oth-er related areas of business. Charandeep Singh, Plant head Weir BDK updated the team on the Operations, developments, capacity & road map to OTD. Na-rayan Ghatikar, Head Engineering discussed the progress in new product development, which are an integral part of the company’s growth strategy growing for-ward.. Updates on transfer prod-ucts from John Britto was fol-lowed by a presentation on SCM by Vijay Kumar Saproo who heads the department. To fur-ther drive customer focused pro-cesses in the company, Srini-vasprasad YG, Head QA conduct-ed a session on Quality assurance and customer complaint handling process. Product training were also conducted which included; Training on SRV - Design, approv-als, applications, market and the other on Tri-Centric - Design, features, applications and mar-kets. This provided the teams an opportunity to have a detailed

discussion on the products and resolve their queries.

The National Sales Awards were

also announced at the confer-

ence, which would be given

starting 2015. The awards cate-

gory included Best performing

region, Best performance for cus-

tomer centricity, President’s

award for outstanding leader-

ship, Best salesperson of the year

award, Export team award, Ex-

port star and the International

khiladi.

Swapan said, “We have a team of

highly motivated individuals and

it is time we had a platform to

celebrate their efforts. This is the

objective behind the national

sales awards.”

Weir BDK hosts sales conference Declares first ever national sales award