After spending 27 years in Corporate IT & Telecom, I, as destiny called, came first time to Bantala Kolkata Leather Complex in thevyear 2019 and was amazed seeing so many factories and tanneries. I joined a company producing leather accessories exporting to the USA, UK, Germany, Japan and other places as Vice President Operations & Administration (par se Factory Manager) and I had no idea of manufacturing!! But yes I have some traits proactive, adaptability, learning, adjusting, innovative and very quick learner. In 3 months I was leading several batch/ group production with inhouse own groups and external fabricators at Joynagor (was amazed to see the fabricators there and their way of functioning).
Production on time
Merchandising Tech packs to samples
Shipment on time ( I still remember we needed 4 to 5 persons more during packing, so put everybody even a security guard and sweeper 😊 We in corporate call it "Crises Management." When Reliance Infocomm launched CDMA handsets in September 2002, most 80% couriers to customers bounced with the wrong pincodes, address errors. We set up delivery counters and delivered the handset boxes from Ground floor Reliance House, Park Street, below my table was large amount of cash, as customers paid. I was nervous but at the end of the day, I was successful, the cash tallied and all handsets delivered over 3 days 9 am to 8 pm.
This note is an email to a buyer from my boss, yes I worked very very hard and gave my heart and soul to it. I was learning, I was happy with the execution from scratch - samples to production to shipment.
When I see merchandisers, samples, production people battling and coordinating, I smile to myself. I know I did it.
Even negotiating fabrication cost - a box stitch 2.50 inr, also inhouse costings on plain excel sheet.
The materials store was made scientific with FIFO basis, a chart drawn where is whats kept. Even my boss could enter to see the chart, and take materials for the samples without taking any help from the store keeper.
That was then, now I am wholly fully into Marketing, a bit of other things as well also, whenever I am required.
Always having a malleable and "can do attitude" helps!
--Sambit Bhattacharya
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