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Rallis India
Bhagidari Sabha
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ORGANIZATION PROFILE
Rallis India is one of India's leading agrochemicals companies, with a century old tradition of servicing rural markets and the most comprehensive portfolio of pesticides for Indian farmers. The Company is known for its deep understanding of Indian agriculture, sustained relationships with farmers, quality agrochemicals, branding and marketing expertise and its strong product portfolio. Rallis is also recognised for its manufacturing capabilities and ability to develop new processes and formulations supported by the capability to register new products. It has marketing alliances with several multinational agrochemical companies, including FMC, Nihon Nohyaku, DuPont, Syngenta, Makhteshim Agan and Bayer Cropscience.
The Company is also focusing on strengthening its international presence and establishing new capacities for contract manufacturing.
BEST PRACTICE CATEGORY
10.0 Improvement and Innovation
MANAGERIAL PRACTICE WITHIN BUSINESS PRACTICE
10.14 Best Practices
APPROACH USED TO ACCOMPLISH PRACTICE
Initial Feedback, Topic for Discussion, Presentations, Strategy, Target Fixation & ownership
MACRO FLOW CHART OF PRACTICE
DEPLOYMENT OF PRACTICE
Pre sales season
Full day involvement of dealers
Understanding of deliverables
Division into groups on one or more topics
Group wise discussion
Rallis staff acts as facilitator
Group leader (dealer) makes presentation to all participants including company senior officials
Participation / best presentation is suitably rewarded
Evaluation by dealers only
Action plan prepared & implemented by company
Action taken status being shared in next forum
IMPROVEMENT ACCOMPLISHED IN PRACTICE
Customer Engagement Scores, Doing exactly the opposite of current industry practice. It needs courage to commit actions. Requires a lot of transparency in the business process (not such a common feature in agro industry). Difficult to sustain since company performance on previous meeting recommendations gets reviewed with dealers.
INNOVATIONS ACCOMPLISHED IN PRACTICE
Making the dealer a partner in Strategic Planning
ALIGNMENT OF PRACTICE WITH ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
Customer Engagement Survey (Gallup) scores asking more focus on Partnership scores
BENEFITS
TANGIBLE BENEFITS
Improvement in customer engagement scores
Business results (north)
Market share : 9.5% in yr 06 to 10.5% in yr 07
Sales growth : 13% v/s 4% of industry
Profitability improvement : by 5%
INTANGIBLE BENEFITS
Benefits to channel partners
Skill enhancement (presentation)
Confidence building
Sense of pride
Business growth
AUTHOR
Nishant Pahuja
Regional Manager Marketing
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