Part A
The role of Aditya Birla Group in a Human Life
An Indian multinational conglomerate, Aditya Birla Group, founded by Mr. Shiv Narayan Birla, is one of the biggest conglomerates worldwide. The conglomerate is so big that it has huge impact on the daily life of human needs. Starting from source of raw materials to the end product, in all sectors including food, clothing, shelter, transport, chemicals, metals, research, financial services and telecom industries. The ABG has connected the world with its subsidiaries situated in all developed and developing countries, providing its services worldwide.
The big part of the group is textile industry and has wide range of subsidiaries all around the globe providing raw material for the clothing industries. Material Such as Viscose Staple Fibre, Rayon Pulp, Cellulose, Paper Pulp is used to make yarn, threads and acrylic fibre for the textiles. In India Grasim Industries, one of the biggest subsidiaries of the group, provide raw material with its own subsidiary Terrace Bay Pulp Mill located in Canada. Other parts of the ABG is AV Group NB, also in Canada and Domsjo Fabrikere, Sweden supplies Viscose fibre, cellulose and bi-products to ABG plants in India, Indonesia and Thailand. Most of the raw material processing plants of ABG are situated across south-east Asia in countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines. End products such as Slub yarns, Dope dyed poly-viscose and rayon, Chief Value Cotton (CVC)Rayon, Teteron Cotton (TC) melange, Polyester cotton blended yarns, Water repellent acrylic non-bulk and high bulk dyed yarns, are used to manufacture clothes. These products are exported in countries all around the globe. They used in sewing clothes that we wear today, and we are huge part of it.
The huge part is clothing industry. Aditya Birla fashion and retail ltd, is a clothing brand in India with biggest subsidiaries such as Pantaloons and Madura fashion. It has a wide network in India with more than 2500 ABFRL brand outlets. Also, there are many famous brands under the Aditya Birla Fashion and retail ltd. By this we can grasp the need and reach of the clothing and textile industry by ABG.
Aditya Birla Capital provide financial services by protecting, advising, investing and financing the services to it clients. It is among the top 5 NBFCs in India. From 2007, through its joint ventures it has established itself in non-banking financing services in sectors such as housing finance, asset management, life insurance, health insurance, wellness, broking, insurance advisory, equity, asset reconstruction and online payments. Taking advantage of digital platforms, they have also started Aditya Birla Idea payment banks for their customers for smooth and easy digital payment.
The next basic need for human is shelter, transport and electricity. The other big subsidiaries of ABG who has the biggest contribution is Hindalco with its subsidiary Novelis, Utkal Alumina and Dahej Harbour Infrastructure, then Ultratech cement and Grasim. These subsidiaries are biggest manufacturers and refiners of metals and cement in the country. They provide all the resources for the large infrastructure projects from public, private and government companies. For e.g. the Resources for Metro Rail Project from Mumbai to Ahmedabad will be provided by ABG. Ultratech cement is used in commercial and residential real estate projects. Hindalco provides Aluminium, copper and chemicals. Aluminium application such as automotive and transport, infrastructure, defence, electrical instruments, pharmaceuticals, white good. Copper application such as wire and cables, agrochemicals, railways, durables and electricals equipment. Also, ceramics and refractories.
The material needed to manufacture metals and ceramics is also done by the ABG subsidiary by mining the raw material from the earths crust. Essel mining and Industries and Cameroon alumina ltd mine the marterial such as iron ore and bauxite, which later are process into aluminium and steel.
The ABG also has a huge contribution in chemicals used in food, clothing and metal processing. Its subsidiary AB chemicals ltd and AB Garsun chemical in Thailand and FangChenggang manufacture chemicals that helps food stay healthy and hygienic for a longer period of time. Its product such as Combimate 35 helps prevention of bacteria in packaged milk, juice and other foods, Corino helps Cheese maintain taste, texture and colour, Delice controls the tolerance of yeast, taste, texture in bakery products. Gusto helps all of kind of meat stay fresh for longer time by retaining water and protein. Multi-5, multi-100, Pearl, Oxywhite helps vegetable and meat from prevention bacterial and fungal growth. ABG is involved with our eating habits also. Further, it also manufactures products for clean water treatment such as Shaktiman, Vikram PAC. Equipment coating and cleaning chemicals such as RGS. Pan Century Surfactants produces fatty acids, detergent alcohol for cleaning textiles. Tanfac industry provide fluorine chemicals for various industrial applications.
Birla Carbon produces carbon additives used in all types of tires from high performance, passengers and truck, mechanical goods such as sealing systems, belts, hoses, gaskets, also in special applications such as plastics, coating and inks. Aditya Birla Insulators provide High Quality Insulators to every type of electric transmission. Swiss Singapore overseas Enterprise ltd, provide logistics service across the globe in for commodities such as coal, petroleum, fertilizers, sulphur, metals and agro products.
ABG also has contributed in Space project by providing space grade aluminium products to the space industry. It has its own R&D centres in Navi Mumbai, with 15 patents in hand, testing, analysing and innovating products for future growth with advance technology lab and competent scientists.
ABG recently entered in telecom industries merging its Idea with Vodafone to provide clean and sustainable service to its customer.
In conclusion, Aditya Birla Group is Involved in every aspect of the human life across the globe in all spaces and time.
Part B
Challenges to accomplish the ambition
My father always tells me one thing clear and straight “Success always follows Hard work”, and that strategy I have always followed and here I am studying in an Indian Institute of Management.
To be a Manager was always the ambition of life. Mechanical Engineering was a path towards that ambition. Why mechanical? Because I admire machines, the function of every component and to learn about the task it was intended to perform with efficiency and effectiveness. After successfully completeing my Mechanical engineering the next step towards achieving my ambition was MBA. Right after engineering I started preparing for MBA Exams, but I failed to meet the expectations. A gap year is neither a good strategy nor was it good for my resume. So, challenge began to find employment. I started with interviews in established companies and found that, to get employment in a good company I needed experience and references. Also hiring for such companies is very less and not direct.
Now, to gain experience, I started with an internship at Reliance Thermal Power Plant, dahanu as a maintenance engineer. The Job was to inspect the plant defects, report it and resolve the defects. These engineering challenges were difficult to resolve. The outcome of internships was that I learned the role of every department and component of that plant both practically and theoretically.
Later, I got an opportunity to work as a Mechanical Engineer Apprentice at Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust as maintenance and operations engineer. The work got more challenging, as the port must run 24 hrs-7 days, the daily defect and prevention maintenance was the core job. I worked there for 6 months, and now I know the whole operations of the port from crane maintenance to container delivery.
Simultaneously, I studied for CAT, cleared the interviews for IIM and got into IIM Raipur in 2018. MBA was a whole different level of challenge. I realised that managers have to think from all aspects. Subjects were difficult to grasp in first term as each subject was related to different specialization but from second term I decided to get comfortable with subjects first by learning about them from external sources using corporate world examples. I did some certifications in specific topics such as operation and finance starting from the very basics. I also did some short-term projects in sales and customer acquisition. Reviewing daily cases and corporate news of the world helped me understand the executive side of a manager which is very different from being an engineer.
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