www.bsrm.com/newsletter Issue 10 l May, 2014 EDITORIAL The beginning of 2014 saw a flurry of events in BSRM. It was a busy projects and its growth plan. year for all of us. The high point was the ERP Go Live on March 01, The other notable event was the Dealers’ Night in Nandan Park in 2014. Despite the initial hiccups and teething problems, which is not Dhaka and at the Boat Club in Chittagong. BSRM’s dealers who unexpected in an Enterprise of such size and scope the transition went constitute the company’s product distribution backbone, were off remarkably well. Our Man for the occasion is the ever cheerful and entertained to an evening of live music and a sumptuous dinner, along ebullient Mr. Moize Hussain, who nurtured the ERP project from with their families. concept to successful implementation. He has contributed an article on The other significant event was the annual company Mezban, at the Corporate Transformation in this issue of XtremeTalk. King of Chittagong, on January 14 to entertain our friends and well The annual Vision and Values, or V&V in short, is also Mr. Moize wishers and the BSRM Golf Tournament at the Bhatiary Golf Club. Hussain’s brainchild, and on February 22nd it celebrated its 4th year. An agreement between Thengramara Mohila Sabuj Samity (TMSS) and The event brings together all members of the BSRM family, from senior BSRM was signed to provide water and power to poor and marginalized executives to junior front line employees under the same roof to listen Sylhet hill families. The Dealer’s night took off with usual fanfare and to our Group Chairman on the future direction of the company. The festivity, in 3 locations, Nandan park, Dhaka; The Boat club, Chittagong; Group Managing Director gave a visual account of the company’s new and in Jamuna resort, Tangail. GO LIVE! ERP IN ACTION! Member of Oracle Order Management (Sales Module) signing the first Sales Order created on Oracle EBS Member of Oracle Process Manufacturing creating the first production batch on Oracle EBS 1 www.bsrm.com/newsletter Issue 10 l May, 2014 ANNUAL SALES CONFERENCE Group Photo of the Annual Sales Conference held on 8th February 2014 at Hotel Seagull, Cox’s Bazaar. All the sales personnel of the BSRM Group were entertained to a two day ‘Sea, Sand and Sunshine’ bash, with the National Sales Head, Mr. Shobhon Shahabuddin, presiding over with his jovial motivational exhortations and inspirations. CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION By Moize Hussain Enterprise Resource Planning or more commonly known as ERP in BSRM has been described by those who have successfully lived through it as a welcome change. For us the time to live change is NOW after nearly a year of implementation. Those among us who ask for a justification for a change usually want to know what this change entails. A change of any kind usually entails the degree to which a person allows it. In ERP the Change does not have a limit. The more you use it, understand it the more change you can make. Each of us will be affected by this change because this is about transforming the business of doing business. F&A, Costing, SCM, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Inventory & Sales are now integrated on a single platform – all of us will need to roll up our sleeves to become part with this transformation by ensuring that a) making sure that we change first, b) insist on others reporting to you to make the change, c) encourage your peers, d) become the change though leadership & advocacy, e) help by providing feedback for managing the change, and f) live it by example. The higher up you are the higher should be your expectations. Reliability of information, accuracy of what we report, currency of our figures, ease of access and availability is the promise of this system working hand in hand with our people and processes. The responsibility starts with YOU - to make it possible you have to transform. Then is ERP a panacea for a company?– if you answered yes you would be wrong. Panacea if defined by what I have described above can only be achieved if you allow this transformation. In my judgment anyone can transform if you do a simple Moize Hussain’s career spans more than two decades with Fortune 100 companies in the United States. As Business Automation Consultant, SVP he was asked to lead changes in major financial institutions. At “attitude checkup”. Bridge your attitude gap, roll up your sleeves & get to work. The BSRM as Head of HR Project he successfully brought about the birth of HR Management with a globally rest will follow, guaranteed. famed HR consulting firm, Price Waterhouse Coopers. His transformation responsibility took another How do you gauge your transformation, where once there was doubt there is hope, concrete shape in the form of bringing leading practices to the processes, people and technology at BSRM where once there was fear there is acceptance, where once there was adversity there Group. As Head of ERP Project (HEP) he led a team of 83 people both fulltime (30) & part time diverse is cooperation, where once there was lack of direction there is insight. group of 53 staff performing activities as a cohesive team that finally made the dream of ERP come alive. 2 www.bsrm.com/newsletter Issue 10 l May, 2014 MOU Signing Ceremony with TMSS Alihussain Akberali, Chairman of BSRM group, and Hosne Ara Begum, Executive Director of Thengamara Mohila Sabuj Sangha (TMSS), sign a memorandum of understanding between their respective organizations for solar power based power generation to provide water and power at Asampara Adarshagram in Jaintapur, Sylhet on 14th February, 2014. BSRM receives National award for best presented annual report from ICAB Mr. Abul Mal Abdul Muhit, Honorable Finance Minister of Bangladesh handing over the 13th ICAB National Award for Best Presented Annual Report(Third Position) to Mr. Aameir Alihussain, Managing Director of BSRM Group. The competition was organized by Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh and the event held on 21st December, 2013. 3 www.bsrm.com/newsletter Issue 10 l May, 2014 Dealers’ Night 2014 Celebration As in the last 3 years, BSRM top management and entire sales team gathered together to celebrate “Dealers’ Night” program with all dealers and their families in three different locations of the country. The series of event kicks off with Dhaka at Nandan Park on 8th March, then at Chittagong Boat Club on 15th March and concludes at Jamuna Resort in Tangail on 5th April. All three evenings were full of fun and joy consisting of dazzling laser show, raffle draw, mehendi corner, photo booth, sumptuous dinner followed by a scintillating musical soiree. Total 50 dealers of BSRM were acknowledged and awarded prizes for their remarkable performances in five categories. 4 www.bsrm.com/newsletter Issue 10 l May, 2014 4th V & V Anniversary Celebration The Celebration took place on 22nd February, 2014 at Hotel Peninsula, Chittagong. Mr. Moize Hussain, Advisor BSRM Group was the conductor and Master of Ceremony for the celebration. The program was divided into two Sessions. In the First Session all the senior management employees of BSRM participated. BSRM Chairman Mr. Alihussain Akberali addressed the audience on the state of the Company and Mr. Aameir Alihussain Managing Director of BSRM spoke on Goals & Future Plans of the company. In the Award Ceremony in the Second Phase, BSRM honored its employees, who have completed 25 years of service on 31st December, 2013. The Chairman, Managing Director and Finance Director of BSRM honored them with Gifts & Crests. Finance Director of BSRM awarded the Employees who had lived the Seven Values of BSRM to the Best in 2013. Change Catalyst Award was given by Mr. Moize Hussain. The Group MD awarded Safety Icon of BSRM for the year 2013. Later Mr. Alihussain Akberali, Chairman of BSRM congratulated the Best Employee of BSRM and handed over the Award. The program was concluded with a Raffle Draw and Dinner. Star Spelling Bee 3rd season launched (From left) Russell T Ahmed, Chief Executive Officer of champs21.com; Syed Hammadul Karim, Deputy General Manager, MetLife Alico Bangladesh; Hafiz Ahmed, Managing Director, Fast Corporation, Faber-Castell; Ruhi M Ahmed, Chief of Corporate Social Responsibility, Public Relations and Communications, BSRM Group; Shykh Seraj, Director and Head of News, Channel I; and Iqbal Menon, Category Manager, GlaxoSmithKline Bangladesh Ltd and Mr. Mahfuz Anam, Editor The Daily Star at the official launching of the third season of The Daily Star Spelling Bee in the capital's The Daily Star Centre. 5 www.bsrm.com/newsletter Issue 10 l May, 2014 BSRM GOLF TOURNAMENT-2014 BSRM Group organized Golf Tournament for the 3rd time at Bhatiary Golf & Country Club, Chittagong on 28th February 2014. A Total of 147 Golfers from home and abroad took part in the Tournament. Area Commander, Chittagong General Officer Commanding 24 Infantry Division, Major General Sabbir Ahmed, ndc, psc, graced the occasion as the Chief Guest and gave away the prizes to the winners. Chairman BSRM Group, Mr. Alihussain Akberali, CIP, FCA was present in the occasion as special Guest. Congratulations to Newly Weds in BSRM! Mr. Md. Kawsar Ahmed, Analyst-BSRM (SMW) Mr. Md. Kamal Hossain Mazumder, Team Member B2B Mr. Md. Nurul Akhter, Lead IT Development, Mr. Anthony D'Cruze, Team Member Saful Islam, Team Member B2C Sales, Uttara and his bride Waliza Mostafa Tasin Sales, Corporate Office and his bride, Mehruba Rifat and his bride Saleha Nasrin Himu Reception, Corporate Office & Mrs. Linda D'Cruze Office, Dhaka and his bride Shahanaj Sharmin Shathi Congratulation on Academic Performance & Professional Achievements’ Galib Mahtab Tanzim, son of Mr.