...CHAPTER - 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION TO SMEs Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have played a significant role world over in the economic development of various countries. Over a period of time, it has been proved that SMEs are dynamic, innovative and most importantly, the employer of first resort to millions of people in the country. The sector is a breeding ground for entrepreneurship. The importance of SME sector is well-recognized world over owing to its significant contribution in achieving various socio-economic objectives, such as employment generation, contribution to national output and exports, fostering new entrepreneurship and to provide depth to the industrial base of the economy. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of all economies and are a key source of economic growth, dynamism and flexibility in advanced industrialized countries, as well as in emerging and developing economies. SMEs constitute the dominant form of business organization, accounting for over 95% and up to 99% of enterprises depending on the country. They are responsible for between 60-70% net job creations in Developing countries. Small businesses are particularly important for bringing innovative products or techniques to the market. Microsoft may be a software giant today, but it started off in typical SME fashion, as a dream developed by a young student with the help of family and friends. Only when Bill Gates and his...
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...Factors influencing ERP implementation in manufacturing industries in India Introduction The global financial crisis provided an opportunity to many small and medium scale Indian enterprises to expand their business operations to other countries by acquiring businesses overseas. The crisis made many such companies change their way of conducting business by adopting sophisticated business practices. Such an initiative has taken them a step closer to their larger business conglomerates in terms of enhanced competitiveness and efficiencies. By implementing enterprise wide information technology (IT) solutions, Indian micro, small and medium scale enterprises (MSMEs) are giving themselves a chance to emerge as big players. This technology enhancement boosts their overall brand image amongst their export partners and increases their chance to grow bigger in the domestic market as well. ERP systems (a very popular form of enterprise-wide IT solution) are designed to achieve integration and streamlining of internal processes by providing a suite of software modules that cover all the functional areas of a business. However, increasingly we hear of the failure of ERP implementations (Davenport, 1998). The authors have studied MSME organizations in the manufacturing sector and have reported failure at ERP implementation. As a result, there has been expanded research focusing on the implementation process. Objective The purpose...
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...Summer Internship Project Report On Evaluation of Small & Medium Enterprises (SME) Business Presented to Mr.Deepak Pothan (Vice President – Institutional Banking Group, Development Bank of Singapore (DBS), Bangalore) Presented by Aditya Shetty Roll No. 258 MBA-Core Div C NMIMS 03-June-2011 Preface This project report has been prepared as part of the Summer Internship Program of the MBA-Core course curriculum at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Mumbai. This is in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the MBA programme. The report focuses on the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) segment of borrowers. SME market is the growing and upcoming sector in the banking industry. This encourages entrepreneurs to develop their company from small sized to the future big corporate. The basic aim of the project is an understanding of the SME market in Bangalore and designing a strategy for Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) to enter this segment. This subject was chosen since the subject is a new& developing field for the foreign banks and private banks. SME products help in understanding the various funding & non funding based lending mechanisms. This project will help me understand various means of understanding the various lending mechanisms used by banks. This understanding of SME business will help in the future to know more about the banking industry. Bangalore Aditya Shetty 03-June-2011 Acknowledgement ...
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...Limited’s SME Loans This case study was written by Sravanthi Vemulavada, IBSCDC. It is intended to be used as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a management situation. The case was written from generalised experiences. Swarnamukhi Public Bank Ltd’s SME loans Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are enterprises wherein the number of employees and the turnover of the company are below certain defined limits. SME is very commonly used term in European Union, in the United Nations, by the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. However, the size of an SME varies from nation to nation. In the US, a company with less than 100 employees is termed as a Small Enterprise (SE) and a company with less than 500 employees is termed as a Medium Enterprise (ME). In the European Union, a company with less than 50 employees is termed as a SE, while a company with less than 250 employees is called an ME. In Germany, a company is called as an SME if it has 250 employees, while in Belgium, an SME consists of 100 employees. In South Africa, the term Small Medium Micro Enterprise (SMME) is used, whereas in Africa, the nomenclature is Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME). Most of the economies in the world are dominated by smaller enterprises. They comprise approximately 99% of all the firms and they even account for about 40%–50% of the industrial production. These smaller firms employ around 65 million people. SMEs have a...
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...| SaaS Technology for SMEs | Kriti Soral | Table of Contents Introduction 2 Small and Medium sized Enterprises 2 SMEs in India 3 SMEs and ERP 3 Barriers to implementation of ERP systems in SME’s 4 Strategies used 5 Saas Technology 5 Advantages of SaaS for SMEs 6 SaaS Vendors 7 Case Studies 7 SAP for 10 Users Company- Heckler & Koch GB 7 SaaS ERP for Oxford Bookstore 9 References 10 Introduction Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) can mostly be considered as responsible for driving the competition prevailing in economic sectors. The definition and standards of a SME is different for different countries. These enterprises play an important role in setting the market trends and with this a need of using Enterprise Resources and Planning systems (ERP) for optimizing and automating their traditional business processes has aroused. But often ERP systems development, implementation and maintenance are very costly which makes it difficult for SMEs to use them. As a solution to these problems ERP system vendors now offer all the facilities of ERP system to the company without actually installing the hardware and software on the client side and this facility is referred to as Saas technology. This paper discusses SMEs of India, barriers of implementing ERP in SMEs, strategies used by ERP vendors and brief description of SaaS technology. Small and Medium sized Enterprises SME sector has been identified as an accelerator for economic growth...
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...International Journal of Business and Management Tomorrow Vol. 2 No. 7 Scope and Strategies in Financing of SMEs by Banks Onkar Chand Rana, Asst. Professor, Sri Sai University, Palampur, H.P. Professor K. Ravi Sankar, IGNOU, New Delhi Abstract Scope and Strategies in Financing of Small and Medium Enterprises by Banks- a case study of State Bank of India at Pathankot, was conducted with a view to examine the problems of SMEs of Pathankot area, examine the scope of further financing SMEs by Banks in Pathankot area and devise requisite strategies for financing of SMEs by Banks in Pathankot area and thereby increase their SME loans portfolio which would help the banks and ultimately the country to achieve the projections as per Indian vision 2020- a document by the Planning Commission according to which the Industry share in GDP which is 26% at present is projected at 34% and the service sector share which is at present 46%, is projected at 60% by the year 2020. On the analysis of the secondary data, which was obtained from Banks Performa Reports, Annual Returns and Annual Credit Plans, it was observed that huge scope exists for the banks in Pathankot centre for intensive financing of SMEs which is observed from the data that at present CD Ratio at the centre is 58.71% (below the prescribed national average of minimum 60%) and the share of SMEs to total advances being 31.58%, which need to be increased to at least 50%. The primary study was conducted on the basis of random...
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...analyse the contributions of entrepreneurship in the economic development through SME development in Nigeria. A total of 100 SMEs were randomly selected from a cross section of a population of all SMEs spread around some states of Nigeria and covering virtually all forms of enterprise. Participants were selected through a simple random sampling. The responses to the questionnaires were complemented with personal interviews of some SMEs operators. The responses of the participants were analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS), which generated the frequency distributions, means, standard deviations, chi-square statistics, analyses of variance, etc of the responses. The hypotheses of this research which were tested at 0.05 level of significance using chi-square statistics hinged on identifying the greatest problem which SMEs face in Nigeria, the identification and ranking of the top ten problems or challenges of SMEs in Nigeria and the relationship between the form and nature of the business enterprise and its sources of funding for its operations. The major findings of this study include the following: SMEs have played and continue to play significant roles in the growth, development and industrialization of many economies the world over. In the case of Nigeria, SMEs have performed below expectation due to a combination of problems which ranges from attitude and habits of SMEs themselves through environmental...
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...The growing case for group collaboration for SMEs in India R. Narayan, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Power2sme, examines how group procurement of supplies for manufacturing can jumpstart growth for the SME sector in India. Imagine a scenario where you can easily procure the best price for the raw material you need to manufacture automotive OEM parts or for construction needs or for manufacturing or raw material for precision engineering. Maybe you need Chemicals & Additives or Inks or Paints, or Polymers or Cement. Whatever your requirement, Buying Clubs that collect buyers and suppliers on the same platform can help manufactures fight several problems at the same time. This includes the acute problem of economical and quality supply of raw material for the manufacturing sector, putting in place a consistent and sustainable supply chain and freeing yourself from the constant worry of ensuring supply of raw material. You could ask, how will buying clubs help the SME sector overall to grow. First let’s take a quick look at where the SME sector is at today. Today, there are an estimated 35 million SMEs in India (Source: firm Zinnov Management Consulting). Together they employ 42 million people and contribute to a stunning 45 percent of our industrial input and 40 percent of India’s total manufactured exports . (Source: SME Chamber of India). All this adds up to a sector that contributes upto 8 percent of India’s GDP (Source: SME India.net). Yet, this sector is far from realising...
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...11FN-091 Shail Sheth 11FN-097 Soumyarup Chatterjee 11FN-106 Sourabh Bhave 11FN-107 Microsoft | ERP Implementation in SMEs | Introduction In the post-liberalization and opening up of the economy business era, ease in international trade barriers, economic liberalization, globalization, privatization, disinvestments and deregulations have thrown several challenges to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the fast-developing economies like India. Compressed product development cycles, cut throat domestic and global competition, economic downturns, rapidly changing customer demands and volatile financial markets have increased the pressure on SMEs to come up with effective and competitive capabilities to survive and succeed. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is often considered as one of the solutions for their survival (Rao, 2000). Up to mid-1990s, SMEs sector in India had operated under much-protected economic regime characterized by limited competition and highly regulated business environment. This business atmosphere had resulted in limited focus on process efficiencies, centralized control structures, highly formalized business settings and lack of professional business practices (Ranganathan and Kannabiran, 2004). However, following the economic liberalization and opening up of the economy to foreign multi-national companies, Indian SMEs have to adopt modern business practices and strategies, which in turn can provide them a cutting edge over its competitors...
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...Role & Functions of Exim Bank Trivandrum, July 17, 2009 Roshanara Sardar Manager Exim Bank, Chennai 2 Exim Bank of India SET UP BY AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT IN SEPTEMBER 1981 WHOLLY OWNED BY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA COMMENCED OPERATIONS IN MARCH 1982 APEX FINANCIAL INSTITUTION OBJECTIVES: “… for providing financial assistance to exporters and importers, and for functioning as the principal financial institution for coordinating the working of institutions engaged in financing export and import of goods and services with a view to promoting the country’s international trade…” “… shall act on business principles with due regard to public interest” (Export-Import Bank of India Act, 1981) 3 Evolving Vision Product Centric Approach Export Credits 1982-85 Export Capability Creation 1986-94 “To develop commercially viable relationships with a target set of externally oriented companies by offering them a comprehensive range of products and services, aimed at enhancing their internationalisation efforts” Comprehensive Range of Customer Centric Products And Services Approach – All Stages of the Export Business Cycle – Exim Bank TODAY Leadership and Expertise in India’s Export Finance 4 Organisation BOARD OF DIRECTORS (16)* Chairman and Managing Director 5 Directors: Government of India 3 Directors: Scheduled Banks 4 Directors : Professionals/Experts 1 Director nominated by RBI 1 Director nominated by IDBI 1 Director nominated by...
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...analyse the contributions of entrepreneurship in the economic development through SME development in Nigeria. A total of 100 SMEs were randomly selected from a cross section of a population of all SMEs spread around some states of Nigeria and covering virtually all forms of enterprise. Participants were selected through a simple random sampling. The responses to the questionnaires were complemented with personal interviews of some SMEs operators. The responses of the participants were analyzed using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS), which generated the frequency distributions, means, standard deviations, chi-square statistics, analyses of variance, etc of the responses. The hypotheses of this research which were tested at 0.05 level of significance using chi-square statistics hinged on identifying the greatest problem which SMEs face in Nigeria, the identification and ranking of the top ten problems or challenges of SMEs in Nigeria and the relationship between the form and nature of the business enterprise and its sources of funding for its operations. The major findings of this study include the following: SMEs have played and continue to play significant roles in the growth, development and industrialization of many economies the world over. In the case of Nigeria, SMEs have performed below expectation due to a combination of problems which ranges from attitude and habits of SMEs themselves through environmental...
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...& water transport operators, small business and professional & self-employed.The definition of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises under the services sector is as below: | | * A microenterprise is an enterprise where the investment in equipment does not exceed Rs.10 lakh; | | * A smallenterprise is an enterprise where the investment in equipment is more than Rs.10 lakh but does not exceed Rs.2 crore; and | | * A medium enterprise is an enterprise where the investment in equipment is more than Rs.2 crore but does not exceed Rs.5 crore.Indian SMEs represent the model of socio-economic policies of Government which emphasized job creation at all levels of income stratum and diffusion of economic power in the hands of few, discouraging monopolistic practices of production and marketing; and contributing to growth of economy and foreign exchange earning with low import-intensive operations. Indian SMEs also play...
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...SME Case Study: the Export of Griffon Hoverwork Company Griffon Hoverwork Ltd (GHL) is a medium-sized company in Southampton founded in 2009 based on the acquisition and merger of two companies, Hoverwork and Griffon Hovercraft. It combines more than 40 years of hovercraft design, manufacture and operational experience together. In addition, it has more than 170 craft in operation with customers, which supply a wide range of applications, from passenger services through to survey work and engineering support more than 40 countries. Moreover, exporting in GHL is the main part, accounting for 92 percentages in total sales in 2012. In the past several years, there are some activities held by different organizations encouraging GHL export development. First, GHL engaged in the Government activities to expand its foreign marketing. For instance, on 18th February 2013, GHL engages Prime Minister on tour to India, the GHL sale and marketing director, Mike Coveney joined in this tour with other 100 British business leader to India in order to make more and new accesses enter into India market than before. Fortunately, GHL made a contract with the India Coastguard to supply 12 hovercrafts, it present a good prospect which is benefit to GHL expands into India market in the future. Not only making the contract with India, there are other orders coming from other countries, such as Canadian and Korean coastguard, the Pakistan Navy and so on. Specially, the Peruvian Navy have received five...
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...“India is a Nation of Unfulfilled greatness. Its potential has lain fallow, underused. ” -Late Lee Kuan Yew, Former prime minister, Singapore Manufacturing in India is one of the most classical cases of high potential-low on performance type of industry. 68 years and beyond India still is trying to find the right foot for its manufacturing sector. Back in 1950s, India had a great platform and could have set stage for a prosperous future. But it was marred by political instability, vicious fights for power, cultural prejudice, caste discrimination, lack of entrepreneurial vision and above all sheer will to understand the cost of success. The Indian concept of ‘jugaad’ is good but is it this what is required for the success of manufacturing industry? The story till date: Not a happy start Today manufacturing in India accounts for approximately 15 % of the GDP. In 1993 the manufacturing sector was also around 15% of RESTRUCTURING INDIA’s GDP DISTRIBUTION Saurabh Kumar Singh IMT-Ghaziabad GDP. With almost negligible percentage of growth, countries like China or even Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines have shown significant improvement in the last decade. Since independence of India, the vision of the government never included good reforms for manufacturing industries. When it was the time for the Indian SMEs to understand that export was the key to ensuring their prosperous future, India was beleaguered by emergency and license Raj. China during this time was gathering forces...
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...Financing Firms in India Franklin Allen Finance Department The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania allenf@wharton.upenn.edu Rajesh Chakrabarti Finance Area Indian School of Business Hyderabad 500 032, India rajesh_chakrabarti@isb.edu Jun “QJ” Qian Finance Department Carroll School of Management Boston College qianju@bc.edu Sankar De Centre for Analytical Finance Indian School of Business Hyderabad 500 032, India Sankar_De@isb.edu Meijun Qian Finance Department NUS Business School National University of Singapore bizqmj@nus.edu.sg Last Revised: December 2011 Forthcoming, Journal of Financial Intermediation Abstract With extensive cross-country datasets and India firm samples, as well as our own surveys of small and medium firms, we examine the legal and business environments, financing channels, and growth patterns of different types of firms in India. Despite the English common-law origin and a British-style judicial system, Indian firms face weak investor protection in practice and poor institutions characterized by corruption and inefficiency. Alternative finance, including financing from all non-bank, non-market sources, and generally backed by non-legal mechanisms, constitutes the most important form of external finance. Bank loans provide the second most important external financing source. Firms with access to bank or market finance are not associated with higher growth rates. Our results indicate that bank and market...
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