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                                                       ❖ A brief overview of the project
                                                       Project 1 – To analyse and find out if replacing the current
                                                       commercial  vehicles  used  in  secondary  transportation
                                                       system of Dabur India Ltd. by Electric Vehicles can yield any
                                                       tangible benefit in monetary/non-monetary terms
                                                       Project 2 – To analyse and find out if a super stockist model
                                                       can  be  introduced  in  the  existing  secondary  distribution
                                                       system leading to improvement in service levels

                                                       ❖ How is a normal day at the Internship?
                                                       On my first day itself at Dabur, I was handed over 2 projects
                                                       which were crucial for the management, and I was expected

                                                       to  exceed  the  expectations  of  my  superiors.  Each  day
                  NILAY PANDEY
                                                       brought a new set of challenges, and I can hardly remember
                        DABUR                          a time when I wasn’t working on something new. From the
                                                       first  week  itself,  I  was  setting  up  meetings  and  attending
        __________________________________________     conference calls with consulting giants of EV industry, then I

           GENERAL INFORMATION                         was  on  field  exploring  warehouses  and  benchmarking
                                                       distribution  system  and  next  I  knew,  I  was  handed  over
                  Batch: PGDIM 25                      another assignment to finish within the same deadline. No
                                                       two  days were  similar, and  hence  it  is  hard to say  how a
                 BTech: NIT, Raipur                    “Normal” day went.

                Stream: Mechanical

               Work Ex: Tata Motors



       ❖ What are the challenges faced during Internship?

       Wherever you go, you are sure to face a lot of challenges – some of them trivial, some of them major. But one
       major challenge which I’m sure each one of you would be facing is to convince people around you that what
       you’re  doing  is  right  (when  you’re  right).  Not  everyone  in  the  industry  is  welcome  to  changes  –  because
       Newton’s law of inertia works on its full strength there. So to drive any minor change, it requires a  lot of
       determination  and  persuasion.  Solving  a  problem  would  always  be  easy  for  you,  given  your  academic
       background. But the real challenge lies in scaling the solution & its implementation.



       ❖ What did you do right and what did you do wrong?
       What did I do right: To be very honest, I still do not know what exactly went right and I won’t be sure of it even
       after pondering on it for long. But I think some traits which might have helped are:
       i) Flexibility to change – when faced with a challenge which requires to rethink your approach





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