Organisation Study on Sitharam

An Organizational Study Report on Sitaram Textiles Limited, Thrissur.

INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY

Organisational study is the systematic study and careful application

of knowledge about how people as individuals and as groups act within

organisation. Purpose of an organisational study is to define the legal and corporate

structure of the business. An organisation study may also include professional

background information about the business and the principles of the business and

what skills they can contributes to the business.

As part of Master of Business Administration programme, the

researcher conducted organisational study Sitaram Textiles Ltd, Thrissur. This work

will give a complete picture about the organisation structure and departments of the

organisation and also study each department process and function. The researcher

selected this topic to understand the well organised managerial structure of the

organisation. So the study, regarding this topic is very crucial to analyse the factors

which contribute to the quality of textile products as well as the factors regarding

the defects of organisational climate development of an organisation.

While conducting the study the researcher got a real idea about the

structure of the management and harmonious working conditions of employees in

Sitaram Textiles Ltd, Thrissure. A fair organizational study will help an

organization to develop a lot. The suggestions given by the researcher will help to

improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization in a systematic manner.

1Nirmala College of Information Technology, Chalakudy


OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The main objectives of the study are :-

To understand more about the organization.

To get more awareness about the departments of the company.

To understand the overall performance of the company.

To study the problems of the company.

To give suggestions based on the findings for the improvement of efficiency and

profitability of the company.

To analyse the strength and weakness as well as opportunity and threats of the

company to enhance the organizational performance.



LIMITATIONS

Busy schedule of officers and employees is adversely affected the researcher.

The information provided by the company assumed to be authentic.

Certain areas are restricted, so a detailed study is not possible.

The success of the study depends upon the response made by the employee.



INDUSTRY PROFILE

INTRODUCTION

Textiles industry in India is the second largest employment generator

after agriculture. The modern textile industry in India has to origin in the 19th century.

The textile industry plays an important role in the Indian economy. And Indian is next

only to China among the world’s largest producers of textiles and garments. It holds

significant status in India as it provides one of the most fundamental necessities of the

people. Textile industry was one of the earliest industries to come into existence in

India and it accounts for more than 30% of the total exports. In fact Indian textile

industry is the second largest industry in the world.

The country is rich in natural resources such as cotton, just, and silk.

Textile industry is unique in the terms that it is an independent industry from the basic

requirement of raw materials on the final products, with huge value addition at every

stage of processing. Textile industry in India has vast potential for creation of

employment opportunities in the agricultural, industrial, organised and decentralised

sectors and rural and urban areas particularly for women.

Textile and garment manufacturers and exporters in India were

expecting a bright future in the days to come as more International buyers were

turning their attention to Indian markets following hike in prices of textile and

garments in China, which had the largest share in the export market. Buyers from

various countries, including US and European countries, were now started placing

fresh orders with the textile garment exporters here.



HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRY

The terms ‘TEXTILE’ is a Latin word originating from the ‘TEXERE’

which means ‘to weave’ Textiles refers to a flexible material comprising of a network

of artificial fibers, known as yarn.

The development of the world textile industry was started in Britain as

the sinning and weaving machines were invested in that country. High production of

wool, cotton and silk over the world has boosted the next year. Through the industry

was started in UK, in 19th century the textile production passed to Europe and northern

America after mechanisation process in those areas. From time to time Japan, China,

and India took part in industry their economic and concentrated more in that sector.

India has been well known for her textile goods since very ancient

times. The traditional textile industry of India was virtually decayed during the

colonial regime. However, the modern textile industry took birth in the early 19 th

century, when the first textile mill in the country was established at foster glisters near

Calcutta in 1818. The cotton textile industry however made its real beginning in

Bombay in 1850s. The First cotton textile mill of Bombay was established in 1854 by

a Parsi cotton merchant then engaged in overseas and internal trade. Indeed the vast

majority of the early mills were the handy work of Parsi merchants engaged in yarn

and cloth trade at home and Chinese and African markets. The first cotton mill in

Ahmadabad, which was eventually to emerge as a rival centre to Bombay, was

established in 1861. The spread of the textile industry to Ahmadabad was largely due

to the Gujarati trading class.

The cotton textile industry made rapid progress in the second half of the

19th century and by the end of the century there were 178 cotton textiles mills; but

during the year 1900 the cotton textile industry was in bad state due to the great

famine and a number of mills of closed down for long periods.



PRESENT STATUS OF THE INDUSTRY

Modern textile industry in India has its origin in the 19 th century. The

textile industry plays a pivotal role in the Indian economy. This industry is very

significant today because, this sector contributes substantially in providing

employment and earning foreign exchange.

The Indian textile industry has a significant presents in the economy as

well as in the international textile economy. Its contribution to this Indian economy is

manifested in terms of its contribution to the industrial production, employment

generation and foreign exchange earnings. It contributes 20% of industrial production,

9% of excise collections, and 18% of employment in the industrial sector, nearly 20%

to the country’s total export earning and 4% of the GDP.

The country is in rich natural resources such as cotton, jute and silk. The

textile industry is the second largest employer after agriculture, with a total work force

of around 35 million. India is next only to China among the world world’s largest

producers of textiles and garments. The activities in textiles range of from the

production of natural raw material such as cotton, jute, silk and wool to the

manufacture of quality products such as cellulose fibre, synthesis filament and span

yarn. But during the last four years the industry has been suffering from a lot adverse

factors. The major problem is technology lag. Recently the union government has

come out with ambitions, technology up gradation fund of a possible magnitude of

Rs.25,000 crores to help the industry catch up with the trends in the global market.

Here are a few important facts about Indians textile industry.

1. There are approximately 1200 medium ti large scale textile mills in India. 12 % of

these mills are located in coimbatore (Tamilnadu)



2. India has 34 million cotton textile spindles for manufacturing cotton yarn. Cotton

yarns account for 70% of India’s textiles exports. (China has 40 million cotton

spindles)

3. For the past tow years there has been a significant, mainly due to the increasing

price of cotton

4. Of the Indian textile yarn exports, almost 80% come from coarser yarns

consequently, there is a need to upgrade the technology.

FUTURE SCOPE OF THE INDUSTRY

Garment manufacturing and exporters in India were expecting a bright future in

the days to come as more international buyers were turning their attention to Indian

markets following hike in price of textile and garments in China, which had the largest

share in the export market.

Buyers from various countries, including US and European countries,

were now started placing fresh orders with the textile garments exporters here. Erode

textile garment exporters association secretory S Sivandhan told – it was reported that

production and export of garments from China have started declining, due to various

reasons including price hike of raw materials and increase in production cost.

Considering the continual capital investments in the textile industry, the

government of India may extend the technology up gradation fund scheme (TUFS) by

the end of the 11’th five year plan (till 2011 -2012) in order to support the industry.

The Indian textile industry is massively investing to meet the targeted output of $85

billion by the end of 2010, aiming export of $ 50 billion. There is substantial potential

in Indian export of technical textiles and home texts as most European company want

to setup facilities near by the emerging markets, such as India and China.



Union Ministry of Textiles certified Apparel Export Promotion Council

(AEPC) has taken the responsibility to motivate the foreign investors to invest in

Indian Textile Industry by exhibiting it massive unexplored domestic market. The

objective is to trigger the foreign investment towards instituting textile units in India

by offering numerous allowances to global investor like low priced work force and

intellectual right fortification.

The government India has also taken few initiatives to promote the

textile industry by permitting 100% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the market.

the Indian Textile Industry symbolized a strong existence in the complete value

chain from raw commodities to finished products. The Synthetic and Rayon Textile

Export Promotion Council (SRTEPC) has taken all the required steps to meet the

target of doubling the synthetic textile export in India to US $ 6.2 billion by seizing

4% of market share by financial year 2011 -2012.

COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY

The cotton textile industry occupies a permanent place in the Indian

economy, contributing to about 23.5% of the country’s industrial production. The

textile sector is closely linked with agriculture, handlooms, power looms, garment

manufacturing and a number of industries and trade, thus touching everyday life of

the common man. Cotton textile industry is one of the oldest and largest industries in

India which has made rapid change in the economy. The country’s first textile mill

“Express mill” in Nagpur which was started by Tata was the first to down shutters.

The premier group has sold of its textiles mills another has been taken over by

National Textile Corporation (STC) Which has also taken over mills like Kohinoor.



COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN INDIA

The cotton textiles industry occupies an important place in the Indian

economy as its contribution to industrial production, employment generation and

export earning are significant. Currently the industry possess 26 million spindles 2

lakh looms in the mill sector above one million power loom sector about 4 million

looms in the handloom sector and a large number of process houses with total capacity

of dyeing, printing and finishing of 10 million metres of per Annam. The industry

place an important role in the Indian economy and as its accounts for nearly 60% of

industrial production and large scale employment. It is also a foreign exchange earns

as it contribute over 30% of the country’s total exports.

The first Indian cotton textile mills was established at Fort Glisters near

Calcutta as early as in 1838. The first cotton textile mill was in Bombay was the

Bombay spinning and weaving company started in the year 1851. The cotton textile

industry is admittedly the single largest organized industry in India and occupies

second place among the countries of the world in cotton textile mills are located in

those status like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamilnadu,West Bengal and Kerala.

COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY IN KERALA

The state has number of Textile mills. Kerala cotton textile mills generate direct and

indirect employment opportunities. There are more than 30 textile mills working in the

state. The major raw materials used by the industry are cotton polyesters, synthetic

fibres etc…. These raw materials are not widely manufactured in Kerala. It is either

obtained from other states especially from Maharashtra and Tamilnadu or they are

imported from abroad. Since the climate conditions of Kerala frequently changes,

Suitable arrangements should be made to maintain the desired conditions for the

production of Yarn.



The present condition of textile industries of Kerala is not good. Most of the private

owned mills have closed down and as a result large number of workers lost their job.

Similarly some of the private operated mills are fairly the problem of taking over by

the Government. Some of the mills are taken by the textile corporation of Kerala,

National Textile Corporation and Kerala government. Some of them located in

Thrissur are:

Sitaram Textile Ltd, Thrissur.

Alagappa Textiles, Alagappa Nagar

Kerala Lakshmi Mills, Pullazhy



PROFILE OF THE ORGANIZATION

Sitaram textile is a public limited company incorporated under

the Indian companies Act 1956. It is a composite textile mill, fully owned by

government of Kerala situated in Punkunnam, Thrissur. The registered office and

production unit of the company is also situated in Punkunnam-[XXXXI /306

Punkunnam, Thrissur 680002, Kerala state.]. The cotton yarn and fabrics were the

products of the company till 2000. Now the company produce only the cotton yarn and

polyester yarn. The main objective of the company is to provide employment

opportunities.

HISTORY OF THE COMPANY

Sitaram textile Ltd a composite textile mill, fully owned by government of

Kerala situated at Thrissur in central Kerala was incorporated on 11 th February 1975

under the Indian companies Act 1956. The Sitaram spinning and weaving mills

originally managed as a family concern was started as a power loom unit in the year

1903. It was started by Late Shri T.R.Ramachandra lyer. Slowly and steadily, with the

passage of time the unit was expanded, diversified and become a public Ltd company.

The Sitaram textile Ltd is a government of Kerala undertaking. Its

registered office is situated in Punkunnam, Thrissur. As Sitaram textile Ltd is a public

sector undertaking a brief expansion of the nature and outline of the public Ltd,

companies relevant here. A public limited company is a company formed and

registered under any of the previous companies act. It is an association of persons

called members. But has existence apart from the members.

Sitaram textile Ltd, Thrissur is a composite mill engaged in fabrics. The

activities involved are spinning, weaving preparation, weaving and processing. The



finished products (yarn) are directly marketed to the depots in Bombay. Different

varieties of cotton purchased from outside state such as Tamilnadu, Andrapradesh,

Karnataka and Maharashtra. The products of the company were cotton yarn and

fabrics till 2000. Now the company produces only cotton yarn and polyester yarn.

OBJECTIVES OF THE COMPANY

The main objectives of Sitaram textile are as follows;

To carry on manufacture of yarn at low cost.

To produce high quality products

To provide more employment opportunities

To believe in healthy industrial relations and human treatment to its

employees

To maintain higher ethical standards with its suppliers and customers.

To continuously upgrade the quality of human resource of the company and to

promote development.

To enter in to foreign collaboration.

To establish technical institution to provide the training to the employees.

VISION

Sitaram believes in continuous up gradation of its product quality by

investment in the latest technology and its successful implementation. It also focuses

on providing employment opportune

MISSION

To be the most significant supplier of cotton yarns and polyester

yarns to the world market.



BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Board of Directors has ultimate authority of the company. The share

holders of the company are Government of Kerala. Board Of Directors of Sitaram

Textiles Limited are :-

Chairman : N.R.Balan

Managing Director : C.K.Gopalakrishnan Nair

Directors

B.Prakash (Govt. of Kerala{joint secretary})

K.Ramachandran Pillai (CMD, NTC)

K.S.Lakshmirani (Finance joint secretary)

K.A.Chandrasekheran (Director: Handloom and Textiles)



CAPITAL OF THE COMPANY

Capital refers to the money or money’s worth introduced or invested

by the owner into business. The authorised capital of the company is 600000 equity

shares of Rs.100 each. The starting capital investment of Sitaram Textiles was 2.5

crores. The present capital investment is 594 crores. This is raised by issuing

594000 shares of Rs.100 each. All these shares are owned by the Government of

Kerala..

The chart show the organisation has in net loss from the year

2006 to 2009. And in year 2010 the company has in profit at rs 3547606.


YEAR SALES PROFIT/LOSS

2006 63670571 (-)17100000

2007 67253459 (-)9267268

2008 79532217 (-)23519720

2009 74528657 (-)15523681

2010 98402628 3547606


PRODUCTION UNIT

The Sitaram Textiles has only one production unit which is

situated in Punkunnam (Thrissur) in an area of 10 acres of land, engaged in the

production of cotton yarn and polyester yarn.

The raw material used in this conversion is cotton and polyester.

They have eight different steps involved in this conversion process that are mixing,

blow room, carding, drawing, simplex, spinning, cone winding, and packing. And

this process are helps to maintain the quality and smooth production of yarn.



ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE


Board of Directors

Chairman

Managing Director

Personnel Manager

Production Manager

Accounts Officer

Store Keeper

Supervisors

Workers

General Manager

Head Time Keeper

Clerk

Staffs

Production Staff

Accounts Staffs

Marketing Manager

Assistant. Marketing Manager

Purchase Manager

Supervisor

Workers


FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE

The organization structure of the Sitaram Textiles is functional

organization structure. Functional organization structure is one in which the

employees are grouped on the basis of their functions. These functions are put under

the charge of specialists. A functional head can give directions throughout the

organization related with his functions.

Advantages

1. It is the most logical and easier form of an organization structure.

2. It provides specialisation thus making possible efficiency in operations.

3. It facilitates delegation of authority.

4. If facilitates better co-ordination of activities within each department.

5. Better supervision is facilitated since an individual manager is familiar with related

tasks and activities.

6. It helps in training of specialist managers rather than generalist managers.


An Organizational Study Report on Sitaram Textiles Limited, Thrissur. PRODUCT LINE

The products of the company were cotton yarn and cotton

fabrics till 2000. Now the company produces only cotton yarn and polyester yarn.

For producing cotton yarn, the period of time is one week.

Cotton yarn - 60 counts

Polyester yarn -70 counts

The term ‘count’ implies the qualities of yarn. Higher the count

higher the quality. The waste of cotton are categorised into three that is saleable

waste, reusable waste and invisible waste.

The saleable wastes are gutter fly waste, lick ring fly cleaner,

cowing ends, comber no in opener, hard waste and sweeping waste flat strap waste.


An Organizational Study Report on Sitaram Textiles Limited, Thrissur. BUSINESS OPERATION

The company is situated in 10 acres of land engaged in the

manufacturing of yarn. Two types of yarns are manufacturing there. Cotton yarn

and polyester yarn. Around 200 employees are working in the organization. Now

the company is in its growth stage. The company is incurring profits after a decline.

The main objectives of the company is providing employment opportunities and

carrying on manufacture of quality yarn with minimum cost.

Nature of business

The products of the company were cotton yarn and cotton fabrics till

2000. Now the company produces only cotton yarn and the polyester yarn. . The

finished product (yarn) is directly marketed to the depots in Bombay. The company

gets advance order for producing yarns. So they undertake Just-In –Time

manufacturing system.

Size of business

The company is undertaking its production on a large scale.

The company consist of more than 200 employees. The company has well qualified

and skilled labours.



Business Operation cycle

The business operation of Sitaram Textiles is start from cash

converted into raw materials then the raw materials are processed and converted to

finished goods. That is cotton yarn and polyester yarn. The finished product is

directly marketed to the depots in Bombay and then the finished goods to debtors

and debtors to bills receivables. The business operation goes on this flow and bills

receivable to cash is next.


Cash

Raw material

Finised Goods

Debtors

Bills receiva

bles


TRADE UNION PRESENCE

Trade union as a continuous association of wages earners for the

purpose of maintaining or improving the condition of their working lives. It is the

association of employees designed primarily to maintain or improve the condition

of employment of its members. Unions are primarily concerned with the terms and

conditions of employment. The main objective of trade unions is to present their

needs before the management. The trade unions in this company are:-

INTUC [Indian national Trade Union Congress]

AITUC [All India Trade Union Congress]

CITU [Central Indian Trade Union]

[BMS + CMP] co-ordination.

Functions

The main function of trade union in this organisation is to protect the

interest of employees. Trade Union help to improve the working conditions in the

company by negotiating for better pay packages, working conditions, and other

allowances and present all the needs of employees before the management.



MARKET SHARE

Sitaram Textiles; 2%

NTC; 60%

Thrikkot Mill; 3%

GTN, 2%

Others; 33%


COMPANIES MARKET

SHARES

Sitaram Textiles 2%

NTC 60%

GTN 2%

Thrikkot Mill 3%

OTHERS 33%


COMPANY LIFE CYCLE

Sitaram Textiles Limited

profit

1975 1985 1995 2005 2010 2011 2015

year

Present status of the company

The company is in its growth stage. In this stage the demand and

sales of the product increased rapidly. In this the profit is increasing. Till 2008 the

company incurred continuous loss, but during the year 2010 and 2011 the company

earns profits because of higher demand of the products. And the company expect

the future growth.



COMPETITORS OF SITARAM

At the time when Sitaram Textiles Limited started it was the one and

only concern in the field. Later new companies emerged in the field which increases

the competition. Now Sitaram is facing cut throught competition.

NTC under taking mills are:-

1. Alagappa Textiles, Amballur

2. Vijaya Mohini mills,Trivandrum

3. Kerala Lakshmi Mills, Pullazhy.

4. Parvathy Mills, Kollam.

5. Spinning and weaving mill, Kannur.

Private firms are:-

1. Palakkad Thrikkott Mills.

2. GTN Industries Limited, Aluva

It faces competition from the private firms in Bombay working under

this industry. They have to spend only less cost of transportation. All the above

mentioned competitors are producing the same counts of yarn.



FUTURE PROSPECTS AND GROWTH PLAN

Textile and garment manufacturers and exporters in India were

expecting a bright future in the days to come as more International buyers were

turning their attention to Indian markets following hike in price of textile and garments

in China, which had the largest share in the export market. Buyers from various

countries, including US and European countries, were now started placing fresh orders

with the textile garment exporters here.

Considering this opportunity, the company is looking to

increase the production with minimum investment. For these the company is planning

to modernise the entire existing machinery with automatic machines with an outlay of

INR 396 lakhs. Now the company is working with 30 year old machinery. After the

implementation, the unit becomes a viable one.

The future plans are……….

Promote the high Sales

Quality Should Precede Production

Maintenance Should properly done, and that will be increase quality

Effective communication, co-ordination and co-operation



DEPARTMENTS

In every organisation there will be departments. The main

advantage of the department is the work can be done very easily and in a smooth

way. Otherwise it will be very difficult to carry out work in an organisation.

Human Recourse Department

Purchase Department

Marketing Department

Production Department

Finance Department

Quality control department



HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENT


Personnel

Manager

Head Time Keeper

ESI and PF clerk Security Officer

Wage clerk Security GuardsSenior Time Keeper

Shift Time Keeper


The Human Resource Management (HRM) function covers a wide

range of activities. Human resources are the lively elements of an organization. An

organization utilises human resources along with technological, financial, physical

and other resources.

In HRM, is related with the management of man power. The

important task of HRM is to help every employee to grow himself to the maximum.

It is mainly concerned with methods of recruitment, selection, training and

placement of personnel and performance appraisal. Personnel manager is a staff

officer in the organization. He gives advice to top-level management in relation

with personnel policies and programmes. Human Resource Management checks

whether the workers are given fair working conditions, allowances etc. There are

more than 200 people working in Sitaram Textiles.

Functions

The functions and responsibilities of human resource management

are as follows

1. To establish good relation with employees.

2. To develop human capital.

3. To forecast and balance the demand for and supply suitable personnel.

4. To have efficient performance of the managerial functions.

5. To effectively utilise the technology and other resources.

6. To maximise productivity.

7. To develop higher employee morale.

8. To motivate human resources for better performance.

9. To ensure optimum utilisation of human resources.



Strength of the company

Wages & other benefits


Workers 161

Officers 8

supervisors 5

Office

assistant

15

Drivers 5

Security 5

Peons 3

TOTAL 202


Basic wages

Increase in basic wages in certain categories on account of special increase given by

the management. Increase in basic wages as per the terms of IRC (Industrial

Relation Committee of Textile) settlement dated 29 June 1999.

Revised occupational wages

Occupational wages means the basic wages fixed for the category or occupation

under the IRC settlement and doesn’t include the annual increments.

Dearness Allowance.

Dearness allowance will be on the basis of Trivandrum cost of living index with

1970=100

Employees State Insurance (ESI)

The employment State Insurance Act provides benefits to employees in case of

sickness, maternity or any injury. An employee drawing salary less than Rs 10000

per month will come under this act. It is applicable to both accidents and Sickness.

The employee will get free treatment and compensation. The employee can take 90

days leave for sickness and accidents. For accidents leave, he or she will get 75% of

their basic wages and dearness allowance. In case of sickness leave, the employee

can draw 50%of their wages and dearness allowance.

Employee Provident Fund Scheme.

The employee contribution towards provident fund is 10%of monthly contribution

by the company. It is the amount received by the employee at the time of retirement

in lump sum. From the companies contribution Rs541 will be paid to every

employee’s pension fund each month.



Maternity Benefit

The maternity benefit is also provided as per the provisions of ESI act 1948. 84

days leave will be granted as Maternity benefit. If delivery is done at hospitals

referred from ESI hospital then the full amount of treatment will be reimbursed.

Gratuity

If the employees complete a five years of continuous service, they are eligible to get

gratuity. In case of death or disablement the qualifying period of 5 years is not

necessary. Sitaram textile Ltd, provide gratuity to the act, 1972.

Canteen

Sitaram textile Ltd, Punkunnam provide a well established canteen. Both the

management and workers can use the canteen facility. Canteen extends its service

for round the clock.

Shelters and rest room

There is sufficient number of shelters and rest rooms are arranged separately for the

men and women workers. They can utilize the rest room at the leisure time or for

taking meals.

Leave with pay

For every employee, one day granted as leave for every 20 working days. The

employee has to work minimum days in the previous years.

Travelling allowances

The employees of Sitaram textiles get a travelling allowance of Rs 26 per month for

26 working days.

Pension

Workers – 1000 to 150031

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Staff - 7000 to 8000

Supervisors- 7000

Junior manager – 8000

Assistant manager- 9000 above

Deputy manager- 10000

Manager- 12000

General Manager – 14000

Managing director- 20000

Selection of employees

The staffs of the organisation are appointed through the

PSC (Public Service Commission) and the lower workers are recruited through

agreement between trade unions & workers.

Shift of workers

There are three shifts in the company. They are

FROM TO

7.00 AM 3.30

PM

3.30 PM 12.00

AM

12.00AM 7.00

AM



Man power requirements

Mixing attendant

Schutcher attendant

Cording Tender

Combers

Drawing Tender

Simplex Tender

Simplex Doffing Boys

Spinning Slider

Doffing Boy

Cone winners

Packing

Filter

Assistant Filter

Filter Helper

Cleaning gang

Shift Electrician

Jobbers and others

Employees turnover of Sitaram

Labour turnover is the rate of change in the labour force of

an organisation during a given period. Therefore it signifies the shifting of work

force from one organisation to another and also the loss of manpower due to

discharge, retirement, death etc.

Employee’s turnover of Sitaram is 3 to 5 employees per

annum. It is mainly because of retirement.



PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT

Sitaram textile Ltd manufactures different count of yarns. In order

to have a clear understanding, the manufacturing process can be sequenced as

follows.


Production Manager

Supervisors

Production Staffs

Workers


The products of the company were cotton yarn and cotton fabrics till

2000. Now the company produces only cotton yarn and polyester yarn. For

producing cotton yarn, the period of time is one week. The total consumption per

day is 2000kg.

Cotton yarn - 60 counts

Polyester yarn -70 counts

The term ‘count’ implies the qualities of yarn. Higher the count

higher the quality. At the time of production wastes are created. The waste of cotton

are categorised into three that is saleable waste, reusable waste and invisible waste.

Reusable waste can be used for production of yarn. The saleable

wastes are gutter fly waste, lick ring fly cleaner, cowing ends, comber no in opener,

hard waste and sweeping waste flat strap waste. Invisible waste cannot be count but

it is estimated as 2% out of total input.



PRODUCTION CHART


MIXING BALE

AUTO MIXER

SCUTCHER

CARDING

COMBER

DRAWING

SIMPLEX

CONE WINDING

RING FRAME (SPINNING)

PACKING

BLOW ROOM

A. SILVER LAPB. RIBBON LAP


Production process

The raw material used in this conversion is cotton and

polyester. The different steps involved in this conversion are as follows.

a. Mixing

There are mainly two type of mixing. That is polyester

mixing and cotton mixing. Mixing is done at both manually and mechanically.

b. Blow room

In this section, mainly opening and cleaning of bale take

place. Firstly the bale passes through the bale breaker for the opening of the

compressed bales. Secondly it passes through a machine called step cleaner which

is used for cleaning the bale by step by step process. Thirdly, it passes through a

machine called Hopper feeder, which is also known as temporary storage area of

raw materials. Lastly the raw material passes through another machine and the lap

from of raw material is obtained with impurities removed to a certain extent.

c. Carding

The lap form of raw materials are processed and cleaned to

remove all the impurities and they are converted to slivers. These slivers are

collected in drums. This is of non uniform thickness. The machine used for carding

is called card machine and product is known as card sliver.


An Organizational Study Report on Sitaram Textiles Limited, Thrissur. d. Drawing

Here, the card sliver is processed to get sliver of uniform

thickness. This process is done twice. So the thickness is reduced and made

uniform. The product obtained by it is drawing sliver.

e. Simplex

The thin uniform sliver is passed in to the spindle machine

for the purpose of raring it. A number of spindles are used for it. The raw is further

thinned and the sliver is converted in to actual yarn and it is wound in the bobbins.

If there is break in one spindle, the machine automatically switched off. The

bobbins can carry 2 kg of yarn. The rowing bobbins are then passed to the next

department known as spinning department.

f. Spinning

The cop winding is started in this department. There are

number of machines used for it. Five machines are controlled by one worker. In this

section, works of workers are more. But it is not very risky work.

g. Cone winding

The cop form of yarn is wound on the paper cone by using

power 100m. The cone can carry 1.25 kg of yarn. This is used for selling

distribution. In cone winding, yarn from a single cop is wound one by one to make

1.25 kg of cone. Like cone winding there is also double winding. In these type of

winding instead of winding yarn from a single cone at a time, two cops is wound at

the same time, by this the yarn become stronger.

h. Packing

The cone of 1.25 kg is packed first in plastic. So that it

does not get wet and damaged while in transit. The product is sold in bulk quantities

is a bag of 50 kg. 40 cones are packed together and slip specifying the type of yarn

is also kept with the pack.



STORES DEPARTMENT

This department works under the store keeper. The entire

department needs certain items for the smooth working. These items were always

kept optimum in the store. The items will be issued by producing a material issue

voucher to the concerned departments.

There are two types of purchases. One is centralized purchasing

and the other is local purchases. The local purchases are made for the stores

purchases. Bill of material is received for the purchase. And these are recorded in

Inwards Receipt book. The inward receipts books include the following details.

1. Name of the supplier

2. Time and date of purchase

3. Quantity of material purchased

4. Place

5. Name of person who purchased

6. Name and designation of person who received and inspected the material.39


Store Keeper

Staffs


7. Registered number of vehicle in which the goods had been brought in.

8. Transportation cost.

Each item in the store has been given a unique code number

and they are stored according to the code number and according to the cost centres.

Bin card is used to recording the receipts and issues of various materials. Proper and

scientific way of analyzing is not maintained in the company.

Even though the traditional technique, are being used in stores

management and the system is not suitable for the modern era of industry, the

personnel in stores manages to ensure each items in time when it is needed.

Methods of valuation of inventories

1. Stores , spares and coals at average cost

2. Raw materials at moving weighted average cost or net realizable value

whichever is lower

3. Finished goods -packed yarn at cost or net realizable value whichever is lower

4. Stock with retail shop at landed cost/ latest landed cost or realizable value after

making previous for obsolescence whichever is lower

5. Waste at realizable value

6. Material in processing. Spinning and weaving in progress. Loose yarn at lower

cost or net realizable value



7. The unfinished job conversion contracts for yarn are recognized as work in

progress valued at contracted price less expense still to be incurred for making it

ready for delivery.

Store department is responsible for storing the raw materials,

finished goods and spare parts required for the smooth functioning of the

organization. In this highly competitive companies cannot survive without a well

managed stores department. Inventories are the stock of the product. The store

keeper in the Sitaram keeps an inventory of finished product to be sold to customers

whenever they demand.

Raw material inventory

These are materials inputs of production process. These are

used to manufacture the final products. Sitaram uses the raw materials like cotton,

polyester etc

Work in progress inventory

These are semi finished products. These are the products that

need more work before they become finished products.

Finished goods inventory

These are finished or final products which are ready for sale.

The finished product of Sitaram is yarn.



FINANCE DEPARTMENT

The main function of finance department is to record day to

day transactions of business. The chief of finance department is finance manager.

Finance department plays a role of providing relevant financial information to all

departments

Functions of finance department

Two main functions of finance department are as follows

1. Accounting function

2. Finance function

1. Accounting function

Accounting function involves of keeping or recording day to

day accounts. The transactions namely receipts, disbursement of money transactions


Accounts Officer

Accounts Staffs


relating to purchase, production, sales, other income , fixed amount salaries& wages

and other expenses like manufacturing , administration, selling and distribution.

Objectives of accounting function

All assets and liabilities are recorded and classified properly in accordance with the

statutory requirements to reflect the financial position of the company as at any

particular date.

To maintain the truth and fairness of financial statements, via profit & Loss account

and balance sheet.

Receipts and payments of money are accurately recorded so that all payables

receivables are correctly reflected...

All expense and income of a particular period are accurately reflected in accordance

with the relevant statistics to understand the working result of that period.

The company maintains adequate books of accounts. There by

complying with the procedure of company’s Act1956. Sitaram textiles fully

computerized its accounting functions. The following are the books of accounts

maintained by the company.

A. General ledger

B. Cash book

C. Day book

D. Sales register

E. Purchase register43



F. Store inventory register

G. Store issue register

H. Semi finished goods register

I. Finished goods register

2. Finance function

It includes procurement of funds and effective utilization of

the same of the business. The finance function will help us to control all expenses

with comparing budgeted expenses and actual expenses.

Objectives of finance function

Selection of an optimum mix of different source of capital

Profit maximization and more importantly wealth maximization

To ensure control over expenses by constantly watching expenditure and income.

To provide dividends to share holders of the company

To utilize funds in such a manner that is rupee is made to work at its optimum level

without endangering the financial solvency of the company through decision such

as capital budgeting, profit planning, tax management and working capital

management.

Capital structure of the company

The share capital of the company is divided in to equity shares with

an authorized capital of 6 crores (6, 00,000 equity shares of Rs.100 /each) and

issued and paid up capital of Rs.5.94 crores (5, 94,000 equity shares of Rs 100/

each). All these shares are owned by the Government of Kerala.



PURCHASE DEPARTMENT

Purchasing is the procuring of goods as per the needs – either for

further sale, use or storage- against payment of an optimum price.

The main item produced in the mill at present is yarn. The cotton

yarn and polyester yarn is manufactured by the company. The main raw material of

the product is raw cotton. The raw material in the mill is compressed from cotton

bales which weight 185 kg. Different varieties of cotton purchased from outside

state that is mainly from Tamilnadu, Andra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra.


Purchase Manager

Workers

Supervisor


Objectives of purchase function

The main objectives of purchase management are to ensure

availability of required goods of services, as and when they are needed by the

organization. This is to maintain a proper flow of supplies of goods as per the

specifications and on a cost effective basis.

The purchase should be done when the stores are required.

Purchase are always made on the principle of optimum price and cost effectiveness.

The acquiring of goods as per defined specifications.

PURCHASE ORDER


FROM TO

RELATED DEPARTMENT

PURCHASE DEPARTMENT

STORE KEEPER


MATERIAL MANAGEMENT AT A GLANCE

The main raw material is raw cotton.

REORDER POINT - 52 Days

MINIMUM QUANTITY LEVEL - 90000kg

RAW COTTON

Credit availability - 60 Days

Consumption per day - 2000kg.

OUT PUT - 100%

Saleable output - 70%

Saleable waste - 13%

Reusable waste - 15%

Invisible waste - 2%

Total 100%

REORDER OUTPUT - 30 days

Total cost of consumption - 2.5 lakh



QUALITY CONTROL DEPARTMENT

The main product of the company is cotton yarn and polyester yarn.

The yarn quality is termed as ‘count’. Higher the count higher the quality. The

count is calculated by using this formula:-

Count = length in hanks / weight of pounds.

1 hank = 840 yarn length

1 khandi = 355kg.

The quality control department works under production manager.

Actually there are two sides for the production process. One is production and the

other is the quality control. The quality is checked from each stage of production

and from raw material to finished goods.



MARKETING DEPARTMENT

Marketing is one of the most important operative functions of

management. It is the process by which goods produced are made available to the

consumers. Thus goods produced are to be stored and transferred from the place of

production to the place consumption thereby creating time and place utilities.

The products of Sitaram Textiles are cotton yarn and polyester yarn.

Certain present of the waste of products can also be sold. The products of the

company are highly qualified. So the demand of the product is high. The company

follows direct distribution channel (zero level marketing).

Direct marketing

Direct marketing becomes common in this world. The company do not create dealer

network. The products are directly marketed to the depots in Maharashtra. Direct

marketing is very beneficial for customers as well as seller and producers. It

eliminates the gap between producer and consumer. The products can be effectively

displayed and demonstrated right in front of the customers. These goods and

services are available at fair price.


Marketing manager

Ass. Marketing Manager


The company did not give importance to promotional activities

because the company has high demand in its products. They produce finished goods

after receiving orders. The price of the product is fixed by the government of

Kerala.

Management and workers have a strong confidence to success in the

market. If the government of Kerala provides the working capital (at least 2 crores)

but the company has to deliver the goods in time with consistency in quality.

Therefore the company can able to increase the order. So that the company can

definitely capture the entire market.

Now the company is facing cut throught competition from the firms

which carries same business operations. Severe price competition from the

unorganized power loom sector has restricted its operation to producing yarn.



SWOT ANALYSIS

Swot analysis is under taken to understand the firm’s external and

internal environments. A conscious identification of the relevant environment

enables an organization to focus its attention on these factors which are intimately

related to its mission, objectives and strategies.

STRENGTH

The company has a well defined internal control system.

The company provides high quality products.

The company is blessed with highly qualified and skilled personnel.

The company has cordial relationship with employees .The employees are more co-

operative.

The company ensure workers participation in management for improvement.

The company is situated in10 acres of land. So expansion is possible.

The company has taken various steps to improve productivity.

Industrial relations are maintained harmonious.

The company has productive work force.



WEAKNESSES.

The trade union of the company are powerful.

The company has not repaid interest towards principal amount of loan.

High transportation cost offset the profits of the company.

Technological obsolesce is the major problem, now the company is used 30 year old

machinery.

Shortage of capital prevents the company’s effective performance.

High labour turnover of employees. Employee’s turnover is mainly because of

retirement.

The loss of control is an important weakness of the company.

The company follows direct marketing so the company can’t capture the whole

market.

The company has not followed any promotional activities so the company cannot

attract the customers.

Frequent change of BOD adversely affects the performance of management. The

BOD is selected by government of Kerala.

No facility for research and development.



OPPORTUNITY

The company need to focus on product development.

Proper up gradation of the technology helps the company to make quality good with

minimum cost of production.

The company can capture the foreign markets.

Proper recruitments and selection of personnel for vacant posts

Control of the department functions will helps the company for improvement.

By changing the distribution channel the company can widen the market

opportunity.

A research and development wing helps the company to improve the products

quality and aiso helps to invent new products to the customers.

By introducing new production plants the company can improve their capacity.

THREATS

The cut throat competition from the similar field.

Frequent changes in political policies and system are a threat of the company.

Increasing trend in the price of raw material.

The pollution created by the invisible waste of the cotton may cause health

problems.

Frequent changes in government policies obstruct the effective performance of the

company.



The Swot analysis give the clear picture about the organization both

in terms of internal and external environment. The organization have high quality

strength and opportunity to minimises weaknesses and threats. And the strength can

be use to utilises the maximum opportunity and the maximum utilisation of the

creative and productive opportunity that helps to avoid the weaknesses and

minimises the threats and producing quality product with new technology. The good

relation with the employees that helps to increase the production and minimises the

chance of making problems of the trade unions in the organization. And these better

strategies are formulated that can helps to increase the market share of the

organization.



CONCLUSION

The research entitled “An Organizational Study of Sitaram Textiles

Limited” Was under taken with a view to study, understand, learn, analyses about

the operation of the organization. It also helps the researcher to gain more

knowledge and to get practical experience about the functions of each department.

In this era, companies should ensure that they offer job satisfaction and labour

remuneration to the perspective knowledge in the organization. There is a greater

co-operation between and the management and employees. The firm must also

communicate regarding their product and services.




Organisation Study on Sitharam

Documents

organizational study report

sitaram textiles limited

national textile corporation

gutter fly waste

term count implies

composite textile mill

textile industry plays

modern textile industry