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Procurement Manager of the Year

Naresh Kumar,
Lemon Tree Hotel Co.
Naresh Kumar won the ‘Procurement Manager of the Year’ award for successfully opening six Lemon Tree and two Red Fox hotels, totalling about 900 rooms in less than three years time. Having joined Lemon Tree Hotels Corporate three years ago, he helped in standardising the pre-opening purchases by fixing products, brand and quality, based on minimum cost per room(CPR).

As materials manager, Kumar was instrumental in implementing the electronic material management system (MMS) across the company.

“Earlier we were doing everything manually which was very time consuming. These new practices have resulted in better audit and controls, reduction of dead stock and smaller inventories to manage. The system allows having online access of all MMS reports,” said Kumar.

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He also started the practice of conducting user training for both the purchasing as well as stake holder functions, and that has proved to be beneficial for all. Kumar is now working towards opening four more hotels in the coming financial year.
(The award was received by a colleague on behalf of Naresh Kumar)