Transcript Anand Bagaria - Mobile Social Networking Nepal

Mobile Technologies for
Corporate Use
Presented By:
Anand Bagaria
NIMBUS
Nimbus
• Nimbus, an Agribusiness Enterprise, for the last 10
years has been in the field of Animal Health and
Nutrition and expanding into synergetic areas such
as Agri Inputs.
• We consider Agri Processing our Flagship business.
• Rural Distribution Network is one of key strengths
• Shakti is the largest selling animal feed brand in
Nepal with 25% of the market share of feed in
Nepal.
NIMBUS
• Today NIMBUS’ strength is its 1000+
employees, 14 depots, 250 dealers, 500+ subdealers across the country
• Nimbus reaches out to 7500+ farmers in 65
districts. Almost about 8500-9000 customer
directly, either commercially or technically.
• Nimbus also has a large database of suppliers,
mainly farmers providing us with the Agri
Produce.
Nimbus – Network
Dealer’s Location
Morang
Dharan
Dealer’s Location
Farm Location
Farm Location
FARM
Agri Commodity Trader
Mobile Usage In Our Business
• Nimbus sends out about 400
SMSs to our clients, daily about
the daily market prices of Soya
meal, Maize, Mixed Bone Meal,
Mustard DOC, and Amino acids
etc
• This has made us the price setter
in the feed ingredient trade
Mobile Usage In Our Business
• Our senior sales, marketing and training team and
connected through blackberry.
• We discuss on certain subjects over the BBM Groups
impromptu. This works like a open forum and makes
the collective decision making process fast.
What we would like to do further??
• Integrate the HR system such as leave processing, travel intimation, advance
requisition etc through mobile phones. Dissipate information, plans and
vision through this wonderful technology.
• May be even transfer funds.
• We would want to befriend more farmers with information such as weather
forecast, farming tips, new developments, disease alerts and management
tips etc.
• Would like to send invitations to our extensive training programmes, to
farmers as well as veterinarians
• Send out Buying prices to farmers
• Execute trade schemes through Mobiles phones, where the incentive can
reach the mobile owner rather than the business owner.
Ultimate Dream
• To enrich the rural network and distribution
channel of Nimbus, we would like to leverage our
network and mobile technology together to financial
services to the farmers and other stakeholders of
our network, such as micro financing, SMS banking
or Micro Banking.
• Using this technology, if our dealers could become
multibank teller counters in their locations??? May
be!!
THANK YOU