T. Suvarna Raju, Chairman and Managing Director of the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), has been conferred with Chief Executive Officer of the Year Award 2015 in the Central Public Sector category by the Indian Institute of Materials Management (IIMM) at its national convention held at Vadodara. The award is in recognition of Raju’s outstanding achievements, contribution to the industry and the materials management profession.

Raju called for strengthening of supply chain system right from the planning to delivery stage as the success of any organisation largely depends on the timely delivery and quality of the services. “The vendors are actually business partners and together we grow. IIMM is doing yeoman service by organising programmes that transform the organisations through the supply chain management”, he said. The two-day convention focuses on revolutionary supply chain strategies for sustainable competitive advantage.