Malay Chatterjee, Chairman and Managing Director, Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd (KIOCL) has been awarded the ‘Chief Executive of the Year’ by the Indian Institute of Materials Management (IIMM).

T Venkataraju, engineer-in-chief, Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has been awarded ‘Best Supply Chain Practices in Water Management’.

Suhas Prasanna, Vice-President -Central Procurement, Columbia Asia Hospitals delivered the keynote address and exhorted the need for companies to adopt effective material management practices to ensure long-term profits.

He further said the same applied to the healthcare sector where now patients and doctors were both demanding better facilities.

D Subramani, Branch Chairman, IIMM-Bengaluru, won the ‘President’s Appreciation Award’, and also received the ‘Best Branch (Metro) Award’ on behalf of the IIMM Bengaluru.

H.R.T. Chari was felicitated for the ‘Distinguished Award’ and P Srinivas Rao was felicitated for the ‘Best Faculty Award’.