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Rai: Aditya Birla automated market intelligence decks previously done by five analysts
“In one place, what we have now obviously done is automated all of it. So not only does it generate that report, Probably much better than what those four, five analysts could do. It is also able to say what should you do next month based on that, which is usin…”
Rai: New analytics deployments should begin with basic tracking, not complex models
“When you have to use data and analytics, start with something very basic and simple, not very complex, because many a time the analytics people would love to do some complicated model.”
UltraTech Cement accounts for $35B–$40B of Aditya Birla Group's $110B valuation
“Contrary to popular perception, the market cap contribution of these consumer businesses is not as large. So like I said, the hundred and ten billion market cap are, you know, fashion retail business probably contributes three. The financing businesses to list…”
Rai: Aditya Birla's Logistics Models Failed to Transfer Due to Local Realities
“On the other side, where things haven't moved as well, which we had expected to, is the area of logistics. We felt, oh, we are a great manufacturing company. We have so many trucks running across businesses across the board. And if we do some logistics optimiz…”
Rai: Business and financial strategy must precede AI and data investments
“So when people talk about AI strategy or, you know, what should data do? I said you know, let's first talk about strategy and finance and commercial. And then we can figure out how to you know, use this data and analytics to make those things meaningful.”
Rai: Technology yields far higher returns when paired with differentiated business strategy
“If someone is following the same strategy in any business than the next person, we can still help them become better. But then the delta is only X. But if someone is finding a differentiated strategy, the delta can be far higher.”
Rai: Aditya Birla's group-level consumer data initiatives have not yet succeeded
“Some initiatives to bring things together at a group level hasn't really, you know, succeeded in a big way.”
Rai: Digital twins replicate easily because identical equipment behaves uniformly
“So I think model models around digital twins, they are the easy ones because, you know, if you make a digital twin of a equipment in one place, wherever else that equipment is there. So those are the easy ones, which we are trying to, which is the reason this …”
Pankaj Rai: Aditya Birla Group engages startups purely tactically for solutions
“So we use a lot of startup, but again, I would say, We use them in a very tactical way to say, oh, you made a solution, we'll use it.”
Rai: Aditya Birla Group builds generational businesses rather than short-term flips
“Whenever the group has entered a business, and that's my personal observation is that they think of it as a generational business, not in a short term way. If you look at any of these businesses that we've been speaking about, they've been around for like, 20,…”
Rai: Aditya Birla is building a fully connected mine with SL Mining
“So with them, the SL mining company, now we are working on a project of a specific mine, where we, what we calling it a connected mine, where, you know, everything will be connected.”
Aditya Birla Group is building a unified data engine for 200 factories
“So we are focusing a lot this year to say, and we have 200 factories. How can we create a data quality engine where all the factories can have data available of the right quality and, you know, then the models can run.”
Rai: Aditya Birla uses predictive models in aluminum smelting to cut energy waste
“So now there's a model which is able to predict a temperature fluctuation going. The antidote to that is there's a catalyst called aluminum fluoride rods. So you can dip the rod and, you know, control the temperature. So net, net these types of things are bein…”
Aditya Birla Group grew market cap from $200M to $110B over 30 years
“Our current chairman took over about just about 30 years ago, you know, when he took over the company and the group, I think it was about two hundred million dollars market cap. And now, like you said, about hundred ten billion dollars. So in these 30 years, t…”
Aditya Birla Group builds asset taxonomy framework to transport digital twins
“Now a motor or a compressor is there everywhere. Now in every place, those things have not been labeled properly. So a model, if you make a digital twin of a compressor in one factory, those points are called something. We are now creating, again, abstracting …”