Samurai Awards

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The Industry Samurai Awards consist of 24 Awards to be Given Under 7 Categories. Each Award will be given under two segments in terms of size: Large enterprises (revenue>Rs. 250 Crores) and SME/MSME (revenue< Rs. 250 Crore). The Awards will be presented at the end of Industry Samurai week, on 15th November 2024 in Goa during our annual industry summit.

Digital Samurai

Enterprises that implemented and/or accelerated their digitalization strategy to increase resilience, optimize business processes, and improve their go-to-market strategy.

Shogun Samurai

Industry professionals who have provided extraordinary leadership, direction, and vision to their respective organizations, and the industry at large.

Innovation Samurai

Organizations that showed the verve for innovation. The ones that embraced and promoted innovation in their processes to provide industry-best quality and customer service

Sustainability Samurai

Organizations that implemented and promoted resource-positive manufacturing processes and supply chains. That contributed forward more than they drew from the earth and the environment.

Service Samurai

Organizations that showed an unflinching, uncompromising commitment for delivering world-class pre-, during and post-sales customer service experience.

Productivity Samurai

Organizations that showed consistently high performance on Key Performance Indicators and showing a high level of productivity that contributed to excellent profitability and investment returns during the year.

Startup Samurai

Startups that have come up with demonstrable and marketable solutions to the industry’s problems.

Who Can Apply:

	Manufacturing Companies
	Indian Manufacturers (Large Enterprises/MSMEs*) including OEMs, contract manufacturers, and parts, machine tools and raw material producers and suppliers.

	Supply Chain Organizations
	Indian Supply Chain Organizations (Large Enterprises/MSMEs*) including 3PL, 4PL, transporters (surface, air, sea), industrial real estate developers, freight forwarders, and warehousing sector companies.

*Large enterprises are organizations with turnover for the Financial Year 2023 – 2024 greater than INR 250 Crores. SMEs/MSMEs are organizations with turnover for Financial Year 2023 – 2024 is less than INR 250 Crore.

Award Process:

Awards Process

Entry Fee:

Applicable to both manufacturing and supply chain organizations.
GST at 18 percent applicable over the fee amount

LARGE ENTERPRISE

Number of categories chosen for application	Entry Fee(INR)	Discount (%)	Total discounted amount for applications for multiple categories(INR)
1	20,000	NA	20,000
2	22,500	5	21,375 ~~22,500~~ You save INR 1,125
3	25,000	7.5	23,125 ~~25,000~~ You save INR 1,875
4	27,500	10	24,750 ~~27,500~~ You save INR 2,750
5	30,000	12.5	26,250 ~~30,000~~ You save INR 3,750
6	32,500	15	27,625 ~~32,500~~ You save INR 4,875

SME/MSME

Number of categories chosen for application	Entry Fee(INR)	Discount (%)	Total discounted amount for applications for multiple categories(INR)
1	9,000	NA	9,000
2	11,500	10	10,350 ~~11,500~~ You save INR 1,150
3	14,000	12.5	12,250 ~~14,000~~ You save INR 1,750
4	16,500	15	14,025 ~~16,500~~ You save INR 2,475
5	19,000	17.5	15,675 ~~19,000~~ You save INR 3,325
6	21,500	20	17,200 ~~21,500~~ You save INR 4,300

What will the Applicant Get?

Benchmark their performance with their competitors

What will the shortlisted nominees get?

Benchmark their performance with their competitors
A chance to present their case to the jury and to a larger audience of nominees, via live-streaming of the presentation round.
Coverage of their case study in the Awards Special Issue in the magazine and the website, and marketing of the same through all our media platforms

What will the awardees get?

A trophy, certificate, and a winner’s digital badge for product promotion
A comprehensive coverage and broadcast of the awardees credentials to via of MeshMix’s media properties to more than 200,000 professionals in the manufacturing and supply chain industry