Area Action Owner Financial Impact/ Savings Savings Targ

(annualised, Rs. lakhs) Apr-09 May-09 Jun-09 Jul-09

A. Material Consumption 1. Renegotiate with raw material supplier
2. Yield improvement / rejections
3. Centralised Purchasing

B. Power and Fuel 1. Usage of DG sets

C. Processing and
Subcontracting Charges

D. Consumables and Other

Expenses

E. Direct Employees 1. Employee productivity

F. Packing & Logistics Cost

G. Power - Demand Charges 1. Discontinue airconditioner

2. Daylight saving time - Office hours
3. Reduction in no. of working days of plants

H. Repairs & Maintainance

Machinery and Building 1. Renegotiate AMC
2. Reset consumption norm for maintainance

I. Stock Insurance 1. Insurance consolidation

J. Administrative & Support

Staff 1. Extend unfiorm distribution cycle

K. Engineering & development

Expenses

L. Administrative Expenses
(i) Communication 1. Telephone - reduce limit
2. Central rate contract for couriers
3. Use of OCS only for internal ISD calls
4. CUG- across TACO group
5. Disconnect all blackberry
6. Shared base rate for internet usage
7. Renegotiate bandwidth rate
subtotal

(ii) Travel 1. Travel - revise entitlement

 Area Action Owner Financial Impact/ Savings Savings Targ
(annualised, Rs. lakhs) Apr-09 May-09 Jun-09 Jul-09
2. Travel - reduce no. of travels
3. Reduction in travel budget
4. Car maintainance reduction
5. Discontinue rented cars
subtotal

(iii) Printing & stationery 1. Limit use of printers

2. Stop using high value stationery
subtotal

(iv) IT related 1. Software licenses - shared usage

2. Stop software upgrades
subtotal

(v) Other expenses 1. Use Matrix cards

2. Dinner- economic hotels
3. Centralisation of service agencies
4. Surrender guest house
5. Surrender excess office space
6. Reduce security number
7. No diaries/ greeting cards
subtotal

M. Depreciation 1. Defer all Capex

2. Machine productivity

N. Amortisation 1. No "amortisation" model

O. Interest on term loans 1. Deferment of capex

P. Interest on cash credit 1. Collection of provided for debtors

2. Set credit limit for customers & reduction of
debtors
3. Renegotiate vendor payment terms to 60
days
4. Inventory reduction
subtotal
 Savings Target for fy 09 10 Apr 09 to March 10
Aug-09 Sep-09 Oct-09 Nov-09 Dec-09 Jan-10 Feb-10 Mar-10 Total
 Savings Target for fy 09 10 Apr 09 to March 10
Aug-09 Sep-09 Oct-09 Nov-09 Dec-09 Jan-10 Feb-10 Mar-10 Total