Aparna Rao, Country Head & Board Member - CBS of Cargill and her leadership team will share on "The CBS Journey Over the Years".  

Find out how Cargill Business Services has evolved in the last 8 years, with a focus on these dimensions: continuous improvement, talent strategy, delivering data-led analytics, as they invested in their people, being customer-driven and executing with excellence. 

Cargill Business Services (CBS) India leverages Cargill’s scale to create an efficient, modern way of providing high-quality shared services to Cargill.  

Since its inception in 2015, the organization has grown steadily to establish itself as a global multi-function shared services hub providing services across multiple business functions and processes—Finance, IT, Source to Pay, Transportation and Logistics, trade execution, analytics, creative studios, executive admin, HR and many more. CBS India currently operates out of two centres in Bangalore and Gurgaon employing 3500+ skilled professionals. 

The site visit will include: 

• Corporate presentation from the general manager of the host shared services centre 
• Interactive Q&A session  
• Guided tour of the site’s operating premises 

Aparna Rao

Country Head and Board Member CBS India
Cargill

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Site Tour #2: Diageo Global Business Operations 

Amar Shah, VP - Global Process, Strategy and Digital, Supplier Experience, Diageo Global Business Operations will be sharing on Scaling up Diageo Global Operations from Grain to Glass.  

To emerge stronger from the global pandemic, Diageo needed to become more agile and flexible to respond to fast changing consumer trends and overcome global supply chain risks. They have done so through multiple initiatives taken over the last few years.  

Based in Manila, Bogota, UK & Ireland, Budapest and Bangalore, Diageo Global Business Operations (GBO) is committed to making it as easy as possible to do business with Diageo. With a team of 2200+ colleagues across 6 Experience Areas, Diageo GBO supports all business processes, whilst providing rich insights to support the best decision-making across the business. 

The site visit will include: 

• Corporate presentation from the general manager of the host shared services centre 
• Interactive Q&A session  
• Guided tour of the site’s operating premises