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Market Sentiment Survey across Small & Mid sized Businesses

2.About the Survey

Global Markets are grappling with sudden onslaught of Covid 19 which has taken the world by surprise. This pandemic is throwing the global economy out of control. Human race is suffering and healthcare professionals, workers are struggling to get basic safety gear to protect themselves and to protect the humans from this infection.

MSMEs struggle with whole host of business challenges all the time. Added to the normal burdens, this is a testing period for all Small and Mid sized businesses in the country. Staying afloat in business is the need of the hour. Businesses need to develop immunity to post covid crisis.

This survey is created by Consultants Consortium of Chennai, an Association of Management Systems Consultants registered under TN Societies Registration Act. The intent of the survey is to understand the pain points of the MSME businesses and to send representations to various Ministries, Trade and Export promotion Councils to help them improve the business growth of MSMEs in the country.

We request all Micro, Small and Medium sized businesses deal with Products or Services segment participate in the survey.

Please note that the Survey is created only to collect market sentiment information from the industry about this covid 19 crisis time and information collected shall be compiled and sent to various governmental organisations, policy makers to make the industry’s woes and wish list heard. Data related to business information of the participants shall not be shared with anyone. Only the general information shall be used for compiling the report. If participants don’t want to share any specific business information, they are free to skip those questions.

However, the Survey report shall be shared with the industry, govts, participants in the due course of time too.

For any clarifications on the survey, please send mail to : contact@ccc-consultants.org

Thanks

President
Consultants Consortium of Chennai
Website – www.ccc-consultants.org
Basic Business Information :
1.Name of the Business
2.Structure of your Business
3.When was it started ?
4.Do you deal with Products Or Services ?
5.Define the nature of your business
6.Are you a registered MSME business ?
7.Is it a Family run Business ?
8.Name of the Promoter
9.Address for Communication
Contact Person Details :
10.Contact Person Details
Survey Questions - Financial Parameters :
Revenue Focus :
11.What is the  percentage of revenue dip do you expect in the annual revenue for the year 2020-21?     
12.What is your normal payment cycle time from customers in number of days ?
13.How many additional number of days of delays do you expect now ?
14.How do you plan to mitigate lost production revenue ?
15.How do you think the stimulus package declared by the          
government would help in post pandemic situation on a scale of 1 – 5
1   Hardly
2
3
4
5   Very much
16.Do you propose to use Bill Discounting Facility to improve your cash flows ?
17.Will you be looking for any Private Equity funding for your business ?
18.Do you have any plans of getting your business listed in SME Exchange ? 
Profitability Focus :
19.Do you anticipate reduction in profitability of existing products / services by ?
20.If you are exporting, do you anticipate a drop in the Profitability for your products in export markets also ?
Loan Repayment Reschedules :
21.What is the loan repayment schedule you now look for?
22.Do you need any additional working capital or Term loan requirements ?
Operations Focus :
23.Do you supply raw material or finished good to the industry ?
Raw Material :
24.Are you importing any raw material?
25.What percentage of your raw material is imported ?
26.Do you anticipate increase in raw material cost if you are importing ?
27.If so, anticipated increase by what percentage ?
Stock Movement :
28.Do you anticipate any stock pile up, non movement of finished goods?
Systems Implementation :
29.Do you feel that existing systems implementation has helped your business to
Yes 
No
Improve Revenues
Reduce Wastage
Improved Productivity of Employees
30.To what extent would these systems help in managing business with limited resources
People related issues :
31.How many employees are working in your business – full time and Contractual , put together ?
32.How many contract persons are expected to resume duty
33.Are you thinking of salary reduction ? If yes , how much
34.Is salary reduction graded for different levels of management
35.Are you planning on remote working and flexibility for teams
36.What expenditure on systems, data time, training you are planning
37.What remote working and flexibility can you offer to your team
38.Plans to upkeep morale of employees and lead for year-end goals  
- Training, Systems, Hygiene improvement, Work place Health  & Safety
Customer Focus :
39.What business you feel would come from existing customers
40.Do you plan to acquire new customers ?
Compliances, Regulations, Quality Certifications :
41.Is your business regulated by any regulatory body for running your business ?
42.Does running your business require obtaining a License ?
43.Do you feel more regulations are required in the country for running businesses ?
44.Do your buyers ask for any quality certifications ?
45.What is the most sought after certification by your buyers ?
46.Please specify for which certification/s your business is certified for
47.Have you faced any problem in continuing these certifications ?
Supplier Relations :
48.Payments to external providers - delay over normal cycle
Digital Initiatives Drive :
49.Online Payment Initiatives
50.Online Salaries
51.Online Procurement
52.Online Training on Skills and Systems for Employees
Intense Marketing, Sales, Business Development Focus :
53.Are you planning to add to your Business Development Team
54.Any diversification / digital business areas you are thinking
55.Have you registered your business in GeM Portal, launched by Govt of India to help Govt, PSUs buy goods/ services from MSMEs?
56.Do you export your products / services?
57.What is the % of your export revenue on total revenue ?
58.Do you need help from various Export Promotion Councils to promote your products in Global Markets ?
59.Do you have membership with any Export Promotion Councils ?
60.Do you have plans to implement Digital Marketing, Online Marketing For your business ?
Others :
61.Do you believe in Make in India, Made In India initiatives?
62.If Yes, what help do you expect from Govt :
63.Do you feel that Govt of India should focus more on strengthening the domestic manufacturing system in the country to reduce import dependency in all sectors ?