Happy 5th Anniversary

Wow! How time flies, a year back I wrote the same exact entry for our anniversary. But I don't feel like a year...For the 5th Anniversary, we went to Doubletree by Hilton for buffet dinner. Not so bad, the restaurant looks classy but food wise, a little bit limited of varieties.  So, what's been going on this year? The little baby on left is our new addition to the family and she is so bam bam (chubby) and super cute! The big brother on...

IOI's financial year 2012 brief analysis

I’ve been digging up details on IOI’s Annual Report for financial year 2012 recently. What I concerned most are anything relevant to me thus the figures presented would relate to that. Let see, the revenue was RM 15 billion but what important to me is the revenue contribution from Loders Croklaan. From the ‘Sales of Specialty Oils and Fats and related products’, I can see that the revenue was RM 3.5 Billion so it’s about 23% from total revenue....

Quarterly Analysis for Big 4 (Plantation Companies)

For quarter end of Sept 2012, following is analysis of net profit margin of Big 4 plantation companies in Malaysia. IOI again leading in net profit margin % with 18.21% followed closely by KLK with 17.79%, Sime Darby 8.78% and Felda 5.9...

SAP Warehouse Management (WM)

Adding to my new portfolio now is SAP WM. So I'm officially a SAP Techno-Functional Consultant now. We have kicked off SAP WM project last week at our plant in Pasir Gudang. To understand better the current warehouse management process, we did some site visit and it was beneficial. The purpose of this project is to automate the process of warehouse management so productivity and efficiency can be improved significantly.In addition, SAP WM will be...

IOI - 13th Place

Banking and Telecoms dominate the top, IOI is ranked no 13th which is very encouraging.  ...

Sydney 2012

It was special birthday for me, celebrating the moment with my wife in Sydney. Sydney is such a beautiful city, the water view made me speechless. I've been here couple of times before but never been able to really appreciate the beauty of Sydney. So this was a really worthwhile trip :). Darling Harbour View from the Ferry City Skyline Opera House Bondi Beach City Skyline...

SAP Economy Ecosystem

The other day I stumbled upon one article regarding SAP Economy Ecosystem (well it's from 2007 research). Here are interesting facts: - More than 41,000 customers - Average deal of each SAP implementation -> USD 1.6 Million - More than 800,000 service partners and developers (notable service partners include IBM, HP, Accenture) - Estimated around USD 425 Billion (Roughly around Saudi Arabia & Norway GDP) That's 2007 estimation by the...

Quarterly Analysis for Big 4 (Plantation Companies)

The financial report for the latest quarter (period ended on 30.06.2012) has been announced. Below is some analysis I’ve done to compare the performance of IOI with the other big plantation companies in Malaysia. In this analysis, I used net profit margin as a basis of comparison in performance. In this regard, IOI is doing well as compared to others with 11% net profit margin versus 9.3% for KLK, 8.2% for Sime Darby & 6.2% for Felda. Generally, the performance for all these companies are declining as compared to same quarter 2011 due to lower...

Selamat Hari Raya & Maaf Zahir Batin

Wishing you all Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri and Maaf Zahir Batin  - From all of us ... ...

SAP Netweaver Portal

The other day I attended the SAP Portal training. I'm very impressed on how far SAP has made the technology looking very attractive and functional. The idea is to centralize portal access (be it SAP or not) with single sign on. Moving forward, it's ideal to have Portal access in every organisation due to easy access (no GUI installation, only browser required). Now it's my job to convince the management to adopt the portal, the idea is to introduce...

Welcoming my little princess

Hello World! My name is Nur Adileeya Farzana :) ...

Plant Visit for couple hundreds of time :)

IOI's massive plant in pasir gudang, where I need to visit once a month for meeting, project, etc etc. ...

SAP NetWeaver Portal System Administration Training

Been really busy lately, hardly got time to update the blog. Anyway, I've been given another opportunity to diversify my knowledge in SAP Portal Administration. Will be attending below course conducted by SAP. Recently, we have started to adopt BW/BI reports in portal environment and thus the need to administer the portal is becoming essential. I always welcome new challenges definitely :). ...

State Capitalism vs Free Market

Currently reading this book, an interesting insight on state capitalism and free market. On Malaysia, obviously we have states capitalism in place since our independence. In general, most emerging market employs the same strategy towards becoming developed market. But the best point of this book has to be that, state capitalism is employed by political party to remain in power and relevant politically. Political Figures use Capitalism as...

The richest from IOI

Wow, 3 out of 20 coming from IOI ! Congrats again :).... ...

Experience Living Abroad

Besides doing some short trips to various countries around the world, I have privileged to experience living in some countries for more than 6 months period. So in this post, I will share my experience living in other countries. Rome, Italy 94 – 97 While I was not exactly living the whole period, I had a chance to live there perhaps 2 months each year from 94 – 97 as my father and family were there for work assignment. Why I was left behind?...

Aqeel's 3rd Birthday

Late last year, Aqeel celebrated his 3rd birthday and we threw some b'day party to celebrate this event. Aqeel was very happy of course with all birthday gifts that he got :). Birthday Cake for Aqeel He got huge remote control car! Opening Birthday Presents Aqeel scared of this clown..huhu...

My wife's workplace - GMI

Recently I paid a visit to my wife's office and from my point of view, she is really lucky to have various facilities available to her. One thing stands out among the rest is her own private room. For me, I'm not sure whether I would get that kind of luxury even until I hit the retirement (hopefully not!). So I told her she should be grateful :). German-Malaysian Institute (GMI) is an institution that focuses on highly advanced skills training. Following...