As we fight the COVID-19 pandemic, leveraging on the opportunity presented by it for us to innovate further and incorporate on low-cost solutions is more important than ever. As MSME’s make most of the proportion of businesses in India, it is a need for them to leverage low-cost innovations to enable support on-ground and generate employment.

Rahul Garg, CEO & Founder, Moglix Business reveals the need for hospitals to seek the greater predictability into the demand patterns, assess financial costs, resource engagements, and manpower, in order to survive. And these are possible through tech-supported decisions with greater visibility, more awareness, more variables, and much more sense of knowledge about one’s supply chains, procurement, and logistics.

Rahul Garg, CEO & Founder, Moglix Business discusses his fund raising strategies during the early days, especially through marquee investors like Ratan Tata, Accel, Jungle Ventures etc. Rahul focuses on how important mentorship is for critical feedback which is essential for the growth of any and every company.

He also shares his learnings and knowledge from his discussions and experience.

The story highlights the changes incorporated by the leading women executives into their business strategies in the new normal. Saumya Khare, Director- Human Capital at Moglix Business discusses how the organisation adapted to the new normal and the importance to lead with empathy and why it should be one of the basic tenets of leadership.

Disruptions caused by COVID19 in global supply chains have moved the world to search for the next global manufacturing hub. This gives India the opportunity India to reform its manufacturing sector and make its supply chain more competitive.

As manufacturing enterprises navigate through “make or buy” decisions on costs, a focused approach to cost optimisation during the ongoing crisis and beyond will enable India to yet again demonstrate its history of pursuing reforms during a crisis.

Times Jobs spoke to Rahul Garg, CEO & Founder, Moglix on his perspectives as a leader and entrepreneur, on founding a B2B commerce Startup, among others. Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

With which job role/ position did you start your career?
After graduating from IIT Kanpur, I started my career with Ittiam Systems in Bengaluru. There I focused on learning the nuances of technology, learning how to build world-class products and working as a team member. It was a high energy environment where I gained well-rounded experience across my project, team and technology. It helped me build the foundation of my career around a high bar on technology expertise, hard work and team-building.

Name one person who had a tremendous impact on you as a leader?
My father has been a significant inspiration to me in my personal and professional journey. He has successfully scaled a large company in India, solving various supply chain challenges in the manufacturing sector and mentoring teams of talented professionals along the way.

Read this YourStory article to learn how Moglix Founder and CEO, Rahul Garg, an IIT Kanpur, and ISB alumnus, decided to take an entrepreneurial plunge in 2015 to launch Moglix, a B2B commerce and supply chain company .

Moglix’s journey to transform B2B commerce commenced with the launch of the Moglix Marketplace, which was focussed on serving the SME customers, working in procurement, and digitizing the supply chain. During the pandemic, Moglix has contributed towards India’s fight against coronavirus by working with suppliers to reduce the supply gap for PPEs in more than 20 countries across the globe, making them available to more than five million people.

Technology for MSMEs: As the country fights the Covid-19 pandemic, leveraging low-cost innovation and agility shall be the key to recovering from the disruptions caused by the outbreak.

Prominent startup CEOs have joined hands to set up a Rs 100 crore grant that will back fledgling firms working on products and services to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.