The leading distributor of FMCG products in Russia is the SNS group of companies, whose feedback on its work began to arrive in 2008. Then the company became the leader in the ranking of the two hundred best private companies in the country (according to Forbes magazine). The main focus was the distribution of tobacco products "BAT Russia", which gradually covered the whole country. And the distribution of soft drinks and tonic drinks by GFD AG was also handled by the SNS group of companies. Employee reviews mention that the latter was a very good start in establishing a business. The third area is the production of lighters (trademarks FOXlite, Just, Delta) and their subsequent distribution.
Collective
More than a hundred branches were opened at the SNS group of companies. Employee reviews cover almost the entire territory of Russia from Sakhalin to Kaliningrad. More than six thousand people work for the benefit of the company, and management invests a lot in ensuring that the company's employees grow professionally. The team is distinguished by the fact that it is a single, united and self-confident company, where mutual assistance and understanding by each member of the team of the tasks assigned to the company are fundamental factors. Each employee feels personal responsibility for the strategy of the SNS group of companies. Employee reviews repeatedly provide such examples. A single attitude to principles and values is the very composition that holds the team together in unity and helps to achieve all the goals set.
The main city from which the branched out network of branches is managed is Moscow. The SNS group of companies is carefully studying employee reviews, as it is a high-tech organization and does not stop in its development. It uses the most advanced technological discoveries in order to manage business processes. Already in 2008, an automated system for managing the entire company network was introduced (from SAP R3). The well-functioning SDS Optimum system is in place, through which sales are conducted up to the most remote territories - in real time: Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, Penza, Ivanovo, Tula, Tolyatti ... SNS Group of Companies reviews of employees in all divisions analyzes, because ongoing monitoring (GIS) is carried out. And since 2009, the company was almost the first to switch to international standards for all financial reporting, resorting to audit services of EY.
Employees
The company has been present on the market for more than twenty years, and throughout this time it has constantly developed and refined the most effective approaches to the principles of working with its own personnel. The network of branches grew rapidly, covering such iconic cities as St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Voronezh, Ryazan. The SNS group of employees literally immediately began to attach the utmost importance to customer feedback in order to accurately navigate the wishes and suggestions regarding improving the working climate. Now employees are offered not only high-level wages, but also great opportunities for career growth, for the growth of professional skills.
Precisely because any employee is involved in the implementation of the most ambitious projects, interest in the work does not fade away. The reviews of employees of the SNS group of companies in Ryazan very heartily describe this concern: the company has its own training department, where staff develops their professional skills and key competencies. Orientation to the applied orientation does not prevent learning to combine the most diverse forms - from full-time to distance learning. Reviews of employees of the SNS group of companies in Voronezh who recently came to work in this team write about the Welcome Course program, which helped them quickly navigate the profession and qualitatively enter their position.
Logistics
The group includes the Best Logistic Company, which is fundamental to the successful promotion of the business, since it is responsible for managing all stocks, developing schemes for organizing cargo flows, their subsequent implementation, multimodal transportation, and even organizing security and armed cargo escort. She is also involved in paperwork and property insurance, and the SNS group of companies cannot do without her consulting services in the field of logistics. Employee reviews in Novosibirsk repeatedly mention this. "Best Logistic Company" supports the work of the entire group, since only she can afford to provide a range of decisions regarding the delivery of goods. The group also provides third-party organizations with professional support.
The Best Logistic Company is in charge of any type of transport - road and rail, air transport and maritime, and this applies both to deliveries in Russia and to work with foreign partners. Delivery of products is organized literally from door to door, even from Kaliningrad to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and from Murmansk to Krasnodar. Feedback from employees of the SNS group of companies speaks of full guarantees of compliance with all customer requirements when performing delivery. The team treats third-party customers especially carefully, since they are potentially regular customers or even partners, an individual approach prevails here, up to the allocation of an employee to the warehouse or office of this company, which will help organize and coordinate shipments. Also, a group of companies can use any software product at the request of the customer company under a joint interface to better organize and manage inventory, and SNA is able to help optimize traffic flows and bring customer logistics to the highest requirements of the current market.
This year's ratings
And again, the SNS group of companies is breaking records! Employees reviews of Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk are just jubilant! SNS wins all major business areas, and today it has once again become one of the best largest companies in Russia. Business is growing, business is set, and in addition to the main work, which does not cease to bring both material and moral satisfaction, the SNS group of companies helps the country, including in preserving its cultural heritage. For example, the paintings of Aivazovsky with the direct assistance of the "SNA" were restored, that is, they got their second life with it. Or another example: the Savvino-Storozhevsky monastery near Zvenigorod, a famous monument of architecture, also helps to restore the SNS group of companies. Moscow employees write reviews about the completion of the next stage of work. In addition, there are a lot of interesting things in the reviews following the results of the work of the GFD motivation program, about news on brand activation, about the implementation of the Rebranding project ... Even reports on a joint vacation organized by the company's management are extremely interesting and even a little enviable to read.
But still, not all is said about the latest ratings. Among the five hundred companies with various forms of ownership, SNA took 68th place already in 2015, when revenue amounted to 154.3 billion rubles (four and a half billion more than in 2014). And in 2016, the "SNS" climbed the forty-second step! This is a huge achievement. Indicators are taken into account simultaneously with non-public and public companies, and without public accounting this step would be the fifteenth! Revenue continues to grow. The SNS team again proves that it has the right to be in the very first ranks of the FMCG market in Russia (this abbreviation means just consumer goods).
A bit of history
The SNS group of companies began its existence in March 1992 and initially was engaged only in the sale of cigarettes, which were produced at two Russian factories - Dukate and Java. Within a year, the range was significantly expanded by attracting major domestic and foreign brands, including BAT (British American Tobacco) products, which quickly came to the forefront of sales. And in 1997, the development of its own network of branches began. At first it was the Central region: St. Petersburg, Ivanovo, Tula, then the more distant territories - Novosibirsk, Penza. The SNS group of companies has been collecting feedback from employees from the regions since that time. Since 2003, the company has significantly expanded its cooperation, expanding the business. For example, VimpelCom OJSC ceded to it the distribution of payment cards for cellular services, and since May 2008 SNS has already become the sole distributor of Beeline express payment cards in Russia.
The business continued to expand. In 2007, SNA signed an agreement with Red Bull, and soon received the status of the sole distributor for the entire range of these products in Russia, and a year later, British American Tobacco extended the cooperation with a new general agreement for another five years. In 2011, cooperation with VimpelCom ended, but a new direction appeared - the distribution of AMI lighters. With this company, SNS even created a joint venture with production in China, with customs clearance, and delivery. Thus, the AMI brand developed on a large scale when the SNS took control of the company. In 2011, not only the distribution of cellular communications was over, but the Red Bull products were also replaced by SNS with drinks manufactured by GFD AG. They are also energetic, including non-alcoholic, based on natural juice.
Awards and Achievements
SNS won the 2007 Global Distributor Award at a conference in London hosted by British American Tobacco. The sales volumes of the past, 2006, which were carried out by the SNS group of companies, became higher than that of the world leader - Brazil. In 2012, according to Forbes magazine, SNA has the twenty-second position among the two hundred largest Russian companies (non-public). In 2013, the SNS received the Best Office Awards.
The main focus remains the distribution of tobacco products (BAT Russia), which is already being implemented throughout the country. In second place in the business is the distribution of non-alcoholic carbonated and tonic drinks manufactured by GFD AG. An important area also is the production of lighters and their distribution, the Just and Delta trademark. More than a hundred branches operate throughout the country to strengthen the market position of the SNS Group of Companies. The reviews of employees of Tula, Bryansk and many other cities indicate that working in a company is difficult, sometimes incredibly difficult, but always interesting.
Armavir
The next branch has completed its part of the large-scale corporate project "Rebranding". The SNS-Armavir company as a whole team moved to a much more comfortable new office, which was lovingly decorated in accordance with the standards of the group of companies, where stylish design, practicality and comfort are harmoniously combined. This event was celebrated by the entire SNS group of companies. The reviews of the employees of St. Petersburg, Voronezh, and even distant Krasnoyarsk congratulated the Armavir colleagues, who were delighted with the excellently designed workspace and also willingly shared their impressions.
The modern interior remarkably creates a positive and very working mood, things are arguing in the hands. The infrastructure here is excellent, and the time to travel home and work is significantly reduced. The warehouse is remarkably planned, the productivity will now be at an even greater height. Many members of the Armavir branch of the SNS wrote their reviews, right down to the CEO. It should be noted that the Rebranding project continues its implementation as planned by the company. In the near future, the same celebration will take place in Samara. Congratulations of colleagues from different parts of the country especially lighten the mood for employees.
People and money
The greatest value of each company is people, and the management of the SNS group of companies understands this well. The reviews of employees of Ivanovo, Tula and many other cities say that they were enthusiastic about the recently launched rebranding project, which involves updating the standards of equipment and decoration of warehouse and office premises in branches. The innovations were appreciated by the employees: the projects developed by architects for filling workspaces, and new design standards, and high comfort, and practicality.
Employees value their company. Judging by the information provided on the Internet on job portals, for example, in St. Petersburg, there is no turnover in the SNS, not a single free space is provided. In other cities, this is a completely different picture. Salaries that are offered to applicants in all cities are approximately the same. If the sales representative will receive forty thousand rubles, and the top manager - about thirty, then the picking driver is offered only twenty. And, judging by the reviews, the latter have exclusively nervous, very intense and financially responsible work. Among drivers, turnover is noted in all cities with a few exceptions.
Drivers reviews
From Moscow they write that in the office on Nagatinskaya during the interview it turned out that the driver will have constant processing, for which no additional fee is expected. A very strict check, almost like when applying for a job at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This is understandable, yet the driver is responsible for the quantity and quality of the goods received. Moreover, he sells it himself to retail outlets, and fills in the documentation, even copies the forms on his own. At the same time, drivers have an exceptionally high sales plan, which is rather difficult to fulfill, and cannot be fulfilled, because the working day will not be closed at all.
Cases are described when drivers draw up “fake” invoices and sell the goods to themselves so that they can later sell it somewhere (and most often those drinks and tobacco products that are not in special demand remain unsold). Drivers often sell their goods at a loss. And what to do, otherwise the proper salary will not be given. Also in the reviews it is almost always noted that the salary is not “white”. This means that contributions to the Pension Fund are minimal, as well as many other troubles due to such circumstances.
About fines and other troubles
Bitterly write not only drivers, but also managers who are not pleased with the new stylish offices, because the company, according to them, saves literally on everything, even on paper clips and buttons. The impossibility of taking a loan, because the salary is issued in an envelope, is “gray”, and sometimes “black”, and contributions to the PF have already been said. To this is added the fact that any color issued money is significantly less than the amount that should be due for the work done. Hence the flow. And also fines. This scourge of the workforce is even noted by the positive reviews of successful employees. Fines are not limited to anything, everything is at the request of the employer. They write about this even more than about the fact that the company distributes poison to society (both tobacco and energy tonic drinks are harmful, as you know).
It is especially bad when the office is not in the city center, and it is difficult to reach it by public transport. Penalties increase progressively for each next minute of being late. And they are fined for everything, as far as the head’s imagination is enough. If you have implemented the sales plan by the end of the month with tremendous stress, in the next - the plan will certainly increase. But not fulfilled - a fine. And still constantly need to beg sellers of outlets "Christ for" to take the goods, even if it is not enough running. Work begins at 7.30. Home sales representatives are well after 21 hours. That is, only at night. And the torn nerves will not let you sleep. Probably, the leaders of the "SNA" will soon have a priority to make the working conditions of ordinary employees. Otherwise, after all, profits will decrease.