Get acquainted with… Sukanya Yusako

Over the past 15 years, she has seen Snijpunt grow from 8 to now sometimes 80 employees. During that time, she was given and seized the opportunity to grow and achieve her goals. According to Mark Kalle, it is, therefore, time to introduce Sukanya Yusako and highlight the production process in which she has a lot of experience.  

From Buriram to The Netherlands

Sukanya was born 40 years ago in Thailand, on a rice farm. A real family business, where her brother stills works today. She grew up in the Thai city of Buriram and left for The Netherlands in 2004 at the age of 24. She moved here in search of a good future for herself and her family, who stayed behind in Thailand.

In recent years, thanks to her work in the Netherlands, Sukanya has been able to build a house in Thailand for her family and to buy a piece of land for herself – for later - on which rice is now also grown.

Because this hard work is not very profitable, Sukanya continues to take care of her family from here. In the meantime, she has also set up a motorcycle shop in Thailand with her brother. She is a real busy bee.

Planning and organizing

At Snijpunt, Sukanya makes sure that the planning of all orders is streamlined on a daily basis. Together with a team of colleagues, she organizes the work in a way that everyone can perform his or her tasks efficiently. Everyone in this team of colleagues has his or her own specialism.

When we ask Sukanya what she likes most about her job, it is evident that she likes a challenge: “Completing all orders successfully on busy days. Obviously with people around me who are just as motivated to achieve this.”

Improvement and growth

Her main goals at Snijpunt are to achieve both the productivity standard and efficiency daily. “All the variables that influence this, motivate me to make it better every day. Personally, I think it is important to work with people who are happy to work at Snijpunt and who show they also want to grow.”

Taking the expansion of Snijpunt and the entire production area into use offers the opportunity to run more production lines and to grow further. “This is great to see, it motivates me and my colleagues. Just like they carefully looked at lightening or reducing heavier work for the band leaders.”

A second home

Sukanya is very happy and grateful Snijpunt has given her a chance and has confidence in her doing this work and this position. “Snijpunt feels like a second home to me and that ensures that I always put the company first in the decisions I make. Because of this, I have been able to build a good future perspective for myself and my family and I am grateful to them for that.”

Honesty and respect are core values that are paramount for Sukanya in everything she does. Her promise to the customers of Snijpunt is that she will always be 100 per cent committed to achieving the quality level in an efficient way.

Looking back and ahead

Unfortunately, this year we experienced the effects of Covid-19. “At times this has presented considerable challenges for us in terms of flexibility,” says Sukanya. “For example, to keep all employees satisfied and motivated. Ultimately, I am proud that we are doing this well together and are still working with a permanent team that wants to bring this to a successful conclusion together.”

Looking ahead to the next season, Sukanya hopes that Snijpunt will be able to convert the expansion in its product range into streamlined production lines. And can realize further sales growth this way.

In the more distant future, she would prefer to export self-grown products from Thailand to Snijpunt, for example. "That way I can offer my village a bright future and still maintain the relationship with Snijpunt."

Sukanya would like to invite Asia Reducha to introduce herself in the next newsletter. "She makes the daily planning, maintains contacts with employment agencies and, together with me, arranges the execution of daily production activities."