The Ancillary & Sub-Contract Exchange division of this Institute undertakes a number of activities such as Vendor Development Programme (VDP) & Exhibition for the development of Ancillary SSI Units to assist SSI Entrepreneurs in promotion of their products and to facilitate in marketing of their products. These serve as an ideal common platform for both the SSI units and large scale units for meeting each others need. Such programmes help to identify areas of common interest and to forge linkages through Sub-Contracting and Ancillarization so that the advantages enjoyed by the Small Units in production, such as, lower over heads, flexibility in production and ability to take small orders etc can be combined with marketing strength of large units and their adherence to quality standards and capacity to take large orders for mutual benefits. To mention a few, in all these programmes large scale PSUs like Railways, All the Defence Establishment, Oil Refinery PSUs such as ONGC, State PSUs like MSRDC participated along with the Private Sector majors like Mahindra & Mahindra, Godrej, Crompton & Greaves. Vendor Development Programmes are conducted at National Level & International Levels also.