E-SUPPLY CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
OF
AMUL
Prepared by:
Vaibhav Shah
09MBA47
Flow of Presentation
Introduction of Amul
GCMMF: An Overview
Amul Product Diversification
Amul Competitors
Supply Chain Management of Amul
Component of E-SCM
Working of E-SCM
Supply and Distribution
Amul Cyber Store
Strong initiative in E-commerce
Benefits of E-SCM
Achievement and Future Plans.
AMUL – Taste Of India
Formed in the year 1946 Amul is the leading food brand
in India
Amul initiated the dairy co-operative movement in India
and formed an apex co-operative organization called
Gujarat co-operative Milk Marketing Federation
(GCMMF) and today 70,000 villages and 200 districts in
India are part of it.
GCMMF markets its products through 50 sales offices
throughout India and distribution is done through a
network of 4,000 stockiest who in turn supply 500,000
retail outlets.
GCMMF: An Overview
Members 12 district co-operative milk
producers union
No of producing members 2.79 million
No of village societies 13,328
Milk collection(2008-2009) 3.05 billion liters
Milk collection (Daily average) 8.4 million liters
Milk Drying capacity 626 metric tonnes daily per day
Sales Turnover(2008-2009) Rs 29658 million
GCMMF is an apex co-operative organization that comprises of
affiliated member dairies/district milk unions each having it’s own
manufacturing unit. These member dairies collect milk from members
who supply milk twice a day.
Amul competitors
Products / brands competitors
Britannia , nestle.
Britannia
Nestle , Heinz
Cadbury , nestle
Pizza hut, dominos
Supply Chain Management
Of Amul
Amul uses E- SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
E-SCM may be described as the integrated
management approach for planning and controlling the
flow of materials from suppliers to the end users using
internet technologies.
E-SCM refers to the complex network of relationship
that organizations maintain with trading partner to
source, manufacture and deliver the products.
Components of E-SCM
E-SCM Diagram of Amul
Working of E-SCM
Amul has installed over 3000 automatic milk collection system units
(AMCUS) at village societies to capture member information, milk fat
content and amount payable to each member.
Each member is given plastic card for indentification
Computer calculate amount due to the farmer on the basis of the fat
content
The value of the milk is printed out on the slip and handed over to the
farmer ,who collects the payment from the adjacent window
Thus with the help of it farmer gets the payment within the minutes
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On the logistic more than 5000 trucks move milk from the villages
to 200 dairy processing plants twice a day according to a carefully
planned scheduled
Every day Amul collects 7 million liters of milk from 2.6 million
farmers (many illiterate), converts the milk into branded, packaged
products, and delivers goods to over 500,000 retail outlets across
the country
ERP software named as enterprise wide integrated application
system covers a operation like planning advertisement and
promotion and distribution network planning.
Each Amul office are connected via internet and all of them send
daily reports on sales and inventory to the main system at Anand,
Supply & Distribution
At the supply end a computerized database has been setup of all
suppliers & their cattle.
Computer equipment measures & records qualities & quantities
collected.
At the distribution end stockists have been provided with basic
computer skills. Amul experts assist them
in building promotional web pages.
Amul Cyber stores have been setup in
India, USA, Singapore and Dubai
Amul Cyber store
Strong Initiatives in E-commerce
Amul has linked distributors to the network & also
incorporated web pages of top retailers on their website
Distributors can place their order on website
amulb2b.com
Automated supply & delivery chain
Practices just in time supply chain management with six
sigma accuracy
7 Ways to reduce inventory
1. Improve data accuracy
2. Cut your lead time
3. Increase the velocity of your operation
4. Eliminate misalignment from your process
5. Clean your attic
6. Eliminate variation
7. Replenish based on market demand
Benefits of E-SCM
Supports exchange of real time information
Platform independent
Web visibility & processing capability 24/7
Return on investment
It has open internet application architecture
which allows for Rapid deployment & scalability
combining unlimited users in real time
environment
Incorporates broadcast & active messaging
Achievements
CIO 100 awards recognizes organization around the world that
excel in positives business performance through internet and it
management
GCMMF also won the prestigious Ramakrishna Bajaj national
quality award in 2003.
Future Plans
Introduce Internet Banking Services & ATMs which will
enable Milk societies to credit payments directly to
seller’s bank account
Officials at amul are looking at upgrading the plastic
cards which are being currently used only for
identification purposes, to smart cards which can be
used to withdraw cash from ATMs.
