Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Transportation
Packaging •Multi Modal Transportation System
•Introduction of Paper bags •Uses Water Transportation system
•Low pilferage and leakage of cement •Set up own ports and Freight handling terminals
•Collaboration with kochin port to build cement
•More presentable and enhances the visibility
storing infrastructure
at POS
•Routing and Scheduling for shortest possible
•Charges premium on paper packaging routes
Warehousing
• Two types of warehouses, Dumps and
Transshipment point storage
• Warehouses are connected online with marketing
and production units
• Strategic locations of warehouses based on
Transportation facility, tax factor, cheap
manpower
LOGISTICS INITIATIVES AT
AMBUJA Pillars of Logistics Management
System at Ambuja
Inventory Management
Logistics Packaging
Initiatives
Transportation
Cross
Fusion of IT
Functional
with logistics
Approach
Warehousing
LOGISTICS INITIATIVES AT AMBUJA
Production
Department
Accounts Cross
Sales and Recommendation to
Functional Top Management for
Distributio
Committe n Immediate Action
e
Transportatio
Warehousing
n
ORDER PROCESSING SYSTEM
Informa
Transmi Retrieva Dispatch Adjustm
Paper tion to
ssion of l from Packagi to ent of
Processi producti
Custom wareho ng Transpo Inventor
ng on
er Order use rter y Level
planning
First to Introduce
Paper Bags
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
• Infrastructure boom and • Rising input cost of materials
government expenditure in like Limestone, Gypsum
programs like Housing for All • High cost of mining due to high
• Low Per capita consumption of duty and stricter environmental
175 kg as compared to 250 kg in regulations
developed countries • Threat of New Entrants
• Industry not influenced by rapid
technological obsolescence
Weakness in logistics &
Recommendation
Weakness Recommendation
Freight cost is 18% of total Outsourcing to large 3PL service
Plants are quite far from mining areas like providers
Bihar & Meghalaya
Use tools to design network for
Inadequate availability of wagons
multimodal transportation