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1.1 INTRODUCTION
Cargo Partners Logistics is one of the leading shipping agencies in India. It is
known for best service proving industry. In this type of service providing Industry supply
chain management is a major part in transit of the goods and its maintenance of the
warehouse and how it is effectively transferred the goods from the suppliers to customers.
The present study is about the supply chain management in Cargo Partners logistics.
The primary task of the study is to analyze the overall performance of the supply
chain management. It is also done to search for the problems faced in each and every
chain of goods movements, and to effectively handle in the situations where the
movement of goods is stopped due to various reasons such as:
To also find out the various levels of the flow of channels through which the
goods are transferred from the suppliers to the dealers and then delivered to the
customers.
This study gives a brief report of the logistics management and the challenges
faced through the company in the movement of various goods through different modes
and their maintenance capabilities.
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
If your company makes a product from parts purchased from suppliers, and those
products are sold to customers, then you have a supply chain. Some supply chains are
simple, while others are rather complicated. The complexity of the supply chain will vary
with the size of the business and the intricacy and numbers of items that are
manufactured.
A simple supply chain is made up of several elements that are linked by the movement of
products along it. The supply chain starts and ends with the customer.
• Customer: The customer starts the chain of events when they decide to purchase
a product that has been offered for sale by a company. The customer contacts the
sales department of the company, which enters the sales order for a specific quantity
to be delivered on a specific date. If the product has to be manufactured, the sales
order will include a requirement that needs to be fulfilled by the production facility.
• Inventory: The raw materials are received from the suppliers, checked for quality
and accuracy and moved into the warehouse. The supplier will then send an invoice
to the company for the items they delivered. The raw materials are stored until they
are required by the production department.
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• Production: Based on a production plan, the raw materials are moved inventory
to the production area. The finished products ordered by the customer are
manufactured using the raw materials purchased from suppliers. After the items have
been completed and tested, they are stored back in the warehouse prior to delivery to
the customer.
To ensure that the supply chain is operating as efficient as possible and generating the
highest level of customer satisfaction at the lowest cost, companies have adopted Supply
Chain Management processes and associated technology. Supply Chain Management has
three levels of activities that different parts of the company will focus on: strategic;
tactical; and operational.
• Tactical: Tactical decisions focus on adopting measures that will produce cost
benefits such as using industry best practices, developing a purchasing strategy with
favored suppliers, working with logistics companies to develop cost effect
transportation and developing warehouse strategies to reduce the cost of storing
inventory.
• Operational: Decisions at this level are made each day in businesses that affect
how the products move along the supply chain. Operational decisions involve
making schedule changes to production, purchasing agreements with suppliers,
taking orders from customers and moving products in the warehouse.
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1.2. COMPANY PROFILE
CARGO PARTNER AG, a Global Logistics company located at Fischamend, near the
Vienna Airport – Austria, is engaged in Airfreight and Ocean freight activities.
Mission
Cargo Partner specializes in the global shipping of AIR and SEAFRIEGHT
including all proceeding and following services. Geographically the company is based in
Central and Eastern Europe but operates worldwide.
Starting out as regional provider, time defined air and sea cargo products,
continuous tracking & tracing via internet as well as straight forward transparent
calculations have made cargo partner an international freighter acting worldwide.
E- Business is the living reality, which the company strives to improve and refine
every day.
Cargo Partner defines its services by very important claim “passion for
excellence” company’s intention is to be the most friendly, innovational and proactive
provider.
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HISTORY
Cargo Partner is EURO 198 Million Company opened its doors to the public on
September 21, 2006. All activities of the entire Cargo Partner Group are controlled and
coordinated at the headquarter in Fischamend. The numbers for the past business year
are an impressive – 70,000 tons of air cargo & 480,000 tons of sea cargo.
As a business group, CARGO PATNER derives its competitive advantage
through its core competency – sustainable service. It is unique service with which it
creates wealth for the GROUP and its stakeholders. The quality of services are defined
by the claim ‘The Passion For Excellence” and company’s slogan “ We Take It
Personality”
It goes without saying that CARGO PARTNER is an independent and flexible
logistics PARTNER ready to meet its clients’ needs on a very notice with special focus
on personalized attention. It also goes without saying that CARGO PARTNER will
provide product-specific logistics services to all customers. Reliable Solutions and an
excellent network in central and Eastern Europe since 1993 and Western Europe
since 1999 with focus on Asian sub-continent, set Cargo Partner’s services apart.
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Expansion Plan In Asia
The successful expansion of Cargo Partner covering 2 big countries – India with
own offices at 9 major cities & also Greater China with own offices. Apart from
Europe, India & China in Asia, cargo partner has its own offices in Hong Kong and US.
Rest of the world, the company is dealing with, are through the best of agents.
Air Imports
Air Exports
Custom Clearance
Ocean Import & Exports
Door to Door
Supply Chain Logistics
Road Transportation
Project Cargo
The company is geared up to handle exports & imports from any corner of the
world into India and vice versa.
IT Infrastructure
The latest IT network of Cargo Partner AG, is under implementation in India and
very soon all the offices in India would be directly connected to Cargo Partner network
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globally. Thus CP India will be able to extend global networking from one platform &
customers’ services will be upgraded substantially.
The Future
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1.4 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
the minute details and the main elements involved in a product. The Role of Logistics is
to maintain that balance. Once the firm realizes the importance of logistics it is necessary
that the firm make full and efficient use of logistics. The first step is to create a buyer
value for the customer and a strategic value for the firm.
The customer is the most important asset for a company. He drives the entire
supply chain including manufacturing, marketing and logistics. Hence it is important for
a firm to have a clear understanding of what the customer demands and to keep up to the
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CHAPTER – II
Literature Review
1. Author:
Year - [2008]
Keywords:
ABSTRACT:
The model is a self-assessment questionnaire to be used at site level which can give
management and insurance companies an indication of what needs to be improved to
reduce the potential negative business profit impact from a disruption somewhere in the
supply chain.The study involves a lens with factors based on a literature survey.
Documented cases were then examined through the lens to find key factors for effective
BCM. The model was validated through a test on six company affiliates together with
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expert opinions.
2. Author:
Year - [2007]
Keywords:
Just-in-time JIT ; /about//; Vendor Managed Inventory VMI ; /about//; supplier selection;
/about//; Supply Chain Management;
ABSTRACT:
It is widely known that firms no longer can compete effectively in isolation of their
suppliers and other entities. The future success of many businesses depends on co-
operation and the co-ordination of efforts; making Supply Chain Management important.
JIT and VMI are two of the philosophies that have been used to update supply chain
relationships and management. By recognising your own supply weaknesses, the need for
a supply strategy and a purchasing portfolio which classify suppliers emerges.
There is an interest in examining what possible benefits and drawbacks, JIT and VMI
collaboration can bring and how they differ from each other. In order to have a successful
collaboration and implementation, it is important to know what basis to choose suppliers
on and understand what needs to be in place, internally and externally, before starting
either a JIT or VMI relationship with different suppliers.
An inductive method was used in order to transform the literature review into a case
study research. Explanatory and exploratory strategy was combined as well as qualitative
and quantitative data collection such as oral interviews and written questionnaires. The
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case study was carried out at an accessory purchasing department at a large production
company referred to as the “Focal company” in this thesis. Also, participating in the
study were selected suppliers of the Focal company.
The literature review and the case study data was analysed which led to the results that:
• JIT and VMI can shorten lead time, improve quality and relationships if used properly,
otherwise it can lead to increased inventory levels.
• Key factors for enabeling JIT and VMI are common goals, management commitment,
accurate information and suitable software systems.
• Suitable suppliers for JIT and VMI are companies that have equal dependency and/or
have interdependency and are willing and able to contribute to the competitive advantage
of the buying firm.
• With a few IT-system updates, a little bit of education and training the Focal company
and most of the suppliers in this study are ready for VMI.
• Because of the good balance of power and dependence in the relationships between the
Focal company and their suppliers there is a good chance of a successful outcome.
• The Focal company’s rating criteria are well correlating with the literatures findings,
which further support that they are ready to select suppliers for integrated relationships.
CHAPTER – III
INTRODUCTION
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Research is a systemized effort in gain knowledge. It can also be referred
to as ‘THE SEARCH OF KNOWLEDGE’. Research methodology is a technique used to
systematically solve a research problem. It helps the researcher to know which research
method and analysis could be utilized to bring out a possible solution for a research
problem. The researcher should know why a particular technique to the project.
The type of research design used in this project was the descriptive
research. Because, it helps to describe the characteristics of a particular group of people,
working within a company. The characteristics of a work group may differ in many ways
in different companies. Each group may have separate reasons for exhibiting such
characteristics within the company. The descriptive study was carried out to seek these
reasons. Careful design of descriptive studies was necessary to ensure that complete
interpretation of the situation and to ensure minimum bias in the collection of data.
It is necessary for every research to have both primary data and secondary
data, without which the research would be inefficient, In this research the primary data
was collected by means of a structured questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of
twenty-nine questions inquiring various factors related to their Welfare measures in
Cargo Partners Logistics.
The secondary data was collected through company profile, journals,
websites and other database of the company. All these data were helpful in carrying out
the analysis.
The source from where data can be acquired is known as data source.
Other researchers did data collection with a review of previous research. In this there are
basically two method of collection of data.
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Primary data collection
Secondary data collection.
Primary data is the first hand information, which the researcher gets from
the population. The tool for collecting primary data is “Questionnaire”. These data are
collected directly from the employees of Cargo Partner Logistics.
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Research design acts as the blueprint for the research by using this
framework the researcher moves step by step in to the research process. It constitutes the
basic forms for the collection, measurement and analysis of data. Research design stands
for the advanced planning of the methods to be adopted for collection of relevant data.
Moreover it explains about the techniques to be used in the analysis, keeping in view the
objective of the research and availability of staff, time and money. This research design
was selected based on the objective on the study and keeping in mind the time and
availability of recourses for the research.
Sample size here I look the sample on random basis and the sample size
was taken of 300 to 150 samples.
CHAPTER – IV
ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
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1 Less than 1 year 22 18.33
2 1-3 years 36 30
3 4-5 years 48 40
4 More than 5 14 11.66
years
Total 120 100
60
50
No of respondents
40
30 Series1
20
10
0
less 1 1-3years 4-5 years more5
No of years
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Data source : Data gathered from the primary source.
70
60
50
No of 40
respondents 30 Series1
20
10
0
airways shipping roadways
Modes
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Data source: Data gathered from the primary source.
70
60
50
No of 40
respondents 30
Series1
20
10
0
very good Good Average poor
Ratings
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FIGURE 4.2.4- SHOWS THAT DISTRIBUTION OF
RESPONDENTS BASED ON THE QUANTITY BEEN
TRANSPORTED.
45
40
35
30
No of 25
respondents 20
Series1
15
10
5
0
less 100 100-200 200-300 more 300
No of tons
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FIGURE 4.2.5- SHOWS THAT DISTRIBUTION OF
RESPONDENTS BASED ON WARE HOUSING IN DAYS.
70
60
50
No of respondents
40
Series1
30
20
10
0
3-5days 6-8days 9-12days more 12
No of days
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FIGURE 4.2.6- SHOWS THAT DISTRIBUTION OF
RESPONDENTS BASED ON EXPORT PLACES.
80
70
60
50
No of
40
respondents Series1
30
20
10
0
eastern western north east
Countries
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FIGURE 4.2.7- SHOWS THAT DISTRIBUTION OF
RESPONDENTS BASED ON FREIGHT CHARGES.
80
70
60
50
No of
40
respondents
Series1
30
20
10
0
very high high normal low
Rating
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yes
No
22
yes
No
23
yes
No
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Mostly exported is done in eastern countries.
countries.
CHAPTER 6
6.1 Conclusion
6.2 BIBILIOGRAPHY
3. WEBSITES:
WWW.GOOGLE.COM
WWW.CARGO-PARTNER.COM
6.3 ANNEXURE
QUESTIONAIRE
A STUDY OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
CARGO PARTNER LOGISTICS INDIA PVT. LTD,
COIMBATORE.
2) Designation :
3) Product manufactured :
9) How many days does your company warehouse your products before
exporting?
a) 3-5days b) 5-8days
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a) Yes b) no
13) Does your company face major problems while shipping through Cargo
Partner Logistics
a) Yes b) no
14) Does your company handle a system of insurance for your products
exported?
a) Yes b) no
If yes specify_____________________
15) Does the Cargo Partner logistics give any zero defect guarantee
a) Yes b) no
17) What is the credit limit given to you by Cargo Partner shipping
logistics?
19) What are the storing and carrying cost of the inventory?
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a) 5%-10% b) 10%-15% c) 15%-20%
c) if others specify______________________
c) If others specify__________________________
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