Automobile Industry Case Study

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Design and Study of Supply Chain Engineering In Automobile Industry D.Madhukar/s per 1st Affiliation (STUDENT) S.Shyam sunder Raos/s per 2nd Affiliation (PROF) Authors 1: M.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, VNRVJIET, Hyderabad, India Authors 2: PROFESSOR, Mechanical Engineering, VNRVJIET, Hyderabad, India Abstract- Supply chain engineering(SCM) the mostly used words in this globalization era, is used to integrate suppliers(vendors), manufacturing(producers), warehouse(stock keeping units) and customers, so that products produced, distributed and dispatched according to the specified quantities, qualities, place , and time to the customer. Its activities include acquiring and transformation raw material into a finished product ultimately delivered…show more content…
According to “colscm”,scm in automobile industry is “the process of planning, implementing, controlling efficiently and cost effective flow of material, in-process inventory, finished goods and related information from vendor to customer, for the purpose of conforming to customer requirements as efficiently as possible”. The automobile industry in India has a major part in SCES, particularly the automobile spares parts manufacturing industry. The quality of automobile depends on each and every part of it, mechanical, electrical, electronics, and other fields including the software embedded in the gadgets. Therefore, it is necessary for the automobile manufacturing to have control on the quality of the parts outsourced. It makes the scm inevitable in the automobile…show more content…
The configuration of chain depends upon the process and performance at each stage. The decision at this stage i.e. designs stage or strategic stage. The important decisions are selecting location, production, warehousing, capacity planning, product planning, product manufacturing, and mode of transport. Supply source are called SCD. for the SCD of foundries includes, supplies of steel scrap for melting, sand for molding and other materials to make the casting, and the different customers who purchases the casting, the capacity of modeling machine, melting furnace, capacity to produce the tonnage casings per month or year etc. SCD decision will have long term impact. These are very costly, expensive decisions which have long term impact. These are very costly, expensive decision which will impact next few years (4 to 5
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