Kirana
Supply Chain Model for Kiranas in India
Executive Summary
Modern Retail has seen a significant growth in the past few years with large scale investments made by Indian corporate houses primarily in Food and Grocery retailing. The total retail (organised and unorganised) industry in India is estimated to be Rs 20 lakh crore in 2010. This is expected to reach Rs 27 lakh crore by 2015. Organised retail, which is estimated to be Rs 1.0 lakh crore (5 per cent share) in 2010, is projected to reach Rs 3.0 lakh crore (11 per cent share) by 2015. This means a tripling of the current size and scale of organised retail in the next five years, i.e. 2010 - 2015. While organised retail will grow at a fast pace, it is important to note that a larger part of the Rs 7.0 lakh crore growth in total retail will come from unorganised retail. This segment (unorganised retail) is projected to grow by over Rs 4.5 lakh crore in the next five years.
Kirana’s are a unique business model in india whereby the stores are run as a family business and is carried over from generation to generation within the famiy. But these Kirana stores are facing a huge threat of extinction especially in the metro cities due to the emergence of the large supermarket and other organised retail sector.
This project was the initiation of the project called as “KIRANA CONNECT” at V-OPT which is a vision of the senior management at the company. The company wants to design an effective supply chain model whereby the Kirana stores can make use of it to remain competitive and sustain in the market.
The project started with the literature review of the Kirana’s in India whereby we identified some of the key points based on which we started the design of our questionnaire. The entire project was done with the support of the worldwide wholesale giant “Metro Cash N Carry” Bangalore head office where Mr.Sebastin from Metro gave us key inputs to kick-start the project.
Based on our primary research
Executive Summary
Modern Retail has seen a significant growth in the past few years with large scale investments made by Indian corporate houses primarily in Food and Grocery retailing. The total retail (organised and unorganised) industry in India is estimated to be Rs 20 lakh crore in 2010. This is expected to reach Rs 27 lakh crore by 2015. Organised retail, which is estimated to be Rs 1.0 lakh crore (5 per cent share) in 2010, is projected to reach Rs 3.0 lakh crore (11 per cent share) by 2015. This means a tripling of the current size and scale of organised retail in the next five years, i.e. 2010 - 2015. While organised retail will grow at a fast pace, it is important to note that a larger part of the Rs 7.0 lakh crore growth in total retail will come from unorganised retail. This segment (unorganised retail) is projected to grow by over Rs 4.5 lakh crore in the next five years.
Kirana’s are a unique business model in india whereby the stores are run as a family business and is carried over from generation to generation within the famiy. But these Kirana stores are facing a huge threat of extinction especially in the metro cities due to the emergence of the large supermarket and other organised retail sector.
This project was the initiation of the project called as “KIRANA CONNECT” at V-OPT which is a vision of the senior management at the company. The company wants to design an effective supply chain model whereby the Kirana stores can make use of it to remain competitive and sustain in the market.
The project started with the literature review of the Kirana’s in India whereby we identified some of the key points based on which we started the design of our questionnaire. The entire project was done with the support of the worldwide wholesale giant “Metro Cash N Carry” Bangalore head office where Mr.Sebastin from Metro gave us key inputs to kick-start the project.
Based on our primary research