A big Thank You to each one of the people involved with me and helped and stood by me during my year-long project.
I am grateful to my guide for being patient and kind and poring through all my documents with great attention and care. He took great pains to go through the entire project and make necessary corrections as and when required.
A deep sense of gratitude to the ACL team comprising Wilson Fernandes, SCM Head; A. Singhal, Purchasing Manager; and Sanjay Gupta, Head Marketing, without who my paper would not have been complete.
I would also like to thank my institution and faculty members without whom this project would have been a distant reality.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Ambuja Cement Limited (ACL) previously known as Gujarat Ambuja Cement Limited is an Old buzzword in Indian CEMENT market. With Strategic Alliance with world’s largest cement manufacturer, HOLCIM a Swiss base company acquires a strong hold on its quality and know-how that is not second to any other cement manufacturing company.
ACL is surging towards more and more innovations to offer nothing but the very best and the latest CEMENT manufacturing technology to esteemed customers. Thus, ACL is able to monitor the quality from the very beginning till the final product.
The manufacturing process at ACL is of paramount importance. The process uses state-of-art production technology of the production management. The company is actively involved in environment protection and product design to assure consistent quality and optimize the cost for its customers.
This project is a study of value chain analysis of ACL and to find how ACL is creating value for its customer and understanding of its Supply chain management system to know where ACL stands in compare to other cement companies.
The project is completed using Questionnaire for the Interview and observation of the company SCM system in plants. The analysis is based on