Evaluation of Bestway Cement's Supply Chain Network

Abstract

Bestway Cement Ltd. Is a cement manufacturer company with 4 operational manufacturing plants on hand located in Hattar and Chakwal. Being the second largest cement producer in Pakistan and the largest exporter of cement in Pakistan, Bestway Cement maintains a large supply chain network in order to support its operations in the most effective and efficient manner. Bestway Cement ltd. is using specialized teams to handle different activities and operations that come under their supply chain network. Working with Bestway Cement ltd. provided us an impressive opportunity to understand and apply our concepts in the practical field. Our main focus in this study was to evaluate Bestway cement’s current supply chain practices and to study their on-going projects. After in-detail evaluation of the network, we provided and recommended solutions that are to improve their current practices and improve their efficiency and effectiveness by saving cost and time. By evaluating the network, we were able to find gaps which could use improvement. After detailed meetings and understands of Bestway Cement operations, we have come up with certain recommendations which could improve their current on-going projects which are been carried out by the logistics team. We recommended solutions to fully utilize the potential from their on-going projects that are Fleet Cards and Pakistan Railway Transport. Along with recommendations improving the on-going projects, we have recommended Bestway Cement ltd. to adopt the state of the art ERP system SAP in order improve their information flow across the company for more effectiveness and efficiency.