Abstract:
Today’s economic downfall scenarios and competitive global business
environment have offered challenge for maintaining the consumer prices.
The consumer prices have become very important especially for those
business products which involve large distribution of retailer or consumer
goods movements. Now the cost of product is amongst the major
challenges for the companies to survive in a competitive business
environment.
The thesis includes an insight into the basics of the supply chain and the
supply chain management for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) distribution
in Pakistan. The transportation cost is amongst the greater barrier for
firm’s profitability and increased consumer price especially in LPG
distribution. The focus of study is made on the reduction of costs of LPG
transportation/distribution for an LPG marketing company in Pakistan. It
also includes a detailed study of LPG business in Pakistan.
The supply chain definitions, supply chain models, S.W.O.T., Principles
of supply chain, just in time theories and transportation model (linear
program model) have been used to reduce the supply chain cost.
An effort is made to make a new optimized model (or reduced cost
model) in order to lower the consumer price, increase profitability,
efficiency, effectiveness, customer satisfaction etc.
