TO STUDY SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOP SOLUTIONS FOR REDUCING THE SUPPLY CHAIN COST OF LPG DISTRIBUTION IN PAKISTAN.PDF

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.