Introduction

Nestle Pakistan works as a subsidiary of Nestle S.A. Nestle Pak started working in
Karachi since 1988 under a joint venture with MilkPak Ltd with its headquarters in
Lahore. Nestle Pak has four production facilities. Two of its factories are in the
heart of Punjab province: Sheikhupura and Kabir Wala which are multipurpose
factories, one is in Islamabad and the other in Karachi, Sindh which produces
bottled water. Nestle Pak is the biggest Milk collector in Pakistan. Currently it
collects milk from 190,000 farmers over 145,000 square kilo meter in Punjab and
Sind. With its 8000 brands worldwide. Nestle is the leading brand in beverages
and food industry. It has separate departments for supply chain management
which was founded in 2001. The objective behind the creation of separate
department of supply chain management is to ensure the smooth-running
operations from the supply of raw materials from farms or other sources to the
supply of finished products into the market.

Supply chain process of Nestle Milkpak Pakistan

Nestle Pakistan has a wide range of products from nutrition’s to beverages as so
we choose MilkPak to explain to explain the supply chain of Nestle Pakistan. Milk
is collected from more than 2000 villages centers and 500-600 sub centers and
then milk is transported to 25 main centers. In both stages the temperature of the
milk id kept at 4c to keep the quality of milk up to standard. After whole process
of milk collection, it is transported to the Sheikhupura and Kabir Wala factories, in
the processing stage milk is passed through different stages i.e., standardization,
pasteurization and packaging etc. After processing milk is then reached to the
factory warehouse which is near the premises of the factory, finally milk is
transported to the south north and the central regions. Then finally distributors of
Milkpak carry it and transport it to the super marts and retail shops so that it`s
available to the end consumers.
Warehouse of nestle in Karachi
Nestle products have been stored in different warehouse as the product move
from upstream to downstream by manufacturers, importers, exporters
distributors and by wholesalers. Manufacturers usually have large warehouse in
industrial areas near the processing plant where not only finished goods but also
raw materials are been stored, importers and exporters usually have warehouses
near ports where they can easily access to the products.