Supply Chain and Operations Assignment

Question 1:
At the beginning of 2000 India’s plans were not so close to Self-Reliance or ‘Aatmanirbhar
Bharat’. The entire concept of ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ was thrown out after coming to a
conclusion that any product that had to be sold in a market as big as that of India’s can be
outsourced. And because of this move, a lot of industries that had really good market
growth did not get any technological advancements at the right time. This indirectly
impacted where we stand today. We are relatively slow compared to the other developing
nations in arriving at the ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’ concept. But it is ‘Better late than never’.
More attention has to be provided to the export richness, domestic demand and domestic
outsourced manufacturing.
India completely missed out on the electronic revolution. India was dormant or not present
in the system at all during this period. We stand in the top 3 smartphone and electronics
markets in the world. But this does not show the right picture. Though the market is strong,
we are not self-reliant to manufacture these products. Though new assembly plants are
being set up at a good pace, manufacturing of raw products to completely assemble a
smartphone is still very far away from world standards.
China has always been focusing on the manufacturing sector. They have adopted the policy
of going for ‘Need to have’ rather than ‘Nice to have’. They completely enhanced their
manufacturing sectors with their workforce and policy changes that attracted a lot of
investments. And also with their already large and ample infrastructure they are pretty far
ahead compared to other countries and definitely India. To quickly get back in line with
China has been doing some of these could be followed:
1. Primary focus should be on industries that already make India Self-Reliant with high
operational efficiency – textile, chemical and software. The reliance on these
industries should be given more attention and further outsourcing has to be stopped
to make way for complete native applications.
2. Automobile sector has a huge impact on the economy and the GDP of our nation.
Currently we have a handful of companies that have a high global market share as
well. But we are not completely self – reliant in terms of manufacturing. Sourcing of
various parts are still done from other countries thus reducing the operational
efficiency. This was highly disrupted during the pandemic. Immediate focus should
be on trying to reduce this gap.
3. Pharmaceutical industries should up their game as well. Though India has a huge
market and a lot of exports we are still not completely self-reliant. This showed up
during the vaccine shortages in the pandemic. Operational efficiency can only be
matched when raw materials are available at the right place at the right time.
4. A significant drop in the tax rate of domestic manufacturing industries that are newly
set up will bring in a lot of investments both from India and other countries as well
because the net return to the investors will be really attractive.
5. Incentives have to be provided for logistics, fuel prices, raw materials, power and
inventory costs. This will attract more manufacturing added to the cheap labor
available combined with the abundant raw materials in India.
Question 2:
Supply Chain Model for WayCool – Indian Based Farm Company