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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
C K N O W L E D G E M E N T
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EXECUTIVE S UMMARY
X E C U T I V E U M M A R Y
We also highlight our commitment to Best Practice, not just within our
company, but encouraging other companies and individuals on to being
the very best that they can be. Presenting our commitment to a healthy
environment through our own initiatives, to manage the impact of our
activities and by encouraging that commitment in others. EBM has a
vision for a brighter future and we believe that this report demonstrates
our commitment to realizing that future, through our actions, through our
own plans for the future, and through everything that we are.
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TABLE OF CONTENT
Company introduction
Vision
Mission
Values
Policies
Product line
Major suppliers
Major competitor
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THE LEGEND
INTRODUCTION:
English Biscuit Manufacturers (Private) Limited was established as a joint venture company in
1965 with the name of Peek Freans Pakistan Limited. In 1966, the UK sponsor company was
renamed Associated Biscuits International Limited (ABIL), while the venture was renamed
English Biscuit Manufacturers (Private) Limited (EBM), which stands to date. EBM started
manufacturing and marketing the world famous Peek Freans range in 1967 in order to provide
Pakistani consumers with nutritious and hygienically packed biscuits of the highest quality.
EBM has been in the business of manufacturing and marketing branded biscuits in Pakistan for
over 40 years. The brand name 'Peek Freans' is a household name, and people trust and believe in
the quality of the products produced under this brand. EBM is also the first biscuit company in
Pakistan to have achieved ISO - 9001 Certification in correspondence with its institutional
slogan 'The Legend Leads'. The achievement also endorses the company's firm commitment to
high standards of quality.
English Biscuit Manufacturers (Pvt) Ltd., or (EBM), is the country's leading manufacturer of
biscuits and cookies since 1967, with an annual sales volume and production capacity of more
than 90,000 tons and a turnover of more than Rs. 12 billion. EBM is the only Company in the
industry to have achieved recognized international certifications pertaining to quality control,
environmental management system and human resources management, including ISO
9001:2000, ISO 14001:2004, HACCP certifications and IIP (Investors in People) Recognition.
EBM is also the only food company to have been awarded Environmental Excellence Award for
seven successive years 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010.
VISION:
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To constantly endeavor for the acquisition of knowledge and excellence in developing human
skills, product innovations and state-of-the-art technologies.
To be a good corporate citizen by giving back to the community and improving the lives of
the underprivileged.
To dispense equitably, fairly, and with compassion, the fruits of success among our “partners
in business”.
To become a partner with the Government in sharing the responsibility of economic and
social uplift and development of Pakistan.
MISSION:
Strive for highly responsible management.
VALUES:
We believe that no individual is bigger than the
institution.
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POLICIES:
EBM Quality Management System binds the management and employees of the company to
follow core policies:
We will critically examine and continuously review all aspects of operations, from
procurement to be distribution of finished products, to identify any shortcomings or space
for cost - effective improvement and will undertake appropriate quality – enhancement
measure.
We will identify and, where possible, anticipate changes in consumer tastes and
preferences through Market Research, on the one hand, while Technical Research and
Development on the other, in other to retain leading edge in product and process
development.
We will endeavor to recognize and establish Beat Practice criteria for all aspects of the
company's activities, including the maintenance of environmental protections and safety
standards.
We will undertake continuous appraisal, feedback and training of our personnel at every
level to ensure optimum levels of productivity, creativity and job satisfaction.
The Management believes that every member of the organization at every level shares
and fully affirms the Company's Quality Commitment.
Every member of EBM team is committed to owing this philosophy and has mind-set to produce
the best of products under the Trade Mark of "Peek Freans" and has inculcated this qualitative
culture which gives EBM a competitive edge in keeping its customers satisfaction".
ENVIRONMENT POLICY:
"The EBM Management takes environment as a part of its cultural ethos and deeply committed
to consistently deliver high quality products. It is EBM‘s mission to strive continuously for
environmentally friendly technologies based on a highly responsible management and regulatory
requirements. Aiming to protect and preserve the environment for our employees, our valued
customers, our business associates and the community at large."
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CREAM BISCUITS:
Lemon and chocolate
sandwich
Rio
CRACKERS:
Butter Puff
Saltish
NUTS:
Party
Peanut Pick
Peanut Pista
COMPETITOR:
The major competitor of English biscuits is CONTINENTAL BISCUITS (LU),
But EBM’s strong planning, management and rational decision making took back the market.
Since then, EBM has been growing fast and has left its competitor far behind.
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The management of this chain of events is what is known as Supply Chain Management. To be
more precise Supply Chain Management can be defined as:
STRUCTURE
PROCUREMENT WAREHOUSIN
OR SOURCING G
DIRECT INDIRECT
MATERIAL MATEIAL
RAW PACKAGING
MATERIA
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The structure of supply chain department of English Biscuits is divided into two broad
categories:
Procurement or sourcing.
Warehousing.
1. PROCUREMENT OR SOURCING:-
EBM’s sub-divide their procurement section into two parts:
Domestic procurement.
Imports.
DOMESTIC PROCUREMENT:
Direct material
Indirect material
DIRECT MATERIAL:
RAW MATERIAL
The raw materials basically are ingredients material which are using in English Biscuits products
such as eggs, flour, milk, sugar, cocoa etc.
PACKAGING MATERIAL
EBM’s product packaging involves three packaging material that is master carton, dispensers
and films.
INDIRECT MATERIAL:
Indirect material are those material which are uses in the factory but that are not directly related
to the products such as computer equipment ,marketing stuff, tool , stores/equipment, medicines
and stationary.
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IMPORTS:
The EBM appoint two officers who dealing the imports of raw material that is using in products,
the factory tools and spare parts of machinery and equipment.
2. WAREHOUSING:-
EBM’S has three warehouses:
Raw material store are those in which they store their raw material stock which are using in their
products such as eggs, milk, flour and cocoa etc.
Packing material store is that store in which they store all their packaging material that is films,
dispensers and master carton.
Finished goods store are those in which they store their finished goods that’s products.
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RAW
MATERIAL
SUPPLIER
RETAILER COMPONENT
SUPPLIER
DISTRIBUTION PRIMARY
WAREHOUSE MANUFACTURER
EBM’s supply chain process is comprised of a series of interdependent steps and starts with the
collection of raw materials and ends with packaged brands on customer's shelves. The Supply
Chain Management at EBM ensures that appropriate quality standards are upheld and maintained
at each link in the chain.
Forecasting
Planning
Manufacturing
Deployment
Suppliers
Distribution
The consumer / shopper
FORECASTING:
Forecasting is a vital element of the business, and can be defined as an unconditional statement
of demand of biscuits. Simply put, a forecast predicts how much demand there will be in the
market for a specific product over a certain period.
PLANNING:
The function of planning is to convert marketing forecasts into manufacturing plans. The
planning department works closely with the various operations to ensure that manufacturing
plans are accurately converted into monthly and weekly production plans and budgets.
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Planning is also responsible for monitoring and controlling the amount of stock the company
holds and for ensuring that the correct stock holding levels are maintained to meet customer
service requirement.
MANUFACTURING:
The manufacturing process at EBM involves the conversion of raw and packaging material into
finished product in the most cost effective manner possible. EBM manufactures all of its own
products, and production takes place at the two factories located in Karachi and Hattar.
DEPLOYMENT:
The function of marketing and sales is to market the product with the aim of maximizing the
profit of the firm. Effective policies and strategies are made for this purpose.
SUPPLIERS:
For every item EBM have 3 to 4 suppliers, so to cope with any uncertainty.
DISTRIBUTION:
Simply defined, distribution involves the execution (delivery) of sales orders to a customer.
EBM has more than 350 distributors all over Pakistan.
The shopper and consumer are the individuals who eventually buy and consume EBM’s
products.
A shopper is the person who purchases the product in store, whereas a consumer is the person
who eventually consumes the product. In many instances the shopper and consumer are one and
the same.
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SALES FORECAST:
In any industrial unit or FMGC unit planning starts from sales forecast. In EBM, sales forecast
for the coming month is provided before the end of current month and sometimes forecast of two
additional months is provided in advances. Now the forecast is for the months of October,
November and December. The benefit from it is that we get an idea about the trend coming.
PRODUCTION PLANNING:
On the basis of sales forecast production department will start production
planning. Production capacity will either be above from sales forecast or
below the forecast it’s never in line with production capacity. If it is above
the production capacity than material flow from opening stocks. If it is
below production capacity than production department will have to take
decision either to produce less or to produce maximum in order to build
further stocks. The trend that EBM follow is to build further stocks. Let
say for example in the month of Ramadan if we have 100% production
capacity and the demand is for 35% we opt for producing 100%. By
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producing 100% we took 15% of that 100% to our opening stocks for the next month. On the
basis of production planning we break them in to the components known as MRP.
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Construction.
Analytical Lab (Centre of Excellence C.O.E )
Packaging Lab
Microbiological Lab
Process Lab
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LEAD TIME:
The lead time of every product of EBM is different from other
products. let say e.g. if we needs eggs we get them on one day notice
so we don’t need a huge stocks or to have maximum ordering lead
time. We order one day and on the very next day material is
available to us. We hold 2-3 days of material in stocks. When there
are those products which need either more production time or the
suppliers have schedules to provide material then we set lead times
accordingly.
On an average the lead time of local manufacturing products is 21 to 25 days, it may extend to a
maximum of 30 days depending on their requirements.
FOR IMPORTS:
In case of imports the lead time is about 2 to 4 months. For different origins and different
products lead times will be different.
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TIER 1 TIER 2
The buying at EBM takes place at two tier level. Tier 1 is our supplier. Tier 2 is our supplier
supplier’s. We monitor international and national prices where we see synergies we say our
converters to book orders. Converters are the one who are purchasing us (SC department) do not
have any money involvement in it. But the decision is our, we decide the price point of material.
In material pricing we see the main components such as films, what we do we collaborate with
local or international suppliers and crack a deal because obviously our volumes are huge and
when we deal in with large volumes we get synergy’s, our converters deal on our behalf and get
those volumes if e.g. requirement for a particular material is around 150 to 200 tons for a month.
Individual vendor will not be able to provide material of more than 30 to 40 ton.
When that individual vendor go to either local or international supplier with 30 to 40 ton volume
it will be expensive because price will be set on individual ton as it is less in quantity. What we
do we go to the party and state our requirement which is around 200 to 300 tons of volumes and
on the basis of huge volumes we get a very a good price. Afterward we allocate those volumes to
our individual converters e.g. 30 ton belongs to converter 1, 50 ton to converter 2 and it goes
further on until all is allocated. If it is an international party the converter opens LC and if it’s
local converter directly purchase it. The benefit we get that we cover 70% out of that 80%. We
are controlling the suppliers by helping them buy less expensive material.
Another important thing that we do we negotiate with our suppliers on conversion cost.
Annually we sit and discuss issues like inflationary effects, utility expense, labor cost etc for
the year. We negotiate hard and set the final conversion cost for the year. It addresses 15%
or 20% of the components.
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EXPORTS:
LEVEL OF UNCERTAINTY:
As we are sitting in FMGC the level of uncertainty could be either +100 or -100. Because on the
shop consumer decides which biscuit they want to buy. Supply chain officer said himself he had
never seen pre calculated buying.
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STRA
TEGIC LONG TERM DECISION
LEVEL
TACTICAL
LEVEL
OPERATIONAL
LEVEL
STRATEGIC LEVEL:
TACTICAL LEVEL:
Daily planning of all related nodes in the supply chain. Demand planning and forecasting,
coordinating the demand forecast of all the customers and sharing the forecast with all
suppliers.
Source planning, including current inventory and forecast demand, in collaboration with
all the suppliers.
Inbound operations, including transportation from suppliers and receiving inventory along
with outbound operations including all fulfillment activities and transportation to customers.
Supply chain operations, including consumption of materials and flow of finished
goods.
Performance tracking of all activities pertaining to supply chain.
During the last few decades we have seen an increasing rate of globalization. Products are no
longer produced and consumed within the same geographical area. The world has shrunk to palms
with the introduction of computer based business applications, internet and e-procurement
concepts, thus changing fundamental assumptions about business in terms of challenges
and opportunities.
By Senior Manager,
Waqas Jalil
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