Palepu & Co
Mr. Gopal of Palepu operates from their head-office on Moore Street. They have two branch offices: one at Tambaram and another at Ambattur. The head office is small but well-organised. Six data entry operators work in the office along with a very capable accountant and a manager, apart from Gopal himself. Palepu has a few boys manning the attached warehouse and for sorting out stocks for despatch. Palepu & Co has an army of salesmen making contact with individual chemists, taking down orders and ensuring delivery of stocks.
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Best Practices in Inventory Management
The firm was a leading consumer products company dealing in cosmetics and personal care products with its head office located overseas. The company had a supply chain network of 3 factories with bonded stock rooms (BSR) attached for despatch to the depots and 35 depots for servicing distributors. Goods move from the factory to the BSR. BSR dispatches stocks to Mother CFAs (depot). Other depots receive stocks from the Mother depot and sell them to distributors.

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