This document discusses inventory management at Café Coffee Day, India's largest coffee chain. It outlines Café Coffee Day's network strength and SWOT analysis. It then discusses the importance of inventory management and the steps taken at Café Coffee Day, including growing their own coffee beans, sourcing snacks from local vendors, storing imports in cold storage, and distributing products according to demand. Quality standards are maintained through regular checks of operations, record keeping, food storage, and merchandise displays. The presentation recommends Café Coffee Day maintain safety stocks to avoid stock-outs.
• India's largestcoffee conglomerate,
Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading
Company Ltd
• Pioneer of the café culture and the first
to launch the ‘coffee bar’ concept in
India
• Network strength: Over 1530 cafés in
200 cities/towns across India and growing
• Average Footfalls: 200 per café per day
5.
Strengths
•Products of
extremely good
quality and taste.
•India’s largest retail
chain of cafes.
Weakness
•Losses due to wrong
site selection.
•Weak brand image.
SWOT Analysis
Threats
•Competitors like
Barista,Starbucks etc.,
Opportunities
•One of the fastest
growing industries in
Asia.
•More people like to
visit ccd for informal
meetings.
• Every organizationneeds inventory for smooth
running of its activities.
• It serves as a link between production and
distribution processes.
• The investment in inventories constitutes the
most significant part of current assets/working
capital in most of the undertakings.
• Thus, it is very essential to have proper control
and management of inventories.
9.
• The purposeof inventory management is to ensure
availability of materials in sufficient quantity as and when
required and also to minimise investment in inventories.
Raw materials, goods in process and finished goods all
represent various forms of inventory.
Steps to
inventory
management!
• Getting Smart about Inventory.
• Shortening the cash conversion cycle.
• Avoiding inventory shortage.
• Avoid excessive carrying costs for unused
inventory.
• Just In Time Management System (JIT).
• Boosting financial performance.
12.
Management
• Growsthe coffee it serves in its
cafes
• The coffee beans are supplied to
all the cafés from Chikmagalur.
• The eatables at Café Coffee Day
are catered by different vendors:
example: ice creams are catered
by Cream Bell, Milk by Amul and
snacks by local vendors.
• Some of the stock is being
imported, which is stored in a
cold storage in Delhi.
At
CCD
• It is then, distributed to all the
dealers in different parts of the
country.
• Incase of any damage, it has to
be reported immediately.
• Perishable products are
supplied on daily basis while
others are supplied weekly or
monthly as per the demand.
• A proper record is being made
of the inventory supplied.
13.
Quality Standards
CaféCoffee Day has a check on quality all the time
and in several aspects. The operational in-charge
will go around checking business, record keeping,
and service and heck the feedback forms. The food
in-charge will look at the way food is being stored,
coffee is being made, what is the time take to
extract the coffee and so on. Marketing person will
go about checking displays, how the merchandise
is displayed.
14.
SUGGESTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The company is required to maintain safety stock for its
components in order to avoid stock-out conditions &
help in continuous production flow.
15.
Mission
“To bethe best Cafe chain
by offering a world class
coffee experience at
affordable prices.”