Supply chain operational process, challenges and procurement strategies in Partex Star Group

Abstract

Basically, Particle board is the key material for furniture and interior industry all over the globe. As it has been made of jute stick and raw wood logs. Since, we use latest technologies and maximum uses of a plant with jute stick so it encourages afforestation as well. Our operation procedure is organized although plant has been established in 1982. From planning to procure soft wood and 100-tons’ jute stick every day for manufacturing plain particle board. Secondly, jute stick and soft woods comes into the process of Drum chipper knife, starts to cut down woods and jute sticks into chips. Then chips comes into the silo where all the materials are kept at an optimum temperature. Thirdly, resign and glue has been mixed with recipe and the above European machine has been set up to make the cake of long 50m which has been hot pressed with 180 degree centigrade and suitable pressures for desire thickness. After that cakes forms into hard board which are sanded through abrasive papers and cut into 8ft by 4ft standard size for internal stakeholders, local markets and exports as well. Moreover, this report refers to some strategies and standard operating procedure to maintain smooth supply and buyer relationship based on Kraljic Matrix. As a result, buyer can identify the needs of raw materials based on matrix priority. On the other hand, an end-to-end process flowchart has been portrayed so that the readers and executers can have an easy understanding of the overall process. Based, on the process flowchart, the description of the activities along with necessary controls have been described. In this connection, it is mentionable that only relevant activities which are different from general procurement has been described in the SOP.