Supply chain management of Lafarge Surma cement Ltd.

Abstract

Supply Chain Management means flow of goods from the manufacturing organization to end customer through different mediums. In this report various functions of Supply Chain Management are elaborately discussed. The major functions are: Transportation Management, Distribution Management, Inventory Management, Cost Management, Payment Management, Supplier Management, and Customer Service Management. Along with the theoretical aspects of these functions, this report also provides an outline how “Lafarge Surma Cement” operates its Supply Chain of Cement. This organization has the only fully integrated cement plant in Chhatak, Sylhet; whereas its head office situated in Dhaka. LSC has six depots in different places of Bangladesh which support its distribution network. In this report, the responsibilities of mine in various areas of LSC head office are described here. I have worked in three departments. Mostly I involved in Logistics department, and partly I worked in Human Resource Management and Corporate Social Responsibility. Finally, from my experience of three months internship I have observed some lacking of LSC. I tried to provide suitable recommendations for the improvement of Lafarge Surma Cement Ltd.