A Study of Supply Chain Management in Foundry Industry with Special Reference to Kolhapur District

To Survive and thrive within an increasingly competitive market place and to succeed on sustainable basis, organization must adopt the new techniques and business models like supply chain management. A supply chain management consists of all the stages involved directly or indirectly in fulfilling the customer request. The supply chain not only includes the manufacturers & supplies, but also transporters, warehouse, retailers & customers themselves. Kolhapur is a leading foundry cluster, in providing quality castings to its customers majority of the foundry units in the cluster cater to the automotive sector along with other sectors such as pumps/valves, sugar, textiles, etc. Productivity is reduced due to the occurrence of defects in the foundry. These defects occur in various processes of manufacturing. The rejection percentage is not within the company standards in some places. The purpose of any business is to reduce supply risk at lower cost, provide timely delivery, increase customer service, the proper managing the flow of information and product with compressed cycle time and reducing overall operational cost. .