Supply Chain Management Model for NFCL and Fertilizer Industry: A Research Paper

Abstract

Agriculture, the heart for any economy in the world. It supplies food grains to all living organisms for perpetuation of its race. Fertilizers are the very essential plant nutrients to yield more. Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited is the major urea producing company in Andhra Pradesh. There are more than 56 companies in fertilizer industry of India. So there should be a proper chain for the supply of both upstream and downstream. Hence the present paper is to develop an integrated supply chain management model for inbound and outbound logistics of Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited and for the fertilizer industry at large. This paper on supply chain management model for Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited and fertilizer industry deals with why the supply chain management should work as the circulatory system and distribution as the pumping organ (the heart), and also deals with the bottle necks in Supply Chain Management are the supply of natural gas, over control of government on the distribution and their policies related to expansion of industry, Nutrition Based Subsidy and allocation of natural resources,  lack of company's won vehicles, and TPL (third party logistics).