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    Lotus Thread Company Ltd. is a leading thread manufacturer in North India with a 14% market share and annual turnover of 58 crore rupees. They produce 135 tons of thread monthly in over 2500 SKUs across 125+ yarn varieties and 200+ shades. The company was facing problems with unreasonable marketing forecasts leading to production plan discrepancies. This caused excess inventory holding costs and delivery issues. Recommended solutions included reducing lead times by adding warehouses, improving forecasting, classifying products by speed of sale, and outsourcing raw material production while continuing final processing in-house.

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    Lotus Thread Company Ltd. is a leading thread manufacturer in North India with a 14% market share and annual turnover of 58 crore rupees. They produce 135 tons of thread monthly in over 2500 SKUs across 125+ yarn varieties and 200+ shades. The company was facing problems with unreasonable marketing forecasts leading to production plan discrepancies. This caused excess inventory holding costs and delivery issues. Recommended solutions included reducing lead times by adding warehouses, improving forecasting, classifying products by speed of sale, and outsourcing raw material production while continuing final processing in-house.

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    Lotus Thread Company Ltd. is a leading thread manufacturer in North India with a 14% market share and annual turnover of 58 crore rupees. They produce 135 tons of thread monthly in over 2500 SKUs across 125+ yarn varieties and 200+ shades. The company was facing problems with unreasonable marketing forecasts leading to production plan discrepancies. This caused excess inventory holding costs and delivery issues. Recommended solutions included reducing lead times by adding warehouses, improving forecasting, classifying products by speed of sale, and outsourcing raw material production while continuing final processing in-house.

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    Logistic & Distribution Management: Lotus Thread Company LTD

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    Lotus Thread Company Ltd. is a leading thread manufacturer in North India with a 14% market share and annual turnover of 58 crore rupees. They produce 135 tons of thread monthly in over 2500 SKUs across 125+ yarn varieties and 200+ shades. The company was facing problems with unreasonable marketing forecasts leading to production plan discrepancies. This caused excess inventory holding costs and delivery issues. Recommended solutions included reducing lead times by adding warehouses, improving forecasting, classifying products by speed of sale, and outsourcing raw material production while continuing final processing in-house.

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    LOGISTIC & DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT

    LOTUS THREAD COMPANY LTD.

    Sanchit Gupta | Vishnu Shankar Shukla


    LOTUS THREAD COMPANY LTD. - About

    • Leading thread manufactures in North India with 14% market share


    • Annual turnover of 58cr (1992/93)
    • Monthly production of 135 ton i.e 9600 cartons
    • 125+ yarn variety (cotton, polyester)
    • 200+ shades
    • More than 2500 Sku’s
    LTCL – Thread making Process

    Thread Making
    Blow room ~> Carding ~> Ring Frame (twisting / plying) ~> Griege yarn ~> Greige Thread Store (GTS)

    Wet Process
    Mercerizing ~> Bleaching ~> Dyeing ~> Polishing ~> processed yarn ~> processed thread store (PTS)

    Finishing
    Hank & Cone Winding ~> Cop Making ~> Spool making ~> tube winding

    Packaging
    Cellophane Wrap ~> cardboard boxes (as per size) ~> Carton stacking ~> 14 Kgs Avg. (INR 5,000)
    LTCL –Production Planning Schedule

    Week 1 Week 3 (20th JAN) Additional Unplanned Demand


    Shade wise / Plan discussed 20th FEB
    yarn type with production
    wise / region
    wise

    Week 2 (10th JAN) (1th FEB – 2nd MAR)


    Plan received by Production and Dispatch
    CMO
    LTCL – Problems

    • The stock to monthly sale ratio shot upto 2.48 that is working capital costs were eating into company
    profit
    • Unreasonable marketing forecast lead to huge discrepancies in production plan
    • Lead time on production varies from 25-55 days
    • Lack of buffer stock at plant side
    • Total inventory holding cost id 21.5 laks/month
    • Twin problem surrounding both production planning & dispatching
    • Item produced were lying dead in regional offices and at the same time additional requirement would
    be raised and tagged ”urgent” to plant
    • Bad response time in delivery order
    LTCL – Recommended Solutions

    • Reduce transit Lead time – create warehouses at Hyderabad, Mumbai & FGS at Patiala

    • Organisation structure – Logistics to move under operations command

    • Classify and plan production as per Fast/medium/slow moving products

    • Transferring intra – Regions

    • Outsource Greige yarn (as per quality standards) & Dye in-house

    • Better Forecasting system

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