JIMS organised an industrial visit to AMUL’s Banas Dairy Unit located in Faridabad (Haryana) on 27th Nov 2018 for PGDM batch (2018-20) Sec C students.
The representative of Amul plant shared the detailed information about the products manufactured, manufacturing capacity, quality check mechanisms, raw material sourcing, distribution of finished goods, manufacturing processes, machine based packing, safe procurement and the variety of production.
Then students were taken to the milk and cottage-cheese manufacturing unit of Amul, where they were shown how milk is packed by use of robotics and human friendly machines and softwares. The Faridabad plant of the cooperative claims to process 85% of the milk collected from Gujrat and the rest from DELHI-NCR region. The milk arrives at Delhi in special milk trains (6.5 lakh litres per train) hired by Amul and trucks (1.5 lakh litres per truck).
Students were also given information about the effective Supply Chain Management techniques used by Amul which just helps it to be a top milk producer and distributor not just in its native land India but also in the rest of the world. The cooperative uses high tech softwares to stay connected with all plants set up all around the globe.
The cooperative claimed to produce the purest possible milk which was backed by acute testing of milk samples by heavy investment and equipments of high accuracy. (For example: one milk testing equipment was as expensive at 1.25 Crores INR)
The students were shown a video showcasing the history of AMUL and the way it became a leader among the dairy products processing cooperatives and companies.
The visit ended with question-answer round in which the students actively cleared all their doubts also gave some valuable suggestions for minor improvements, effective knowledge sharing and improving the understanding about the industry.