National Seminar on Logistics & Supply chain, 2013
A National Seminar on Logistics & Supply chain was held here at Asian School of Business Management campus on 19th January, 2013.
Chief Guest on the occasion, Mr. Santosh Kumar Mohapatra, Chairman Dhamra Port said, “Supply Chain (SC) is gaining importance as a concept everywhere across the globe. But effective SC Management depends on three factors, Globalisation, Outsourcing and Technology through IT revolution. Besides, the whole SC process have to be cost effective, which is made possible by the above three factors.”
Mohapatra also went on to add that, “Today logistics is rather called Supply Maze Management than Supply Chain Management and becoming more complex in structure.” Competitiveness of logistics depends on complete awareness of processes and infrastructure,” the Chief Guest added.
Addressing on the occasion, Guest of Honour and Keynote Speaker Dr. Sadananda Sahoo, Emeritus Professor, IIT Bhubaneswar said, “Logistics interfaces with both Manufacturing and Marketing activities.”
The whole LSC process consists of Inbound, Internal and Outbound logistics with the Cost Minimization Efficiency being the Prime objective, Mr Sahoo added.
Mr. P R Choudhury, Executive Director (S&P), NALCO, Guest of Honour on the occasion said, “Infrastructure development plays a major role in effective SC Management. Nalco is going to invest around Rs 600 Crores in next 4 years in upgrading infrastructure in the country.”
Storage of Raw Material along with Finished Goods and developing proper distribution network is vital for effective SC Management, Mr Choudhury added.
Founder and Director ASBM, Prof Biswajeet Pattanayak apprised that, around 90-125 bn dollar is invested in Logistics sector and nearly 45 Million people are already engaged in this sector so far. Highlighting about the spending on Logistics sector, he added that, “While US, Europe and Japan used to spend around 9%, 10%, and 11% respectively, India fared better with regard to spending on logistics which constituted around 13% of GDP.”
Warehousing facilities in Odisha is very poor, Govt. of Odisha should take initiative to create conducive climate in start their own warehouse in the state, according to the Director.
The inaugural session was followed by technical sessions where Mr. Mohan Singh, Head – Odisha, Coca-Cola, Mr. Apresh Pal, GM-Logistics, Odisha Cements Ltd, Capt. Satyabrata Satpathy, General Manager, JM Baxi, Mr. Raj Banerjee, Regional Business Head, Future Group, Mr. Jai Sanker, Regional Head: Sales & Marketing, Gati-Kwe, Mr. C. Khirsagar, Regional Supply Chain Manager, Cargill India also attended the conference as invited speakers.
The conference was also attended by many delegates, professionals, research scholars, academicians and students.