IGNOU MS-100 (OM) Project – Study of Operations and Supply Chain Management in Pantaloon Retail

In the recent times, strategic thinking all through has been focusing on major forces external and internal to the company that can affect its existence in future. Previously, the strategies were largely evolved around issue of ‘continuity’. Some important strategies in this respect are that of ‘continuity’ and ‘logic incrementalism’. The organizations used to form strategies so as to survive and grow by maintaining continuity in their business domain. The strategy of incrementalism also focuses on continuity with an incremental change to dynamic evolution. Stability used to be considered a key success factor. In the last two decades, the globalization process made the business environment highly turbulent and the concern of ‘change’ has received immense interest both by strategic thinkers and practitioners.

Objectives

• Some of the generic objectives of the study are as follows:
• To study the Operational Processes at Pantaloons;
• To study about the Supply Chain Management in General and at Pantaloons in Particular;
• To understand the Significance and Importance of Supply Chain in Retail;
• To know the Changing Face of Fashion in India; and
• To study the scenario of Retail Sector in India.
• Some of the specific objectives of the study are as follows:
• To suggest a flexible strategy framework for managing change and continuity in the retail industry.
• To study the Inventory, its Characteristics, Types and Importance.
• To find out various issues involved in various parameters of continuity and change affecting the growth on the company.
• This study tries to find out what Resources the organization should Determine and Provide to Enhance SCM process.
• To study the Supply Chain of Pantaloon India Ltd. with a special emphasis on the day to day problems encountered at their SCM department and suggesting them solution to all the problems.

Topic Covered

• Introduction
• Review of Literature
• Methodology of the Study
• Data Analysis and Findings
• Conclusion and Recommendations
• Annexure
• References