ITC Limited
ITC Limited
ITC
One of India’s most valuable
ITC
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Components of supply
chain
The supply chain has basically four components:
Supply Chain
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About the Company…
Indian Tobacco Division (ITD)
vMarket leaders in Cigarettes and Tobacco business
& is among India’s most profitable companies
vBrands owned by ITC Ltd are Wills Classic, Wills
Navy Cut, Gold Flake, Bristol and Scissors
vITD also sells two luxury filter brands of its parent
company Benson & Hedges and 555
vFour manufacturing units for cigarettes at
Bangalore, Saharanpur, Kidder pore, Munger
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Contd…
vIt has 3 contract manufacturers (OCMs)
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Contd…
v Three OCMs and Kidderpore factory don’t have in-
house PMD, and are supplied with tobacco from one of
the three ITD PMDs
v Rest of the raw material (WMS) required for making or
packing cigarettes is provided to all factories from
various WMS suppliers, most of which are part of ITC
Ltd
v At SMD, there are two processes: Making and
Packing
ü Making process is the rolling of cigarette sticks
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Contd..
v Cigarettes are categorized in different segments
based on filter or non-filter type, cigarette length,
circumference, pack style, filter length and
cigarette placement. Under each segment there
are various brands.
v Finished Good (Cigarettes) are supplied from the
factories to godowns using mainly road and rail
transportation. From marketing godowns, the FG
flows to wholesale distributors and from there on to
retail channel. Requirement for each warehouse
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is
ITD Supply Chain Network
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v Raw materials, intermediates and the final product
sourcing/distribution in widespread across the
country
v Few items have more than 1 supplier for the raw
material e.g. filter rods can be sourced from either
Mumbai, Bangalore or Devas in MP
v Huge supply-demand network for cigarette business,
which must operate in the cost optimal way to
maximize the profits
v Few
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