Report on Our Visit to Landmark Group Warehouse
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REPORT ON OUR VISIT TO LANDMARK GROUP WAREHOUSE (HOMECENTRE)
presented by Adnan Ahmed(smba13005)
Ahmad Atif Abdullah(smba13006)
Dhruv Bhasin
Prashant Ramdas
INTRODUCTION
We students of IMT Dubai had our industrial visit on 21st October 2014,
visiting landmark group located in Jabel Ali. The main objective behind
the visit was to understand and make students aware about how home
centre retail logistics function, capabilities and resources; understand the
market presence, also to get an idea about the warehouse layout and
distribution system.
We were accompanied by our professors Dr. Shantanu Roy and Murthy
Sir during our visit and lead by Mr. Srinivas Panyala( senior finance
manager) , Mr. UdayKiran( DGM Logistics) employees of Home
Centre respectively.
On our visit, firstly we were briefed about the warehouse safety rules
and procedures such as security gates, entry to warehouse, fire safety,
pedestrians & forklifts, falling of materials from heights and actions to
be carried out in case of emergency.
We were walked through the warehouse lead by very friendly and
supportive employees of landmark,and explaining about how it functions
and attending our queries, than we were taken to orientation room where
we were explained about the Homecentre retail logistics by Mr. Mohd
Tahir Ali (assistant manager warehouse) through a presentation.
During the presentation we were explained about the homecentre market
presence in different countries and U.A.E being the hub and ideal
warehouse blueprint for setting up other warehouses in different
countries.
Logistics capabilities of Homecentre :
I. Dedicated fleets of 135 delivery vehicles
II. Over 170000 home deliveries in a year
III. First time delivery completion rate of 90%
IV. Dedicated team of 350 delivery personnel
V. Covering a distance of 7million kilometers each year
VI. Addressing customers issues within 48 hours
VII. Warehousing infrastructure of about 1million square feet
Further they spoke about logistics resources explaining their in –
warehouse facilities
I. 135 vehicles
II. 6 BOPT
III. 16 Forklifts
IV. 7 Reach Trucks
V. Approx. 850 team strength
VI. Warehouse built up area 59,700 sq.
Warehouse layout
End to end supply chain
It starts with stock request from showroom where it is placed in
scheduled delivery orders and distribution made available wave in WMS
system then leading to label printing.Doors are selected in WMS system
by end user to ship the goods
IT infrastructure
OKjklkmfk,,Oracle store inventory
management
Oracle supply chain portal
Oracle infrastructure merchandising system
Oracle warehouse
management system
Global distribution
management system
Distribution system
Customer Delivery
InvoiceBilled
Conclusion
We had an amazing learning experience and speaking to employees of landmark group. Their hospitality and approach in providing us the detailed information was helpful in understanding their structure. In the end they gave us goodies as token of Diwali. We are grateful to the employees for giving us insight about their process and work, and helping us relating our management topics with their structure and function.