SUMMER INTERNSHIP

WAREHOUSING OPERATIONS

DONE

IN

PUZHAL HUB

TVS LOGISTICS SERVICES LIMITED

SUBMITTED BY

R.SUDHAKAR

MBA LSCM

VELS UNIVERSITY

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I am extremely thankful to the management of Vaels institute of business administration for providing me the opportunity to undergo M.B.A (Logistics & Supply Chain Management) course during the academic year 2009-2011.

I would like to express my sincere thanks and gratitude to our chancellor Dr. Ishari K. Ganesh, M.com., Ph.D., for his kind words.

I would also like to express my sense of gratitude to our Dean Dr. P. Govindarajan, M.A., Ph.D., for giving us valuable guidance and encouragement.

I like to express my sincere thanks to our head of the department Mr. S.Preetha, M.B.A., M.Phil., for giving us good guidance and suggestions.

I express my deep sense of gratitude and sincere thanks to my guide Mr.M. karthikeyen, M.B.A., M.Phil., for giving me valuable suggestion, guidance and encouragement.

I express my sincere thanks to Col. Dipinder Singh Locham, Vice President – People Services for allowing me to do this project in TVS Logistics Services Limited, Chennai.

My heartful thanks to Mr. E. Satesh Edwin, Assistant General Manager – People Services for his valuable guidance in doing the project.

I would also like to thank Mr. S. Raju, Assistant General Manager, Mr. Rathna Kumar, Assistant General Manager and Mr. S C Sreenivasan, Deputy Manager, TVS Logistics Service Limited warehouse at Puzhal, Chennai.

And finally, I thank all the other Employees of TVS Logistics for assisting me during my internship.

TVS LOGISTICS SERVICE LIMITED

CONTENT:

Introduction

Quality policy objective

Inbound logistics

Out bond logistics

Transportation

TVS group companies

Automated warehouse

Logistics function

Storage function method

Types of warehouse

Material handling

Transport system

SAP

Conclusion

TVS LOGISTICS SERVICE LIMITED

INTRODUCTION:

The TVS group traces its origin rural transport services, founded in 1911 in Tamil Nadu, India. TVS group is one of the leading supplier automotive components in India. TVS logistics hub is situated in puzhal in Chennai and corporate office in Ekkatuthangal near Guindy. The total warehouse space is approximately 70,000 sq ft.they supply leading automobile company like Ford, Ashok Leyland, Sundaram fastens, Rane, Tata. Most of the work done through mechanically like fork lift, manual truck. They mainly supply three places in India are Pune, Jamshedpur, and Gurghon. This process is called line haul.

They are maintaining proper security system. The warehouse have seven bay, these are

1. LINE HAUL

2. MILK RUN 1

3. MILK RUN 2

4. ASHOK LEYLAND

5. BRAKES INDIA

6. RANE

7. SUNDARAM FASTNERS LTD

1. LINE HAUL:

Movement of goods from one place to another place it covered more than 1500 km is called line haul. The line haul places are pune, Jamshedpur, gurgoan.

2. MILK RUN 1:

It is the process of collecting the raw material from local supplier and stored then distribution as per the customer requirement.

They used daily 14 vehicles for milk run process for the entire project. Their supplier location is below 50 km.

Ashok Leyland gives the schedule that basis they collecting. More numbers of material collected Ashok Leyland. They allocate three vehicles in T.V.S only.

They collecting raw material from Chennai. The vehicle move to morning and then come back evening. Then stored the material in warehouse and send to these places ALWAR, BHADHARA, UTHARKHAND, Sometimes they are doing cross docking.

3. MILK RUN 2:

In this process raw material goes to hosur plant 1, plant 2.

4. ASHOK LEYLAND:

In this process daily raw materials goes to ALWAR, BHANDHARA, and UTTARKAND.

5. BRAKES INDIA LIMITED:

In this process daily raw materials goes to BRAKES INDIA LIMITED

6. RANE:

These processes nowadays out of service.

7. SUNDARAM FASTNERS LIMITED:

In this process SFL have 71 customers. They have three plants they are Padi, Madurai, and Pondicherry.

QUALITY POLICY:

We are committed to add value to our customers’ operation by providing quality logistics service through adoption of good management practice in the entire supply chain.

QUALITY OBJECTIVE:

We have the Q7 quality objective based on

1. Delivery time,

2. Customer claims,

3. Damage less transmit,

4. Good logistics practice,

5. Total customer satisfaction

INBOUND LOGISTICS:

TVS Logistics plans incorporate the principles of JIT kanban scheduling and ensures timely availability of parts and components for production with virtually bare minimum inventory. The collection system from vendors are developed and monitored. The system is supported by the powerful track it system. Inbuilt features include variances analysis on a

daily basis and course correction. Premium freight is kept low for customers. The in plant inventory savings are direct visible saving that our customer enjoy. The concept of hubs and consolidation of despatches are practised with efficiency.

OUTBOUND LOGISTICS:

Primary and secondary distribution of auto components and CBU, distribution of finished products and spare parts as well as reverse logistics are a natural integration to the chain and with a history in handling automobile spare parts sales and distribution, the company extends its proven best practices to the industry. Handling of premium freight movements’ is undertaken with reliability and speed.

OUR PROCESS:

The processes of company follows best of industry benchmark in internal processes are

• Accepted key deliverable.

• Servqual bench marking of operation.

• SOP for each and every activity.

• Transport management.

• Capacity utilization and

• Vendor management.

WAREHOUSING:

They have 70000 sq ft. warehousing area; TVS logistics adopts the best practices in warehouse management. The company is also involved in running in plant warehouses for its customer. Key areas on housekeeping, efficiency norms on line picking, retrieval and storage patterns, safety are all standard practices. With flexible manpower the processing, final delivery, are also outsourced to TVS logistics. In keeping with the demand of customer needs the company is involved in preparing the automotive components in tie up with global experts in this field.

TRANSPORTATION:

This is the operation which geographically move and position inventory

Include Road,Rail,Water,Air and pipeline

Is the largest element of logistic cost

Reduces invrntory,storage and materials handling

Transports roles becoming increasingly important in supply chain

TYPES OF LOGISTICS:

MILITARY LOGISTICS:

The design and integration of all aspects of support for support for the operational capability of the military forces (deployed or in garrison)and their equipment to ensure readiness/reliability and efficiency.

BUSINESS LOGISTICS:

That part of the supply chain process that plans,implements, and controls the efficient effective flow and storage of goods,service and related information from point of use of consumption in order to meet customer requirements.

EVENT LOGISTICS:

The network of activities,facilities, and personal required to organize, schedule and deploy the resource for event to take place and to efficiently withdraw after the event.

SERVICE LOGISTICS:

The acquisition,scheduling, management of the facilities/Assets personal and materials to support and sustain a service operation of service operation of business.

TVS GROUP COMPANIES:

• Axles India limited

• Brakes India limited

• Delphi TVS

• India Japan lighting private limited

• India motor parts and accessories limited

• India Nippon electrical limited

• Irizarry TVS limited

• Lucas India service limited

• Lucas TVS

• Sundaram auto components limited (plastic division)

• Sundaram auto components limited (rubber division)

• Southern roadways limited

• Sundaram brake linings limited

• Sundaram Clayton limited (brakes division)

• Sundaram Clayton limited (Die casting division)

• Sundaram dynacast private limited

• Sundaram fasteners limited

• Sundaram Industries limited

• Sundaram industries limited (Tyre solution division)

• Sundaram textile limited

• Turbo energy limited

• TVS automotive Europe limited

• TVS auto parts private limited

• TVS cherry private limited

• TVS components limited

• TVS electronics limited

• TVS finance & services limited

• TVS interconnect system limited

• TVS lank private limited

• TVS logistics Iberia S.L

• TVS logistics service limited

• TVS Lean logistics private limited

• TVS Logistics SIAM limited

• TVS motor company limited

• TVS sewing Needles limited

• TVS srichakra limited

• TVS srichakra limited (Moulded products division)

• T v sundaram iyengar & sons limited

• Wheels India limited

VEHICLES:

They are using three kinds of vehicle they are

1. LCV-low capacity vehicle

2. MCV-Medium capacity vehicle

3. HCV-Higher capacity vehicle

AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE:

Automated warehouse automatically controls flow of both material information, by using automatic transfer equipment, with stacker cranes and conveyors as well as the automatic storage facilities, with in a high rise stack building which is wholly controlled by computers.

LOGISTIC FUNCTION:

Order processing

Inventory control

Storage

LOGISTICS AS A LINE FUNCTION:

Transportations

Material handling

Logistical packaging

Information analysis, processing and flow

STORAGE FUNCTION

Pallets

Racks

Shelves

Bins

Modular Storage

Automated Storage and Retrieval

STORAGE METHODS:

High storage density

Minimum travel distance

Ease in material movement

Ease in material storage and retrieval

Material and human safety

STORAGE METHODS

Block storage:

ADVANTAGES:

Simplest system

No investment

Stacking on platform or floor

Wide variety of products can be stored

DISADVANTAGES:

Limitation on stack height

Loading/unloading problem

Some time the goods will contaminate or damage

PALLET STORAGE:

ADVANTAGES:

Helps in optimum utilization of storage space

Increases stability of products during transportation

Lower handling cost due to unitizing

Increases speed of material flow

Reduces frequency of material handling

Facilitates handling loads with machines

DISADVANTAGES:

Does not give complete protection to product from environmental effects?

TYPES OF WAREHOUSE:

Field warehouse

Located near the place of consumption

For servicing the customers and channel partners

Customs warehouse

Located near to air and sea ports

for goods meant for imports and exports

Proximity to market

Reliability in service

WAREHOUSE STATERGY:

Flexibility in operations

Storage space

Through put

Material handling

Location flexibility

Economies of scale

WAREHOUSE SITE SELECTION:

• Market proximity

• Infrastructure (Road, utilities, communication)

• Transportation cost

• Availability of space

• Taxes and levies

ADVANCED MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENT:

Regulation Pneumatic tube system

For handling material in powered form

Semi-automatic system

Sorting devices

Robotics

Automatic guided vehicle system

Material handling on a fixed path

Computer operated guided vehicle

Speed of operation 150-250 feet per minute

Automatic system

Human factor eliminated

Operator required for programming and controls

Productivity

TRANSPORT SYSTEM:

KM based

Weight based

Trip based (fixed transport)

MAIN CONCEPT:

POD received the customers already DQC order the Process

SAP:

Padi-Stock transfer

Madurai-stock transfer only doing this plant.

Main process is Material in record.

Stocking Checking

Invoicing Process

Collecting Data very quickly

DIRECT MATERIAL:

receiving the material as per the requirements

From and to address Will not be same.

CONCLUSION:

Thus the training report was concluded with great satisfaction as it helped in gaining the basic knowledge and information regarding warehousing and distribution. This was gathered through the institutional training undergone for a period of four weeks at TVSLSL at Puzhal Hub. The Internship program had helped me a lot in understanding the practical application of the theoretical ideas that I had learnt from the text books. This program gained me more knowledge and had learnt how to move with people and others in the organization.