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Rural Supply Chains
With the opening up of world economies, the rural hinterlands are also playing a two-way role – as a market for goods and services and as a supplier for various products to national and international markets. Improvement of competitiveness in rural supply chains and also their efficiencies is vital for growth of the economy. We need to reinvent rural supply chain networks using high technologies, keeping in mind the inefficiencies and constraints imposed by the infrastructure and economic environment.
Kisanbandhu
Kisanbandhu is a search engine based market place with audio-visual interfaces for agribusiness and SME interactions. This initiative in agri and SME sectors is business and logistics centric, and leverages the existing IT, Postal, Rail, and Bus transport infrastructure. It is data and knowledge intensive and is based on the orchestrator model that integrates SMEs into global markets through supply chain finance and intelligent control.
http://www.kisanbandhu.com
Rural Business Transformation
We have identified two value-delivery processes in the food supply chain for re-engineering: the production and sale of commodities by farmers, and rural retail network. The Centre has developed a business model that enables the farmers to sell their produce at a fair price. It consists of a cyber intermediary (information and business exchange), a commodity exchange, and logistics provider, quality grading teams, finance and insurance agencies. The cyber intermediary maintains an updated database of registered farmers, logistics providers, brokers, retailers, mandi managers, food manufacturers and exporters. A proof of concept experiment and also a total supply chain design study are currently underway at the Centre.
Retail Supply Chains
Organised retailing in India is emerging as one of the largest industries. There is lot of investment activity happening and new firms and formats are entering the market. Our focus is on modeling and analysing retail supply chains for fruits, vegetables, textiles, etc and also on establishing and optimising rural supply chains.
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