Farm to market strategy: an indigenous technology dependent supply chain in food processing SMEs

Abstract

The supply chain management generally plays an important role in the overall growth of manufacturing industries. To remain competitive in the market it is essential that the enterprises must focus their attention to die supply chain management and develop a useful strategy to keep it intact. It may be mentioned here that about 70% of the total revenues of an enterprise are spent on supply chain related activities from material purchases -to transformation of it into finished goods or services. The literatures suggest that there are huge number of barriers between the market and the farmers. Among the barriers, SCM is most common one. The aim of this to focus on the current supply chain capability and its impact on the growth the small manufacturing enterprise