Sustainable automated carton making factory: How value for money procurement can add value to the Palmal group of Industry and gain competitive advantage. (2019)

Abstract

Bangladesh is the second largest Ready-made Garments (RMG) exporter in the world and Palmal group of Industries takes the pride of being 2 nd biggest RMG manufacturer in the country. As on 2018 the “yearly turnover” of the industry was $292 USD with 58 operating factories. Few more projects are ongoing and “Sustainable” Palmal automated carton factory is one of them. However, before starting the project and from procurement perspective, we have conducted numerous studies on its establishment. Amongst those “Feasibility report”, “Value chain analysis”, “Product category management”, projects “Sustainability” and its management analysis are mostly mentionable. “Financial analysis” shows its own capability of financing the whole project, “Peter kraljic model” shows that how it will manage its category wise product, “Value chain analysis” model shows that how much value it will be adding to the industry with the establishment of the project and “Sustainability” analysis shows that how it will be accepted by its stakeholders as sustainable project. We have maintained different constructive ways of collecting required data. Real data was collected mostly from the “supplier base”, Director & management team of the industry, one to one interviews with technical personnel and field workers. Based on all analyses, we have a come to a conclusion saying the project will be a successful one and it will add value to the industry and gain “competitive advantages”.