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Part A
Introduction
The report aims to study and present the Supply Chain efficiency in case of the paper and
pulp industry of Australia. The purpose of the study is to investigate the company in respect
to its fixing of the management of its Supply Chain so as to add both Customer and
shareholder value. Literature has shown that a key element of this management of supply
chain and its efficiency is the collaboration of the firm with its customers and suppliers. Other
elements related to this are know-how, past proven methods, lean methods, resources and
capabilities, and great expertise in several functional areas such as transportation, distribution
and network design. Collaboration may be developed from the demand side through the
customers, from the supply side through the suppliers or simultaneously through demand as
well as the supply side. The report deals with the efficiency achieved in supply chain
management in the case of the plant in paper industry in Australia through the alliance with
the NHP Electrical Engineering Products Pty. Ltd. In particular, it refers and studies the
„Body Maker Project‟ undertaken by Amcor in September, 2012 and how it has helped it to
achieve supply chain efficiency and effective management of supply chain.
Analysis and Discussion
NHP Electrical Engineering Products Pty. Ltd. specializes in providing complete industrial
electrical and automation solutions package throughout Australia and New Zealand. Its
presence in the industry has been there since the last four decades and has around twenty five
branches and nearly twenty four locations in various regions throughout Australia and New
Zealand. It seeks to work as more than a mere supplier of components, and in this pursuit, it
sources the best quality products from various leading suppliers worldwide, and customizes
these to provide a complete solutions service for the local market. It serves a number of major
industries including paper and pulp, manufacturing, water, infrastructure, and food and
beverage.
Amcor Australia is a multinational company with Australian heritage which was started in
the 1860s. It started as a paper mill in Melbourne, and since then, has diversified into various
products and packaging throughout Australia and across the globe. Originally called the
Australian Paper Manufacturers, the company has made various packaging innovations and
strategic acquisitions and investments and divestments to attain a leadership position in
packaging across the globe. It provides packaging options for beverages, food, household
items, personal care, healthcare, tobacco products, and various industrial applications.
NHP offers complete solutions to the forestry, paper and pulp industry of Australia so as to
help them to meet their particular application needs. It aims to implement those processes
which enable to achieve solutions which are customer focused and more so for the customer
base in the Australian paper and pulp industry. It realizes that supply chain integration is a
very important element in the paper and pulp industry because of the fact that there are
multiple sites involved and which makes the supply chain component very complex.
Amcor recently undertook a project to optimize the production process in the Amcor
Beverage Cans manufacturing site situated in Dandenong, Victoria. The company had been
using the same brand of PLCs for nearly a period of thirty years. It decided to make
functional the „Body Maker Project‟ which proposed to upgrade the PLCs in various Body
Makers. It was noticed that although they were performing, the brand being used was slowly
becoming obsolete. The spare parts being used in it were becoming very expensive. This
definitely posed a great business risk. To take care of this, a plan was made to replace the
PLC so as to escape any expensive and uncalled-for breakdowns. Amcor recognized that it is
not only important to make an innovation in the design of the product, but it is also essential
to make innovation in finding better ways across the complete supply chain including the
production process. A replacement of the obsolete brand of PLC being used necessarily
meant improved outcomes in terms of the requirements of the total customer base.
The electrical contractors of Amcor approached NHP for a fully integrated solution to the
problem at hand. NHP provided them with an Allen-Bradley solution which was a fully
integrated solution. This meant that it not only provided an alternative to the obsolete brand
of PLC, but also provided other support services to offer a complete solution package. The
solution package provided for a replacement of the existing PLCs along with sensors, drives,
and other form of network equipment so as to complete the entire fit out process.
NHP is the authorized distributor for Rockwell Automation and their range of Allen-Bradley
products throughout Australia. It works with Rockwell Automation to provide the right kind
of solution for the needs of the paper and pulp industry and in this case, Amcor. It is able to
source best products from the best of manufacturers worldwide and then customize the
solutions for the local market in Australian pulp and paper industry. In this case, NHP was
able to give the delivery of the requested parts in a short time and without any delay to the
project. It also provided service support from the specialists in the local product market. They
were able to give demonstrations for the parts and the required advice to the staff of Amcor.
From the NHP point of view, their relationship with Rockwell...