A role of supply chain management in revival of sick small scale units in Ahmednagar MIDC (Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune sponsored research project)

Small scale units face multiple problems like unavailability of finance, lack of planning, over or under stock of materials, unskilled labour, no market for the products, credit sales, and high priced technical knowhow which makes the units inefficient in processes. These whole set of activities results into the sickness. In this paper, researcher has highlighted on the problems in the areas of logistics, demand forecasting, material resource planning, information technology, customer relationship management, production planning and control, outsourcing, material handling, purchasing and warehousing. The researcher has suggested steps that will help these units to improve their functioning and enhance productivity. The main focus of the study is to understand the role of supply chain in small scale units which helps in smooth functioning of the processes and reviving these units from sick units to profit making ones.