Dairy Supply Chain Management

Ethiopia a country whose citizen mainly dependent on agriculture, and therefore develop Supply chain that add value for customer with the lowest cost in the chain make up the winning network of individual producers. This book is an outcome of a research done to assess the existing supply chain management process of Ada a dairy cooperative and thereby analyzing factors that affect the supply chain in order to evolve strategies to improve the smooth flow of the chain.The study result showed that the cooperative has started to promote dairy supply chain in the cooperative sector by playing a great role in averting different factors that affect the flow of supply chain which include organizational, technical, economic and marketing factors providing enabling environment and linkages for access to predetermined set of objectives and targets. To capture and reach at these end different supply chain strategies were evolved and recommended Integrated ownership strategy ,customer service strategy, collaboration strategy, Linkage strategy, channel strategy, Pricing strategy,and manufacturing strategy.

Autorentext

Dr.M.Karthikeyan (b 1969) is a faculty member, Department of Cooperatives, College of Business & Economics, Hawassa University, Ethiopia. He has been in the field of teaching and research for more than 15 years and published 20 books and more than 35 papers. He associated and coordinated many international projects and worked out collaborations.