MAKING OUR
SUPPLY CHAIN
BEST-IN-CLASS

Inside GCPL's manufacturing facility at Pondicherry, India

Godrej Group Chairman, Adi Godrej, and GCPL Executive Chairperson, Nisaba Godrej, at the inauguration of our state-of-theart hair extensions factory in Mozambique

The GCPL Business Partners Meet at Munich

Best-in-class practices

  • Introducing best practices across geographies to become more agile: Demand-driven Supply Chain, Theory of Constraints, Total Productive Maintenance, Lean, Six Sigma, and Low-Cost Automation
  • Strengthening supply chain processes in international businesses: integration into one SAP ERP, Lean, and Kaizen
  • Extending shop floor employee engagement initiatives to international businesses

Sustainability

  • Global strategic sourcing with significant benefits to the bottom-line; Godrej Green Purchase Policy rolled out to key business partners
  • Sustainable manufacturing and supply chain practices, resulting in significant improvements in energy and water consumption, carbon footprint, waste generation, and renewable energy use

Agile fulfilment

  • Mapping cutting-edge replenishment practices to the Advanced Planning and Optimisation module of SAP
  • Responding to constantly changing consumer demand patterns, leading to high fill rates; now an industry benchmark, with 95%+ customer service levels across key geographies
  • Improving 'freshness' of products at time of sale, better logistics practices, better product traceability, and reduced obsolescence through the project on bar coding shippers

Future-ready investments

  • Enhancing manufacturing capacity across geographies
  • Piloting the Internet of Things in manufacturing and logistics
  • Leveraging the Goods and Services Tax in India through redesign of the distribution network
  • Commissioned a state-of-theart hair extensions facility in Mozambique
  • Agile manufacturing through smart automation and robotics