Supply Chain Management in L&T (ECC Division)



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The Engineering Construction and Contracts (ECC) division is the construction division of Larsen & Toubro Ltd., (L&T). With project sites located in all parts of India, ECC expanded its operations to countries like the UAE, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and South Africa.

Given its large geographical spread of operations and the large number of participants involved in the supply chain (in India alone, it had approximately 6000 suppliers, spread over 350 locations), the effective management of the supply chain system turned out to be a challenging task for ECC. The absence of any established IT solution for the construction industry made the situation still more complex......

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In order to keep track of its operations at different locations, ECC came up with the idea of connecting all its project sites with its headquarters in Chennai through the Internet and launched its in-house information solution, Enterprise Information Portal (EIP). EIP not only helped ECC keep track of its activities at different locations but also allowed it to leverage on its huge purchasing power.....

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