Investigation on Supply Chain Activities in the Manufacturing Sector of Southern and Western India

–Supply Chain Management emerged as one of the most powerful business improvement tool available today. A number of SCM practices such as supplier, customer, ERP, subcontracting, E-procurement, EDI, E-commerce have been addressed in Indian manufacturing industries and a conceptual model was formulated based on previous literature and a questionnaire developed, survey was performed. This paper examines the effect of Supply Chain Management Strategies and its information system packages that are following in various manufacturing industries. Primary Data from manufacturing industry of various fields like Automotive, Sugar, Cement, Steel etc...were collected through interview and mail survey. The content of reply and reliability are tested. Analysis has been carried out based upon questionnaire results and suitable hypothesis developed. The survey and analysis proves that the Supply Chain Management Strategies and custom-made packages are significantly useful to the manufacturing firms. Keywords—Supply Chain strategies, questionnaire, custom-made packages, ready-made packages, lead time, delayed orders.