CONSUMER COOPERATIVE IN INDIA:
BAR CODE AND INVENTORY SYSTEM
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| Courses Participant from Malaysia (Me at the left hand side) |
In 2010, me and my colleagues went to Maharashtra, India for the purposes of retailing and distribution training at Vaikunth Mehta Institute (VAMNICOM). This program is collaboration between Maktab Koperasi Malaysia and VAMNICOM. It take 14 days for the whole courses. During that courses, we were exposed to the cooperative retail and distribution activities. Beside the lectures, the organizer brought us too many places especially to mini market and supermarket whereby to saw their operations there.
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| Peanuts and bar code |
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| Going back to Malaysia at Pune Airport |
In India, their cooperatives is doing well in retail industry. One of the factors because of the systems they are using such as the bar code and inventory system. Bar code method has been introduced in India a long time ago. In the cooperative store, bar code will be issuing for each item through a monitored system in the web based. For the cooperatives that has more than one mini market branches, their bar code system was controlled by the head office. That's why the cooperative store has a systematic bar code system and duplication of bar code doesn't exists between co-operative stores. While, for the cooperative store does not have branches, they also have a bar code system that is controlled by the cooperative using 'local server'.
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| Inventory and Bar Code System |
In terms of stock purchase, the cooperative just looking at the web-based system in order to make a purchase. Through this web based, every branch no need to order at headquarters because the headquarters will make it all the orders and purchases for the branches based on the report generate from the systems. Through this system, the headquarters were know the whole amount and the available stock left and the amount of each co-operative store sales every day. What i learn in MIS class all this process was called "Business Intelligence".
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