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Supply Chain is the core business process in an organization that create and deliver a product or service, from concept through development and manufacturing or conversion, and into a market for consumption. Supply chain objectives include cost reduction, value addition and reducing response time in profit-based organisations in contrast to the non-profit based where issues like quality of life, equal opportunity, literacy rate, etc. are the priority area. In the international market, it helps business organisations to provide customer value, coordination, information sharing to stakeholders and societal value in the educational supply chain with feasible relationships internally as well as externally. Better outsourcing, enhanced profits, customer satisfaction, quality outcomes, competitive pressure, e-commerce application, globalisation, efficient operation and increasing complicity factors require supply chain management.
Transparency is recognised as the key principle of public procurement policy but governments do not make public procurement data public. Public procurement laws may say what information to publish but not how to publish it. Governments may have new procurement laws and e-procurement systems, but they do not have accessible public procurement data and that is why they do not make it public. E-procurement systems are difficult to use and require a lot of user training. E-procurement reforms are frequently unsuccessful and challenging.
Prof (Dr) Samarendra Mahapatra
Dr. Samarendra Mahapatra graduated in Agricultural Engineering from OUAT; did his post-graduation from XIMB and doctorate in Business Administration from Utkal University. He has worked for more than two decades in corporate in Agri Input Industry and then in academics for about 15 years, teaching Management students at post-graduate level in the area of Marketing and Agribusiness. He was nominated as an expert member in many Organisations like ICAR for Syllabus Development and NET in Agribusiness Area besides ANGRAU, IGKV, KIIT, Utkal University for faculty recruitment. He was an external examiner to ANGRAU, Mysore University, PJTSAU, SKRAU, Bikaner for Agribusiness students. He is an expert member of the Technical Committee for Project Evaluation of State Government, Odisha, besides staff recruitment in PSUs.
He has authored books like Management of Agricultural Inputs and Food Retail Management independently besides several other book chapters. He was invited to present technical papers at several national and international conferences in the agribusiness area like Annamalai University, BHU, Indian Science Congress, Institution of Engineers (India), IIPM (Bangalore) and Mysuru University, etc. He was a resource person to ICAI, IITTM, IGNOU, Utkal University, etc. He has participated in Management Development programs at IIM, Lucknow, NAARM, Hyderabad, AAU, Anand, etc. He has also organized webinars and Personality Development programs for post-graduate students at the university. Presently, he is working as the professor and head of the Department of Agribusiness Management at OUAT.
