Web based real-time DSS for cement supply chain and logistics

Importance of an online DSS in inventory management for cement Industry is growing as almost one percentage of sales is lost due to the damage of the cement either in warehouses as is the case of an apex cement company in South India whose net profit is nearly 10 percent of sales. Lack of a scientific system for timely decision making poses difficulty due to additional wharfages, storage space and even damage due to improper storage. The proposed system helps in recording, analyzing and monitoring cement inventory with specific reference to damaged cement at various cement warehouses. Presently, managers of cement companies do an audit in their warehouses and prepare individual report about the status, manually. For the proposed real-time DSS in this study, webpage is developed using ASP.Net with SQL Server for database as back end support. DSS is built using ASP.Net Technology based on .Net Framework 3.5.