Yogya Distribution Centre

Visiting Yogya Distribution Centre Report On Tuesday, September 22nd 2015, SBM ITB was going to PT. Akur Pratama (Yogya Group). The purpose of this activity is that students can learn about the company’s supply chain where they can see and know firsthand how the distribution of goods, storage and display of goods before in the hands of consumers. The event was opened with film show about work safety, and then continued with the introduction of management team and the history of Yogya Group. Yogya Group previously appeared as a local retail player who come from a small batik shop into a local retail that is growing rapidly with many business units and different types of stores. Yogya Group established many types of stores to meet the needs of society, both small and large scale such as Griya Mart, Yomart, Department Stores, Supermarkets, and department Store. Some private labels of Yogya are also quite famous, for example Bread Co, Magic Oven, Happy Duck, Elips, Ann Design, Chicken Sume, Paper co and others. After that presentation was continued by Mr. I Nyoman Taktik about how the operation of Distribution Centre (DC) in Yogya Group. He explained that in order to facilitate the distribution channels in retail companies to get to the store requires DC or sub-DC. Previously, the company used a direct distribution channel from vendors to shops; that it was difficult for Yogya in checking goods, so that DC was established to facilitate the distribution process. Items which come received with sophisticated computerized system with barcode by category. Storage period is set based classification and retrieval is adapted to the length of storage. Storage of household items such as, food, electronics and fashion is also organized by the code and the date of entry and exit. This activity is managed by professionals who have been trained in advance. In Yogya Group there are 5 daily activities in retail process, Ordering, Receiving, Warehousing, Displaying, and Selling. Ordering

: Ordering is a process that Yogya Group order product from various vendors. They make direct, sub DC, and DC in the ordering for distributing process. It previously just using direct distribution channel from vendors to shops but it was difficult for Yogya in checking goods.

Receiving

: Receiving is a process that Yogya Group receive any supply from vendor or to the store. They check the quality to prevent any defect and put it in the database quickly using a barcode scanner.

Warehousing: Warehousing is a process that Yogya Group keep their supply before it sent to the store. In this warehouse, Yogya Group buy any supply in a giant quantity and save it in the

warehouse using FIFO (firs in firs out), so they keep the goods not to be in expired dates. Displaying : Displaying is a process in the store, that it makes costumer easier to access to the products. Many aspect is being used in this displaying process. Selling

: Selling is a process that making sure that the goods is already out from the store, so Yogya Group can used is as a data for counting their revenue.