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Akshaya Patra: Feeding India's Schoolchildren: Presented By: Group 6 Section A

Akshaya Patra faces several challenges in achieving its mission of feeding schoolchildren across India. These include issues with the supply chain like receiving poor quality rice from the government and adulteration. Their decentralized model faces challenges like rural women having no education or work experience and difficulties maintaining hygiene standards. Their centralized model has issues with distribution of meals and maintaining continual improvement across different regions. To address these, Akshaya Patra is deploying distribution supervisors, providing workforce training, and pursuing automation and a dual distribution strategy. Changes like adequate capacity planning, standardized processes, recruiting and paying employees more, and collaborating with other organizations could help them better achieve their mission.

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Akshaya Patra: Feeding India's Schoolchildren: Presented By: Group 6 Section A

Akshaya Patra faces several challenges in achieving its mission of feeding schoolchildren across India. These include issues with the supply chain like receiving poor quality rice from the government and adulteration. Their decentralized model faces challenges like rural women having no education or work experience and difficulties maintaining hygiene standards. Their centralized model has issues with distribution of meals and maintaining continual improvement across different regions. To address these, Akshaya Patra is deploying distribution supervisors, providing workforce training, and pursuing automation and a dual distribution strategy. Changes like adequate capacity planning, standardized processes, recruiting and paying employees more, and collaborating with other organizations could help them better achieve their mission.

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Akshaya Patra:

Feeding India’s Schoolchildren


PRESENTED BY: GROUP 6 SECTION A
SUMEET SHARMA 18FPM002
AYUSH KUMAR 18PGP256
SATYAJIT PATRA 18PGP252
VENU VARDHAN 18PGP246
VEDANT MUNDADA 18PGP245
PRASAD RATHI 18PGP238
What are the challenges faced by the Akshaya Patra
Foundation (TAPF) in its pursuits of Mission?
Challenges in Supply Chain
•Received poor quality rice from the government
•Role of middlemen in price setting
•Adulteration
•New Regulations didn’t allow TAPF to exchange poor quality subsidized rice for higher quality rice
•Different regions of India require various transportation systems
•Food Menu, and its storage facility varies from north India to south India

Challenges in Decentralized Model


•Rural women had no education or work experience
•Hygiene standards of rural areas were sub-standard and were difficult to adopt change
•Difficulty in goods transportation due to uneven and kaccha roads
•Spoilage of vegetables due to lack of electricity and refrigeration

Challenges in Centralized Model


•Issues with distribution of meals
•Difficulty in maintaining continual improvement
•Creation of a flexible standardized model while also allowing for local customization of labour needs
and food preferences
•High worker attrition rate
•Uncertainty about building increased capacity based on funding in the future
What are the options that Akshaya Patra is
pursuing to address these challenges?
1.Educating
1.Deploying 1.Automation to
workforce to
Distribution streamline the
procure better
Supervisors process
vegetables

Worker initiatives
1.Basic training
to improve
of cooks and
kitchen design
workers
and operations

1.Villagers
1.Dual pronged
relevant
distribution
communication
strategy
creation
What changes are required in its
operating model to achieve its mission?
Adequate capacity
Introduce a
planning needs to be In the centralized
standardized and
done, while planning distribution model, it
automatic process to
for current needs they may be necessary to
develop expertise
have to consider the recruit employees and
and manage the
future scope of increase their salaries
resources efficiently
increase in number of to avoid being taken
even with low level of
children in that over by upscale hotels
education
particular area
Employees can be
from families of the
High surveillance to For rural employees
children, so that the
ensure quality and (women mostly)
loyalty and job ethics
cases of theft and training should be
may increase, quality
corruption to avoid provided to ensure
will be maintained and
manual risk and hygiene, food
reduces the attrition
achieve the mission preparation and
related problems, theft
efficiently accounting
and corruption in case
of supervisors

To achieve the mission,


Outsourcing of Logistics
they can collaborate Since centralized
can help them reduce
with the existing NGOs model of food
costs and share risk if
and potential preparation is giving
expanding to new
corporations to better results only in
places provided the
leverage their case of high-density
costs are considerably
resources and areas, they can use
low, if TAPF cannot
providing them the decentralized model
take advantage of
expertise for efficient for rural areas
Economies of scale.
operations

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