LOCATION OF COCA-COLA PLANT

Coke owns and operates bottling plants through HCCB - a subsidiary of its global bottling
arm Bottling Investment Group in India.
 Coca Cola’s VP of Customer Logistics Wendy Manning once said the company is able to
deliver a drink from a factory to a local store within 48 hours. The secret behind this
impressive figure is local sourcing, meaning that most of the drinks are manufactured directly
in the country where they are sold.
The Coca-Cola Company headquarters in Atlanta manufactures the concentrated syrup and
sell it to bottling partner HCCB, which is responsible for selling the product in India. The
bottling partner sends it to a manufacturing facility, which mixes the syrup with other
ingredients, such as filtered water and sweeteners.
HCCB has 18 bottling plants in India, according to a report by The Economic Times.
However, including its external bottling partners, Coca-Cola has over 55 manufacturing units
in India.

One such manufacturing plant is in Sanand- Gujarat.

Reasons why Coca-Cola chose Sanand as one of their manufacturing locations:

 Connectivity

a) Port: Port Connectivity is available with major ports – JNPT Mumbai, Kandla,
and Mundra & Pipavav. Mundra Port : 324 Km ,Hazira Port : 310 Km ,Dahej
Cargo Port : 270 Km ,Kandla Port : 274 Km ,Mumbai JNPT : 558 Km.
b) Air: Ahmedabad International Airport is the nearest airport located at a distance
of 35 kms from Sanand. There are domestic airports located at Baroda (130 kms)
& Surat (280 kms)
 c) Road: National Highways: NH–8A connects Ahmedabad to Saurashtra and Kutch
passes through Sanand. State Highways: SH–17 connects Ahmedabad to Sanand
and joins NH – 8A. SH-144, SH-135 and SH – 74 are the other important
linkages within Sanand.
d) Rail: Sanand has a Broad Gauge (BG) railway network. The nearest railway
station is at Ahmedabad at a distance of 35 kms.

 Support Infrastructure- Utilities

a) Power: 66 KV Vendor Park and 66 KV Chharodi substations are located

approx. 4 km away from the boundary of the estate. A 400/66KV substation is
planned within the Sanand Estate to be operational in near future Power Water
Waste Infrastructure (for liquids and solids) Gas Sanand Industrial Estate.
b) Water: GIDC will provide water at the factory doorstep. Water supply
scheme is 50 MLD .Booked quantity for the 2016-17 is 6.75 MLD .Number of
connection 90 nos.
c) Gas: Gujarat State Petronet Ltd. (GSPL) is providing in the estate .The
company needs to directly apply to GSPL.
d) Waste Infrastructure: For solid waste – two disposal facilities are available,
Naroda & Vatva. The sites are around 50 km form Sanand.
 QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Quality management ensures that an organization, product or service is consistent. Coca-Cola

has their own developed quality management system that perfectly aligns with all of their
operations, they implement 5S and Kaizen theories to smooth overall quality.
Kaizen Theory
Kaizen is a Japanese business philosophy in which KAI means “change” and ZEN means
“better”

The three main pillars of Kaizen are:

 Housekeeping
 Waste Elimination
 Standardisation
Coca-Cola uses Kaizen for:
 Small improvements first rather than on the big ones.
 Utilising everyone’s potential and knowledge rather than on depending on few
experts.
 Implementing a continual stream of small improvements at a steady pace rather than
big changes once in a while.
 And done at every place where work is done.