Study and Analysis of Groceries and Food Wholesalers Industry – A Case Study
Authors: R. Manasa , Jayanthila Devi A. 
Published: March 2023

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to identify the most critical factors for selecting a catering provider and to pick the most appropriate source. Thirty experts completed a semi-structured questionnaire to help determine the criteria for choosing a provider Excluding industries with narrowly defined technological bases, few studies have examined how industries evolve. Even fewer studies have been conducted on wholesalers. Given that service businesses are likely to operate differently from manufacturing industries and that wholesaling is a crucial function of many economies, these aspects are intriguing. When it comes to choosing a provider, just looking at price isn't enough. Other characteristics, such as quality, dependability, crisis management, and green product should also be taken into account by managers. An MCDM issue, supplier selection involves both qualitative and quantitative considerations. One of the MCDM methodologies, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), was used in this investigation. This survey was designed by specialists based on the criteria they came up with, and it was administered to six supply chain managers from six different catering companies.
Objectives: The primary goal of most grocery store corporations is to sell as many items as possible in order to maximize earnings. Retailers such as restaurants and mass merchandisers compete with grocery store proprietors. According to a poll conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in December 2009, one strategy that grocery stores use to combat the effects of competition is to increase the number of take-out meals that they provide. Customers who are looking to cut down on their cooking time will appreciate the convenience of these ready-to-eat meals. For the purpose of increasing revenue and maximizing profits, some smaller grocery store businesses also rent movies, provide check cashing services, and sell non-food items. This strategy focuses on clients that prefer to purchase at a single location.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Processing, synthesizing, treating, changing or manipulating food, especially food crops or their constituents Examples of manufacturing/processing activities include: drying/dehydrating raw agricultural commodities to create a distinct commodity, evaporating, eviscerating, extraction of juice, formulation, freezing, grinding, homogenising (including irradiation), labelling (including modified atmosphere packaging), milling (including pasteurising), peeling and pasteurising. Operations that are part of harvesting, packing, or holding on farms or farm mixed-type facilities are not considered to be manufacturing or processing activities and are thus excluded from this definition.
Finding / Result: Innovation of food package industry in commercial distribution and supply chain power connections have undergone substantial upheaval in the second half of the twentieth century, wholesale operations have remained an essential activity in many economies. Wholesalers, on the other hand, seem to be under serious danger in certain supply networks, and their companies are regarded to be diminishing. Suppliers with supply chain-focused business models compete with traditional wholesalers in many countries, which operate under distinct business models yet provide many of the same services as wholesaling.
Originality/Value: Prices for fixed inputs like electricity water gas are also rising, placing pressure on the cost of doing business and stimulated.
Paper type: Case Study.