Writing a Business Plan T‐Box Business plan Submitted By: Zoltan Pepper Anna Kronism Robbin Banks Eva Porate Executive Summary The report presents a business plan for a new start up call T-Box. We have identified a growing need among working professionals in Paris to eat quick, healthy tasty meal at their workplace without making the place messy. We propose to provide neatly packed meals (Indian, Japanese, Lebanese etc) in Tiffin boxes: A box that has multiple compartments
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SIGMA AND DABBAWALLAH Delivering The Goods : Forbes rates the lunch-box carriers of Mumbai on a par with Motorola FOOD EXPRESS: The dabbawallahs ferry 1.5 lakh lunches daily with the help of simple codes. It was an unusual story by Forbes Global, A marked departure from its sought-after macro-economic reviews and corporate analyses. The US-based business magazine recently zeroed in on Mumbai's dabbawallah.The lunch> logisticians who deliver 1.5 lakh lunch boxes to hungry office goers every
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containers or ‘tiffins’ serve the dual purpose of keeping the food warm and preventing it from splashing out during the tiffin carrier’s rushed and jostling journey. A typical tiffin carrier carries about 40 of these dabbas on a long, unwieldy tray on his head as he moves speedily through busy streets and cramped trains. The tray and tiffins have a combined weight of more than 60 kg. For distances over 4 km, the carriers often use bicycles; when carrying more than 40 tiffins, the carriers
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close-knit cooperative where they share work, income and even life's joys and sorrows. Meet the Mumbai dabbawallas. The dabbawallas of Mumbai have a more-than-100-year-old tradition that Mumbaiites now cannot live without. They deliver over two lakh tiffin boxes to offices, business establishments and industrial units daily, with impressive precision. A Six Sigma quality certification endorsed by the Forbes magazine, a fan club that includes Prince Charles and Richard Branson can be listed as some
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area and move up and down the multi-storied buildings to collect the tiffin boxes from homes. Many old buildings don’t have elevators. But that’s not an excuse! Just imagine running up and down a building a couple of times. Now multiply it by…10! May be 20, depending on the area! By the time he collects all these tiffins, it’s already about 10.30 On an average a destination is about 40 Km away! He carries about 30-40 tiffins on his bicycle, fighting the bad roads, mud, traffic and now even Mumbai
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Recommendations | 7 | Implementations | 8 | Monitor and Control | 8 | Conclusion | 9 | References | 10 | Exhibits | 1112 | Executive Summary My decision is to provide the Appropriate Information and research on the Mumbai Dabbawala or tiffin bearer operation has been chosen as a best practice, as it is broadly perceived as an Exceptional case of six sigma execution in the Indian connection. This is a meal delivery system in the extensive mega polis of Mumbai, where many workers and
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2011 Growing demand for tiffin carriers Brisk sales since Jan 1 anti-plastic ruling TIFFIN carriers are selling like hot cakes due to the Penang Government’s No Free Plastic Bags policy. Sellers have been enjoying brisk business since Jan 1 when the state government implemented the policy on a daily basis. Tan Saw Bee, who has been selling tiffin carriers for the last 20 years in Sungai Dua and the Chowrasta Market, said she could sell up to 25 tiffin carriers when business was good
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aluminium containers or 'tiffins' serve the dual purpose of keeping the food warm and preventing it from splashing out during the tiffin carrier's rushed and jostling journey. A typical tiffin carrier carries about 40 of these dabbas on a long, unwieldy tray on his head as he moves speedily through busy streets and cramped trains. The tray and tiffins have a combined weight of more than 60 kg. For distances over 4 km, the carriers often use bicycles; when carrying more than 40 tiffins, the carriers use
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fascinated towards the supply chain management line. I find this research interesting because the “Mumbai Dabawalas” are doing 4,00,000 transactions everyday without the help of any technology or educated manpower and are still able to deliver the tiffins on time and without any errors. Methodology To conduct the investigation study I mainly concentrated on secondary research by reading the various studies that have already been conducted by students from other management institudes. To gain
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overcomplicate things. They don’t add extraneous value. They simply understand what their customers want, and they focus 100 percent of their time and energy on meeting that need. Q2) Do you agree with Raghunath Medge the president of the Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Charity Trust ,assessment of the future of the dabbawala ? Ans. Yes, The for the same is 1) In Mumbai, it is now not uncommon
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