Financial and critical analysis of vendors management in Banglalink Telecommunication Ltd.

Abstract

Banglalink is the second largest cellular provider in Bangladesh after Grameenphone. In September, 2004, Orascom Telecom Holdings purchased 100% of the shares of Sheba Telecom (PVT.)Limited (Sheba).Afterwards it was rebranded and launched its services under the ‘Banglalink’ brand on February 10, 2005. When Banglalink entered the Bangladesh Telecommunication Industry in February 2005, the scenario changed overnight with mobile telephony becoming an extremely useful and affordable communication tool for people across all segments with innovative and attractive products and services targeting the different market segments, aggressive improvements of network quality and dedicated customer care; and effective communication that emotionally connected customers with Banglalink. The objective of the company is to ensure telecom facilities for all people of Bangladesh with minimum cost. Therefore, they are trying to minimize this cost by improving their supply chain department by implanting new strategies to overcome their faults. On this process they have opened a whole new department for just to improve their contract management system inside the company as well as to maintain a good relationship with their vendors by ensuring that both the product quality and delivery date was maintained while receiving the goods from their vendors. Here, the report will discuss about their vendor management system while focusing on the contract management department to show how they have utilizing their resources to ensure that their vendors not delaying in delivering their goods, even if they do so, how much penalty Banglalink is actually getting due to their vendors mis managements in delivering the goods on time. Besides, a SWOT analysis have been provided to show their opportunities and threads while recommending them the changes they can think of while working with their vendors in Future. All the information used for this report was approximate.