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Manufacturing

Manufacturing is a process; it means it has to take into account the end product, the cost of production and attendant tasks of marketing and finance; in other words, business ultimately leads to some sort of manufacturing of products. Even for a mere seller of products there must be manufacturers to provide him with products. In the final analysis, all activities, simple and serious, are interrelated towards a common goal: business and bottom line.

 Of course, today environmentalists claim attention and there are active environmentalists’ organizations that do not encourage any business activity or endeavour that brings harm to human health and welfare. In a way, Green marketing is a powerful expression of environmental concern.

Perhaps you might have heard of ethical manufacturing.  It only means manufacturing must be undertaken in such a way that the process of manufacturing does not bring harm to man.

 A good and popular example is plastic pollution.

Endless number of examples you can find if you look around carefully with focus on ethical manufacturing. Adulteration seems to have come to stay at least with some small sections of the society since they seem to appear bent upon making fast money and not fair money.  There are very efficient people who make fast money in a fair way. Ultimately, it is your attitude to life in general and to money in particular that decides whether you earn your money fast and fair or otherwise. Let us not go into those aspects of money-earning but focus on manufacturing.

Possibly, you are now aware of the fact that the so-called pandemic and the recent Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have resulted in what is called disruptions in supply chain. That is, manufacturing per se is thwarted.

Supply chain disruption is a major cause for any financial distress; it may be less profit , luckily, or more loss , unluckily, business breakdown and even closure of commercial concerns.Unwanted and unwelcome disasters.

 We will discuss briefly the causes of supply chain disruptions and consequences.  But one thing: everything depends upon the process called manufacturing.  You can manufacture a plough to produce finally products that sustain man or your country can manufacture intercontinental ballistic missiles to protect the country or to threaten the enemies.

 Almost all social activities do include some form of manufacturing of something or other.  Manufacturing is universal and ever present. Omnipresent therefore Omnipotent.

Will continue on June 22, OK.