Sample Bplan Report
Sample Bplan Report
Sample Bplan Report
E-Groceries
Group 9
This business plan talks about the company information in terms of Vision, Mission,
Objectives, and Values. This document describes the basic business model describing the
categories of business, details of the processes and salient features.
The operations describe the operations, logistics involved and the SCM in details. How
we optimize it to give best value to the customers. It also talks about the inventory
management and type of operations model we use.
The market analysis gives us the clear picture of the present situation and how we handle
the situation for our benefit. How we form a brand and spread the awareness customers.
The marketing also segregates the customer segment and how we reach them. It also talks
about the advertisement strategy.
The financials take care of the capital estimation, breakeven analysis, and profit
estimation. It also talks about the fund sourcing, fund distribution and growth strategies.
The financials also include the exit strategy.
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Table of Contents
1. Company Information ........................................................................... 4
1.1 Vision .................................................................................................................. 4
1.2 Mission ................................................................................................................ 4
1.3 Objectives ........................................................................................................... 4
1.4 Values ................................................................................................................. 4
2. Business Model ....................................................................................... 5
2.1 Categories of Business ........................................................................................ 5
2.2 Business Process ................................................................................................. 5
2.3 Revenue Model ................................................................................................... 8
3. Operations ............................................................................................... 9
3.1 Operations Model................................................................................................ 9
3.2 Time slots for delivery ...................................................................................... 10
3.3 How we managed our inventory ....................................................................... 10
3.4 Transportation cost............................................................................................ 11
3.5 Logistics network .............................................................................................. 12
4. Marketing Strategy .............................................................................. 13
4.1 Situational Analysis .......................................................................................... 13
4.2 Our Offerings .................................................................................................... 13
4.3 Market Segmentation ........................................................................................ 14
4.4 Advantage relative to competition .................................................................... 15
4.5 Market readiness of technology ........................................................................ 15
4.6 Advertisement Strategy ..................................................................................... 15
5. Technology behind eGrocery.com ...................................................... 16
5.1 Features in eGrocery.com system ..................................................................... 16
5.2 Architecture....................................................................................................... 16
5.3 Operating System .............................................................................................. 17
5.4 Hardware Specifications ................................................................................... 17
5.5 Security ............................................................................................................. 18
5.6 Other systems .................................................................................................... 18
6. Financials .............................................................................................. 19
6.2 Capital Estimation ............................................................................................. 19
6.3 Fund Distribution .............................................................................................. 21
6.4 Fund Sourcing ................................................................................................... 22
6.5 Break Even Analysis ......................................................................................... 22
6.6 Profit Estimation ............................................................................................... 23
6.7 Future Growth Strategy..................................................................................... 23
6.8 Exit Strategy...................................................................................................... 23
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1. Company Information
eGrocery.com is focused on online grocery retail business. It plans to
connect millions of household customers with distributors. eGrocery.com
is an online portal available 24 X 7 to the internet friendly customers. It is
a virtual online market place facilitating easy buying and selling of
groceries. eGrocery.com aims to tap the growing Indian consumer goods
market. eGrocery.com plans to start with its presence in six major cities in
India namely Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad
and then increase its regional base to more cities in India.
1.1 Vision
eGrocery.com is a web start up with limited resources but it align all its
strategies keeping in mind the following visions:
To make eGrocery.com available all over India.
To be the largest indigenous e-Commerce portal in India.
1.2 Mission
Our mission is to provide a online platform where people can shop for
groceries along with door step delivery. eGrocery.com taps the unattended
needs of the people who does not find traditional trading convenient due to
many unavoidable reasons. Our foremost mission is to provide
convenience to the customers followed by best value for money backed by
quality and satisfaction.
1.3 Objectives
The main objectives of eGrocery.com are as follows:
To serve our customers flawlessly.
To built a stable and effective network between the distributors,
wholesalers, retailers and the household customers.
To build a effective sustainable technology.
To give our customers the best value for money and quickest service.
1.4 Values
We aim to build our business along the path of great values and business ethics
which includes:
Integrity
Leading Change
Excellence
Quality
Respect for Individual
Learning
Sharing
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2. Business Model
eGrocery.com is a common platform where the distributors, retailers and wholesalers can supply
to the needs of the household customers. eGrocery.com enables a greater market reach to the
suppliers and convenience to the customers.
It provides a online platform for household customers to choose from a wide variety of products
listed by the suppliers (distributors, wholesalers, retailers). It also allows the suppliers to enlist their
products to ramp up their sales by increasing their reach. This portal also acts intermediately between
the distributor and wholesalers or retailer to supply goods that are unavailable locally.
The main model of business can be categorized into two major divisions according to the
customer segment and the type of their interaction with the suppliers.
The business process for the eGrocery.com is very simple. The Process can be segregated
into the following sub categories:-
1. Buying Process
2. Selling Process
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2.2.1 Buying Process
This process allows users to search and buy different products listed by sellers.
Registration
To buy on eGrocery.com one must be a registered user. It's fast, easy and free. As a registered
user, they can shop and place orders on eGrocery.com. The registration involves the following
steps:
1. Contact Information
2. UserID & Password Creation
3. Email Confirmation
Browse
Browsing is clicking through lists of titles called categories until one find something they are
interested in.
Select
Before one buys or place an order, they can know about the item and seller to make an informed
decision, pay attention to the:
Listing information
Product details
Shipping and payment details
Seller information
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Payment
After the buyers have selected their products they are given a choice of selecting their payment
mode/method. There are many payment methods and most sellers offer more than one. Some
methods offer more protection than others.
Feedback
Feedback is made up of comments and ratings left by members who have bought from and sold
to. Once you have received your item, it is time to leave feedback for the seller and the item,
letting future buyers know about your experience with the seller.
Supplier Registration
The supplier must enlist themselves by registering themselves with a fixed cost amount.The
registration involves the following steps:
1. Contact Information
2. UserID & Password Creation
3. Email Confirmation
Enlist Products
The supplier must enlist their products with appropriate details, pictures, description, prices etc. Each
product enlistment requires an one time cost.
Manage Products
The suppliers are allowed to modify their entries which are already listed.
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2.3 Revenue Model
The revenue model of eGrocery.com is very simple. eGrocery.com does not charge any customer
for browsing. The browsing is made free of cost. The revenue model can be segregated onto the
following sub categories, namely:
1. Registration Fee
Manufacturers or Distributors pays annual rent for registering to eGrocery.com. In order to
enlist their products or to put any kind of advertisements the companies must be registered.
This is a fixed rent.
2. Listing Fee
Manufacturers or Distributors pays annual rent for listing each product. This is a variable rent
calculated keeping the cost and various other factors in mind.
3. Service Charges
Shipment eGrocery.com charges a nominal amount for shipment of products to the door
step. This depends on the distance and amount gradation.
Maintenance eGrocery.com also charges a percentage of the order for maintenance of
its business.
Discounts eGrocery.com offers discounts to all of its deals depending on the time and
volume of orders.
4. Advertisements
eGrocery.com allows different advertisements which is also a source of revenue.
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3. Operations
Our operations are carried out according to two approaches:
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3.2 Time slots for delivery
We have different time slots depending upon the demand of the customers. They are categorized
as:
2 HOUR
This is the best time slot provided by us and it will deliver the products within 2 hour
after the order is placed. In this category we will not provide any discounts as the service
level is highest in this category. This will target mostly the working people who dont
have time and they just order when they want any product.
6 HOUR
Customers will get a certain minimal amount of discount in this time slot. This will target
the family based customers who plan to make something few hours later and need the
products in a few hours of time. They will be generally middle sized customers.
1 DAY
Quite a god amount of discount would be given to these customers as they are just
directly reducing good amount of transportation cost i.e. from warehouse to warehouse or
from warehouse to consumers. These customers are also the family based customers but
their demand is slightly flexible than the previous time slot. This will target customers
who are middle-sized and above.
2 DAY
This will mainly target the upper segments that are used to keep product stock. They will
be benefited maximum discounts as the transportation costs are least here because time to
deliver products is too large. In this much time several orders can be seen in the places
around the ordered places.
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3.3.1 Fluctuation inventory
This is introduced in our inventory management with apurpose of
preventing disruptions in deliveries to customers. We have maintained a
buffer stock which will protect against fluctuations in supply and demand
and lead time and it will also remove stock out situation.
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4.2.2 Offerings to Customers
Our offerings to the customers are:
1. Convenience
2. Timely delivery
3. Cheapest Deals
4. Quality Assurance
5. Value for money
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We have defined our market segmentation to get a meaningful approach to the market. We have
encountered that the customers who are within our segment will behave in different as compare to
the others. The segments we have designed provide motivation to the customers in the sense of
price, quality product and timeliness. Apart from the traditional purchase, through our
segmentation, customers get the ease to shop in price as well as time.
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5. Technology behind eGrocery.com
In an online business technology is definitely the most important thing. The whole system
is dependent on the technology that we will be using, therefore we should ensure that we
take proper decisions on the architecture on which our system will be developed ,the
hardware the software that we will using and proper security measures to ensure that our
clients can have secure transactions.
5.2 Architecture
The architecture that we will be using is 3-tier, J2EE architecture .The picture below describes the
working of a general N-tier architecture, and here we have a presentation layer, a business logic
layer and a data layer. The presentation layer is responsible for all communications with the
users computer. The business-logic layer is responsible for implementing the basic rules of the
system according to the operating rules of the business and the data layer provides fast, reliable
access to data needed to run a systems
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The above picture shows the
architecture of the 3-tier J2EE 5.2.1 Database
architecture, and here we have a The database used will be the
client tier, web tier and an EIS tier. oracle 9i database.
The client tier is responsible for the 5.2.2 Application Server
presentation at the user end, the web
tier is responsible for the business The application server will be the
logic and the EIS tier also can be BEA weblogic server; it offers an
referred as a data layer is responsible application server built for
for maintaining information about mission critical applications and
the relationships between data and service-oriented architecture
provide fast, reliable access to data (SOA). The proven Enterprise
needed to run a system. Grade Kernel keeps the
applications up and running even
when deploying a new version,
changing the server
configuration or failing over
within or across datacenters.
5.5 Security
In an online business everything is dependent on technology proper
measures should be taken to protect it from attackers or hackers. Several
technologies can be employed to help reduce the risk to companies and
their customers when completing e-commerce transactions.
5.5.2 Firewall
A firewall helps us to prevent unauthorized access of the site. Firewall is
considered a first line of defense in protecting private information.
Intercepts all messages entering and leaving the network.
Transportation
We plan to equip each ware house three scooters and a tempo per
warehouses for delivery purposes.
C] Human Resource
We plane to have a CEO, CFO, CMO, CSO, COO, CTO all posted in the
corporate centre comprising the top management team. Each regional
office is equipped with one Regional Manager who would serve as a BDO.
Each warehouse is equipped with the Delivery Centre Manager, 2 Porters
and 5 Delivery boys. The RnD centre would have 20 employees along with
a HR manager.
D] Technology Setup
We would have the technology setup at Bangalore. This would include
Hardware, Software, PC, Servers, Telephones, Networks etc.
E] Miscellaneous
This includes other costs, maintenance inventory costs etc.
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6.3 Fund Distribution
Fund Distribution by Category
5%
18%
20%
31%
26%
11%
Mumbai
Bangalor
e
Delhi
Kolkata
Chennai
Hyderba
d
17%
29%
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Fund Sourcing
Individual Contribution
Partnership 2
0
Rs 20,00,000 per head %
Rs 1,00,00,000
40%
Venture Capitalists
Contribution
Rs 1,00,00,000
Bank Loan
Rs 50,00,000 40%
Partnership VC Bank
25
20
15
Rs in 10
Lacs 5
0
-5
-10
-15
Months
Investment Revenue Profit