Manufactured Capital

Our 14 manufacturing plants are spread over plot sizes ranging from as small as 5 acres to as big as 50 acres. These units together produced approximately 4.39 Crore cases of a variety of products ranging from Health Care to Personal Care and Home Care to Foods. In addition, we work with over 60 2P/3P contract manufacturers producing an additional 1.24 crore cases in FY 2022-23.

We have also set high standards in water conservation and herbal waste recycling across all our manufacturing facilities. The year 2022-23 saw Dabur invest 509 Crore towards Capex for upgrading its manufacturing capability and setting up new production lines in Pithampur (Madhya Pradesh) and Jammu, besides integration of the latest state-of-the-art technology. These investments have provided us returns in terms of cost reduction, product improvement, increased efficiency and incorporation of circular economy in plants. We are investing in renewable energy projects within our facilities to replace fossil fuel with alternate clean fuels such as bio-briquettes and Piped Natural Gas (instead of furnace oil) as part of our efforts to proactively reduce our overall emissions footprint across operations. Efforts are also underway to optimise business related travels and logistics.

Our OHSAS-certified state-of-the-art production facilities are equipped with systems and procedures to ensure employee well-being and safety.

Our network of 2 Mother Warehouses and 26 CFAs together ship products to around 7,300 towns and 600 districts in the country. Given these huge volumes, we put a lot of emphasis on our manufacturing capability to ensure that our Supply Chain conforms to the highest standards of quality. We work closely and cooperatively with our suppliers and customers to ensure quality standards are maintained across the Supply Chain.

At Dabur, we believe that our suppliers, service providers, channel partners, dealers, distributors and vendors make significant contributions to our success and we treat them with respect. This Code shall apply to all Suppliers, including their employees, contract workers, sub-contractors and their service providers, who engage in business relationships with Dabur or on behalf of Dabur. The term Dabur includes all subsidiaries and affiliates of Dabur India Limited. We expect our suppliers to comply with all applicable laws in terms of labour and human rights, environment conservation, food safety and statutory compliance for business practices in true spirit & intent. The SCOC can be accessed at https://www.dabur.com/sites/default/files/2023-05/Board-Approved-SCOC.pdf

At Dabur, we are continuously on the lookout for the latest and cutting-edge technologies to improve our operational performance and consumer experience. There is continuous engagement with domain experts, equipment manufacturers, industry bodies, digital experts, startups for ideation and adoption.

In 2022-23, the following technologies were introduced in Dabur units:

• Manufacturing processing systems - High yield and throughput generating manufacturing systems like introduction of continuous sugar dissolving systems, beverage manufacturing.
• Primary Product Filling Systems - We have high speed and energy efficient juice filling machines with a speed of 40,000 packs per hour in Indore, more than 60% improvement compared to the existing machines. The PET bottle filling lines are now a single blocked machine, with a bottle rinser, stretch blow molder and filler machines having speeds up to 36,000 bottles per hour.
• End Of Packing Line Automation – Use of robotic palletizers to pack 4 SKUs at a time thus efficiently managing multiple SKUs in different lines to improve manpower productivity. At Indore unit, the company has started to use case packers and palletizers in high-speed juice filling lines.
• Warehousing and Inventory Management Systems - The material storage blocks in Tezpur factory have been equipped software SAP WMS, we can now run and manage a high volume of goods and run agile operations with digitalized and accelerated warehouse processes, wherein the SKUs are tagged with a bar code which is mapped in SAP thus improving FIFO.
• Digital Technologies - As part of our Digital Transformation journey, we have implemented best-in-class technology solutions centred on new-age technologies like Industrial IoT 4.0 for Improved Asset management, Freight Optimization solutions and Robotic Process Automation on certain aspects of customer service. We have also embarked on organization wide Digital Initiatives like Journey to cloud and data lake implementation in order to strengthen the analytical prowess.

Following is the list of new technologies/equipment adopted in 2022-23:

S.No.	Technology	Product improvement, cost reduction, product development or import substitution	Investment (in Lakhs)
1.	High speed and efficient product filling systems through eBeam technology etc.	Improved operational cost by 20%	7,150
2.	End of line automation through speed controlled advanced robotic palletizers	Cost reduction by improved manpower productivity	1,000
3.	High yield manufacturing systems like continuous sugar dissolving system, high shear mixtures for Glucose manufacturing etc.	Better mixing technologies, better quality product and energy efficient system	300
4.	IIOT implementation for Asset management, Real time OEE Monitoring and Freight Optimization solution	Real time and digitized monitoring of Asset upkeep and operation. Loadability and FTL% improvement for Freight	105
5.	Warehouse management system software in FG and PM warehouses	Better Customer Service & inventory management	100
Total			8,655