Namratha Oil Refineries Case Study
The first Case Study is based on Namratha Oil Refineries Pvt. Ltd.: Tackling Oil Giveaway, found in your
HBSP Coursepack. You must purchase the case study.
1. Analyze the company using the information from the case study and also from online sources.
2. Is there any information available about how common this kind of problem is? What
competitors does the company have? How large is the industry? How was it affected by the
Covid-19 virus?
3. Perform a SWOT analysis on the business. What do you conclude from this?
4. Perform a Pareto analysis of the filling process. Can you identify the main problem area?
5. Perform a TAKT time analysis of the filling process and the Cycle time. What is the bottleneck?
6. Perform a Fishbone analysis. Use this to do a root-cause analysis of the problem. What do you
recommend to do to fix it?
7. What should Kumar do?
In answering these questions, you need to show your reasoning supported by information provided by
your sources. You must use outside references in your research.
The writeup is to be in APA format. Use the APA template available from the Library page in MyUCW
and refer to the APA 7th edition information. You will need a cover page, a one-page introduction
summarizing the case and an abstract. Make sure pages are numbered and references and citations are
done properly. You must cite the case study and the textbook in your references as well. You must cite
your references properly in your paper.
