Value Chain Analysis in Context of Food and Beverage Companies in Gujarat State: From Demographic Variable Perspective

Value chain analysis is the process of looking at the activities that go into changing the inputs for a product or service into an output that is valued by the customer. Companies conduct value-chain analysis by looking at every production step required to create a product and identifying ways to increase the efficiency of the chain. The factors that affect the value chain are timely delivery, waste reduction, well managed procurement costs, use of modern technology, effective human resource management, efficient firm infrastructure, etc. The researcher in this research effort tries to assess the impact of demographics of the managers surveyed for knowing the Factors Affecting Value Chain Analysis in context of Food and Beverage Industry in Gujarat State. The one way Anova technique is used by the researcher to know that whether there is significant difference in the perceptions of the Managers with respect to Factors Affecting Value Chain Analysis in F&B Companies in Gujarat State relative to their demographic factor or not and hypothesis so framed are tested accordingly. If the significance value is less than P value (0.05), then the null hypothesis will be rejected and it can be concluded that there is significant difference in the perceptions relative to the demographic factor considered by the researcher under study.