Firm Visit: Vongchan Cable Co., Ltd.
Vongchan Cable Co., Ltd.
Students from the Bachelor’s program in Business and Supply Chain Analytics Engineering visited Vongchan Cable Co., Ltd. During the visit, our students had the opportunity to learn about the cable production process, starting from raw materials (RM) through to finished goods (FG) ready for sale in the market.
A cable plant that runs from raw material to finished goods
Vongchan Cable Co., Ltd. — VCC — manufactures electrical cable in Cambodia, with its drums marked “Made in Cambodia” alongside the conductor size, voltage rating, length and weight of each reel. The plant takes in raw conductor and insulating material and sends out sealed, labelled drums of finished cable ready for the market.
For a supply chain audience the appeal of the site is that the whole chain is visible in one building. Raw materials, work in progress and finished goods each occupy their own part of the floor, and a single product can be followed end to end — from the material as it arrives to the drum as it is staged for despatch.
Four things the visit surfaced
The briefing and the production floor
The visit opened with a company presentation in the meeting room, covering what VCC makes, how the plant is organised and the specifications its cable is built to. The group then moved onto the production floor in small clusters, stopping at each station while company staff explained what the machine does and where its output goes next — which made the line readable as one continuous flow rather than a set of separate operations.
Why this matters to an engineering student
RM, WIP and FG are places before they are numbers. On a balance sheet these are three lines of inventory. On the floor they are three physical areas with different handling, different space needs and different risks. Seeing them laid out makes the accounting categories concrete.
Continuous product, discrete packaging. Cable is produced as a continuous length but sold in fixed drum lengths. Where the line cuts and winds is a planning decision that ties production directly to the order book — cut wrong and you hold stock nobody ordered.
Local manufacturing shortens the chain. Cable made in Cambodia for Cambodian customers removes an import leg, its lead time and its currency exposure. The same product decision that reads as marketing on the drum reads as risk management in the supply chain.
Thanks to our host
On behalf of SCA, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to Vongchan Cable Co., Ltd. for warmly welcoming our students and for sharing valuable insights on real-world cable production and its supply chain. A certificate of appreciation was presented to the company at the close of the visit.
At a glance
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Host | Vongchan Cable Co., Ltd. (VCC) |
| Sector | Electrical cable manufacturing |
| Focus of the visit | The cable production process, from raw materials (RM) to finished goods (FG) ready for sale |
| Output | Finished cable wound on drums, marked with description, length, net and gross weight and lot number |
| On-site programme | Company presentation · guided walk of the production floor · certificate of appreciation |
| Visiting party | Students of the Bachelor’s program in Business and Supply Chain Analytics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, RUPP |