Agro
Achieved Significant improvement in vehicle placement efficiency and Logistics services procurement cost optimization of up to 3%,. Brought in 100% transparency and audit compliance in Logistics Freight Buying.,
Our client, a global agro Industry major, whose operations are intimately linked to seasonality of crops, resulting in a typically small time window to process the farm produce and bring it to the market. Timely vehicle placement & turnaround time was a major challenge for them. Also, In the absence of real-time visibility of the transaction the entire logistics flow was stressed with regular fire-fighting.
They are one of the world’s largest agricultural processors, serving as a vital link between farmers and consumers. They take crops and process them to make food ingredients, animal feed ingredients, renewable fuels, and naturally derived alternatives to industrial chemicals. Their partnership with the farming community is vital for their business and it is essential for them to place their multiple procurement centres, stocking holds and multiple processing units close to the farming community locations which are mostly at remote & rural locations, This resulted in increased constraints for logistics, transportation, cost & turnaround time for the farm produce.
Solution:
Our SME’s studied the client’s requirements onsite at their multiple processing units, successfully mapping their physical processes, efficiency matrix and constraints. The solution thus derived incorporated plan for sourcing automation, increased in-plant visibility with bay and turnaround time management, digitizing their manual processes and priority management with alerts at critical intervals.
Results:
- Overall direct cost-optimized up to 4%
- In-Plant TAT improvement up to 30%
- Improved loading bay Efficiency up to 40%
- 40% Improvement in priority allocation to farmers and local deliveries
- 100% digitization of and audit compliance of transactions.
- Analytics, reports and dashboards for better decision making.
- Exception reporting and escalations for faster issue resolution
