Adani Logistics Limited (ALL) has selected Kale Logistics Solutions, a leading global IT services provider, as its preferred IT partner for its Terminal Operations System.

ALL is a wholly owned subsidiary of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (APSEZL).
    
The company is successfully running container trains operations pan India with inland container depot (ICD) and container freight stations (CFS) facilities at Patli, Kishangadh, Mundra and Hazira, said a statement from the company.

ALL has plans to grow with facilities at pan India level keeping in line with the parent APSEZL. Their growing business demand had resulted in extensive manual intervention which hampered their goal of meeting customer expectations, it said.

The company believes investing in tightly integrated assets to reduce bottlenecks in the overall logistics value chain thereby benefiting its customers on multiple dimensions, especially time, visibility and cost. To enable these goals, a robust IT operating system providing scalability, control, key reports and management dashboards as well as the ability to seamlessly interface with other systems and devices is crucial, it added.

This system requirement arose from the business process transformation that is happening across the Adani Group. The business requirements document (BRD) document developed by ALL captured in detail the existing as well as to be processes, incorporating best practices of the industry. Using BRD as the core requirement document, the company embarked on an 18 months evaluation exercise to choose a functionally rich and scalable TOS, which could advance the business needs and facilitate business growth.

Anil Radhakrishnan, CEO, Adani Logistics, said: “We selected Kale’s TOS for its extensive functionalities suite for a global organization. We were looking for a partner who had long term vision, had done similar sized projects and knew application of IT to realise transformational effect on business.”

“Kale displayed the best understanding of our requirements and has one of the widest portfolios of proven logistics IT solutions. We believe that their automation solution will bring in a lot of efficiency, cost reductions and control,” he said.

Ashwani Kumar Sharma, head of IT, Adani Logistics, said: “At Adani we believe in staying ahead of the market demands and to meet these goals, technology would continue to play a critical role in our business.”

“Since this is a long term investment for our business, we had done a detailed ‘Business Requirement Document’ from our side. The new system meets all these requirements and provides data reservoir at both management and operational levels for faster decision making,” Sharma said.

Vineet Malhotra, director, Kale Logistics, said: “We are happy to welcome ALL to our globally expanding client base. We are confident that our operations system will serve the company’s requirements for many years to come.” – TradeArabia News Service