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Gati Logistics India’s warehouse and distribution services provide ultimately a competitive, flexible and high level contract logistics service, again across all main cities within India. Our end to end supply chain solutions have seen many our customers endorse our services with our ability to exceed their expectations leading to long term support and customer satisfaction.
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Role of Transport in Logistics The fundamental unit of the supply chain, transportation serves as key connection between intra- company fundamentals such as plants and warehouses as well as the link between suppliers and customers. A vital part of supply chain, namely logistics, involves transport utility as the key driver for effective forward and reverse flow and storage of goods and services from the point of origin to the point of consumption in order to meet and even exceed the customers’ requirements. Thus, transport and logistics are parallel for the smooth functioning of integrated supply chain. Transportation management is an integral part of inbound, outbound and reverse logistics with an emphasis on responsive network. Efficient transport management involves the processes of planning for better flow and more savings, operational management such as tracking daily transport and reporting any delays, regular monitoring and maintaining updated documents. With the help of an efficient transport management system, the logistics structure can receive a boost in the following three broad arenas: 1. Enhance customer satisfaction – A hiccup-free transportation system enables better and customized delivery options thus resulting in increase customer satisfaction to the point of even exceeding customer expectations. 2. Saves time on freight management – As is in the case of temperature-sensitive goods particularly, the time spent on freight management would reduce drastically if transportation schedules of even multiple locations are functioning smoothly. 3. Impacts inventory flows – Timely and regular sending and receiving shipments translates to better inventory planning and inventory forecast. Illustrating this GATI, the Indian logistics giant, boasts of the largest multi-modal connectivity, effectively managing air, rail and sea transportation across over 500 pick-up points within the country and more than 200 countries world over which significantly and positively impacts the inventory inflow and outflow of the company. In conclusion, logistics companies should focus on the import of transportationas well along with technological endeavours and workforce management in order to achieve excellence in operations.
