COVER STORY
The Indian logistics industry
Gaining momentum
India’s logistics industry is enjoying a period of spectacular growth helped by economic development and the increased acceptance of out-sourcing by Indian manufacturers and retailers. However, there are a number of challenges on the horizon ranging from deep-rooted structural problems to the unpalatable prospect of economic hardships. The development of India’s national economy will gradually set loose immense demand for modern logistics services. ...

- Lovina Kinny

Logistics parks: The next big thing

In order to meet the customers’ expectations of the on-time deliveries, private companies are setting up large integrating warehousing and distribution complexes called logistics park in different parts of the country. ...

3PL: Speed is the key

One of the recent trends in the rapidly emerging logistics industry is third party logistics (3PL) where logistics operations are outsourced to a specialized firm that provides multiple tactical logistics services for use by customers as opposed to the respective company having a business unit in-house to oversee its supply chain and transportation of goods. ...

INTERVIEW
“The global demand for service requirements will offer new opportunities to Indian logistics industry”

- Mahendra Kumar Agrawal, President and Business Head,
Reliance Logistics

EVENT
Operationalising PPP for disaster management: Towards resilient & sustainability goals
To facilitate the operationalization of public private partnerships the conference laid emphasis on four thematic issues like corporate resilience and preparedness for disaster management, business continuity for disaster management, risk transfer through techno financial strategies, and operationalising public private partnership for disaster management. ...

MARKETING
Resounding endorsement of customer orientation
In the face of ever increasing customer expectations, retaining high satisfaction level is a great challenge. This survey indicates that ATE Enterprises improved steadily to maintain its high customer satisfaction indices. ...

CASE STUDY
Inspection solutions for packed products
The advantage of integrating these inspection systems in the outgoing goods department is that the products are already packed here, and that further contamination with foreign particles in the production process is not possible. Both the RAYCON and the VARICON systems use pusher or air jet rejection with a lockable collecting container for the separation of out of specification products. ...