Case Study Transportation & Logistics: Adani LogisticsCatering to Logistic Needs

Adani Logistics caters to the logistics needs of the country by offering its own multimodal links. It provides integrated logistic solutions for movement of commodities. Towards its mission, Adani has secured an all-India license to manage container train operations from Indian Railways. In order to provide pan-India multi-modal logistics services, Adani Logistics has developed the facilities for movement of goods in containers by train, road, and sea. The company is also developing logistic parks for providing various ground facilities, including aggregation, warehousing, holding, inspection, custom bonding, stuffing/de-stuffing of Export Import (EXIM) and domestic cargo, and loading/unloading onto railway wagons.

Adani Logistics also offers comprehensive end-to-end logistic solutions for handling a wide range of cargo including containers, break bulk dry and liquid cargo, perishables and project cargo in the form of full train load, full container load, and less than container load.

IT Requirements

Given the depth and diversity of operations, Adani Logistics looked at a seamless solution to cater to their terminal management operations and brings in a greater degree of integration with its shippers, liners, and railways. It looked at a system that can streamline areas such as container re-handling, rake planning, and formation besides an efficient track and trace facility.

The Solution

The company zeroed in on Ramcos Inland Container Depot (ICD). The company went in for Ramcos solution due to the vendors previous track record in making successful deployments in shipping and transportation industry. Ramco offered Adani Logistics a solution based approach model to offer a complete end-to-end solution for container terminal management, yard management, and rail management functions.

The solution implemented at Adani covered all the core business processes of container terminal management for its container yards across the country. The solution provided greater efficiency and transparency to Adanis operations with a high degree of automation coupled with container tracking. The solution also covered areas like rail planning, terminal operations, transportation, rail operations, and container consolidation/deconsolidation.

In terms of post-deployment benefits, the solution has facilitated Adani to consolidate all of the disparate processes together to give the company an instant access to information and valuable insights into their business.