Warehouses
Over the past decade India has become a manufacturing hub for most industries. The main reasons for this are increasing domestic consumption and the cost-effectiveness of outsourcing manufacturing activities. Some industries have gained tremendous traction over the last few years, cashing in on the ongoing trend of the economy. These include the following:
- Automotive
- Retail
- Pharmaceutical
- Agriculture
Investments are needed in the warehousing sector in India to provide organised capital to achieve a world- class infrastructure platform and to support greater sophistication in services.
Our warehouses offer the following features and services:
- Mezzanine floors
- Pallet racking and Shelving
- Inventory management – this increases the flexibility of our customers, consumer response programs by modifying products in the distribution center to satisfy special promotions, recall requirements or to create value-added packages before delivery to retailers
- Vendor managed inventory (VMI) – we work with our customers and their suppliers to set up VMI programs in distribution centres that allow manufacturers to buy materials on consignment and pay only for what they use each month allowing our customers to redirect capital previously allocated to inventory.
- Sequencing – Nothing is more costly than shutting down an assembly line because of a lack of production ready materials. Our process is designed to sequence items for the right order at the right time – according to our customer’s production schedule. Sample value added services
- Sub-assembly – By pre-assembling parts and components, we can help our customers reduce the number of assembly steps required at their factory, simplifying their manufacturing process and reducing costs.
- Kitting – The process simplifies parts handling by configuring individual high-activity parts into consolidated user packages prior to final delivery.
- Packaging & labelling – we can also help our customers configure products in the forms their customers want whether its bundling, shrink-wrapping, bar code label creation or any other type of custom packaging labelling and asset tagging. We also provide packing with special protective packaging for large-component shipments containing glass or fragile accessories. This is especially useful to the automotive market and computer markets.
- Cross dock scanning – we scan outer carton labels at our transit warehouse facilities to create an electronic packing list. The e-packing list information is combined with other logistics information to create a final ASN according to our customer’s specifications. Shipments with multiple parts per carton will require special bar code labelling in order to create an accurate ASN.
Our infrastructure includes:
- Handling equipment like Reach Stackers
- Various types of cranes
- Forklifts
- Material handling equipment
- Fleet of various types of trucks
- MIS and Analytical Tools