Vehicle Tracking Solutions Case Study On Implementation Of Gps/gprs Based Vehicle Tracking & Pilferage Monitoring System For Bharti Wal-Mart
Over View:
Bharti Enterprises is one of India’s leading business groups with operations in over 21 countries across the globe and interests in telecom, financial services, retail, fresh and processed foods, and real estate.
Over the past few years, the group has diversified into emerging business areas in the fast expanding Indian economy. With a vision to build India’s finest conglomerate by 2020 the group has forayed into the retail sector by opening retail stores in multiple formats – small and medium - as well establishing large scale cash & carry stores to serve institutional customers and other retailers.
Bharti Walmart is a B2B joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and Walmart for wholesale cash & carry and back-end supply chain management operations in India to serve small retailers, manufacturers, institutions and farmers. The Company operates Cash & Carry stores under the Best Price Modern Wholesale brand. A typical cash-and-carry store stands between 50,000 and 100,000 square feet and sells a wide range of fresh, frozen and chilled foods, fruits and vegetables, dry groceries, personal and home care, hotel and restaurant supplies, clothing, office supplies and other general merchandise items.
Current Operation:
Bharti Wal-Mart currently operates from it’s Bannur Distribution Centre(DC), which is in the close proximity of Channdhigarh, Punjab.
This DC operates by 24x7 and distributes the retail products to as many as 70 Outlets which spread across Chandhigarh, Delhi, Noida, Gurgoan, Jaipur etc. Bharti Walm-Mart is partner with R.K.Foodland, one of the leading company in providing in Logistics Solution for the requirement of it’s Supply Chain solution.
Challenges:
Bharti Wal-Mart enlisted R.K.Foodland to provide the service that deployed around 60 vehicles for its distribution from DC to various stores. As a transporter following are the major challenges faced by the transporter;
1. Dispatches delayed due to non-availability of Vehicles on time.
2. Absence of information on the expected time of arrival of the vehicles leads to anxiety and improper planning.
3. Exact information on the current location of the vehicle and status of delivers were not known as the information provided by the transporters was often unreliable.
4. In-transit idle time of the vehicle not known due to which deliveries are delayed
5. In Time & Out Time of the vehicle at the outlets were always had the discrepancy.
6. In-transit Pilferage
It is imperative for them to maintain an upto-the-minute tracking of vehicle and the goods as the chances for pilferage was very high since its dealing with retails goods and also meet the stock at the outlets on time.
In order to ensure the continuous supply of goods and facilitate efficient routing of vehicles and continues monitoring of Pilferages, it was very much essential for Bharti Wal-Mart to implement GPS/GPRS based real time vehicle tracking system with Pilferage Monitoring System which would enable to over come the above mentioned challenges.
Solution:
In pursuit of this objective, after analyzing the performance of various companies solution, Bharti-Walmart has enlisted PCS Technology Limited, Mumbai, one of the leading company in providing Location based Intelligence Solution and Real Time Pilferage Monitoring system in India had undertaken a detailed study of the business process and system study for the distribution operations to developed a customized application for Bharti Wal-Mart.
Benefits:
Bharti Wal-Mart has derived immense benefits by employing Vehicle Tracking & Pilferage Monitoring Solution in their trucks which has enabled them to address major supply chain related issues. Bharti Wal-Mart has been actively involved in providing required inputs about the nature of the operation which has helped PCS in developing customized solution with much more advanced features.
Following are the major benefits accrued out of PCS Solution;
R.K.Foodlan, the service provider to Bharti Wal-Mart has unequivocally expressed their satisfaction in the services offered by PCS and has decoded to extend the system for their entire fleet. The success in supporting R.K.Foodland endeavor to transform the supply chain function keeps PCS on a strong footing to extend similar and customized solution to other Indian corporate.
Bharti Enterprises is one of India’s leading business groups with operations in over 21 countries across the globe and interests in telecom, financial services, retail, fresh and processed foods, and real estate.
Over the past few years, the group has diversified into emerging business areas in the fast expanding Indian economy. With a vision to build India’s finest conglomerate by 2020 the group has forayed into the retail sector by opening retail stores in multiple formats – small and medium - as well establishing large scale cash & carry stores to serve institutional customers and other retailers.
Bharti Walmart is a B2B joint venture between Bharti Enterprises and Walmart for wholesale cash & carry and back-end supply chain management operations in India to serve small retailers, manufacturers, institutions and farmers. The Company operates Cash & Carry stores under the Best Price Modern Wholesale brand. A typical cash-and-carry store stands between 50,000 and 100,000 square feet and sells a wide range of fresh, frozen and chilled foods, fruits and vegetables, dry groceries, personal and home care, hotel and restaurant supplies, clothing, office supplies and other general merchandise items.
Current Operation:
Bharti Wal-Mart currently operates from it’s Bannur Distribution Centre(DC), which is in the close proximity of Channdhigarh, Punjab.
This DC operates by 24x7 and distributes the retail products to as many as 70 Outlets which spread across Chandhigarh, Delhi, Noida, Gurgoan, Jaipur etc. Bharti Walm-Mart is partner with R.K.Foodland, one of the leading company in providing in Logistics Solution for the requirement of it’s Supply Chain solution.
Challenges:
Bharti Wal-Mart enlisted R.K.Foodland to provide the service that deployed around 60 vehicles for its distribution from DC to various stores. As a transporter following are the major challenges faced by the transporter;
1. Dispatches delayed due to non-availability of Vehicles on time.
2. Absence of information on the expected time of arrival of the vehicles leads to anxiety and improper planning.
3. Exact information on the current location of the vehicle and status of delivers were not known as the information provided by the transporters was often unreliable.
4. In-transit idle time of the vehicle not known due to which deliveries are delayed
5. In Time & Out Time of the vehicle at the outlets were always had the discrepancy.
6. In-transit Pilferage
It is imperative for them to maintain an upto-the-minute tracking of vehicle and the goods as the chances for pilferage was very high since its dealing with retails goods and also meet the stock at the outlets on time.
In order to ensure the continuous supply of goods and facilitate efficient routing of vehicles and continues monitoring of Pilferages, it was very much essential for Bharti Wal-Mart to implement GPS/GPRS based real time vehicle tracking system with Pilferage Monitoring System which would enable to over come the above mentioned challenges.
Solution:
In pursuit of this objective, after analyzing the performance of various companies solution, Bharti-Walmart has enlisted PCS Technology Limited, Mumbai, one of the leading company in providing Location based Intelligence Solution and Real Time Pilferage Monitoring system in India had undertaken a detailed study of the business process and system study for the distribution operations to developed a customized application for Bharti Wal-Mart.
Benefits:
Bharti Wal-Mart has derived immense benefits by employing Vehicle Tracking & Pilferage Monitoring Solution in their trucks which has enabled them to address major supply chain related issues. Bharti Wal-Mart has been actively involved in providing required inputs about the nature of the operation which has helped PCS in developing customized solution with much more advanced features.
Following are the major benefits accrued out of PCS Solution;
- Real-time information on the precise location of the Trucks for estimating the arrival and dispatch planning.
- Idle time reduction through continuous monitoring of vehicles
- Improved productivity by reduction in turnaround time
- Reduction in In-transit Pilferage
- Reduced anxiety levels in managing supplies
R.K.Foodlan, the service provider to Bharti Wal-Mart has unequivocally expressed their satisfaction in the services offered by PCS and has decoded to extend the system for their entire fleet. The success in supporting R.K.Foodland endeavor to transform the supply chain function keeps PCS on a strong footing to extend similar and customized solution to other Indian corporate.
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