Logistics
and Warehousing
Case 1 - A leading provider of supply
chain execution (SCE) solutions
Case 2 - A government planning and regulatory agency
Case 1
A leading provider of supply chain execution
(SCE) solutions
Technology: Warehouse Management Solutions
The Customer:
The customer is a leading provider of comprehensive solutions that
helps its clients add value and minimize risks to mission-critical
supply chains. It provides products and services needed to install,
integrate and manage world-class supply chain execution (SCE) solutions.
The Challenge:
Tata Infotech has been associated with the customer since 1993,
providing joint development and customization of the customer's
product for its various end clients.
The Solution:
Tata Infotech deploys its proprietary SertainSupport® Methodology
for support using Onsite-Offshore Model. Tata Infotech's has a dedicated
Indian facility as an extension of customer's facility at US. Work
assignments of varying size are created through international private
leased line circuit established between Tata Infotech and customer
site for this program. The work is carried out on the customer’s
servers located in the US with about 30 offshore consultants working
from India.
Tata Infotech has provides expertise in the following
modules of WMS:
a) Receiving
b) Putaway
c) Inventory Management
d) Fulfillment
e) Picking
f) Loading and Shipping
Benefits to the Customer:
- Control and reduction in operational costs
- Improved efficiency in business processes
- Reduction in time-to-market
- Increased focus on core business activities
Case 2
Customer: A government planning and regulatory agency
Technology: Technology: Vessel planning and scheduling system
The Customer:
The agency played a key role in the decision-making processes in
the downstream sector, with particular reference to planning, coordinating
and monitoring functions. While not formulating policy itself, it
assisted the Government in the framing of policy by providing the
necessary inputs and by coordinating implementation.
The Challenge:
Scheduling sea based bulk carriers/ tankers is important to petroleum,
chemical and bulk export companies as well as to ship and fleet
owners. The Tanker Scheduling System application leverages the advances
in optimization technologies to provide an effective and contemporary
system to aid in planning, scheduling and in assignment of sea going
bulk carriers/ tankers.
The design is applicable to all transportation
businesses that are covered by the prevalent chartering practices
and costs. Physical entities like tankers, ports, lighterage points,
jetties, storage tanks and pumps are treated with all real constraints.
The Solution:
The Tanker Scheduling System is implemented primarily using an appropriate
blend of techniques from Artificial Intelligence (Constraint Propagation
and Heuristics), Operations Research and Real Time Parallel Processing
address the requirements of Tanker assignment.
The system equips users with a computerized decision
support system that would enable them to generate and to study efficient
options for the coastal transportation of petroleum crude to refineries
and of products to distribution and consumption areas. The system
can be used both in the long term planning and in the short-term
scheduling modes.
The system is targeted to primarily support operational
needs but it also provides significant strategic decision support.
The utility of the system is not merely in planning which producing
port supplies which consuming port with what commodity and when.
It also identifies which tanker would do the task.
Benefits to the Customer:
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Reduction the lead-time of schedule generation
down to the day, permitting daily revisions.
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Audit support as the entire process is repeatable.
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Enhanced forecasting and usage of fixed and
movable assets.
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Transportation cost savings would accrue
from an early (second month) and detailed assignment of core
resources permitting the planning of capacity utilization through
the adjustment of parcel sizes based on the capacities and availabilities
permissible when and where required. The savings results from
not picking up residual amounts when the parcel sizes slightly
exceed the size of an available tanker.
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Proper planning of fleet composition given
the preferred parcel sizes and commodity types.
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Constants in operational constraints available
as editable database fields.
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Reducing the dependence on experienced schedulers/planners
using rule of thumb.
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The integrated and centralized capture of
core data leading to design of more robust schedules.
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Balancing cost of transportation against
inventory costs and risks.
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Effective early (second month) planning of
cost-effective Voyage Chartering based on Time-chartered fleet
utilization to meet expected demand supply.
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Assess the costs of alternative working options.
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Analysis of optimal fleet composition for
known transportation patterns of operation and measurement of
fleet utilization.
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Analysis of the cost implications of mitigating
product dryouts by commodity, by port.
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