Shipping
& Ports
Case 1 - India's premier Inter-modal Transportation
Company
Case 2 - Portal for Shipping Industry
Case 1
Customer: India's premier Inter-modal Transportation Company
Technology: Terminal Management System
The Customer:
The customer is India's premier Inter-modal Transportation Company.
It provides containerized freight transportation by rail and road
services according to market demand and operational exigencies.
It also operates container terminals across the country to cater
to the needs of the trade, whether in the international or the domestic
business.
The Challenge:
To provide a complete end to end solution for managing the activities
of a multi-modal Terminal
The Solution:
Tata Infotech's "Container Terminal Operation Management System"
provides customer the following modules:
- Stack Maintenance (Yard Planning)
- Gate-in Gate-out
- Commercial Documentation
- Export
- Import
- Rail Road
- Master Maintenance
- Security
Benefits to the Customer: The Terminal
Management System is an optimal graphical planning & operation solution
for container terminal. Designed and developed to:
- Manage all processes and operations of terminal automatically
and manually
- Maximizing the productivity of the terminal
- Providing end-customers with high quality of service
Case 2
Customer: Portal for Shipping Industry
Technology: B2B Exchange
The Customer:
The Shipping industry being global, there exists the opportunity
to eliminate arbitrage opportunities that characterizes the shipping
business. The portal along with a network of offices across the
world was envisaged to provide a wide range of information, along
with B2B and B2C solutions for the shipping industry.
The Challenge:
The portal functionality to be covered consisted of:
- Dynamic and real-time information (like news, rates, indices,
etc.), Periodic information (like newspaper articles, reports,
etc.) and Static content (like directory listings, industry related
macro parameters, etc.)
- Sale, purchase and Chartering Transactions
- Procurement and sale of consumables / bunkers / victualling
for vessels
- Ship building and Dry docking and repairs
- Capital equipment / replenishments / upgrades
- Containers / multi modal transport leasing and buying
- Ship management / manning / job search
- Insurance
The entities involved in a transaction can include buyers, sellers,
intermediaries, bankers, service providers like insurers, quality
inspections, etc.
The Solution:
The Portal was designed to function as an e-Commerce marketplace
for all shipping activities. It was developed to act as single point
interface amongst the various target audiences of the shipping industry
for information, transaction and tracking. The portal was designed
to provide the functionality of a B2B exchange enabling buyers and
sellers (Including chartering / leasing) to find one another and
agree to a price in an efficient manner.
Tata Infotech provided consulting and services in:
- Networking
- Solution Architecture
- e-Business application development
- Content management, shopping experiences
- Call center for 24 x 7 support
- Imaging for capture of documents
- GIS
Benefits to the Customer:
- Reduction in number of intermediaries
- Greater ease in sale and purchase, chartering, procurement &
sales
- Expansion of trading opportunities
- Expansion of supplier / creditor base
- Lower overhead costs
- Reduction of inventory across the supply chain.
- Reduction in communication and transport costs
- Back office savings.
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