Cargo Breaking News
Allcargo Gati is expecting robust growth in shipments in the upcoming festive season and has further strengthened its supply chain operations to meet the growing demand. The company has scaled up its technological capabilities and manpower strength at its sorting and fulfilment centres and beefed up its last mile delivery operations to boost its order processing and delivery efficiency to cater to the volume-driven time-sensitive demand. Allcargo Gati has ongoing collaborations with multinational brands and major ecommerce and quick commerce players. To meet the festive season rush, Allcargo Gati has launched last mile delivery operations for e -commerce giants in multiple locations in Maharashtra and in West Bengal. The company also runs 15 mother hub Sorting centres for its ecommerce customers. All sorting centres are operationally optimized and are capable of delivering more than the capacity during the festive season. In addition, Allcargo Gati has added six more manpower supply services to its pool of staffing solutions providers to meet the sudden surge in order processing and delivery demand in the festive season across regions. It has initial plans to hire over 3000 people in multiple operational roles and will intensify hiring in sync with the growth in demand. The company has also strengthened the capacity, productivity and efficiency at its sorting and fulfilment centres by setting up double deep racking, conveyors, advanced hand-held terminals, etc. apart from digitising the operations. Allcargo Gati has also adopted data-driven route-optimisation solutions to ensure faster last mile deliveries amid festive season rush. Sandeep Kulkarni – Chief Operating Officer (COO)- Allcargo Gati said, “We expect the festive season demand to reach higher peaks this year on the back of positive consumer sentiment. To meet the growing demand, we have enhanced our operational capabilities with an outlook to further bolster it in line with the demand growth. We have also deployed new-age technologies to build operational resilience. We will continue to expand our order fulfilment, processing and delivery network across the country to serve more e-commerce and online marketplace players.”
