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Interview
Amitabh
Singh

shipment, a consignee must plan his
inventory accordingly. A consigner
naturally wants to ensure that his
shipment has arrived on time. Enter
supply chain visibility! Currently, I’ve
not seen many players emerge in
India on this front. At Stellar, we have
visibility solutions for warehouses
and transportation, and everything is
seamlessly connected. So, we provide
visibility right from the pickup point to
the final delivery point, including the
warehouse, enabling the consignor
and the receiver to see the end-to-end
product. They can also do the inventory
planning and know where the material
is, what time it will arrive and what kind
of inventory planning is needed.

You recently partnered with Infor
Cloudsuite. How has this helped, and
what are the overall solutions on
offer? An internal view of all the racking systems as well as the inbound and
outbound stations of a Stellar warehouse in Bhiwandi, near Mumbai
A lot of companies come on board
for the warehousing requirements.
We have our WMS, and that’s where is for clients with an Enterprise
Infor Cloudsuite comes into play. Our Visibility solutions Resource Planning (ERP) system.
line of business involves bringing in are the critical We merely integrate our transport
two primary platforms required for management system into their ERP
warehousing business. Firstly, we component of a system. This is called ERP integration.
require a high-end WMS. Secondly, we thriving supply Thirdly, we have the visibility module,
need a transport management system. where clients can see all the vehicles
For this, we have a very robust in-house chain. All clients we operate, which are compulsorily
transport management system hosted look for end-to- GPS enabled. All vehicles are GPS
on Oracle Cloud. We have a lot of in- tagged material, and all the packages
house modules and partner up with end visibility today. are barcoded. On the delivery side,
many third parties. A lot of investment If a consigner is it’s all based on a one-stop mobile
of ours goes into the technology side. application that displays everything
booking a shipment, – from the moment the materials are
a consignee must delivered, the proof of delivery, the
What are the supply chain visibility consignment notice, etc. We offer live
solutions Stellar has on offer? plan his inventory updates from the point of delivery, so
The first module handles live tracking, accordingly. A the client doesn’t even have to wait.
where clients are provided with The client gets a link on the system to
dashboards to track the real-time consigner naturally download all the proof of deliveries.
visibility of the consignments. These wants to ensure that
are extended to their clients as well. In
this way, they can both login and keep his shipment has How much of Stellar’s budget goes into
watch on their consignments. Here, arrived on time. technological investments?
we also use artificial intelligence to There are three verticals to our
know precisely when to expect the Enter supply chain investments – workforce, infrastructure,
delivery. During pickup, no calls are visibility! Currently, and a big chunk goes into technology.
routed to us asking for the pickup We currently have around 12 million
status. Instead, we provide a user I’ve not seen many square feet and 50,000 trucks. We follow
interface (UI) which we call an ‘indent players emerge in an uberisation model, purely meant
module’, where they can simply key in for B2B businesses. This is entirely
the requirements without unnecessary India on this front tech-enabled, and a lot of investment
calls or messages. Another option is pumped into this. Uberisation is

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