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The racking system inside a Stellar warehouse located in Uran, near Muimbai

being rolled out better to connect our light sensor automatically reads the deliveries, live visibility of the package
50,000 trucks to our client base. Uber time and matches the consignments and material and trucks. So, this is
cars follow a format and an algorithm with the inventory. In this way, the backend of the whole supply chain
allocates the nearest car to the everything in the warehouse is marked and carries the complete seamless
customer in the shortest time. Similarly, in and out. It also marks the delivery flow of information from raw material,
we have our warehouses pan India and store and is placed in the right slot, inward movement to the plant, from
a client demographic with different from where it is supposed to go to the the plant to the factory, and then to the
requirements nationwide. Everyone slot where vehicles connect and deliver transportation warehouse from where
comes in with varying requirements the packages. it goes to a branch and then finally the
of the load. This is where uberisation delivery. The complete backend has to be
comes in. Apart from that, investments Considering how some of these seamlessly integrated.
have gone into 15 million square feet of systems are AI dependent, are there
warehousing to be set up over the next any challenges that come to the fore? Any future blueprint or target in terms
four years. So there aren’t any challenges in the of visibility at Stellar logistics over the
system so far. However, there are years?
What kinds of automation are being some select transactional business The priority is now the uberisation
launched in warehouses? challenges with last-mile deliveries. model. Uber has been following a
On the side of automation in our Sometimes the last mile delivery B2C format, and it’s been used by end
warehouses, it’s mostly through our guy is waiting, and the consignee customers. What we have to look into is
sorting systems. We have incorporated is not available, or the address is not just uberisation but also a seamless
put-to-light systems to scan the incomplete, etc. flow of information across the client
barcodes of each of the significant base and on the backend platform.
number of packages that go through What lies in store in the future for This connects all the 50,000 trucks of
our warehouses. The package automation and tech-driven visibility different shapes and sizes on all the
movements in our warehouses are solutions? routes. So on that basis, the algorithms
phenomenal. Speed is an asset, and Automation is a part of the digital ease are based on artificial intelligence and
scanning packages cannot be manual of doing business when it comes to end- the data collected in the system. In
any more. So we have conveyor belts to-end visibility. At Stellar, when clients this way, route optimisation and weight
running within the warehouse, and place orders from their system, there optimisation can happen. All this will
packages are transferred on the belt. is the indenting or the pickup module help bring down the overall cost in the
We have a light sensor over there. delivery at the last mile. Here, everything supply chain. So that is something that
All packages have Radio Frequency is mobile-based end-to-end visibility, we are working on, and it’s a continuous
Identification (RFID) tags on them. The online billing, online downloading of work in progress.

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