Case Study #7

Distribution network redesign for a top CPG brand in India

Business Context

  • Increased cost of last mile distribution
  • No visibility on order delivery performance
  • No interactive data visualisation for performance tracking
  • 1000 orders per day from retail outlets

Business Objective

  • Optimise cost by combining logistics across distributors
  • Measure delivery performance and improve delivery track-ability
  • Manage collections information for distribution partners to enable operations consolidation

Key features of the solution design, tech development and implementation

Solution Design: Integration with brand distributor management system + Custom Development

Built scalable integration with Sify (Brand DMS) and Tally (Distributor billing system)

Developed lite Distribution management system to monitor delivery status and collection against each order

Developed analytics platform to enable order routing for logistics partner and provide data visualization across 60 metrics for the brand/distribution partner

Redesigned logistics network with 50% reduction in number of distribution centers

Key Results

20% reduction in logistics cost

Scaled solution to 5 cities in India

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