Kale Logistics Solutions is creating world’s extensive digital logistics cloud for international supply chain by digitally connecting airports and ports via digital corridors. Average time for air cargo movement has hardly moved for more than three decades. An average air cargo shipment still generates 100 copies of documents.
We are creating world’s extensive digital logistics cloud for international supply chain by digitally connecting airports and ports via digital corridors. Future is multimodal, logistics community has now realized the importance of technology and the opportunities it can deliver in terms of efficiency, sustainability, and Ease of Doing Business (EoDB).
We are serving 100 air cargo stations across the world. We are working on expanding the reach and depth of our community platform by providing value-added features to the community such as complete enterprise applications for customs broking as well as freight forwarding rolled out through our cargo community platforms. We are also working on creating world’s extensive digital logistics cloud for the international supply chain by creating a global network of airports and ports connected digitally through our
digital corridors.
We believe that the future is multimodal, so we are working on creating sea-air corridors and additionally facilitating intermodal cargo movement. The customer has become an integral part of everything—from product/solution conceptualization, development, Proof of Concepts (trials), and feedback seeking continuous improvement. In the era of customer delight, niche segmentation, changing stake expectations, and review/rating-based outlook, the customer is central to air cargo sector.
These hurdles are lack of supply chain visibility, more cargo dwell time, limited transparency, disparate systems that do not go well together, data integrity and completeness. It is vital to understand we cannot continue to work the way we had worked so far: the cargo remains on the ground for up to 85 per cent of the total transportation time. The average time for the air cargo movement has hardly moved over the past 30-35 years. An average air cargo shipment still generates 100 copies of documents. There are as many as 30 distinct types of documents to fill.
We believe CCS has a potential to save US$50 billion annually in terms of efficiencies and save 10 billion copies of the paper (across air/sea modes). The technology is right here, all that it needs is the correct leadership with intent. We can no longer only pay lip service to the environmental and economic sustainability issues and play the waiting game. We believe that the airports or communities that will begin early will reap the maximum benefits and attract more cargo, and the rest can keep looking in awe.
So, the time to act is now, and we are there to hold hands throughout the digital transformation journey. When it comes to adapting to new technology, it is not a one-size-fits-all approach. With integration with infra, the execution of massive digital transformation projects has proven to be challenging for the tech industry. Essentially, it is a skill set and element that trains AI or software for predictive insights, logical action and making sense of multiple data points within the business context. As an industry, we are no longer looking at simple IT skills for development.
Nonetheless, the focus has shifted to skills like business acumen, data analytics, decision science, and communication. Technology enablement companies are focused on standalone solutions, often working on a single problem. However, their client is keen to inspect a more integrated approach toward single umbrella solution deployment. But with legacy enterprise systems in place, the new implementation may disrupt the existing process flow and business activities, hence, organizations are reluctant to invest in this field.
We are planning to build Digital Trade Corridor as it helps in creating a transparent supply chain through exchange of real-time status of shipments between two airports and exchange of shipment data to eliminate duplicate processes. We have established the first digital air freight corridor between India and the Netherlands.
Views expressed solely belong to the author. Written by Amar More, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kale Logistics Solutions
