Warehousing as a driver of cost effectiveness: Assess its development cycle from conceptualisation to operation and maintenance
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Indian Logistics and Warehousing: Tracing the Lifecycle
Warehousing, only 10% of the logistics cost, appears smallest part of logistics business. But, Is this correct! In reality, the site location and its facilities determine the spread of other logistics cost for any warehouse destination.
Through this report, we aim to identify various key elements of the warehouse segment and identify their inter-relationship on optimizing other logistics cost components in his lifycycle. There are few key initiatives in different stages of lifecycle of a warehouse can re-design the positioning of “warehouse” in the future Indian “logistics” sector.
The component of warehouse lifecycle can be defined as:
As India’s logistics sector evolves, we are likely to experience several changes in planning, construction and operations of warehouses in the coming years. All stakeholders, including developers, occupiers, fund providers, project managers and maintenance operators need to put in a consolidated effort to synchronize their isolated preferences.