Godrej Consumer Products achieves substantial savings with Pando Fulfillment Cloud
Industry:
Consumer Products
Solutions used:
Freight Procurement
Delivery Planning & Optimization
Collaborative Execution
Fulfillment Monitor
Challenge:
Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL) was looking to digitize and automate its logistics process in order to be able to optimize freight costs, improve vehicle and SKU-level tracking and establish a unified analytics-powered reporting structure to monitor and improve their network performance. In addition to this, GCPL faced challenges in strategizing its procurement process and contracting the right set of carriers for their primary movement.
Results:
Significant reduction in primary freight spend through selection of right mix of contracts and carriers
Substantial savings through spot procurement and long-term auctioning
About Godrej Consumer Products
Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL) is a 125-year ‘young’ enterprise with over 1 billion customers globally. The company specializes in three categories of products, namely home care, personal wash, and hair care with a network that includes over 30 brands, tens of thousands of SKUs, a complex map of several manufacturing plants and warehouses, as well as thousands of distributors. With an annual revenue of over $1.6 billion USD, GCPL has a prominent presence in emerging markets like Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Exploring optimization & improved efficiencies
GCPL was looking to digitize and automate their logistics process in order to be able to:
Optimize freight costs through efficient load, route and contract selection
Enable device-agnostic location-tracking with notifications to end-customers
Maintain an analytics-powered reporting structure to monitor and improve network performance
In addition to this, GCPL faced challenges in strategizing their procurement process and contracting the right set of carriers for their primary movement. This resulted in high freight costs, lack of monitoring of SLAs for placement and transit, time-consuming reconciliation processes, and more.
"We were looking for a tool that would help us select the optimum vehicle type to enhance utilization, help us with freight benchmarking of transporters, and also allow us to run spot RFQs on the system for non-contractual movements."
Sanchit Bhatnagar - Deputy General Manager - Distribution Planning
Sanchit Bhatnagar
Deputy General Manager - Distribution Planning
"We were looking for a tool that would help us select the optimum vehicle type to enhance utilization, help us with freight benchmarking of transporters, and also allow us to run spot RFQs on the system for non-contractual movements."
Pando Fulfillment Cloud for GCPL
Discovering reliable new carriers through intelligent freight procurement
With numerous lanes for contracting in every annual procurement cycle, GCPL found that they were often optimizing for the convenience of RFQ events and dealing with high freight costs due to a heavy reliance on relationship-based contracts. With Pando, GCPL was able to digitize their procurement process across all their lanes over multiple manufacturing plants with hundreds of carriers. The company saw a 100% increase in the count of carriers they had access to through Pando and were able to use the freight benchmarking feature to select the right carriers for their needs.
Discovering reliable new carriers through intelligent freight procurement
With numerous lanes for contracting in every annual procurement cycle, GCPL found that they were often optimizing for the convenience of RFQ events and dealing with high freight costs due to a heavy reliance on relationship-based contracts. With Pando, GCPL was able to digitize their procurement process across all their lanes over multiple manufacturing plants with hundreds of carriers. The company saw a 100% increase in the count of carriers they had access to through Pando and were able to use the freight benchmarking feature to select the right carriers for their needs.
Optimizing dynamic dispatch plans for cost, route, SLAs, load, and more
Before Pando, GCPL had no proper tool in place to capture and execute dispatch planning, leading to inefficiencies such as low truck utilization. With Pando’s Delivery Planning & Optimization solution, the team at GCPL was able to ensure smart selection of contract type based on the volume of the load and any weight-based constraints. This allowed the company to maximize weight and volume utilization while optimizing for cost, route, and SLAs. Pando’s solution also allowed GCPL the ability to plan patches at the time of execution - adding a much needed element of flexibility.
Optimizing dynamic dispatch plans for cost, route, SLAs, load, and more
Before Pando, GCPL had no proper tool in place to capture and execute dispatch planning, leading to inefficiencies such as low truck utilization. With Pando’s Delivery Planning & Optimization solution, the team at GCPL was able to ensure smart selection of contract type based on the volume of the load and any weight-based constraints. This allowed the company to maximize weight and volume utilization while optimizing for cost, route, and SLAs. Pando’s solution also allowed GCPL the ability to plan patches at the time of execution - adding a much needed element of flexibility.
“Everyone in the supply chain industry faces significant pressure to bring down the overall logistics cost. We at GCPL had to be really innovative in selecting the right tool for our entire RFQ and reverse auction process. Pando’s Freight Procurement solution will give you the right intelligence and help identify the right transporters for your network - those who are both competent and provide service at competitive prices.”
Sanchit Bhatnagar - Deputy General Manager - Distribution Planning
Sanchit Bhatnagar
Deputy General Manager - Distribution Planning
“Everyone in the supply chain industry faces significant pressure to bring down the overall logistics cost. We at GCPL had to be really innovative in selecting the right tool for our entire RFQ and reverse auction process. Pando’s Freight Procurement solution will give you the right intelligence and help identify the right transporters for your network - those who are both competent and provide service at competitive prices.”
Unlocking visibility across multi-modal and multichannel shipments
One of the biggest challenges GCPL faced in executing shipments was the lack of visibility into the shipments for themselves and their carriers at different stages of the execution process. GCPL was unable to track the trucks carrying their goods once they’d left the warehouses and this meant that the estimation of Turnaround Times (TATs) was not possible. Pando’s Collaborative Execution solution was easily accessible via web or mobile to all stakeholders in the process, both internal and external, enabling real-time visibility and synchronized updates. Tracking trucks became simple through SIM-based, app-based, and GPS (onboard telematics) tracking ensuring continuous, integrated notification pinning.
Unlocking visibility across multi-modal and multichannel shipments
One of the biggest challenges GCPL faced in executing shipments was the lack of visibility into the shipments for themselves and their carriers at different stages of the execution process. GCPL was unable to track the trucks carrying their goods once they’d left the warehouses and this meant that the estimation of Turnaround Times (TATs) was not possible. Pando’s Collaborative Execution solution was easily accessible via web or mobile to all stakeholders in the process, both internal and external, enabling real-time visibility and synchronized updates. Tracking trucks became simple through SIM-based, app-based, and GPS (onboard telematics) tracking ensuring continuous, integrated notification pinning.
Maintaining a comprehensive record through digitized documentation
From the moment a truck is assigned by a carrier and enters GCPL’s warehouse or factory facilities, all the document verification happens within the Pando solution online. ‘Truck in’, ‘truck out’, ‘loading’ functions along with timestamps are recorded within the platform along with the date. With ePODs, and sign-on glass, the GCPL team and their carriers can ensure they’re on the same page with regard to recording of shortages and damages as soon as the truck reaches its destination. This helps ensure better overall SLA performance and in-yard tracking.
Maintaining a comprehensive record through digitized documentation
From the moment a truck is assigned by a carrier and enters GCPL’s warehouse or factory facilities, all the document verification happens within the Pando solution online. ‘Truck in’, ‘truck out’, ‘loading’ functions along with timestamps are recorded within the platform along with the date. With ePODs, and sign-on glass, the GCPL team and their carriers can ensure they’re on the same page with regard to recording of shortages and damages as soon as the truck reaches its destination. This helps ensure better overall SLA performance and in-yard tracking.
Automating reports to unlock insightful
decision-making
Pando’s Fulfillment Monitor allowed GCPL to move away from manual reporting to management. Instead data is collected at every stage of activity, and Pando’s predictive and prescriptive layers help the GCPL team to look beyond historical data and find useful insights for decision-making.
Scaling & growing with Pando
Till date, GCPL has partnered with Pando in order to optimize and streamline their primary leg of movement, but the plan is to expand the use of Fulfillment Cloud in their secondary movement as well.
“Pando’s implementation in GCPL was one of the smoothest we’ve ever had - to onboard so many people in such a short time was incredible to see. I think the team at Pando worked hard to ensure a smooth rollout, and the product itself has been fantastic for our organization. We look forward to growing with Pando in the future.”
Sanchit Bhatnagar - Deputy General Manager - Distribution Planning
Sanchit Bhatnagar
Deputy General Manager - Distribution Planning