Drivers

CEO

“Logistics Industry is unorganised but plays a critical role in the dynamics of development. With the increasing infrastructural development and with massive demographic structure, India would become a hub for not only consumption, but also be a production hub for the global demands. From a traditional outlook, we are transforming ourselves by bringing in the best knowledge and skills. We are in the process of reinventing the wheel without compromising on the legacy that we have built so far. With the lineage of 35 years, we are confident that we will be a driver of change and a key element in spear-heading the process of structuring the industry.”

Ajay

COO

“Logistics is all about bringing incremental value with marginal addition to the cost. With input cost and overheads triggering in disproportion to the expected threshold price, the challenges are manifesting to monumental size. For instance, oil prices, rising cost of maintenance and spares, etc., are a major concern disincentives to a logistics provider. With increasing expectation, and externalities without control, bringing operational efficiency and increasing the payload runtime are critical sustenance factors and that makes the job very interesting.”

Praveen

Head HR

“Technology in asset traceability has increased the complexity of managing the human resources as the work space has gotten more expansive. And to add to it, the gap between executor and the decision-maker is larger, making the conflict between the brain and the brawn wider. With workspace being scattered and mobile in nature, managing the workforce in Logistics is the critical focus area for us. Other challenge would be attracting and retaining talents, with multi-cultural traits. We being hosted in Tier-4 city, manpower will remain to be a major concern, coupled with demand for continuous skilling and deployment. At Quilon, despite its history, we have developed an attitude of a Start-up; being robust, flexible and adaptable."

Karthik

Business Coach

“Indian logistics is into transition towards gig economy. Business model that involves Low capital investment, outsourced assets, deployment of technology for service dexterity to deliver values, is the need of the hour. Logistics despite being critical as a supply chain agent is yet to get its equation right as the stakeholder in the supply chain paradigm. It still plays a shadow role of the industry it caters to. It is so unstructured and unorganised that it is losing its voice to emerge as an industry that can assert its role and also considered for it. With India opening up more, logistics- which is in its nascent stage in the maturity model will get attention, and we are sure that there will be lot of investment activity and inorganic acquisitions. We are ramping up in all the fronts to catch up the imminent wave that is approaching.”

Capt. K. Ramanathan