MARSHALS' GLOBAL LOGISTICS

With the advent of dot coms, virtual stores, B2b exchanges and the Internet, political geography is almost becoming history: business is being transacted across borders at electronic speeds, leading to increased pressure on the manufacturer, distributor and retailer.  And Companies are increasingly finding it advantageous to provide an integrated electronic interface between not just employees but business partners and customers too.

Nevertheless e-business has not changed the fundamentals of an operation, but what has changed is the way business is transacted: virtual world still has to be sustained through effective interplay of physical infrastructural resources.

Enter Logistics - it is now a means of competitive advantage that has led companies to focus increases attention on this vital area.  Elaborate manufacturer-supplier chains now straddle the global industrial landscape, leading to emergence of specialised Third Party Logistics service providers (3PLs) and even 4PLs. And Marshals' foresees tremendous growth potential in this sphere, even within India.

Contemporary Logistics encompasses a whole gamut of specialised operations and related information services, starting from business process re-engineering to material planning & procurement to Inventory Management and up to delivering the ultimate consumer. "Marshals' Global Logistics Limited"

In the first phase MGL aims to offer its highly customised value added services at three levels:

• Providing transportation & warehousing solutions, including imports & exports,

• Computerised solutions to material planning & inventory management, and

• Real time cargo tracking on major domestic routes

The company is being equipped with its own effiicient fleet of trucks.  The software support is bing provided by another SBU, Marshals' Supersoft Technologies Ltd.  Subsequently, the company will broad base its services. 

MGL will be formally launched on 23rd July 2001.