Suresh Sachdev

Autoplant System India Pvt. Ltd.

Autoplant was founded around a decade ago by like-minded supply chain solution experts with a keen enthusiasm for solving supply chain problems. All the founding members, who held management positions in US based i2 Technologies Inc, had rich supply chain planning experience and had a cognizance of the latent need for a strong supply chain and logistics execution platform. Realising that efficient planning could only be complemented by an equally efficient execution, they brought their skillset to Autoplant. Autoplant started off as a Track and Trace service provider, mainly catering to the vehicle tracking requirement as part of logistics digitization initiatives. As it scaled up and spread its footprint across the industry, Autoplant's solution experts were able to design value adding solutions, on account of a robust understanding of the supply chain challenges and user pain-points. Based on this foundation, the product slowly but steadily evolved into an End-to-End Logistics Execution Solution driven by a synergy of Software, Hardware, Consulting and Process Reengineering. Today, Autoplant is a trendsetter in the Supply Chain and Logistics execution space with its IoT based Logistics Excellence Platform, catering to multiple industry verticals ranging from Cement, Metals and Chemicals to FMCG, Paints and Cold Chain. With over 50+ clients, 110+ implementations across 750 facilities enabled by a million+ IoT devices in India and South-east Asia, Autoplant is a market leader when it comes to Supply Chain Digitization, Automation, Optimzation and Transformation initiatives as part of organizational business excellence. It leverages latest technologies like IOT, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence to improve the overall efficiency of their logistics operations right from Order Creation to Fulfilment along with Freight Settlement. Using IoT like RFID, GPS, Sensors coupled with real-time Data Integration as the primary visibility enablers, Autoplant's platform allows for greater monitoring and control over key performance indicators, reduction in process lead times, increase in throughput, eventually resulting in revenue enhancement and cost savings. Simply put, this is ensuring the correct deployment of trucks, right allocation of manpower, optimal usage of equipment and close monitoring of inventory. When the right shipment is delivered to the right destination at the right time in the right condition within the right cost, the final product is happy stakeholders, be it logistics, security, drivers, fleet owners or customers. Supply chain efficiency becomes even more critical in today's ‘new normal,' characterized by unprecedented volatility, uncertainty, and complexity due to changing macroeconomic, geo-political, and climatic conditions, with a rise in product and service personalization levels. Autoplant has all this covered with its easily scalable cloud hosted SaaS offerings, thanks to investment in the decades of consulting, technology, and implementation to provide solutions to difficult problems posed by customer requirements. For its achievements and capabilities, Autoplant has been recognized as a cool vendor by Gartner and has also been appreciated as a technology vendor by industry bodies and manufacturers. This puts Autoplant in a unique position of spearheading the next generation of supply chain solutions, ready to deliver value to its clients.