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             E-commerce
             Logistics Summit 2022





















          (L-R): Vikram Singh, CEO & Founder, TechEagle Innovations, Dhiraj Jain, VP Strategic Sourcing, PharmEasy, Ankit Kumar, Chief Executive Officer, Skye Air
          Mobility, Shivadeep Mahadi, Co-Founder, eShipz, Kamesh Peri, CEO, Celebi Delhi Cargo Terminal and Lakshmi Ajay, Associate Editor, STAT Media Group




               Pandemic was also
               a realisation for the
               government that an
             e-pharmacy is required
                for availability of
                medicines in every
                 pincode of India.
                    Dhiraj Jain               (L-R): Vikram Singh, CEO & Founder, TechEagle Innovations and Anshu Abhishek,
                     PharmEasy                COO and Co-Founder, TechEagle Innovations

         collaboration help seal the gaps in the   with new platforms coming in Tier 2   longer a system of only the freight
         current supply chain?              and 3 cities, the platforms and channels   forwarder and the terminal operator
           “Market information is very      they are going through are more     but there is an attempt to integrate
         important. What consumers like and   diverse than Tier 1 consumers. There   all through an air cargo community
         replicate that quickly is important   are social commerce platforms and   portal. The idea is to move from an
         because there are too many players   Whatsapp enabled commerce coming   individual to have a cargo community
         in the market, consumers have a    up. So, people are going to buy from   system. There are more developments
         choice today. So the speed         everywhere. So as a platform you have   to happen, innovations are to be done
         of providing technology             to support every channel and build a   for an entire paperless transaction.”
         solutions is important,”             supply chain to mimic that demand
         said Meheriar Patel, Group          pattern and go about building the   Maintaining Consumer Satisfaction
         Chief Information Officer,          network,” said Harsh Vaidya, CEO   Customer satisfaction is critical for
         Digital Solutions, Jeena &                          & Co-Founder,      logistics organisations seeking a
         Company.                                             WareIQ.           competitive edge since they understand
           Further there                                         Next, Kamesh   that if they do not meet their
         was a discussion                                     Puri, CEO, Celebi   customers' expectations, their place
         about how data                                       Delhi Cargo       will be usurped by other companies
         is important                                        Terminal spoke     whose operations will be more focused
         in logistics                                       at length about     on customer expectations. As a result,
         and how                                           tech being added to   logistics businesses must assure every
         collaborative                                    warehousing, ground   facet of customer service, whether
         data helps                                     handling and cargo. “I   it is order acceptance, execution, or
         suppliers                                 have been in this industry for 30   problem resolution.
         perform better and                         years now so I have seen what   Suvendu Choudhury, Managing
         provide good services                       the industry was in the early   Director, International Operations,
         to their consumers.                         90’s and what it is today.   FedEx spoke about cross border
           “For us to                                These days, the processes   logistics and how they democratise
         succeed in India,                           are being enabled by       the E-Commerce logistics landscape
                                                     systems. Today it is no    where everyone can buy and sell
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                                                    Co-Founder, eShipz
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