We feel that in 2018, there will be a stronger focus on fully utilizing existing resources by enabling them to carry out multiple use cases rather than aggressively investing in assets and creating new networks from scratch.
4. Increasing Adoption Of Robotics & Automation To Drive Efficiencies
As competition in the Indian logistics and express market grows, an increasing number of companies are expected to embrace automation of various processes in the coming year. In China, ‘Dark warehouses’ — fully automated with no human intervention run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week producing unprecedented efficiencies of scale. In India, many warehouses are manually operated, with very limited automation leading to increase in costs as well as lower output. In the express sector, mechanised sorters have made their way into the master hubs of most leading courier and post companies.
Industrial robotic arms, enabled by vision systems can easily handle the movement of goods within a warehouse, boosting overall efficiency and accuracy. Solutions that use image processing to obtain volumetric weight are also being used on an increasing basis on the ground. With a growing manpower problem, automation is a need that companies have factored into their plans for growth and we expect 2018 to be year where this trend really kicks off in the shape of on-ground solutions.
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