Holisol Logistics Pvt.Ltd

  Holisol Logistics is a leading supply chain and logistics enterprise enabling customers’ success through their innovative and tech-enabled solutions  

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Efficiently manage your day-to-day warehouse operations with Warehouse management system. The tool enables a warehouse manager to swiftly cater to multiple clients by efficiently recording the overall inventory & its movement. OurWMS solution works in multi-customer, multi-location, multi-warehouse scenario to seamlessly manage multi-channel fulfillment solution for you and provide you with the solution which best fits your requirement.

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Omni-channel Retail- The Future of E-commerce

Retailers today wish to give their customers effortless shopping experience. These days customers are not only looking for the perfect product that suits their need, but they are also demanding a seamless affair in getting that product.

The way to this smooth purchase journey starts with omnichannel retail. Omni-channel retail refers to the multi-channel method that aims at providing the customer with a seamless shopping experience whether the client is shopping online from a mobile device, a laptop or from a retail store near-by. Omni-channel provides the customer with an integrated shopping experience that multi-channel does not.

Brands who are embracing omnichannel retailing improve the overall buying experience of their customers and create more channels to increase the sales throughput. In fact, they have gone an extra mile to create a personalized experience by reaching their doorstep instead of focusing on driving the footfall to the stores. Given below are 7 benefits of omnichannel retail and its impact on your business-

#1. Sustainable Revenue Growth- According to the research done by the IDC customers who buy from stores and from e-commerce websites have 30% higher customer lifetime value as compared to a customer who shops only from one channel. Retailers can capitalize on this potential value and have consistent revenue growth by giving customers the option to buy in person.

#2. High Customer Retention- In today’s competitive environment retaining a relationship with the customer is quite challenging. Brands are consistently researching and coming up with innovating ways to engage their customers. One of the approaches is how to create a personalized experience. Consistently following customer behavior through social media channels is one of the ways to gain deeper insight. Being individually distinguished and personally attended is what customer cherish.

#4. Customer Self Service- Customer’s embrace self-service for a sense of self-independence. All thanks to digital innovation driven by technology. At the same time, it also allows the consumer to keep in touch and receive feedback from the service provider through chatbots, social media response engagement, and the call center support. If customers get answers to their questions without taking up Omni-channel Retail- The Future of E-commerce much time and resources, it increases business efficiency and customer satisfaction.

#5. Increased sales and Margins- Omni-channel set up allows customers to make a purchase from wherever they please. It gives retailers’ stock visibility and accessibility to the customers’ in their preferred channel. Moreover, it provides convenience to the customers and substantially increases the buying opportunities for various products offered by retailers. Most importantly it provides customers with a wide range of selection and numerous ways of accessing and purchasing that selection thereby enhancing sales.

#6. Easy Returns- Ease of returns improves the overall brand experience. Which means omnichannel gives a choice to make returns via multi-channels that further helps in building the loyalty of the customer. Just think you are buying from a website but now you can return it back to the store next door? What needs to be adapted is technology stock management and pricing management – as each channel may have some different pricing to offer.

#7. Decreased labor costs/ Shipping cost- Over the long run, the retailers would be able to optimize inventory and reduce the amount of time taken which will significantly bring savings. Similarly, optimization can be done at the nearest omnichannel fulfillment center, items included in an order or in the available inventory, retailers can reduce shipping costs.

Adopting omnichannel strategy ensures a successful future and engaging business prospects. Omni-channel retailing offers a 360 view of all the purchases made by the customers. In the end, what all the retailers want to offer i.e. best-in-class customer experience, operational excellence to serve their customer better to drive growth. It will enable retailers/ brands to improve the insight or understanding of their customer. In the end, customer satisfaction and streamlined efficiency are what everyone is aiming for.

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What makes an omnichannel better than a multi-channel?

Omnichannel retail differs from Multi-channel retail in the following ways-

Retailers today wish to give their customers effortless shopping experience. These days customers are not only looking for the perfect product that suits their need, but they are also demanding a seamless affair in getting that product.

The way to this smooth purchase journey starts with omnichannel retail. Omni-channel retail refers to the multi-channel method that aims at providing the customer with a seamless shopping experience whether the client is shopping online from a mobile device, a laptop or from a retail store near-by. Omni-channel provides the customer with an integrated shopping experience that multi-channel does not.

Brands who are embracing omnichannel retailing improve the overall buying experience of their customers and create more channels to increase the sales throughput. In fact, they have gone the extra mile to create a personalized experience by reaching their doorstep instead of focusing on driving the footfall to the stores: Read more- https://holisollogistics.com/omn...

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Enabling leading Health & Wellness brand in increasing product availability to their consumer with our Multi-Channel Fulfilment Solutions

Project Description

Customer Profile: A leading global nutrition and weight management corporation that develops, markets, and sells dietary supplements, weight management, sports nutrition, and personal-care products. The company has been present In India for the last 18 years at more than 450 locations.

Business Objective: Growing health awareness combined with an increasing demand for good nutritional supplements has created a real demand for the company’s product. The company aims at building a strong community of distributors across India and making its products accessible to its distributors and consumers.

Customer Expectations: The company aims to open 5000 stores and +100 Pick-up Centers (PUCs) across India. The customer was looking for a reliable and knowledge-based partnership for their expansion and supply chain consulting in the country.  They were looking for a partner who could support in design & setting up of the Pick-Up centers (PUCs) across the country, majorly in Tier 2 & Tier3 cities to access the wide base of consumers in a cost-effective manner. The idea was to be able to meet customer demand promptly to create a high level of customer satisfaction.

Holisol’s association with the customer: Holisol was engaged by the client in the year 2016. Since then we have opened more than 40 PUC’s across India on Design, Implement and Manage basis. Holisol is overall responsible for setting up the PUC right from site selection, store design, interiors, recruitment & training and the day to day management of operations.

Features of the PUCs:

Area of PUC ranges from 500 – 2000 SQF

Conveniently located with easy access and proper parking facilities

Optimal floor planning & Space management including furniture, displays, fixtures, lighting, and signages to ensure the smooth customer experience.

Achieved results:

+40 PUCs have been opened

YOY sales growth of 40 %

Increased footprints allowing access to an additional 22% of the consumer base in the country

Future:

Expanding the PUC network further to include more Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities

+15 PUC expected to open in the next 2 Quarters

Automated Order Processing using Kiosks. The pilot initiated in Delhi. To be replicated across the PUC network.

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Investing In a Warehouse, 5 Reasons Why You Should Do A Feasibility Check

Residential and commercial realty segment has been an area of interest for most of the real estate players in last two decades. With stagnancy in residential sector for last 4 – 5 years, the focus is gradually shifting towards the industrial market. Warehousing is attracting a lot of investment due to consistent demand and good ROI.

It is important to understand that the dynamics in warehousing sector is different and the decision of setting up the warehouse at the right location is a make or break deal for any such investment. Roughly the civil structure for a warehouse would require Rs 1000 – 1600 investment per square feet. So, for a 50,000 sq. ft. warehouse, we are looking at anywhere between Rs 5 Cr – 8 Cr of investment and an additional investment of Rs 3 Cr – 4 cr if we want to setup infrastructure as well. Before you invest your money, it is important to do a thorough feasibility study for a warehouse and make an informed decision.

Organizations can take help of consulting companies with a good understanding of supply chain industry and real estate market. In this blog, we will discuss 5 reasons why you should do a feasibility study for a warehouse before investing:

Read more- https://holisollogistics.com/feasibility-study-for-a-warehouse/

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Our years of experience with both new and old age supply chain enables us to understand the complexities of warehousing operations better than anyone else and have designed a product which manages multi-channel retail fulfillment operations with ease.

We offer standard, professional and enterprise versions of WMS, so that you pay only for the functionalities which you need. Efficiently manage your day-to-day warehouse operations with Holisol WMS solutions.

The tool enables a warehouse manager to swiftly cater to multiple clients by efficiently recording the overall inventory & its movement. Our WMS works in multi customer, multi-location, multi warehouse scenario to seamlessly manage multi-channel fulfillment for you and provide you the solution which best fits your requirement.

We understand your challenges and bring in industry best practices with our WMS to ensure you are in full control of inventory.

For more details- https://holisollogistics.com/it-solution/warehouse-management-system/

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Multi-Channel Retail Fulfillment

With a combined domain experience of over 100 years, Holisol has developed the expertise in designing-implementing-managing the supply chain solutions for multi-channel retail in India. The complete know-how of industry has helped us in the successful completion of greenfield set-ups. But we never stopped there – we continued to innovate the solutions to enable our customers to accomplish their business goals.

We empower customers with our capability to set-up a fully functional fulfillment centre within 30 to 45 days. In addition to this, we also analyse the existing system for scaling up the operations. Our network of +25 fulfillment centres across India deliver excellent operations for almost every retail platform, be it offline or online.

Experience in managing the multi-channel retail operations for more than a decade has helped us in gaining insight into the industry-specific challenges and designing a solution specific to customer’s business.

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Is Your 3PL Provider Skilled to Manage Complexity of Your Supply Chain?

Increasing demand has led to a drastic rise in the pace of supply chains and ultimately, the complexity. The result is that the businesses are finding it tough to gain desired control over their operations. Smart businesses are aware that it is best to outsource their operations to expert supply chain solution providers. Experienced professionals are always better placed to tackle the dynamic requirements of supply chains. They are always one step ahead to overcome the chaos created by multiple points in the supply chain where disruptions may occur at any given stage. Such complexities are the cause of the decrease in operational efficiency and can do irreparable damage.

However, an even bigger question is related the credibility and skill-set of the 3PL provider to manage such higher degree of complexity in the supply chain. Read below to know what all is needed in your 3PL provider –

Do they forecast solution for the uncertainties? The biggest challenge in the supply chain is to ascertain the demand in future. Bigger discounts, variable demand patterns, changing consumer tastes make it difficult to envision the future. This is where the expert 3PL providers come to your rescue. With their experience, they understand and model solutions for each possible scenario you may encounter. Based on real time simulations, they assist you in designing strategy for the possible market shifts keeping your business a step ahead leading to a profitable position.

Read More- https://holisollogistics.com/3pl-provider-skilled-manage-complexity-supply-chain/

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How 3PL Providers Enable You To Overcome Order Fulfilment Challenges

E-commerce is booming and the growth curve is expected to move in the upward direction. Most companies may find it easier to manage the order fulfilment service when the orders are less in quantity. However, the things start going down the hill when volumes rise during the peak sale season. It gets tougher to maintain the balance and consistency across a period and achieve the desired results. The solution is to strengthen the logistics infrastructure in such situations to stay above par.

 Easier said than done, not only new players but even the bigger businesses find it complex to setup the network. Thus, it’s wise to look for experienced 3PL providers who will perfectly deliver your order

For more information read- https://holisollogistics.com/how-3pl-providers-enable-you-to-overcome-order-fulfilment-challenges/

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Looking For A Supply Chain Consulting Partner, Make Sure You Are Aware Of These Facts

As supply chain is the crucial part of any business, business heads want to enhance supply chain efficiency for maximum deliverables. To achieve this, as a decision-maker, you may face difficulties across the supply chain. Undoubtedly, there are too many loopholes, which need fixation to cut down the losses, but they are not taken care of. In such a situation, CEOs need supply chain experts (consultants) for identifying loopholes and their rectifications. Randomly choosing supply chain consultant can be a business hazard and may trigger wastage of your time as well as mone. 

Therefore, to avoid these situations, these 4 crucial facts must be checked while selecting the most suitable supply chain consultant for your business – Read more- https://holisollogistics.com/looking-supply-chain-consulting-partner-make-sure-aware-4-facts/

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Is your 3PL a capable partner for Industry 4.0 transition?

Improving delivery time, reducing delivery cost, automation to handle a large number of orders and emerging e-commerce companies are the clear indicators that supply chains of tomorrow are going to be significantly different from supply chains of today. Unlike traditional reactive supply chains, where responses among all the supply chain stakeholders are communicated post incident. This delays the response as well as requires additional time, cost and a lot of efforts. To convert this reactive approach to proactive, established logistics and supply chain consultants have introduced industry 4.0 concept. 

In Industry 4.0 concept, supply chains are connected to the ecosystem while using the internet as a medium and digitizing the processes to have faster, more responsive and high visibility supply chains. The manufacturing industry is already embracing the change and has benefited from it. Over the next few years, organizations will start adopting these technologies to make their supply chains leaner and more efficient. Read more- https://holisollogistics.com/is-your-3pl-a-capable-partner-for-industry-4-0-transition/

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Are You  Ready for These 5 Challenges In E-Commerce Supply Chain?

E-commerce segment has been on the rise in the last few years. Companies are looking to cash in on the e-commerce growth. In the pursuit of their goals, biggest of the challenges that they face are linked to e-commerce supply chain. It is no more just about moving orders from one point to another. It is important that companies have a strong focus on analytics and technology. For more information read- https://holisollogistics.com/are-you-ready-for-these-5-challenges-in-e-commerce-supply-chain/

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Is cold chain logistics an unexplored goldmine ?

14 Billion USD. This is the value of annual wastage in India’s agricultural sector due to inadequate cold chain infrastructure. 18 Percent of fruits and vegetables produced in India get wasted due to insufficient cold chain network, which is a direct contributor to food shortages and resulting high prices. While the ambient supply chain has evolved in last one decade, the cold chain network in India remains at a nascent stage; with only 10 % of the network being served by the organized players.

Therefore, the cold chain network is attracting a lot of interest from both governments as well as investors. The government has also announced subsidies and benefits for players who want to invest in developing cold chain network in India. With most of logistics players now focusing on this sector, the early movers are surely going to get the advantage. Read more https://holisollogistics.com/is-cold-chain-logistics-an-unexplored-goldmine/

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Key Operation Zones To Optimize In-factory Logistics

While taking up the core objective to maximize production capacity with an improved economy of scale, the manufacturing industries are most likely to face n number of challenges. These challenges are prone to have been overlooked by the companies when their manufacturing plants have enough area to carry on the operations. An optimized in-factory logistics is one of the major solutions to guide the companies to elevate the production numbers and overall sale. 

For the manufacturing sector, effective management of in-factory logistics is the arena where supply chain consultants come into play. With respect to this, industry struggles in managing material and its flow right from its entry into the plant up to the outbound of finished components. There are a set of procedures which can guide companies to have optimal in-plant movement. Read more-https://holisollogistics.com/key-operation-zones-to-optimize-in-factory-logistics/

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Adding Value to SCM by way of Packaging Re-Engineering

Most times we face a statement with reference to packing design is that “it is not a rocket science”. Agreed, there is no rocket science in it, but one thing needs to be appreciated is that there is a bit of science in it. Moreover, applying to re-engineer in packaging scientifically definitely leads to a value proposition in Supply chain management.

The conventional packing processes involved in the packaging of products tend to keep a higher factor of safety, which in most cases is not required. Conventional methods also miss out to factor the impact of logistics on products that are packed. The packing companies, which are driven by value engineering, attempt to design an adequate packaging from complete supply chain perspective, wherein the customer might pay 5% more for packing but end-up saving 30% cost in the entire supply chain. Read more- https://holisollogistics.com/adding-value-to-scm-by-way-of-packaging-re-engineering/

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Three Reasons You Should opt for a 4PL Services Provider

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As the business grows, companies find it challenging to manage their inventory which should be stored and moved in an efficient manner, while keeping it traceable. To cater to the demands from multi-channel retail in the supply chain, companies tend to opt for the multiple supply chain partners for 2PL or 3PL activities.

Even though each outsourced entity may be an expert in its own domain, complications start arising when it comes to managing the operations in a coordinated manner. Here-in comes the value addition from 4PL service providers. 4PL service providers are thorough seasoned professionals who invest their knowledge and efforts in designing best-suited solutions specific to the business. They accordingly evaluate and nominate the vendors, and closely manage the ongoing operations. Hence a 4PL treats the solution as the priority and not the available infrastructure with the associated vendors. 

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