A PROJECT TO

STUDY TRENDS IN LOGISTICS & TRANSPORTATION

A PROJECT SUBMITTED TO
UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI

FOR THE PARTIAL COMPLETION OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR

OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES UNDER THE FACULTY OF
COMMERCE
(SEMESTER – VI)

SUBMITTED BY DEVANSH DATTA KOTHAWALE

UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF PROF. SHEFALI SHARMA

S.K.COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND COMMERCE

NERUL – EAST, NAVI MUMBAI – 400706

ACADEMIC YEAR 2021-2022

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 A PROJECT TO
STUDY TRENDS IN LOGISTICS & TRANSPORTATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI

SUBMITTED BY:
PROJECT GUIDE:
PROF. SHEFALI SHARMA
Student Registration No:
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF
“BACHELOR OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES TYBMS”
SEMESTER- VI

S.K. COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND COMMERCE NERUL,

NAVI MUMBAI 400706 COLLEGE CODE – 874

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 DECLARATION

I the undersigned MST. Devansh Datta Kothawale hereby, declare that

the work embodied in this project work titled “To study the trends in
Logistics & Transportation” forms my own contribution to the research
work carried out under the guidance of Prof Shefali Sharma is a result
of my own research work and has not been previously submitted to any
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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
To list who all have helped me is difficult because they are so numerous
and the depth is so enormous.

I would like to acknowledge the following as being idealistic channels

and fresh dimensions in the completion of this project.

I take this opportunity to thank the University of Mumbai for giving me

chance to do this project.

I would like to thank my Principal, DR. AJIT KURUP for providing the
necessary facilities required for completion of this project.

I take this opportunity to thank our Coordinator MRS. SHIKHA PANDEY,

for her moral support and guidance.

I would also like to express my sincere gratitude towards my Project

Guide PROF. SHEFALI SHARMA whose guidance and care made the
project successful.

I would like to thank my College Library, for having provided various

reference books and magazines related to my project.

Lastly, I would like to thank each and every person who directly or
indirectly helped me in the completion of the project especially my
Parents and Peers who supported me throughout my project.

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 .To Study Trends in Transportation &
Logistics.

SR NO DESCRIPTION Page
No.
1 CHAPTER-1
INTRODUCTION
7
1.1 Executive summary 7
1.2 Objective of the study 8
1.3 Conceptual model

2 CHAPTER-2
LITERARTURE REVIEW

2.1 About the industry 9

2.2 Studying the trends

3 CHAPTER-3

Company Profile 47

1.1 About the company

1.2 swot analysis 59

4 CHAPTER-4
Research Design 61

1.1 Research Method

1.2 Type of Data

5 CHAPTER-5
Classification and Tabulation of Data 62

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 6 CHAPTER-6 67
ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION

7 CHAPTER-7
1. Findings 78
79
2. Recommendation 81
3. Conclusion
8 ANNEXURE:
83

Questionaire

9 CHAPTER-9
Biblography
85

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 .EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.

Transport & Logistics has seen a lot of trends in the past 2-3 decades
and especially 10 years ago. Due to the rise of A.I(artificial
intelligence) ,The whole Transport & Logistics has been changed
tremendously . Transport & Logistics had became a lot more convenient
than before.

Through this project will be studying trends in Transport & Logistics

evolution of this sector in past decades ,working of supply chain
management and how it affected Transport & Logistics ,How Green
logistics brought a massive change in this sector.

.OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY.

The main aim of the study is to study about the trends in Transport &
Logistics .

 To analyze the growth of this Industry all over the world.

 To study how A.I will bring revolution in this particular sector.

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 Conceptual Model

TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS .

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  Logistics and transportation is all concerning coming up with and
dominant procedures associated with movements and storage of
product
 Logistics is that the movement of inward and outward
transportation of product from manufacturer to the very best client.
 Transportation is just act of moving merchandise from one place to
a special .
 Logistics is that the management of the inward and outward
transportation of product from the manufacturer to the very best
user.
 Logistics deals with obtaining product and services from one
location to a special .
 Although supplying and transportation square measure used
exchangeability, the variations square measure merely supplying
deals with the mixing of storage, transportation, cataloging,
handling, and packaging of product .

ORIGIN OF LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION :

Logistics, as a business conception, evolved solely inside the Fifties.
This was primarily due to the increasing quality of supply one's business
with materials, associate degreed shipping out product in an
progressively broaden provide chain, business for specialists inside the
sector World Health Organization square measure referred to as provide
Chain Logisticians. this will be outlined as having the right item inside
the proper amount at the right time at the right place for the right value
and to the right target customers and it is the science of method having
its presence altogether sectors of the business. The goal of supplying
work is to manage the fruition of project life cycles, provide chains and

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resultant efficiencies. supplying cares with obtaining (or transmitting)
the product and services wherever they are required or once they're
desired. it's tough to accomplish any promoting or producing while not
supply support. It involves the blending of knowledge , transportation,
inventory, deposit, material handling, and packaging.

 The operative responsibility of supplying is that the geographical

positioning of raw materials, add method, and finished inventories
wherever needed at very cheap value doable.
 economical transportation is important to the survival of a
transportation and distribution service. economical transportation
ought to be analyzed for the only real delivery route, conjointly as
efficient packaging that ensures low investment and safety of
product .
 Transportation services embody the movement of product and
services, people, and animals from one location to a special by rail,
road, air, sea, cable, space, or pipeline.
 Transportation services square measure usually divided into 3
completely different areas: infrastructure, vehicles, and operations.
Transportation permits communication and trade between the two
parties.

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 once coming up with the cargo method, the manoeuvre of
transportation is also a big thought. you wish to figure out the costs ,
however vital is it to urge the cargo to the highest user in what
amount, the value of the product conjointly because of the size and
weight of the product .
 Logistics, or supply coming up with, alludes to the procedure that a
business utilizes thus on facilitate its provide chain activities. It
incorporates a decent assortment of undertakings and exercises, For
example, overseeing however crude materials or information sources
square measure obtained and shipped to the business, however stock
and data sources square measure place away at the business’ offices,
and the way the stock is emotional within the business and past.

There are six differing logistics which must be studied in detail:

1. Inbound Logistics.
2. Outbound Logistics.
3. Third Party Logistics.
4. Fourth Party Logistics.
5. Distribution Logistics.

6. Reverse logistics.

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1. Inbound Logistics
Inbound supplying includes movement of finished product and raw
materials to a marketing or a warehouse. inward supplying
unremarkably refers to the strategic tasks of organizations that
employment genuinely upstream. a selected tasks could considerably
modification by the parties that job upstream.

2. Outbound Logistics

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Outbound logistics is nothing however the action needed to induce final
product to the top client . Such strategic obligations typically apply to
players that employment moderately downstream, that square measure
ordinarily the last half among the availability chain..

• The obligations incorporate the storage of factory-made stock, the

transportation of created merchandise to the retail location, and
generally, the shipping and handling concerned within the method.

3. Third Party Logistics

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Third party supplying may be misunderstanding for entrepreneurs.
supplying incorporates all items of the provision chain that arrange,
actualize, and management the flow of merchandise and services to
satisfy consumer stipulations. Third party supplying imply that a third
party business is used to source supplying services.

4. Fourth Party Logistics

A firm victimization fourth party supplying outsources all its supplying
operations to a minimum of one supplying partner. That partner is
answerable for assessing, designing, planning, building, running, ANd
even pursuit an integrated comprehensive offer chain answer on the
behalf of the firm. this is often totally different from alternative varieties
of supplying models, wherever the firm could source simply the delivery
method. Therefore, fourth party supplying represents a far higher level
of offer chain management for the consumer. A firm victimization 2PL

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or 3PL is additional concerned among the day-after-day operations,
whereas 4PL focuses on strategic management and improvement levels.

5. Distribution Logistics
A brief definition of the term: Distribution supplying ensures that
factory-made product reach the client quickly and faithfully.
“Distribution supplying includes the planning tasks, management
and each one processes regarding the flow of product and data
between production firms and customers.”
Distribution supplying is that the link between production and so the
market. the realm includes all processes concerned among the
distribution of product - from producing firms to customers.

6. Reverse logistics

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Reverse supplying is that the method of moving product backward
through the provision chain. In alternative words, reverse supplying
involves taking product back from customers and reworking those
product (or components of them) to form a replacement product which
can be sold . Reverse supplying may even be a added method that
addresses however a company receives things back from customers.

The most common situation throughout that reverse supplying inherit

play is once a client needs to come an item. the method for the simplest
way a company handles that product is an example of reverse supplying.

1. studying the trends in Logistics and Transportation :

Trends from Mid-19th to mid-20th centuries-
• The railroad, the ship, and in addition the telegraph had a profound
impact on provision technique throughout the second half of the
nineteenth century. beginning with the warfare (1854–56), telegraphic
communication became an important tool of command, intelligence, and
operational coordination, notably in dominant rail traffic. at intervals the

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20th century it yielded to extra economical varieties of electronic
communication—the phonephone, radio, radar, television,
telephotography, and so the high-speed portable computer.
• The birth of the commercial era changed provide considerably.
Technological innovations in tools, machines, transportation and
communication reworked not alone military activity, but in addition
traditional of living, businesses and in addition the worldwide economy.
• at intervals the 1/2 the nineteenth century, railroad, steamships and so
the telegraph dramatically changed but armies, governments, industries
and folks communicated and traveled. The birth of the inner combustion
engine, high-powered vehicles which can travel on multiple surfaces,
pipeline, shipping, telephone, radio, radar, tv and telephotography .

continued this transformation within the 20th century.

• More people and More logisitcs is mobilized over larger distances
owing to these developments. New techniques for organization and
management were needed to stay up with these advances, and separate
provide functions started rising in military units and business.

• Mid-20th century to 21st century-

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 the worldwide offer chain has seen monumental changes over the last
100 years. every a part of but we've a bent to produce, manufacture
and transport product has been reworked.
 From the introduction of latest handling procedures to hoping on
ocean-going vessels, and from containerization to automation,
international offer chains unit every extra advanced and extra
economical than they’ve ever been.
 we've a bent to thought it would be fascinating to need a glance back
at but offer chains worked and so the key innovations that have driven
things forward.

1. The supply Chain Before 1900

 before the economic revolutions in Europe and so the U.S., the
overwhelming majority of offer chains were native in nature, and
frequently restricted to regions. as associate degree example, in
associate farming offer chain, a farmer would cut the wheat, send it to
a mill for grinding into flour, then send it to a baker to make into
bread, and eventually it would be sold at a market stall.
 the industrial revolutions began to change things. As railroads were
organized , it became faster, easier and cheaper to maneuver product
over longer distances, although offer chains still attended be restricted
to countries. at intervals the nineteenth century, rudimentary hand
trucks and totally different tools created it easier to handle product.
International ocean trade was fairly inefficient as loose.
2. The supply Chain within the Early 20th Century
 Since the invention of the within combustion engine and cars at
intervals the late nineteenth century, pioneers started developing

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 trucks to permit for the faster transport of product by road. the first
semi-truck was made-up at the very end of the nineteenth century and
macintosh Trucks was supported in 1900. Originally running on gas,
diesel engines were introduced at intervals the mid-1920s. there are
early concepts for the wheeled vehicle truck at intervals the first
twentieth century, with a lot of development before 1930.
 an important development in offer chain storage was in 1925 once
pallets began to be used in warehouses. This allowed product to be
consolidated on onto pallets, which will then be stacked vertically,
saving house and making product handling extra economical.
 the availability Chain From the Thirties to the 40s — larger
Mechanization.
 provide became necessary throughout war II, as military
organizations needed economical offer chains reception and in
Europe. At home, offer chains were necessary to manufacture military
hardware and provides, whereas abroad, it had been essential to urge
provides and support to troops as quickly as potential. the 40s saw a
consolidation of business engineering and analysis into offer chain
engineering.
 the event of pallets, pallet handling and storage systems in addition
continued for future few decades. The intent was to use deposition
house for storing extra efficiently and to optimize painful and layout.
These changes would build begin streamlining the loading, unloading,
consolidation and handling of product , leading to faster deliveries
and distribution.
3. The availability Chain within the 1950s —
Arguably, the foremost effective revolution in international offer chains
was the invention of the shipping instrumentality, and every one the
availability and modes of transport needed to support it. As we've a bent
to wrote in our guide to containerization, “The most significant feature
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of the shipping instrumentality is that it's intermodal”it unit typically
transported merely mistreatment many alternative varieties of transport.
whether or not or not a instrumentality is being force by road on a truck,
carried on the railway or shipped overseas on a instrumentality ship,
standardization makes transporting and handling these containers fast
and easy. which implies worth and efficiency savings throughout the
availability chain. every minute saved interprets on to faster transfer of
product , reduced waste and environmental impact, and better margins.”
• although shipping containers wouldn’t be fully standardized until the
late Nineteen Sixties, the primary shipping containers were made-up
throughout the mid-1950s. around the same time, transport
manufacturers began building vehicles which can transport these
containers. The invention of containerization was one in all the foremost

4. The availability Chain From the 1960s to the1980s

• throughout the 1960’s, merchandise distribution shifted away from
railroads and towards shipping. The continued evolution of pallets,
handling instrumentation, containerization and alternative areas meant
that freight transportation was a lot of reliable. This junction rectifier to
the economical transport of time-sensitive raw materials, elements and
merchandise, even over longer distances.
• automation began to realize quality inside the mid-1960s and IBM
developed the first processed inventory management and prognostication
system in 1967. Before the Sixties, supply records and knowledge were
captured, sent and according through paper. knowledge automation
began to contour supply, and created opportunities in several areas
together with a lot of correct prognostication, higher warehouse storage,
truck routing and higher inventory management.

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• the first period of time warehouse management system was put in in
1975, creating it easier to trace orders, inventory and distribution and
leading to larger efficiencies. round the same time, barcodes created it a
lot of easier to scan merchandise, beginning the move away from
manual input of SKUs and merchandise codes

5. The availability Chain within the 1980s and 1990s

• The Nineteen Eighties saw provide chain stakeholders, transportation
makers and a lot of building on their successes. In 1983, the term
“Supply Chain Management” was coined, and personal computing any
revolutionized the supply chain. New code like versatile spreadsheets,
mapping and route coming up with created it easier to trace prices and
maximize profits. This was together with alternative advancements
together with air freight optimisation, provide chain distribution
networks and thus the introduction of Enterprise Resource coming up
with (ERP) systems.
• university conjointly developed RFID tags to create it easier to
electronically track merchandise and shipments, a precursor of we have
a tendency tob|the online|the net} of Things devices we use these days.

• the supply Chain — True Globalization

All of this history brings US to the current , and continuing
transformation in international provide chains. one amongst the foremost
vital influences has been the explosion of manufacturing in Asia, with

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China, Japan and Korean Peninsula changing into major suppliers and
exporters of product . At constant time, AI and machine learning
combines with prophetic and prescriptive analytics to provide higher
prediction, increased order management and additional. What’s
additional, the provision chain is evolving toward a additional data-
driven, network-driven and cooperative provide chain system that drives
real worth and growth for all participants.
• In fact, there square measure still challenges to beat. shoppers and
businesses square measure progressively interested in the ethics of
sourcing and producing merchandise, particularly from environmental
and workers’ rights views. At constant time, provide chain managers
would like effective risk management to have an effect on the surprising,
whether or not that’s customs and tariffs, natural disasters or problems
with international transport.
• despite the longer term holds, one factor is for sure. If we have a
tendency to apply constant innovation to international provide chains as
we've at intervals the past, then we’ll still see bigger efficiencies,
improvement and profit margins.
• From the Nineteen Forties on, supplying technology shifted from toil
to victimisation mechanized ways in which of moving merchandise.
With the event of pallet lifts, warehouse house may be used additional
with efficiency. beginning at intervals the Fifties, intermodal containers
allowed these pallets to be transported via rail, ships and trucks
additional simply. Over time, freight transport progressively transferred
from rail to truck.
• Up till the Sixties to Nineteen Seventies, most record keeping was
done manually. The birth of computers improved supplying coming up
with, inventory management and improvement of truck routing. the

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expansion of personal computers at intervals the Eighties and emergence
of the net at intervals the late Nineteen Nineties furthered this
information revolution.
• corporations were able to use programme technology and map-based
interfaces to reinforce the look and execution processes. Large-scale
improvement models were designed and eventually incorporated into
business operations. throughout now technological innovation LED to
advancements in automation. The term supplying started obtaining used
additional and additional to elucidate a vital business perform, rather
than simply describing military movements.
• By the Nineteen Nineties, several information existed in separate
databases. To integrate these information sources, Enterprise Resource
coming up with (ERP) Systems were developed. These systems were
capable of integration multiple information sources, rising information
accuracy and aiding in materials and supplying

• Emerging trends Transportation & Logistics.

All the industries across the planet square measure taking advantage of
digitalisation and advancement in technology and thus the supplying
business isn't any exception. The advanced trends in supplying and
supply chain management concentrate on good and tech-driven
management to cut down in operation prices and increase potency. Big
Data, the {online|the net} of Things and information transparency can
aid online transport service organizations to reinforce their ability to
comprehend visibility on the live standing of their provide chain
network. Thereby, it offers them the ability to not solely quickly answer
the issues however additional significantly, foresee and stop them
additional with success.

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1. Artificial Intelligence (AI)
In the supply chain and logistics management, AI are often utilized in
many operations, especially in warehouse management. It builds a
specific inventory in seconds, incorporating weights and volumes, and
control the damage on items. Top logistics companies in Delhi are using
AI applications in their logistics operations to reinforce their efficiency.
AI in logistics also includes self-driving cars, designed to navigate
without human interference.

2. Supply Chain Digitization

In logistics management, digitization is that the practice of using
advanced tech solutions in conjunction with other digital and physical
assets to reform logistics processes. Digitization enhances the speed,
flexibility and dynamics of the availability chain operations, leading to
better customer responsiveness and eventually higher profit. By
embracing digitalization, companies offering transport services in
Vadodara can experience increased revenue and market valuation if they
fundamentally redesign their supply chain strategy.

In the logistics industry, the web of Things (IoT) holds a crucial place as
a greatly transformative technological solution. IoT may be a system of

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interconnected computing devices that permits the transfer or sharing of
knowledge over networks with no human input.

3. Stronger Collaboration within the Supply

Chain Process.

• In 2019, advanced procurement methods and stronger relationships

with suppliers should be the most concern within the supply chain
process.

• as an example , the procurement division can utilize the important

business data like supplier evaluation and references of the simplest
business partners to enhance supply chain decisions.

• Also, effective collaboration are often helpful to assess the risks within
the supply chain like stock shortage.

• For now, the alliance within the supply chain can streamline inner
processes and minimize the overutilization of resources spent on
organizational and other time-consuming activities.

4. Drones and Smart Glasses in Logistics

In the logistics sphere, the rising integration of smart glasses and drones
has improved the pliability and delivery speed which successively

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affecting the expansion of the last stage logistics market during the
expected period.

Autonomous vehicles and trucks with advanced technology are ready to

maintain high dependability and same-day delivery in both rural and
concrete areas.

5. Knowledge work will go global

• within the advanced supply chain, almost half the work is knowledge
work.
• Complex analytics, planning and procurement processing come under
this sort of labor .
• As logistics companies in Delhi extend their businesses globally, the
knowledge add the availability chain should also go global .
• this may enable the companies established in one country to perform
logistics operations globally as they're going to have procurement
centers or do analytics in several parts of the planet.

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7.Safety In Logistics Will Be The Top Priority
• There are increasing concerns among the businesses pertaining the
cybersecurity and logistics safety.

• Additionally, the security of consumers’ personal data is another

major worry making the protection of logistics solutions together of
the topmost concerns.

• Various e-commerce companies including Walmart, Amazon and lots

of others have revealed potential cyber security threats.
• This has further encouraged logistics providers and online transport
service providers to focus more on offering secure logistics solutions.

6. Circular Supply Chain

 The term “Linear Supply Chain” in simple words means the normal
concept where goods move linearly (from raw product to finished
product). Modern and advanced logistics methods specialise in the
circular supply chain theory, including theutilization of earlier used

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 products as raw materials.

 The recycling of products is understood as reverse logistics and it's an

innovative and effective approach. It aids logistics firms to scale back
managerial and transportation expenses, gain higher sustainability,
improved customer service and loyalty, create value also as conserve
resources.

 Used goods are often kept in circulation through better association

among companies, suppliers and customers.

8.Flexible Logistics
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In the logistics and provide chain market, flexible logistics has become
the newest buzzword in 2019. it's nothing but, the pliability of growing
and decreasing capabilities for supporting the strain within the
availability chain during a timeframe

This is one in each of the foremost recent trends inside the provision
trade that is during a position to help businesses across the planet by up
client expertise, providing quantifiability and nimbleness, adding period
visibility, and linking all business processes. 3PL firms play a really
necessary role in handling the fluctuations in orders.

7. Wearable Devices
• wearable technology is that the growing trend inside the provision
market in 2019. This technology refers to devices that area unit designed
to be worn by individuals. Combined with cloud technology, these
devices improve employees’ ability to access and get in period.
• it's been analyzed that wearable technology permits the provision firms
in Pune transport to stay up management of their inventories.

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exploitation this technology, they're going to conjointly keep up on with
product demand inside the market.
• The warehouse managers use this wearable technology for fast and
correct assortment of inventory information, keeping track of made,
distributed and hold on merchandise.
• excluding this, it is also useful in examining the sign like exhaustion,
heart attacks of warehouse employees, so useful in preventing
employees.

8. Implementation of information
Analytics and massive Data Logistics..
• Big Data and Data Analytics within the logistics market enable the
stakeholders involved within the business to form informed buying
decisions.
• Companies offering transport services in Vadodara are now using big
data to foresee busy periods, a big supply shortage in future and other
significant insights for creating strategic decisions to bolster their market
positions and offer a competitive advantage over rivals.
• Additionally, in step with the Council of Supply Chain Management
Professionals, over 90% of shipping companies and third-party logistics
firms forecast that data-driven decision-making is extremely significant
to provide chain operations because the massive data enhance quality

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also as performance by providing effective supply and demand forecast,
route optimization, inventory management, and efficient labor
management.
• This, in turn, speeding up the expansion of the world 3PL market
during the foretold period.

11.Use of SaaS (software-as-a-service)

 In 2019, the employment of the software-as-a-service model in
logistics management and provide chain technologies is becoming
popular together with the increase of cloud computing. this might be
mostly due to the protection, security and convenience of SaaS
offering businesses.

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  Now the businesses are having the pliability to use only the
services they have on a pay-per-use basis. SaaS enables businesses
to avoid high fixed costs of incessant system maintenance,
advancements and infrastructure-related costs.

 12. Enhanced supply chain visibility

Detailed analysis of supply chain data can considerably improve
business prediction and better noesis. it'll help the logistics companies in
Delhi to optimize the employment of resources involved in inventory
management, warehousing and transport.

 Improved chain visibility offers the foremost effective benefit to having

real-time inventory management. It includes the applying of mobile
point-of-sale systems and sensors that takes the new whole level The
logistics industry today looks completely different from what it
absolutely was ten years ago, therefore the question arises here is what's
visiting it appear to be in another ten years.

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 .GREEN LOGISTICS.

• The study of the environmental consequences of all the activities

involved within the transportation, storage and handling of physical
products as they move along supply chains in both forward and reverse
directions.
• It takes into consideration the character and scale of these effects and
examines the numerous ways during which they're going to be reduced
so on develop a sustainable balance between economic, environmental
and social objectives.
• the foremost objective of logistics is to coordinate these activities
during a very way that it meets customer requirements at minimum cost.
within the past this cost has been defined in purely monetary terms.
• As concern for the environment rises, companies must take more
account of the external costs of logistics associated mainly with natural
process, pollution, noise, vibration and accidents.
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Green provision describes all makes an attempt to measure and
minimize the ecological impact of provision activities.

• This includes all activities of the forward and reverse flows of

merchandise, info and services between the aim of origin and
additionally the aim of consumption.
• it is the aim to create a property company worth using a balance of
economic and environmental potency.
• inexperienced provision has its origin among the middle Eighties and
was a concept to characterize provision systems and approaches that use
advanced technology and instrumentality to attenuate environmental
harm throughout operations.

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• The "ecological concern" in supplying determines however so much
the supplying or the supply chain of an organization is two-faced with
the matter of environmental protection and resource conservation.
• primarily, a provide chain is tormented by varied influencing factors
throughout this context.
• the most influencing factors area unit the stakeholders of the
organization and conjointly the rising prices of energy and artifact. Some
of the key stakeholders throughout this context are:
• The state with growing international and national regulation
• Customers and shopper with increasing awareness and demand for
environmentally friendly product and (logistics) services
• staff United Nations agency wish to work in associate environmentally
and socially accountable company

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 • Society with increasing claims for a lot of company social
responsibility (CSR)
• firms themselves; handling their own motivation. there's conjointly the
pressure of lenders, investors, insurers and investors. Indications of this
area unit new types of investment among the capital market, rather just
like the exchange index property Index, that tracks the stock
performance of the world's leading firms in terms of economic,
environmental and social criteria. The dimension of ecological concern
of an organization is that the merchandise of these complicated and
move factors.

Green Supply chain management.

• This raised awareness with reference to logistics negative externalities
brings forth the concept of Green (or sustainable) supply chain
management. The latter are often defined because the alignments and
integration of environmental management within supply chain
management.
• it's supported the popularity that a private firm’s environmental impact
extends well beyond its corporate boundaries.
• More specifically it involves considering the impacts of extraction of
raw materials, distribution, operation and disposal throughout the chain.
• The origins can be tracked back to two functional areas in which
companies’ environmental responsibilities interface with external
agencies:
green purchasing/supply and reverse logistics.

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• Environmental impacts should be considered cumulatively over the
stages of the availability chain life cycle of a product or service to avoid
shifting adverse environmental effects from one stage of the life cycle to
another. Each stage utilizes resources and produces negative
externalities that impact the environment, however within the green
logistics mentality, these should be minimized.

 Green Supply chain management

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• The green logistics system must include green management, green data
system , green supply, green production, green transportation, green
distribution, green packaging, green distribution processing and waste
recycling. In other words the entire supply chain must be green.
• Within green logistics, successful completion requires the close
cooperation of several parts like government, public, and company
entities.
• If there's only a stress on one or two of those parties within the whole
system, green logistics won't be achieved. The system architecture refers
to the systems external and internal environment also because the
components in itself.
• There should be a consideration for green logistics that it is not an
isolated system, but it needs exchange information and energy with
outside parties. So in other words a green logistics system may be a
large end2end integrated system. Steps towards the efficient
establishment of green supply chains .

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• corporations ought to they have to implement a inexperienced offer
chain, ought to consider:

• Use of compliance-based methods that support the cascading of basic

environmental needs generically across all suppliers.

• orientating offer chain goals for each potency and pollution-reduction.

• Transfer of environmentally specific innovations or technologies from

customers to suppliers.

• Collaboration, competition or co-opetition between companies to

develop re-manufacturing or closed-loop exercise systems.

• The EU Environmental Protection Agency provided four basic steps to

implementing a inexperienced offer chain. They are: • distinctive prices
• verify opportunities (for reducing prices, making competitive
advantages)
• Calculate advantages, and choose , implement and monitor.

. Supply Chains Are Going Green in These Six Ways.

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• Sustainability concerns are arising in A growing variety of customers
like businesses that square measure dedicated to environmentalism, and
firms square measure pains to have an effect on their issues whereas up
internal systems.
• Failure to embrace a comprehensive approach to the issue will cause
corporations to return short in their efforts. the foremost effective efforts
at property originate through a holistic transformation of the availability
chain.
• Eco-friendly practices have an effect on multiple areas of the business,
of that development is just one. the varied stages of production supply
supply-chain managers several flexibility in incorporating inexperienced
ways. Sourcing, packaging and transportation all have tangible effects
on the atmosphere, however they're doing not ought to be adverse.
inexperienced supply-chain management (GSCM) will resolve several
problems encompassing industrial producing techniques.
• GSCM encompasses each level of the supply chain, from product
construct to distribution. Core ways embrace closed-loop producing,
reduction of fuel emissions, and moral sourcing. the hassle allows
makers several to avoid wasting countless|to avoid wasting} many lots
of cash on energy-intensive production processes, waste disposal and far
additional. whereas the incentives square measure enough for several to
make the switch, some businesses use GSCM alone for its
environmental advantages. A world leeched of its resources will not flip
a profit for anyone — nor will it sustain life.
• GSCM is labile across just about any trade. there is continually a
much better , greener because of get materials, package merchandise, or
ship product to customers. Success, however, hinges on the adoption of
property techniques companywide, conjointly like all suppliers. division

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initiatives will not build a lot of of a distinction throughout a corporation
that is in spite of everything unsustainable.
• obtaining started needs data of the ways and therefore the thanks to
execute them. inexperienced trends square measure catching on inside
supply-chain management and reworking however the trade operates.
Here square measure a handful of current ways, together with however
they've worked for varied corporations.

Ethical Sourcing..
• Ethical sourcing involves attention on human, animal and
environmental wellness. • Sustainability centers on social and economic
health, likewise as environmentalism. • For a fabric to be truly
sustainable, suppliers must obtain it by respecting human harvesters and
natural resources. • Humane sourcing techniques can range from raising
farmers' wages and providing paid maternity leave to practicing selective
tree harvesting. • The Dr. Pepper Snapple Group promotes ethical
sourcing through a code of conduct that extends to any or all
suppliers. they're required to urge materials legally and safely by
meeting DPS’s quality standards. • Conflict minerals can't be present in
any materials, and suppliers must follow nondiscriminatory guidelines in
hiring workers. • DPS analyzes each supplier using assessments similar
to the UN Human Development Index to forestall human rights
violations.

1. Green Materials..

• Sustainable materials that limit resources depletion & lowering

acquisition costs and minimize carbon emissions. Examples within

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 the event and textile industries include bamboo, Tinsel, linen and
cork. All are either renewable or require less power to reap and build.
A material's embodied energy is directly associated with what
proportion is required to make it, from procurement to
refinement. Green manufacturing lowers the embodied energy,
minimizing environmental impact. 
• Unsustainable product process involves innumerable power, and it's
visiting additionally prove risky, reckoning on the maneuver. makers
use several chemicals to dye materials, preserve foods and create
building materials, and whereas not all square measure safe for
customers or employees to inhale or ingest, they still create it into
everyday product. Detoxification could even be a component of
GSCM that diminishes the presence of toxic elements. • The textile
industry has often come vulnerable for contributing to toxic pollution.
In response, Greenpeace developed the Detox My Fashion campaign
to complete the employment of chemicals in clothing
production. Numerous companies have signed and cleaned up their
supply chains as a result, including Nike and Puma. 

2. Reverse Logistics..

• Reverse logistics systems addresses how companies handle their

products once they fulfill their purposes. • GSCM encourages recycling
and reusing, though products might undergo other disposal methods if
recycling wasn’t possible. • Companies talk over with this strategy as an
impression system, involving materials that move out and are available
back for repurposing. • Customers return defective or recycled products
to the manufacturer, and these become either waste or a replacement
item. • The Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. uses a control system by
composting its stuff into nourishment for its on-site gardens .

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 • The company claims to possess diverted 99.8% of its waste from
landfills by implementing this sustainable program and reversing the
provision chain.

3. Just-in-Time..

• JIT supply-chain management involves placing materials within the

proper place at the proper time. • Manufacturers only begin as many
supplies as they have to avoid excessive inventory. JIT(just In Time) lets
companies avoid overspending and overfilling their warehouse.
 • The strategy takes practice to use, but can streamline production when
executed correctly. • Data analysis could even be a heavy component,
providing managers must forecast consumer purchasing trends to satisfy
demand. • Toyota employs this method with vehicle production by
following a specified set of guidelines. • The company combines JIT
with jidoka, a system that efficiently prevents defective vehicles from
leaving the flexibleness.
• As a result, Toyota designs cars within the shortest time possible while
maintaining the foremost effective level of quality.

4. Efficient Transportation

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• Transporting goods over long distances contributes to gas emissions by
burning fossil fuels. • The utilization of varied fuels then establishment
of localized supplier and manufacturer relationships. • To employ the
strategy, some companies will must downsize and procure materials
from fewer sources. • They must consider how they'll adjust their
products and packaging to accommodate new suppliers. • Improving
modes of transportation can solve several complexities. • modern means
of transportation release emissions to a degree, and green alternatives
isn’t always widespread. • The Environmental Protection Agency
developed its SmartWay initiative to handle the problem. • It helps
manufacturers select sustainable freight carriers, track emissions and use
fuel-saving tech in moving goods.

5. Green Certification.
• Certification from LEED, Green Globes, Energy Star and similar
initiatives guarantees a company's commitment to sustainability.
• They require organizations to satisfy extensive criteria in measuring
adherence to green practices.
• Supply-chain certification ensures that companies employ eco-
conscious methods by gauging and improving their current
production methods.
• By detoxifying manufacturing methods and implementing reverse
logistics, the corporate has achieved a 37.7% improvement in gas
emissions since 2008.
• It continues to chop back its impact by following the Sustainable
Development Goals established by the UN.

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 • Implementing GSCM has made numerous companies active
contributors to ecological preservation and conservation.
• They've increased their bottom lines by dialing back on wasteful
practices and funneling those funds into high-quality product
management.
• More businesses can become leaders in sustainability and
innovation by adopting GSCM.

.COMPANY PROFILE.

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 Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn.

.COMPANY INFORMATION.

As the world’s leading contract logistics provider, DHL create

competitive advantage for the customers by delivering exceptional
operational service and innovative solutions across the availability
chain.

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 By placing trust within the world’s largest logistics company is
benefited from its financial stability, massive resources and buying
power, heavy investment in supply chain technology and global
reach.

Wherever we like to work, DHL are visiting be there to produce

globally standardized, cost-efficient, high-quality, innovative
solutions.

Understanding, predicting and responding effectively to the trends

and challenges facing your industry sector is significant to the success
of your business.

Growing consumerism, blurring sector boundaries, demanding

emerging markets, and also the increasing need for lean, risk-
controlled approaches in complex marketplaces are today’s major
supply chain drivers.

Our logistics experts, who specialize in these sector market

challenges, can facilitate your develop strategies to satisfy both your
current and future supply chain needs. New technology plays a
awfully important part in improving operations, removing costs and
improving customer service.

DHL benefit from technology advances and investments as we

constantly review, evaluate and adopt new technological solutions.

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 As a socially responsible company, you expect your providers to
figure responsibly too.

DHL is committed to creating a difference in people’s lives.

Their GoGreen initiatives help protect the earth and focus on making
your operations more sustainable.

DHL GOGREEN SOLUTIONS

Decrease Emissions, Increase Efficiency.

Emission friendly choices to satisfy all of our transportation needs.

DHL offer sort of service options for minimizing and avoiding
logistics-related emissions, waste and other environmental impacts
along entire supply chain.

DHL identifies & moniters the carbon footprint which provides them
with valuable information.

Following are the ways they track their carbon footprint:

1) DHL Carbon Report .

Transport & Logistics Environmental Footprint Report .

 Track your greenhouse gas emissions.

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 Identify efficiency potential .

 Generate detailed reports.

2) DHL Carbon Dashboard

Graphical Modeling of Your Entire Supply Chain .

 Identify carbon and price optimization opportunities.

 Best-in-class reporting and analysis tool for transport emissions.

 End-to-end visibility .

3) DHL Quick Scan

Carbon Efficiency at a glance .

 Compare your carbon efficiency to sector benchmarks

 Easily applied across the entire supply chain

 Identification of potential green optimization levers

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 4) DHL Green Danmar

Carbon-Efficient Ocean Freight.

 Selection of green carriers: 5% more carbon efficient than industry

average

 Provided through Danmar Lines, DHL’s own NVOCC (Non-Vessel

Operating Common Carrier).

 Neutralize your emissions at the best price with none additional

efforts

5) DHL SeAir

Multimodal Air & Ocean Freight.

 Green Option: Movement at a considerably lower cost and lower

carbon footprint than pure Air Freight.

6) DHL Logistics

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 Consulting Strategic Guidance on Optimizing Supply Chain Design
& Performance.

 Green Option: Consulting on network optimization to chop back gas

emissions.

7) DHL RailConnect

LessthanContainerLoad (LCL)

 Green Option: Flexible and sustainable LessthanContainerLoad

(LCL) multimodal rail service that can deliver predefined and reliable
shipments on time.

8) DHL RailLine

FullContainerLoad (FCL)

 Green option: green, economical, providing fast and reliable

connections within Europe, connecting the Asia-Pacific region and
the east and west of Europe.

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THE LOGISTICS TRANSPORT
EVOLUTION
Trends a bit like the explosive growth of e-commerce, the continuing
urbanization of markets, and massive knowledge associatealytics and
medical care square measure driving an outsize modification. This shift
is ratcheting up service expectations, supporting growth in rising
markets, making new ground transportation solutions ,and significantly
injecting advanced technologies and repair choices into however
shippers and 3PLs manage world transportation flows. In the face of
those changes, what square measure the simplest 5 factors that square
measure editing the guide book on ground transportation today? To find
out, DHL offer Chain conducted a worldwide survey1 of quite two
hundred transportation call manufacturers across the world and among
all the foremost necessary business sectors, asking concerning their
current and future transportation operations and methods. 1 For
‘Reimagining the long run of Transport’, DHL surveyed Managers,
Directors, Vice Presidents and Senior Vice Presidents what is more as
company Officers, CXOs and Presidents from over two hundred
corporations. Sectors throughout that the businesses operate embrace
automotive, technology, life sciences and tending, engineering and
producing, energy and chemical, retail and artifact. Respondents were
primarily based in Asia Pacific, Europe, realm and North America.

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1.TRANSPORTATION IS STRATEGIC
TO BUSINESS GROWTH.

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 • Customers across all regions recognize that transportation could
even be a strategic component of their business. Managed effectively
and efficiently, a company’s transportation promise can help improve
business growth.
• Consequently, transportation is moving up the “strategic importance
ladder.”
• Companies in mature markets indicate a growing willingness to
amass certain value-added services and options in transportation.
• The caveat – these services MUST generate a return – and a
measurable one at that. In other words, if a service offering is “worth
it” – if it helps a corporation outperform its competitors – then a
growing set of companies are willing to induce such added value.
• Thus, in many cases, ground transportation is moving beyond its
traditional role as simply a commodity, towards becoming a business
differentiator.
• Shippers now need plenty more from their third party logistics firms
(3PLs) so on compete. On a maturity scale, shippers’ expectations are
likely to migrate upward toward higher value-added services that
include greater visibility, streamlined reporting and real-time issue
resolution, optimization, last-mile solutions then on.
• This evolution of transportation’s role is market dependent, meaning
its perceived value differs depending on market and nation-state.
• During a mature market like Europe, as an example, added value
could include network transport optimization. during a developing or
emerging market, in contrast, value could simply mean reliable, on-
time, perfect-condition delivery.

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 INDUSTRY 4.0
Industry 4.0 refers to a replacement introduce the business Revolution
that focuses heavily on interconnectivity, automation, machine learning,
and fundamental measure information. Industry 4.0, in addition
generally noted as IIoT or smart manufacturing, marries physical
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production and operations with smart digital technology, machine
learning, and enormous information to create a tons of holistic and better
connected theme for firms that concentrate on manufacturing and supply
chain management. whereas every company and organization
operational of late is completely completely different, all of them face a
customary challenge—the wish for connectedness and access to
fundamental measure insights across processes, partners, products, and
people.

That’s where business 4.0 comes into play. Industry 4.0 isn’t relating to
concerning almost around as regards to close to concerning just about
near to on the topic of regarding with relation to with regards to} around
as regards to shut to regarding on the subject of on the subject of relating
to with reference to with regards to} finance in new technology and tools
to reinforce manufacturing efficiency—it’s about revolutionizing the
approach your entire business operates and grows.

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Logistics 4.0 & supply chain management in Industry
4.0 .
Industry 4 is synonymous with the fourth technological revolution .
The term entails the digitization of the economic sector, leading to the
digitization of the physical elements and the way they work. This
simply signifies that products, factories, goods, machines,
warehouses, vehicles etc. are all interconnected and don't work
autonomously.

Logistics 4.0 An Overview:

There’s a change within the first or “classic” systems of production,
which has led to digitalization. Industry 4.0 has given rise to new
networks; and therefore the division between physical elements and
every one the knowledge are often easily grouped in massive
technological developments like Big Data, Business Intelligence, and
Big Data Analytics.
The high-level technologies geared in Industry 4.0 are ready to
redefine the assembly place by reconstructing centralized and analog
workflows in digital and decentralized processes.
Consequently, the logistics division has now been paralleled creating
its own revolution. The logistics sector is predicted to hit the 15.5
trillion USD trillion mark by the year 2023. The integration of
technology and logistics can cause growth and efficiency within the
logistic industry.

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 SWOT Analysis of Logistic Sector

STRENGTHS WEAKNESS
Divers customer portfolios Over-dependence on people

Expertise in emerging Poor presence in developed

economies economies

Wide network Poor customer contact

End to end logistics services Huge capital outlay

OPPORTUNITIES THREATS

Demand is rising for advanced Entrance of new Entrance

logistics capabilities and industry
focused solutions Economic Conditions

Web-enabled Logistics operation Technology Advancement

Sustainability
Technological & Economic Trends

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 SWOT Analysis of SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

STRENGTHS WEAKNESS

Strong Customer Relationship Lack Of Visibility

Stable Market Share Low Inventory Turns

High Product Quality Keeping up With Digital

Transformation

OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
Artificial Intelligence Cyber Attack

Automation/Robotics Climate Change Risk

Analytics Economic Uncertainty

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 RESEARCH DESIGN

 Type of research: Descriptive research

Descriptive exploration can be explained as a statement of affairs as
they're at present with the experimenter having no control over
variables. Also, “ descriptive studies may be characterized as simply
the attempt to determine, describe or identify what is, while. logical
exploration attempts to establish why it's that way or how it came to
be. It's Random
Research in which all the questionnaires are distributed among the
guests who have visited/ used this product or service, by icing that all
the answered answers will be kept. nonpublic. Through this type of
Research, it made easy to analysis .

 Research method:
Survey and Questionnaire

 Type of data
The sources of data include both primary and secondary data
PRIMARY DATA: Primary data is collected with specific ideal,
especially to address the disquisition problem. The data is gathered by
distributing a questionnaire to the employees in the above mentioned
company.

SECONDARY DATA: Books, Journal & Internet.

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 Data Collection Method
The tools used for assaying data are rating system graphs, pie map etc.
Questionnaire is distributed to the individual replier and special care has
been taken to make him/ her feel comfortable so that, he/ she could
answer all the questions. This system is followed to get unprejudiced
answers

Classification and Tabulation of Data

1. What is your age?

Age Group Rate (%)

18 to 25 96 %
25 to 35 -
35 to 45 2%
45 above 2%

2.What is your gender?

Gender Rate (%)
Female 59.2 %
Male 40.8 %

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3. How often do you use logistics or transportation in day to day life?

Opinion Rate%
Very often 34.7 %
Sometimes 65.3 %

4.Do you often receive damaged products while transporting?

Opinion Rate%
Very often 4.1 %
Sometimes 67.3 %
Not at all 28.6 %

5.How has been your overall experience with logistics and

transportation ?

Opinion Rate%
Great 16.3 %
Good 83.7 %
Very Bad --

6.Do you think Logistics and transport sector has changed a lot in
recent years ?

Opinion Rate%

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Definitely 89.8 %
No ,Don’t think so 10.2 %

 7.Do you think the Logistics industry should go green ?

Opinion Rate%

Yes 98%

No 2%

8.Does transportation & logistics fulfill your wants and need ?

Opinion Rate%
Absolutely 44.9 %
Little Bit 53.1 %
Not at all 2 %

9.Do you think every logistics and transport companies should

implement Green supply chain in their management ?

Opinion Rate%
Yes 98 %
No 2%

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9. According to you what should a transport company should focus
more on ?

Opinion Rate%
Safe Delivery 77.6 %
Fast Delivery 22.4 %

10. Do you believe that A.I is changing the Logistics sector ?

Opinion Rate%
Yes, definitely 61.2 %
No, not really sure 38.8 %

11. Did Green logistics had reduced the impact on our environment ?

Opinion Rate%
Yes 83.7 %
No 16.3 %

12. Do you often face delays while receiving the product ?

Opinion Rate%
Very often 22.4 %

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 Sometimes 77.6 %
13. Does Eco-friendly practices affect multiple areas of the business,
resulting in saving money on energy-intensive?

Opinion Rate%
Yes 93.9 %
No 6.1 %

14. Is Efficient transportation a Smart Way to handle the problem

related to sustainable freight carriers, track emissions and use
fuel-saving tech in moving goods ?

Opinion Rate%

Yes, definitely 91.8 %

No , not really 8.2 %

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 ANALYSIS & INTERPRETATION
1.What is your age?

From the above data we can interpret that:-

• 89.8% are under the age group of 18-20

• 6.1% are under the age group of 20-30

• 4% are under the age group of 40-50

2.What is your gender?

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Interpretation:

From the above data it is interpreted that:

• 40.8% of the respondents are male.

• 59.2% of the respondents are female.

3.How often do you use logistics or transportation in day to day life ?

Interpretation:

From the above data it is interpreted that:

 34.7% of the respondents use logistics or transportation very often

in day to day life.
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 65.3% of the respondents use logistics or transportation sometimes
in day to day life.

4.Do you often receive damaged products while transporting?

Interpretation:

From the above data it is interpreted that:

 67.3% of the respondents sometimes receive damaged products

while transporting
 28.6% of the respondents never receive damaged products while
transporting
 4.1% of the respondents very often receive damaged products while
transporting

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5.How has been your overall experience with logistics and
transportation ?

Interpretation:

From the above data it is interpreted that:

 16.3% of the respondents had overall Great experience with

logistics and transportation.
 83.7% of the respondents had good experience with logistics and
transportation.
 0 % of the respondents had bad experience with logistics and
transportation.
6.Do you think Logistics and transport sector has changed a lot in
recent years?

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Interpretation:

From the above data it is interpreted that:

 89.8% of the respondents think Logistics and transport sector has
changed a lot in recent years.
 10.2% of the respondents think Logistics and transport sector had
not changed a lot in recent years.

  7.Do you think the Logistics industry should go green ?

Interpretation:

From the above data it is interpreted that:

 98% of the respondents think Logistics industry should go green

 2% of the respondents think Logistics industry should not go green

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8.Does transportation & logistics fulfill your wants and need ?

Interpretation:

From the above data it is interpreted that:

 53.1% of the respondents wants and needs are fulfilled little bit.
 44.9% of the respondents wants and needs are absolutely fulfilled.
 2% of the respondents wants and needs are not at all fulfilled.

9.Do you think every logistics and transport companies should

implement Green supply chain in their management ?

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Interpretation:

From the above data it is interpreted that:

 98% of the respondents think every logistics and transport
companies should implement Green supply chain in their
management.
 2% of the respondents think every logistics and transport companies
should not implement Green supply chain in their management.

10.According to you what should a transport company should focus

more on ?

Interpretation:

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From the above data it is interpreted that:

 77.6% of the respondents thinks a transport company should focus

more on safe delivery.
 22.4% of the respondents thinks a transport company should focus
more on fast delivery.

11. Do you believe that A.I is changing the Logistics sector ?

Interpretation:

From the above data it is interpreted that:

 61.2% of the respondents believe that A.I is changing the Logistics
sector.
 38.8% of the respondents believe that A.I has no role in changing
the Logistics sector.

12 .Did Green logistics had reduced the impact on our environment ?

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Interpretation:

From the above data it is interpreted that:

 83.7% of the respondents believe that Green logistics had reduced
the impact on our environment
 16.3% of the respondents thinks that Green logistics had not
reduced the impact on our environment.

13.Do you often face delays while receiving the product ?

Interpretation:

From the above data it is interpreted that:

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 77.6% of the respondents sometimes face delays while receiving the
product.
 22.4% of the respondents very often face delays while receiving the
product.

14.Does Eco-friendly practices affect multiple areas of the business,

resulting in saving money on energy-intensive?

Interpretation:

From the above data it is interpreted that:

 93.9% of the respondents believe Eco-friendly practices affect

multiple areas of the business, resulting in saving money on energy-
intensive.
 6.1% of the respondents believe Eco-friendly practices does not
affect multiple areas of the business, resulting in saving money on
energy-intensive.

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15.Is Efficient transportation a Smart Way to handle the problem
related to sustainable freight carriers, track emissions and use fuel-
saving tech in moving goods ?

Interpretation:

From the above data it is interpreted that:

 91.8% of the respondents agrees that Efficient transportation is a

Smart Way to handle the problem related to sustainable freight
carriers, track emissions and use fuel-saving tech in moving goods.
 8.2 % of the respondents does not agrees that Efficient
transportation is a Smart Way to handle the problem related to
sustainable freight carriers, track emissions and use fuel-saving tech
in moving goods.

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Findings, Recommendation & Conclusion

Findings
 89.8% respondants are under the age group of 18-20.
 40.8% of the respondents are male where as 59.2% of the
respondents are female.
 65.3% of the respondents use logistics or transportation sometimes
in day to day life.
 67.3% of the respondents sometimes receive damaged products
while transporting where as4.1% of the respondents very often
receive damaged products .
 83.7% of the respondents had good experience with logistics and
transportation.
 89.8% of the respondents think Logistics and transport sector has
changed a lot in recent years.
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 98% of the respondents think Logistics industry should go green
 53.1% of the respondents wants and needs are fulfilled little bit.
 98% of the respondents think every logistics and transport
companies should implement Green supply chain in their
management.
 77.6% of the respondents thinks a transport company should focus
more on safe delivery where as 22.4% of the respondents thinks a
transport company should focus more on fast delivery.
 83.7% of the respondents believe that Green logistics had reduced
the impact on our environment
 61.2% of the respondents believe that A.I is changing the Logistics
sector.
 77.6% of the respondents sometimes face delays while receiving the
product while 22.4% of the respondents very often face the delays
 93.9% of the respondents believe Eco-friendly practices affect
multiple areas of the business, resulting in saving money on energy-
intensive.
 91.8% of the respondents agrees that Efficient transportation is a
Smart Way to handle the problem related to sustainable freight
carriers, track emissions and use fuel-saving tech in moving goods.

RECOMMENDATION AND SUGGESTIONS

1.Automation.
 In the digitalized, technology dependent script of moment,
Robotization plays a major part in adding the effectiveness of an

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 association. Also, robotization is a vital factor in business process
optimizations.
 A business process software, that provides timely updates
regarding the movement of goods, can be integrated to track
movement, produce translucency, empower safety network and
give good client experience, and thereby ameliorate effectiveness
of the operation process.

2.Warehouse management.
A good storehouse operation is an integral part of effective
logistics operation. Storehouse operations structure and planning
vary with the type of goods they deal in.

3.Effective Transportation.
Effective operation of Transportation department can help reduce
the charges of the logistics establishment, and make it more cost-
effective. The transportation department can be revamped for
briskly delivery of the products, making it further time-effective.

4.Measure and Extemporize

For a complete Logistics network optimization, integrating
dimension, analysis, and feedbacks is essential. Whenever new
strategies are posted in the system, the affair needs to be

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 measured. This is important as it intimates the success or failure
of a strategy.

CONCLUSION
 From the below analysis, we can absorb the following
perceptivity and future directions in the area of operations
disquisition of logistics and supply chain operation.

 The logistics issue regarding the people’s livelihood becomes a hot

spot. The traditional disquisition in this regard is related to
perishable product, fashion product, and electronic product,
which have short life cycle. Presently, analogous motifs might
include municipality logistics, emergency logistics, and husbandry
force chain new directions on logistics and force chain operation
can be brought about by the development of economy and
technology. A typical illustration is the information technology
which leads to the disquisition one- business and related

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 distribution channel choice. Presently, the common operation of
RFID, pall fashion, and big data can be important disquisition
directions for future study.

 The environmental combined disquisition will continue to be big

issue. With the steady increase in global population and profitable
scale, resource extremity, ecological damage, environmental
pollution, and other issues have drawn universal concern. It has
been the agreement of the international community to attain
socioeconomic sustainable development through a greener
profitable pattern and life. Multitudinous countries produce a
new outlook in artificial and technical competition by adding
investment in the green logistics and force chain field, formulating
and administering various bills, plans, and strategies, and
strengthening the performance of green profitable development
strategy. In the future, the range of this content will not only be
just remanufacturing, hinder logistics, and unrestricted- circle
force chain. Low- carbon issues can be an important disquisition
direction.

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 ANNEXURE: QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Name of the Respondent?

_______________
2. What is your age?

_______________

3.  What is your gender ?

a.MALE
b. FEMALE

4. How often do you use logistics or transportation in day to

day life ?
a. Very often
b. Sometime

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5.  Do you often receive damaged products while transporting ?
a. Very often
b. Sometimes
c. No not at all

6.  How has been your overall experience with logistics and

transportation ?
a. Great
b. Good
c. Very bad
7. Do you think Logistics and transport sector has changed a lot in
recent years ?
a. Definitely
b. No
8.  Do you think the Logistics industry should go green ?
a. Yes
b. No
9. Does transportation & logistics fulfill your wants and need ?
a. Absolutely
b. Little bit
c. Not at all
10.Do you think every logistics and transport companies should
implement Green supply chain in their management ?
a. Yes
b. No
11.According to you what should a transport company should focus
more on ?
a. Safe delivery
b. Fast delivery
12. Do you believe that A.I is changing the Logistics sector ?
a. Yes, definitely
b. No, not really sure

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13. Did Green logistics had reduced the impact on our environment ?
a. Yes
b. No
14. Do you often face delays while receiving the product ?
a. Very often
b. Sometimes
15.Does Eco-friendly practices affect multiple areas of the business,
resulting in saving money on energy-intensive ?
a. Yes
b. No
16. Is Efficient transportation a SmartWay to handel the problem
related to sustainable freight carriers, track emissions and use
fuel-saving tech in moving goods ?
a. Yes, definitely
b. No , not really

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www.financialexpress.com
www.scribd.com
www.thehindu.com
www.hindawi.com
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www.navata.com
www.michiganstateuniversityonline.com
www.worldbank.org

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