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Published: Mar 15, 2022
Updated: Mar 15, 2022

Aiming for global logistics footprint

Imperial Logistics

The Pune-headquartered Imperial group, engaged in providing extensive and comfortable warehousing which is innovative as well as customized, has made rapid strides in supply chain management and has, within its first decade of existence, achieved a substantial presence in the country. With its growing pan-India presence, the group is now gearing up to expand its operations overseas with the aim of becoming a leading global logistics entity.

Mr Kale, a naval engineer-turned-entrepreneur, was a brilliant student at New Castle University, UK, from where he completed his master’s in supply management. He started working in London, but the entrepreneurial bug started biting him and after a year or so, he made up his mind to do something of his own and left the job to return to India.

After returning to India, he started a warehousing and supply chain management company. As he hails from a business family, initial capital was not a problem. He promoted Imperial Logistics, a third-party logistics service-providing company and started operating in Pune and Mumbai. He went on increasing the number of cities subsequently to achieve a pan-India presence.

DIGITAL MARKETPLACE

Strongly believing in innovation, Mr Kale took his business beyond geographical boundaries to create an assetfree business that can serve the masses. He invested in the creation of a unique marketplace styled Airatix, which is a digital marketplace where one can list and rent privately owned unused storage places, spaces and vacant car parks to others who need such spaces.

Reminiscing the beginning of Imperial in 2012, Mr Kale says, “To began with, the focus was on key industry verticals — automotive, industrial, pharmaceuticals and food. Within a comparatively short period of a decade, the company has succeeded in scaling up its operations across India. By now, Imperial Logistics has emerged as an established company, providing services like warehouse management, fine feeding and e-commerce portal manag

Pointing out that “these days everyone prefers to sell their products virtually rather than having physical stores,” Mr Kale adds, “However, managing these virtual sales is always an issue with a lot of activities to be completed before the goods are finally dispatched. We at Imperial specialise in providing e-commerce order fulfillment solutions to our clients, where the sellers just focus on getting the orders and we take care of the rest of the supply chain. People have been praising our specialization in providing e-commerce order fulfillment solutions to our clients.”

Elaborating, Mr Kale says, “We take care of everything – right from receiving and scheduling orders to managing dispatches.”

WIDE-RANGING SERVICES

According to him, the scope of Imperial’s work specifically includes:

• Complete inventory management of the customer’s goods which are being listed and sold through the portals.
• Receiving and scheduling the orders generated from multiple platforms after checking the availability of the stock.
• Bar-coding and labelling as required.
• Generating reports as required by the customers.

Maintaining that “our clients are highly satisfied with the benefits they get from Imperial,” Mr Kale adds, “They get a ready infrastructure to manage their e-commerce business fluctuations, besides effective order processing. Imperial can scale up their e-commerce business by focusing on their core expertise like sales, accounting, vendor development. etc. As our clients gain actionable inlights and best-inclass technology, they reduce e-commerce shipping costs and concentrate on developing their profitable business.”