HCL, MJ Logistics deal to equip new centre in India

Peter Dinham
Sunday, 29 March 2009 10:54

IT Industry - Deals

Global IT services provider HCL Technologies, has entered into a three year contract with Indian third-party logistics (3PL) solutions provider, M.J. Logistic Services, which MJ says will free it up to focus on core business, manage the growing complexitities of its logistics operation and enhance inventory visibility.

The two companies have announced the deal, with MJ in the first phase of setting up, what HCL describe as ‘a first-of-its-kind, world-class’ logistics centre at Palwal (Delhi- Agra highway).
 
HCL says it will provide end-to-end integrated services including implementation, support, hosting, monitoring and VSAT connectivity to extend the capabilities of the upcoming facility. HCL, as a premier reseller of Sterling Commerce, will also implement Sterling warehouse management system (WMS) and Sterling director solutions at MJ.

Sterling WMS, part of Sterling selling and fulfilment suite, will provide MJ with robust planning, execution and measurement tools to efficiently use inventory across the extended enterprise.  MJ will use Gentran electronic data interchange (EDI) and data translation solutions for their business-to-business (B2B) communication needs.

Anil Arora, managing director, M J Logistic Services said, “justifying warehouse management investments and the challenges of its implementation have been long-standing bottlenecks for seamless integration of 3PL offerings with customers IT systems.
 
“MJ has addressed these issues by partnering with HCL and investing upfront in a world-class product from Sterling WMS.  This will ensure superior logistics services through real-time inventory visibility using radio frequency (RF) technology and customer-specific management information system (MIS) and alerts. This technology implementation will further help organizations achieve operational efficiency and raise the industry standards to international level.”

Arora said that through the relationship, HCL’s retail practice would orchestrate infrastructure and business process outsourcing services, thereby adding value to MJ's business at the point of sale and throughout the entire value chain.
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