What is procurement logistics?
It is the work of getting what you buy from your suppliers into production. Your raw and packing materials come to our warehouse near your plant. We check them, store them and send your plant what it needs when it needs it. Rejected and unused material comes back through us too.
How is procurement logistics different from inbound logistics?
The two overlap. Inbound logistics covers any goods coming into a business. Procurement logistics is the part that serves production. It moves raw materials, packing material and parts from your suppliers to your plant.
What does feeding the plant mean?
Your plant keeps only what it is about to use. We hold the rest nearby. We send the next load of every material to your plant's stores before each shift or each day. We work from your production plan or from the requests your plant sends. Your team takes it from the stores to the line.
Can our suppliers keep their stock with you until we use it?
Yes. Your supplier sends its stock to our warehouse and it stays theirs while it waits. We send it over when your plant calls for it. Your supplier then bills you for what left us. So you pay for material only when you use it. Both of you see the same record.
How does GST work for a supplier's stock in your warehouse?
Your supplier adds our warehouse to its GST registration as an additional place of business. A supplier based in another state needs a registration in our warehouse's state. The stock stays on the supplier's books while it sits with us. The supplier raises a tax invoice to you when your plant takes it. An e-way bill goes with the load where one is needed.
Do we need to add your warehouse to our GST registration?
Yes, for the stock with us that is yours. Add our warehouse as an additional place of business. Then you can take the input tax credit on materials delivered there. We give you the details you need.
What happens when our quality team rejects a delivery?
We keep it apart so it never mixes with good stock. We photograph it and record what was wrong. Then we send it back to your supplier with the right papers. You get the record to back your debit note.
Which raw materials can you store?
We store steel and other metals, solar panels and parts, plastics and polymers, chemicals and mineral powders, paper and board, food and beverage inputs, textile inputs, packing material, components and parts, and rubber. Each kind gets the storage it needs. We read each chemical's safety data sheet before it comes in.
How do you know what our plant needs next?
Share your production plan with us or send a request for each delivery. It can come by email or straight from SAP, Tally or another ERP. We plan the picking and the trucks around it.
Can you bring imported materials to our plant?
Yes. We clear them at the port and bring them to our warehouse or straight to your plant. Our
manufacturing logistics page covers imports, duty schemes and bonded plants.
Where are your warehouses?
How is procurement logistics priced?
You pay for the space or pallets you use, for handling by the pallet or unit, and for each delivery to your plant. There is nothing to build and no minimum commitment.