Outbound logistics management practices, specific to India have drawn limited attention in the past. Recently though, this sector has garnered renewed attention of researchers and practitioners. Through an exploratory study, we attempt to understand and illustrate the outbound logistics management practices of automotive industry in India. Outbound logistics is divided into a set of interlinked functions based on a logistics framework and described accordingly. Based on findings from the exploratory study and extant literature in this field, a framework for the development of integrated logistics management practices in the aut omotive industry in India is derived and several research directions are proposed.

Saurabh Chandra

Operation Management and Quantitative Techniques

Debabrata Ghosh

Samir K Srivastava

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IIM Indore

Decision

This paper analyses the modal shift from a primary road-based to coastal shipping-based freight distribution. A mathematical model is developed to optimize the coastal shipping route planning under a multimodal distribution scenario. The model is applied to a case study of the outbound automotive logistics in India. Exploratory insights on the enablers and challenges to adopting coastal shipping-based distribution are presented along with the route configuration and the level of modal shift achievable based on the model results. The results of the study suggest that the current business and regulatory environment is appropriate to achieve almost one-third shift to intermodal coastal shipping, although investments in infrastructure and substantial cost reductions in ship and port operations need to be implemented to ensure further modal shift. This article is a revised and expanded version of a paper entitled Enhancing the role of coastal shipping in finished vehicle distribution—a viability study presented at The International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) Conference, Kyoto, Japan; 27–30 June 2017.

Maritime Policy & Management

Analysing the modal shift from road-based to coastal shipping-based distribution – a case study of outbound automotive logistics in India

From last few decades, logistics management (LM) constitutes a global concern among organization’s supply chain (SC) to improve their business effectiveness. The purpose of this paper is to uncover and analyze the critical factors (CFs) related to the implementation of effective LM concept and benchmark the SC performance.

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Benchmarking: An International Journal

Benchmarking the logistics management implementation using Delphi and fuzzy DEMATEL

PurposeThe ocean transportation of automobiles is carried out by specialized Roll‐on/Roll‐off ships, which are designed to carry a large number of automobiles at a time. Many of these shipping companies have vertically integrated or collaborated with other logistics services providers to offer integrated maritime logistics solution to car manufacturers. The purpose of this study is to develop an optimization model to address the tactical level maritime logistics planning for such a company. Design/methodology/approachThe problem is formulated as a mixed integer linear program and we propose an iterative combined Ant colony and linear programming‐based solution technique for the same. FindingsThis paper can integrate the maritime transportation planning of internally managed cargoes with the inventory management at the loading and discharging ports to minimize supply‐chain cost and also maximize additional revenue through optional cargoes using same fleet of ships. Research limitations/implicationsThe mathematical model does not consider the variability in production and consumption of products across various locations, travel times between different nodes, etc. Practical implicationsThe suggested mathematical model to the supply‐chain planning problem and solution technique can be considered in the development of decision support system for operations planning. Originality/valueThis paper extends the maritime inventory routing model by considering simultaneous planning of optional cargoes with internally managed cargoes.

Journal of Advances in Management Research

Multi‐product maritime inventory routing with optional cargoes

Journal of Marketing and Consumer Research

Recognizing the Islamic Banking Consumer Behaviour from the Perspective of Product Knowledge, Brand Awareness and Attitude

Emerald Expert Briefings

India may be heading for hasty GST implementation

Annals of Operations Research

Finished-vehicle transporter routing problem solved by loading pattern discovery

Production Planning & Control

Co-creating value in the automotive supply chain: an RFID application for processing finished vehicles

Outbound logistics management practices in the automotive industry: an emerging economy perspective

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