Pune BPO sets up warehouse for auto parts makers

With small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) need for efficient logistics growing, Aparna BPO Services Ltd, a logistics BPO services provider, has decided to enter the warehousing segment primarily meant for auto-ancillary and other SMEs in and around Pune.

The firm, which provides logistics support to companies like Tata Bearings, SKF Bearings and NRB Bearings, inaugurated its warehouse in Chimbli village near Pune city with a capacity for 9,000 tonnes of goods. The warehouse will primarily store auto components and spare parts required by SMEs in and around Pune city.

That a BPO service provider firm has set up a warehouse at a cost of Rs 3.50 crore, offering low-cost but efficient storage capacity to SMEs, is considered significant.

Aparna BPO Services CEO Rakesh Singhania said, “The warehouse will be an important centre of logistics management for auto component makers and other SMEs in the industrial belt of Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. The ever growing SME segment in this region needed a one-point logistics solutions provider. We have decided to encash this opportunity.”

The three primary clients of Aparna BPO Services in turn cater to other big players such as Tata Motors, Bajaj Auto, Force Motors, John Deere, ZF Stearings, Maharashtra Scooters, Piaggio Vehicles, Aurangabad Electricals, Amol Castings, Ghatge Patil Industries, UGC Logistics, Kirloskar Brothers, Mandakini Engineering, Spicer Industries, Mahindra & Mahindra, Carraro India, Cummins India and Brakes India.

“We expect our SME clients to draw a huge advantage out of the new warehouse. Since our own BPO will run the support for a warehouse managed by our own company, the SME clients will achieve better efficiency levels,” says Singhania.

Aparna BPO Services plans to expand its warehousing division over the next five years. The company will look at expanding the capacity of its new warehouse and, if required, it might set up a similar facility at some other locations.