Leveraging our industry partners to get your product where it needs to be
FFAF offers 3rd party logistics & 4th party logistics customising your supply chain needs.
Both 3PL and 4PL models offer companies the advantage of leveraging the expertise, resources, and capabilities of specialized logistics providers, allowing them to focus on their core competencies while benefiting from efficient and cost-effective logistics solutions. The choice between 3PL and 4PL depends on the specific needs, complexity, and strategic objectives of the company.
Choose FFAF and your product will arrive safely and on-time.
3PL
FFAF 3PL team offer logistics services to support all aspects of your shipping operations. We provide integrated company’s warehousing and transportation procedures.
Services:
- Inventory Management
- Order Management
- Labelling
- Kitting
- Packing
- Road Permit
- Excise and customs documentation and support
4PL
Major functions of our 4PL are Warehousing, Inventory, fulfillment, Transportation and logistics on behalf of your clients . Advantage of using our 4PL services-Efficiency, Visiblity, Reduce inventory burden, Elimination of wasteful process, Improving purchase leverage from expanded customer base.
FTWZ – free trade warehousing zone
FTWZ is a select category of Special Economic Zone (SEZ), which can be used as an international trading hub where FTWZ units on behalf of foreign entities can perform trading, warehousing, and storage, and other value-added activities for their goods. It is a deemed foreign territory allowed to operate under the international customs law.
An FTWZ Offers benefits equivalent to FTZs (free trade zones) operating globally.
Encourages foreign trade and warehousing activities for overseas and Indian entities
Provides an integrated platform for sourcing and distribution of management, including trading (in and out of India) thus reducing operational costs, especially without own set-up
Built to suit warehouse
Build-to-suit warehousing means that we contract with you to construct either a cold or dry warehouse to your exact specifications. We identify the project and partner with a design-build company to create the layout, rack configurations, level of automation, and more. Even if you’re unsure of exactly what you need, we can help you figure out the best warehouse solution. We build your automated or conventional warehouse from the ground up in accordance with your specific needs and industry standards. The benefit of Build-to-Suit service is that it serves customers who can’t (or don’t want to) make a substantial outlay of capital.
Our Service:
– We identify right partner based on your location and your customer proximity
– With trained, professional staff we can apply best practices and cost-efficient solutions.
– We can design an automated or conventional warehouse solution.
– Get all the benefits without having to move from your existing space with a plant-attached warehouse solution.
– Partner with FFAF
– Rules For A Built-To-Suit Warehouse in India
– Investor or a Built-to-suit warehouse developer must follow all the rules and regulations while constructing the warehouse.
– Finding a perfect location that goes well with the your needs.
– The construction should cover all the client’s requirements, which are essential for their business.
– Several shared warehousing services have a unique construction method.
– The constructor should provide a complete finance structure for the construction until the project has been completed or delivered to the client.
Services
– We identify right partner based on your location and your customer proximity
– With trained, professional staff we can apply best practices and cost-efficient solutions.
– We can design an automated or conventional warehouse solution.
– Get all the benefits without having to move from your existing space with a plant-attached warehouse solution.
– Partner with FFAF
– Investor or a Built-to-suit warehouse developer must follow all the rules and regulations while constructing the warehouse.
– Finding a perfect location that goes well with the your needs.
– The construction should cover all the client’s requirements, which are essential for their business.
– Several shared warehousing services have a unique construction method.
– The constructor should provide a complete finance structure for the construction until the project has been completed or delivered to the client.
In Plant Operations
Best practices for In-plant Logistics efficiency
FFAF In-plant operations and store management/ Warehousing is completely IT based for easy identification of the product groups, quick retrieval and disposal, facilitating manufacturing and finished goods dispatches, most efficiently.
The job involves:
– Receipt of raw materials, inventory control, storage and feed to the manufacturing process.
– Providing necessary inputs to the purchase department on stock level, quality of product and their packing.
– Continuous feed of the raw materials to the processing system.
Management and disposal of used packing materials, retrieval and re-use.
– Receipt of the finished goods from the point product production line and transfer to storage area.
– Identification of each product group, systematic storage and feed-back of the finished goods stocks to concerned department on daily basis.
– Retrieval of the finished goods, loading onto the dispatch vehicle as directed which also include container stuffing both for domestic as well as export consignment.
Documentation and record keeping
– In the process of providing in-plant logistics services, we have positioned our own handing equipment’s and trained man-power including workers for round the clock operation.
Driving Efficiency, Reliability, and Innovation in Logistics Management.
Network Design and Consulting
Process Optimization With FFAF
Our team of logistics consultants are normally contacted when a customer needs to make a change to their logistics arrangements in order to facilitate delivery of their latest business plans or sales forecasts.
Our Logistics Services
Our team of logistics consultants are experienced in helping to answer these questions and we highlight some examples of services below
Logistics Network Planning
Building transport, inventory and location strategies around your customer service goals. Developing a logistics infrastructure that meets your business goals.
Transport Planning Optimisation
Identifying the best transport route to market for goods that meets cost/service objectives. This takes into account route optimisation, transport service providers and transport management systems
Warehouse Technology Assessment
We support companies in identifying the correct materials handling equipment (MHE) technologies as part of the warehouse design process. This ranges from automation and robotics design to the selection of Automated solutions.
Warehouse Management System (WMS) selection
Our team work through the process of specifying requirements through to WMS vendor selection. We also provide support on implementation