GEODIS has established its sixth ‘strategic control tower’ in Bangalore on 21 December, which will enable end-to-end visibility, performance monitoring and enhancement, continuous improvement and network optimization, across India’s transport supply chain.

The logistics provider has opened a Center of Excellence (CoE), which will specialize in supply chain management and advisory and render services from order management to pick-up and delivery management, exception management, and freight bill audit.

GEODIS said Bangalore was chosen as location primarily because of the availability of talented supply chain specialists. The investment was also attracted by the fact that India has the world’s fifth largest economy with a high growth rate and the biggest population of graduates.

The Bangalore center of excellence, which will utilise the company’s web-based visibility platform as its backbone, will operate with 60 supply chain experts and complement similar facilities in Mexico, the US, France, Serbia and China.

GEODIS CoEs aim to help build a culture of excellence in managing customer supply chains by centralizing the technology, processes, and people needed to collect supply chain data.

“We strive to achieve this through managing their business from one place and improving the required overall visibility… By exerting total control of the supply chain, they improve resiliency as well as accelerate decision-making. These are crucial outcomes, particularly in today’s complex and global supply chain ecosystem,” said Eric Gerbi, Executive Vice President for GEODIS Supply Chain Optimization line of business.