A unique race in the history of Logistics in India was organized last month by Tata’s Logistics Arm. The cross country race christened ‘Last Man Standing’ was the brainchild of Drive India Enterprise Solutions Limited (DIESL), Tata group’s logistics company.
Teams were assigned to complete a logistics journey fraught with obstacles, from individual routes within the shortest amount of time. In the quest for their commitment to delivery the teams travelled in trucks across states with connecting vehicles and warehouses.
The routes included five individual teams covering a total distance of 13000 kilometers within a span of 6 days. The teams were faced with induced situations creating bottlenecks in real life supply chains and identified problems and developed solutions around those obstacles.
Says Ajay Chopra, CEO, DIESL, “The teams competed not only with each other to match the desired delivery time earning the maximum scores along the way, but also dealt with infrastructural bottlenecks, learn the ways of the Indian motorways, the hard-ships of the community that is the backbone of this industry – truck drivers, and the apathy and corruption of the officials at toll booths and clearance terminals.