In order to achieve efficiencies in total cost the automobile lubricants maker Gulf Oil has announced that it is getting into partnership with Mahindra Logistics Ltd (MIL) to strengthen it supply chain. In today’s world of business logistics is a key service differentiator for efficient and on-time delivery, in a cost-effective manner to end users. An efficient logistics management ensures a robust yet compact distribution system, which will give operational advantage to companies to meet their customer demand in totality. It also helps in saving cost on warehousing , inventory management, free up the working capital and save on freight cost. A Central Distribution Centre (CDC) has been set up in Chennai with Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) to serve the entire product portfolio of Gulf Oil. MLL is the first 3PL company to work with Gulf Oil and will handle this fully compliant warehouse, the first CDC of its kind for them. Gulf Oil has plans to open similar large format warehouses...