Power List 2020 – Ambuja Cement

At Ambuja Cement, we treat logistics as a profit centre. Though we remain committed to optimise cost on a continuous basis, every decision is vetted to improve contribution to the organisation. To optimise cost, Ambuja Cement has extensively relied on improving logistics efficiencies and use of technology. It’s amongst the leading companies in India to use ‘Transport Analytics Centre’ to optimise leads and route rationalisation. It believes in reducing freights by improving operational efficiencies and hence ensuring better customer services, optimal logistic cost and improved vendor profitability.

Distribution safety is another area where it works on ‘Zero Harm’ Policy. Extensive training to drivers, use of IVMS (in-vehicle monitoring system) inputs for behavioural training is helping us in improving road safety.

Ambuja Cement is the first cement company in the country to challenge existing business practices by use of coastal routes for cement transportation. The journey continues and the company believes in the culture of innovation to find new ways to improve customer services and optimise cost. Ambuja Cement is the industry leader in responsible use of resources, both natural and man-made. The company has been certified over five times water positive, a feat achieved through conservation efforts and increasing water efficiency in its plants. It is also plastic neutral, by burning as much as over 50,000 tonnes of plastic waste in its kilns, equivalent to 1.5 times of total plastic used. The company also generated 7.4% of its power needs from renewable resources.