ImpelPro is a Mumbai-based supply chain management consulting firm formed a year ago by four partners with over 110 years of combined experience in industries like 3PL, food, retail, and pharmaceuticals. The firm offers end-to-end integrated supply chain solutions including warehouse audits, design and implementation assistance, and change management support to help clients modernize their operations and meet global standards. ImpelPro has already worked with several large companies and helped with projects such as supply chain restructuring, startup support, and optimization. Going forward, the firm aims to expand its service offerings and expertise to further assist clients in competing internationally.

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Making a difference
ImpelPro- The core team (in the front row) - Shriram Hariharan; standing(L to R)- Sudhir Dabke, Sanjay Ghone and Sunil Nair
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ith rising operational scale & rule seems to be if you find right specialists,
complexities in the Indian logistics you stand the chance to be benefitted with
space in recent past, it has double bonanza.
increasingly become clear to one Mumbai-based ImpelPro today certainly
and all that supply chain management is no stands as the testimony to the fact that
longer an activity which can be undertaken specialists can bring a world of difference
on a cursory basis. As the saying goes, supply to your supply chain performance. Formed
chain today can simply make or break the barely a year ago, the company comprises of
prospects of a business. Hence, the loud and a strong knowledge pool in supply chain and
clear message which nobody can afford to logistics as reflected by its four core partners
ignore is - supply chain management should namely Shriram Hariharan, Sanjay Ghone,
be guided and executed by specialists to Sudhir Dabke and Sunil Nair who cumulatively
ensure that not only work flow is smooth but bring on the table supply chain experience of
also there are cost related benefits for all over 11 decades in such diverse industries as
stakeholders in the value chain. Clearly, the 3PL, Quick Service Restaurants, Pharma, Retail,
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FMCG, Food processing, Food Service, Agri. Unique Offering
etc.
Says Sanjay Ghone,‰After having worked in the Warehouse Health Check-up Program (WHCP),
industry for more than 2 decades, we realised a fully developed service from ImpelPro offers
that there are apparent opportunities to improve operations health check-up under eight
important heads covering facility, people, EHS,
supply chain in the country. Each one of us having
operations, product safety, security, compliance
involved in complex world class operations, felt
and performance measures.
confident and passionate about exploring those. WHCP is not a software but an audit tool to ensure
With varied experience and expertise, four of us continuous vigilance on all important aspects
very well complimented the purpose. Moreover, of operations and ensuring brand protection.
all of us were known to each other for more than WHCP with active dash board and suggested
10 years, which I feel is very essential for any corrective actions enables management to
successful partnership.‰ Sunil Nair adds, „The take right decisions and move on the ladder
strength of ImpelPro is the hands on experience of continuous improvement. The tool helps in
of each of the directors. Whether it be a start- comparing multiple facilities (DCs/CFAs) for
up of new business or building a successful brand ranking and rewarding.
in the country, we have played leading role. I
Prestigious Projects
In June 2011, ImpelPro assisted Keystone standards.
Foods, a multinational food distribution ImpelPro helped North West Carrying
company, with India strategy. Company (NWCC) in successful startup of
ImpelPro is associated with ColdEX in re- their first retail client Metro Cash & Carry.
engineering their secondary transport The support included SOP development,
operations in the country, wherein the training, DC operations manual, devising
focus is on better controls, efficiency and KPI system, reporting & monitoring system,
improved services. The project is in progress implementation, handholding and
and IT integration is being implemented streamlining.
now. ImpelPro offered project management
ImpelPro assisted Jyoti International planning & monitoring support to
(National distribution partner for Subway Vista Processed Foods Pvt. Ltd. for
and Yum (Small Ware), in restructuring their their new production centres in South
operations. & North India. South project is fully
ImpelPro is also involved in helping Brattle operational while the North one is under
Foods in many of their start-up operations. implementation.
ImpelPro is assisting one of the divisions Recently ImpelPro bagged a very
of Johnson & Johnson, in designing, prestigious project of optimization and
training and implementing QMS (Quality re-engineering for a large Food Service
Management System) incorporating ISO Business in United Kingdom (UK). Wherein,
and J&J global standards. ImpelPro will be studying the existing
Recently ImpelPro is partnered with a large operations of 10 Distribution Centres and
3PL organization for designing purpose will assist the organization in improving
built Distribution Centres for them across efficiency/productivity, cost optimization
India. The DCs will be equipped with the and service improvements.
best in class equipments, layout to support ImpelPro supported many new comers into
high velocity product movement, multi Food and Pharma 3PL space with specific
temperature zones, cross docking, separate research work leading to market estimation,
section for Pharma and fully compliant to business structuring, investment and returns,
applicable Indian law, and various global etc.
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SANJAY GHONE SUNIL NAIR SUDHIR DABKE SHRIRAM HARIHARAN
After having worked After careful study of Our objective is to
in the industry for Our offering doesnÊt supply chain for the support our clientsÊ
more than 2 decades, just include consulting, target industries, we operations to match
we realised that but we proudly assist realized that one of global standards so
there are apparent implementation and our solutions should that they are well
opportunities to handholding strongly & convincingly prepared to compete
improve supply chain transform traditional and win more
in the country. cold chain approach accounts.
to a modern one
believe that while acquiring knowledge is must, has endeared it to a host of reputed clients in
having them applied in your day today business such a short span lies in the fact that it does
is all the more important. And we are good not only provide the advisory support but also
at it. Hence, our offering doesnÊt just include design and implement the solutions. On an
consulting, but we proudly assist implementation overall basis, ImpelPro offerings can be divided
and handholding, and we live our punch line into four distinctive sections, each underlying
Âenabling sustainable supply chainÊ. the availability of cutting edge solutions at
The USP of the core team is high-end expertise each stage of operational chain. The services
in diverse functionalities of logistics business can be classified as:
be it strategy formulation, actual operations, Nirman Creation, Construction, Building
engineering, project management, IT, people Prakriya Process, Procedure, System, Form
& training, business commercials, business Kshamata Capability, Power, Fitness
excellence, etc. But the key USP of the company Pragati Progress, Development, Growth
clearly lies in providing end-to-end integrated ImpelPro has just entered into its second
supply chain solutions including Cold Chain. year of operations but it already has many
„After careful study of supply chain for the target brownie points on its report card (Refer to
industries, we realized that one of our solutions box: Prestigious Projects). And going ahead,
should strongly & convincingly transform traditional company has drawn a well-conceived plan to
cold chain approach to a modern one, by enhance its Âmaking a differenceÊ capability
eliminating conceived ideas and bring in possible in the Indian supply chain space. „Having
latest technologies in master planning, designing, successfully come so far, we are looking at
equipment selection & management of project further upgrading quality and span of our
execution. This approach will surely benefit offerings. Our objective is to support our
clients in cost optimization, building in efficiencies clientsÊ operations to match global standards
and on-time project delivery all essentials for so that they are well prepared to compete
business sustainability in todayÊs cost sensitive and win more accounts. We have identified
& demanding market. Nirman for cold chain is the areas of infrastructure, people training
aimed at providing exactly these values and we and technology driven operations as our focus
have plans to further sharpen these offerings in areas for the future. We are increasing our skill
coming years,‰ Sudhir Dabke explains. band width by adding more specialists to our
The impressive knowledge base which lies at team in the area of engineering, quality and
the core of ImpelPro team derives from the training,‰ Shriram Hariharan underlines the near
fact that the main partners have learnt the to medium run objectives of the company in
basic rules of the game by spending years these words.
with the supply chain of such renowned firms Clearly, ImpelProÊs story is poised to get more
as Johnson & Johnson, McDonaldÊs, Subway, interesting.
Bharti Wal-Mart, PepsiCo (Snacks & Beverages), (Website: www.impelpro.in
etc. The basic strength of the company which Send your querries at: info@impelpro.in)
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