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IndiGo Airlines Rolls Out SmartKargo Cloud Solution for Cargo Business Operations

[ March 14, 2019   //   ]

QuantumID Technologies announced that IndiGo Airlines has successfully launched the SmartKargo Cloud solution for the digital transformation of its Cargo business operations. The comprehensive SmartKargo solution was deployed across all functional areas of IndiGo’s Cargo Business across all global locations and all functional areas of Commercial, Operations and Accounting,”
As India’s largest airline, Indigo operates a fleet size of 184 aircraft including 46 new generation A320 NEOs, 127 A320 CEOs and 11 ATRs, across 57 destinations – 48 domestic and 9 international.
The new SmartKargo end-to-end platform has allowed IndiGo to digitally transform its Cargo business and successfully meet the future with robust mobile applications and advanced technologies such as real-time information, business intelligence and machine-learning capabilities–while seamlessly interfacing with the Airline’s other systems via APIs for fast deployment and integration.
Integrated Cargo Revenue accounting allows for real-time profitability analysis and real-time decision making. These tools are easy-to-use and are accessible from any device with an Internet or mobile network carrier connection.
Enhanced capabilities include 100% paperless e-AWBs; ease of booking; modern and flexible technology; single screen data entries; user-configurable Business Intelligence (BI) and reporting; powerful pricing and rate making; real-time capacity management–in addition to extensive use of Mobile technology from day one. This means that IndiGo Cargo will be able to deliver fast, highly reliable and highly predictable shipments to support the growth of their Cargo business as well as highly-improved client experience.
William Boulter, Chief Commercial Officer of IndiGo Airlines said: “We are thrilled to announce the successful cut-over and implementation of the SmartKargo Cargo Management solution in a very short period of time–within 6- months from the start date of the project. Our Business and IT teams, together with the SmartKargo team, were able to roll out this advanced Cargo Solution in a smooth and non-disruptive way for our business and operations–which was an important requirement for both IndiGo and our clients. The new solution will digitally enable our business and allow us to accelerate our growth while improving our Client Experience”.
Sourav Sinha, CIO of IndiGo added: “IndiGo cargo has ambitious plans to grow its revenues and remain competitive in this fast-growing business area. We needed to have a state-of-the-art technology platform that was fast to deploy and easy to use. SmartKargo has become a standard operating system for leading airlines and includes all the local as well as international features needed for our business. SmartKargo is the only air cargo platform that is 100% cloud-based and it delivers all shipper-to-receiver functionality on the scalable and robust Microsoft Azure infrastructure platform”.
Milind Tavshikar, CEO of QuantumID Technologies Inc. said: IndiGo’s implementation of our SmartKargo Cloud solution represents one of the fastest deployments in the industry for an airline of IndiGo’s size and volume of transactions. It is also one of the most comprehensive, as we deployed, at the same time, across all global locations and all functional areas of Commercial, Operations and Accounting.
Tavshikar added, “Indigo will also become a key participant in SmartKargo’s “Connected Airlines” ecosystem that is increasingly gaining strength as we add new carriers to our cloud platform. We are very proud to be a part of such spectacular success and I am thankful for IndiGo’s leadership, continued support and confidence in our organization. This collaboration further enabled the successful deployment and sets an industry example of how new technology deployments can happen,” he said.
SmartKargo is a 100% cloud-based Cargo Management platform that offers a robust set of fully integrated tools and solutions to support all areas of the Air Cargo business from Planning, Pricing and Sales, to Operations including acceptance, warehouse management, loading/un-loading and ramp operations. The SaaS application enables Cargo service providers such as IndiGo to quickly implement advanced technology, including first-mile pick-up and last-mile delivery (for door-to-door operations), enabling e-commerce.
Integrations with complex, existing airline systems can be surprisingly quick and seamless, and all of the functionality needed to provide industry-leading customer service is there, out-of-the-box, with minimal need for customization and new development.

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