‘Warehousing' And Its Revolutionary Transition

By Antao AV, COO, Synergy Property Development Services

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Warehousing is rapidly gaining prominence across the Indian realty sector. In fact, as per recent reports, significant investments are expected to be made in the tune of US$8-9 billion for creation of warehousing facilities across India over the next two years. This could result in the creation of over 20,000 jobs at varied levels of specification and specialisation.

To gain cognisance of the paradigm shift witnessed in warehousing, it’s imperative to understand that warehousing, at the core of it, plays a multifaceted role and is integral to logistics systems. They are intermediate storage points, where raw material, work-in-progress, finished goods and goods-in-transit are held for varying durations of time for varied purposes.

In the larger context,