Rai: Aditya Birla's Logistics Models Failed to Transfer Due to Local Realities
Pankaj Rai · S2 Ep5: Data to Decisions with AI at Conglomerate Scale ft. Pankaj Rai · Dec 23, 2025 · at 20:14
Pankaj Rai, Group Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Aditya Birla Group, admits where cross-business predictive modeling unexpectedly hit operational friction across conglomerate subsidiaries.
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“On the other side, where things haven't moved as well, which we had expected to, is the area of logistics. We felt, oh, we are a great manufacturing company. We have so many trucks running across businesses across the board. And if we do some logistics optimization in one business, It'll work elsewhere. I think what we failed to acknowledge was that sometimes the trucks are of different sizes, different capacity, different products go in different size of the trucks. Then there are, you know, local nuances and, you know, sometimes, you know, mafias and all in different locations. So there's a lot of other factors, which are not allowing us while that technically the model is the same, but the other factors we fail to recognize”
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