Today’s airports face huge challenges of increasing aircraft traffic, escalating operating costs and space utilization problems resulting from rising freight volumes and insufficient capacity. Added to this are the increasing pressures in the ground handling arena that have come about due to liberalization, heightened customers’ expectations, perennial security threats, stringent environmental demands, and more.
At Kale, we understand these issues well and constantly strive to provide solutions that can address these problems, while at the same time improving the efficiency of the operation and increasing the bottom line results. Our expertise is derived from working alongside leading airports around the world and providing solutions to their modernization requirements.
Kale’s technology solutions for modernization and streamlining could be the answer to the many woes faced by the airports.
Kale’s solutions for airports:
IT Infrastructure / Network Consulting
Cargo Management Systems
Truck Yard / Dock Management Systems
e-Commerce Solutions
Integrated Web Portals
Consultancy on modernization strategies
At Kale we understand that next generation technology and wider collaboration are strategic imperatives for an airport’s survival and growth. Powerful Information Technology solutions can enable quick and efficient decision-making, directly affecting savings in costs and time management. Harnessing technology innovations will shape the future of airports.
Brief Case Study:
Custodian Management Solution for a leading international airport in India.
Business Need:
A multinational consortium was responsible for custodian operations as well as ground handling activities at a major international airport in India. There was a need for an integrated suite of applications to cater to the end-to-end needs of the airport cargo handling business.
Kale provided this in very short time, surpassing the customer’s expectations
The Key Features of the Cargo Custodian Management System are as follows
General
Availability of the status of goods for imports and exports on the website on a real-time basis.
Website interfaces with cargo system mainframe to pick up and load information.
Periodical and on demand generation of MIS reports.
Provisions for mirroring, backup and disaster site.
Exports
Carting order request on website by agent to airline.
Sanction or rejection of the Carting order on website by the airline.
Acceptance of shipping bills by EDI from Customs.
Payment of the receipt by the agent on website.
Sending of EDI Arrival message to Customs.
Sending of arrived goods information to airport cargo system.
Acceptance of LEO by EDI from Customs.
Sending of Goods Accepted message to airline mainframe systems (Interface for Ground Handling Operations).
Imports
Acceptance of IGM by EDI from Customs.
Acceptance of MAWB/HAWB information from airline mainframe systems (Interface for Ground Handling Operations).
Recording of arrival of goods by Custodian staff.
Sending of EDI segregation message to Customs.
Acceptance of Bill of Entry by EDI from Customs.
Storage of goods in location by Custodian staff.
Sending of EDI location message to Customs.
Acceptance of request for examination by EDI from Customs.
Forwarding goods for examination.
Sending of EDI forwarded for examination message to Customs.
Acceptance of out of charge (OC) by EDI from Customs.
Delivery of goods by Custodian staff.
Sending of EDI delivery message to Customs and interface with Cargo Ground Handling system.
Functionality for auctioning undelivered goods.
Business Benefits
Enhances customer satisfaction by providing quick and effective information on consignment status.
Prevents service failures through rigorous management of SLAs with airlines leading to reduction in costs (including cost of goodwill).
Improves cash flow from AWB by enabling users to raise correct invoices on administration, handling and storage charges.
Enables the management to take proactive and informed decisions through the use of customized management reports.
Enhances user productivity and minimizes training costs owing to the use of a simple and intuitive graphical user interface (GUI).
Supports multi-airline / multi-shed operations without dedicated airline and / or messaging terminal on site.
