Why supply chain forecasts go wrong?
Matching demand and supply is vital, but always tricky. Humans and machines cannot model all variables quantitatively
Business Standard / February 2016 / [Pdf , 286 KB]
Supply Chain & Public Affairs Expert, Strategist, Writer
Matching demand and supply is vital, but always tricky. Humans and machines cannot model all variables quantitatively
Business Standard / February 2016 / [Pdf , 286 KB]
Forcing retail customers into an only app-based platform is premature and will boomerang, unless the loyal customer base reaches past a tipping point
Business Standard / January 2016 / [Pdf , 282 KB]
Transportation is much more than passengers commuting or freight moving from one place to another
Business Standard / December 2015 / [Pdf , 288 KB]
Taking a walk through the orange supply chain in the home of the famous Nagpur orange
Business Standard / December 2015 / [Pdf , 288 KB]
Taking a walk through orange supply chain in the home of the famous Nagpur orange
Business Standard / December 2015 / [Pdf , 289 KB]
Bashing Nehru may be fashionable but flawed. He broke free from the exploitative colonial economic structure and laid strong economic foundations; and above all, India grew fast
Business Standard / November 2015 / [Pdf , 289 KB]
India needs to develop and use supply chain capabilities as a tool in geopolitics
Business Standard / October 2015 / [Pdf , 283 KB]
The underlying fight is between supply chains. But as long as consumer benefits, who wins does not matter.
Business Standard / October 2015 / [Pdf , 265 KB]
Supply chains are slowly aligning to Gandhian principles as they reshape to the realities of political economy.
Business Standard / September 2015 / [Pdf , 265 KB]
What India needs to learn from the blasts in Tianjin port?
Business Standard / September 2015
Traditional retailers are pressed between a brick and a click.
Business Standard / August 2015
How absence of logistics & supply chain management causes losses to the public exchequer every year
Business Standard / August 2015
Black logistics has high societal and economic costs and cannot sustain supply chains for too long.
Business Standard / August 2015
A glut in crude oil & dairy supply chain affects entire globe.
Business Standard / July 2015
The challenge before India is to boost milk production and find an outlet for surplus milk in sub-regions while being linked with the global dairy supply chains.
Business Standard / July 2015
Brands play a lead role in ensuring food safety in supply chains
Business Standard / June 2015
Towards a National Logistics Grid
Business Standard / May 2015 / [Jpg , 411 KB]
The success of 'Make in India' strategy is contingent on the performance of Indian trade logistics network
Business Standard / May 2015
Government needs to undertake comprehensive structural reforms in the agricultural sector.
The Takshashila Think tank, Blog / January 2010
Any discussion on infrastructure policy is based on the premise that if only adequate financing of projects can be ensured, the nation will be propelled on a certain path to growth.
Pragati, The Takshashila Think tank Magazine / March 2010
Perhaps, the government has not given enough consideration to the potential of retail industry to aid substantially in achieving the difficult task of inclusive growth.
The Takshashila Think tank, Blog / March 2010
These issues are not confined to adequate infrastructure and technology only, as told by the minister but are related more to political economy and governance surrounding infrastructure development.
The Takshashila Think tank, Blog / April 2010
The formation of a new National Transport Development Policy Committee was a long overdue step. But unfortunately it is limited in its strategic vision and leaves security and geo-security concerns outside its ambit. The Government must get rid of the per
The Pioneer, National Daily / April 2010 / [Pdf , 82 KB]
While our overall financial architecture might lack suitable financing mechanisms, it is the consequences of prevailing political economy of infrastructure development, rather than a lack of capital, that hinder private sector from participating effective
Pragati, The Takshashila Think tank magazine / July 2010
The overarching theme of the July 2009 budget has been the UPA government’s emphasis on the social sector schemes—rural employment guarantee, Bharat Nirman, rural housing, Indira Awas Yojana, urban renewal—for ensuring “equitable growth” and “inclusive gr
Pragati, The Takshshila think tank Magazine / September 2009
High logistics costs are a drain on India's competitiveness.(Page 13)
Pragati, The Takshashila Think tank Magazine / March 2009
A veritable job-machine is being prevented from starting (Page 18)
Pragati, The Takshashila Think tank magazine / September 2008
A discussion on strategic affairs with Jaswant Singh, former Indian Defence Minister & Finance Minister along with Nitin Pai, Co Founder & Director Takshashila Institute
Pragati, The Takshashila Think tank Magazine / November 2008
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