Subject Matter Expert — Transportation & Network Movement Optimisation

Engagement: Contract / consultant Base: India (metro base of your choice), with regular travel to Andhra Pradesh — Vijayawada/Amaravati and district locations

About the role

Andhra Pradesh State Civil Supplies Corporation (APSCSCL) moves rice and other essential commodities from rice mills through buffer godowns and mandal-level stock points to roughly 29,800 fair price shops. Movement runs by road within and across districts, and by rail wagon for surplus-to-deficit balancing between districts. All of it is planned manually today, with no optimisation logic anywhere in the chain.

We are building a decision intelligence platform to change that. You will own the movement side of the problem: what moves, by what mode, on what route, at what cost.

What you will own

Road versus wagon mode selection. Inter-district balancing runs on rail;
local distribution runson road. The economics of that choice — rake size, indent lead time, siding constraints, freight versus road rates,



and the inventory consequence of longer rail lead times — are not modelled at all today. You will build that model from a standing start.

Movement planning from buffer godown to stock point. Source selection, load sizing, dispatch timing and consolidation, against a monthly distribution deadline and constrained vehicle availability.

Mill-to-godown mapping. Which buffer godown each mill delivers its custom-milled rice to is done by hand today. It sits at the pivot of the chain and drives movement cost directly. This is among the highest-leverage decisions in the network.

Transport cost structure and contract economics. Movement is paid through transport reimbursement on tendered rate cards. If a contract pays per defined trip on a defined lane, no algorithm can consolidate trips without the commercial model changing. You will establish what is genuinely capturable inside current contracts and what requires renegotiation —

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