Success Stories

Corestrat completes hand-over of ACI Group’s parcel logistics technology division

ACI Group, our parcel logisitcs and media services client based in Long Beach, California, has begun operating its new Bangalore, India-based technology unit, ACI Logistix Labs.

This new IT division is the successful culmination of a 2 year journey in guiding ACI’s digital transformation strategy as the business focuses on growing its new international parcel logistics unit.

Corestrat applied the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) model to ACI’s ambition of creating a centre of technology excellence in India. ACI’s objective has been to modernise its technology infrastructure and IT capabilities to accompany its aim of becoming a leader in the small parcel distribution business in America.

Kartik Ramachandran, the founder and CEO of Corestrat, commented: “We started with the introduction of data (P&L and KPI) visualisation and analytics to intelligently automate administrative team functions. Corestrat engaged the support of ACI’s leadership team to help accelerate the digital transformation process by leveraging our technology team in India. We hired a dedicated team for ACI, built out the infrastructure and began interfacing with ACI’s US operations. ACI’s benefits from an affordable team of highly-skilled developers and machine learning engineers to transform the way the company used data to drive its decision-making. This provides ACI with the technology strength and scale to grow the parcel logistics business into the leading independent middle and final mile distribution network in the United States.“

As of 1 June, Corestrat handed over ACI Logistix Labs and its new office of 200 square meters and 20 team members, effectively transferring ACI’s new wholly owned subsidiary into the CTO office.

Keith Somers, CEO of ACI Group summarised the benefits of this partnership
with Corestrat:

“Thanks to Corestrat, we have achieved over 35% savings in our technology and finance teams through reduced staffing and lower salary costs. Additionally we have witnessed a marked improvement in available cash flow through real-time financial report and visualisation, faster invoicing and payment cycles, as well was reduced manual reporting development of the finance team.”

We at Corestrat strongly believe that businesses want control over their digital future and that outsourcing and advisory should only be a temporary solution. Companies
of any size and sector should set its overarching strategic objective to eventually
in-source critical digital competencies. The Build-Operate-Transfer model plays a significant role in helping companies scale, develop new capabilities, and stay competitive all while saving on costs and resources.

Please reach out should you be interested in evaluating how Corestrat can support your digital transformation and data analytics journey. From streamlining and scaling your business’ core finance processes to advanced process automation and predictive analytics, we provide best-in-class strategic analytics solutions with over 60 years of management expertise in leading financial institutions across 5 continents.