Will Provide Platform-based BPO Services to the Global Shipping &
Logistics Industry
MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May. 7, 2012--
WNS (Holdings) Limited (WNS) (NYSE: WNS), a leading provider of global
Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services, today announced it has
entered into a strategic partnership with GT Nexus, a market leading
cloud-based supplychain service provider, to deliver platform-based BPO
services and solutions to the Shipping and Logistics industry. According
to the agreement, WNS and GT Nexus will jointly work towards providing
shippers, forwarders, 3PLs and carriers with improved quality of service
for their end-customers and reduced costs in areas such as
documentation, freight management, contracts, pricing and analytics.
“The shipping and logistics industry has been facing multiple pressures
created by unfavorable economic conditions,” said Keshav R. Murugesh,
Group CEO, WNS. “There is a strong need within the industry for managed
services to help shift inefficient and manual transactions onto a global
digital platform. We believe that the integration of GT Nexus’s proven
cloud-based technology platform with WNS’ deep domain knowledge and
operational process excellence will help companies effectively manage
this transition.”
“One of the big opportunities for BPO providers is to build entire
practices and services around existing, mature cloud technology
platforms,” said Aaron Sasson, CEO of GT Nexus. “Through this
partnership, WNS is taking advantage of our cloud supply chain platform
and offering a much needed new service for the international logistics
industry. WNS has made it simple for companies in shipping and logistics
to move to a complete digital transaction business process.”
Jaison Augustine, Senior Vice President & Segment Head - Shipping &
Logistics at WNS added, “Our ‘BlackBox’ solution will offer 40-60%
percent reduction in costs incurred in the production of master and
house bills of ladings for NVOCCs and freight forwarders. It will also
help increase the digitization of shipping instructions which offers
benefits to both shippers and carriers alike. By introducing
cutting-edge tools like optical and intelligent character recognition,
scanning & imaging and workflow solutions our managed services approach
will reduce cycle times and enable error-free documentation at a
fraction of the current cost.”
WNS currently offers a broad spectrum of services to the global shipping
& logistics industry, including export and import documentation, freight
audits, driver logs, trip records, Finance & Accounting and analytics.
WNS’s clients in this vertical include ocean carriers, 3PL’s, express
companies, truckers and shippers.
About WNS
WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading global business process
outsourcing company. WNS offers business value to 200+ global clients by
combining operational excellence with deep domain expertise in key
industry verticals including Travel, Insurance, Banking and Financial
Services, Manufacturing, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping
and Logistics and Healthcare and Utilities. WNS delivers an entire
spectrum of business process outsourcing services such as finance and
accounting, customer care, technology solutions, research and analytics
and industry specific back office and front office processes. WNS has
over 23,000 professionals across 25 delivery centers worldwide including
Costa Rica, India, Philippines, Romania, Sri Lanka and United Kingdom.
For more information, visit www.wns.com.
About GT Nexus
GT Nexus offers a cloud-based platform that the world's biggest
companies use to drive efficiency and agility across the global supply
chain. Leaders in manufacturing, retail and logistics services all share
GT Nexus as their standard, multi-enterprise collaboration platform.
Users operate against a core set of information across multiple supply
chain functions to optimize the flow of goods and trade information,
from order point to final payment. Customers include Xerox,
Williams-Sonoma, Nestlé, DHL, Sears, Caterpillar, Kraft Foods and The
Home Depot. For more information, visit www.gtnexus.com.
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Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the accuracy of which are
necessarily subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions as to
future events. Factors that could cause actual results to differ
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future events, or otherwise.
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