Hansa Metallics Ltd Strengthens Metal Supply Chains with SP TMS, Achieving 8% Freight Cost Savings
September 8, 2025
Case Study Hansa Metallics Ltd Strengthens Metal Supply Chains with SP TMS, Achieving 8% Freight
Table of Content :
- The Real Challenges in Freight Management: Why Logistics Leaders Need a TMS
- The Power of a TMS: How a Transportation Management System Optimizes Freight Management
- A Blueprint for Digital Transformation: Kejriwal Castings’ Journey to Freight Cost Reduction
- Stop Delaying Transformation: Take Control of Your Logistics Operations Today
Another truck leaves your yard, its payload of heavy pipes or steel beams secured for a cross-country delivery. But as it rolls out, you know the true cost is not alone the freight rate. It’s the anxiety of what could go wrong: a weight discrepancy at the weighbridge, a day lost to detention at the destination, or the sheer chaos of finding the right specialized vehicle in a fragmented, cluttered market.
In the metals and pipes industry, every rupee impacts the final per-tonne cost. Unlike other goods, your cargo demands precise handling, and the smallest operational hiccup like a delay, a shortage, a sourcing error erodes your margins.
It’s a hard truth to accept but your logistics cost is not just high, it’s unpredictable, unmanageable, and eating away at your bottom line. As a recent BCG report highlights, the core challenge for today’s supply chain leaders is balancing cost-efficiency with resilience in the face of constant disruption.
In this edition of the Expert Insight Series, we hear from Shivani Rastogi, a supply chain professional with deep expertise in the metals and pipes sector, on how a Transportation Management System (TMS) can transform inefficient freight sourcing into a controlled, cost-efficient process.
Stop settling for guesswork.
Our case study shows how Hansa Metallics achieved an 8% reduction in freight costs and 97% on-time vehicle placement with SP TMS.
The Real Challenges in Freight Management: Why Logistics Leaders Need a TMS
The friction in your current operations is not a problem of poor effort, it’s more a problem of outdated methods. For years, we’ve relied on manual processes because that’s how it was always done. But in today’s volatile market, this reliance is a significant liability. The old way of handling freight management is fundamentally broken, especially for an industry as demanding as yours.
Here’s where the friction occurs:
The Sourcing Struggle in a Cluttered Market
In India, the market for specialized transport is often a puzzle. Your team spends hours, if not days, calling a limited list of transporters to find the right vehicle type for TMT or pipes. This manual process lacks transparency and true market competition, meaning you rarely know if you’re getting a fair rate.
The Silent Killer: Weight Discrepancies & Shortages
Imagine dispatching a bulk order of 1,000 MT from a port. If a small 1-MT shortage occurs on each of the 50 trucks you use, you’re looking at a cumulative loss of 50 MT. This significant revenue leakage is hard to track and even harder to reconcile with transporters without real-time, digital proof.
The Rising Cost of Detention & Demurrage
A truck arriving on time is only half the battle. Delays at the destination, inefficient unloading, or a lack of documentation can turn a simple trip into an expensive waiting game. Every hour of detention directly adds to your per-tonne cost and strains your relationships with transporters.
Limited Real-Time Visibility
When your CXO asks for a real-time report on the month’s logistics cost, can you answer with confidence? With data scattered across phone calls, WhatsApp messages, and spreadsheets, the answer is likely no. This lack of a single source of truth makes strategic transportation management impossible.
Secret to Crush Your Per-Tonne Costs.
See exactly how Hansa Metallics achieved:
✅ 8% Freight Costs Savings ✅ 91% Time Reduction in Freight Sourcing ✅ 100% Transparency and Visibility
and more!
The Power of a TMS: How a Transportation Management System Optimizes Freight Management
The solution is to upgrade your entire toolkit. A modern TMS (Transportation Management System) is designed to replace manual chaos with digital efficiency, providing a central command center for your entire freight operation.
This platform empowers you to:
| Operational Task | Before TMS (Manual) | After TMS (Automated) |
| Freight Sourcing | Phone calls to limited transporters | E-auctions & bids from a wide network |
| Shortage Reconciliation | Tedious, manual, often unresolved claims | Digital, immediate, and verifiable proofs |
| Detention Management | Reactive, dispute-ridden and based on assumptions | Proactive, real-time tracking and alerts |
| Data Visibility | Fragmented & reactive | Centralized, real-time dashboards |
A Blueprint for Digital Transformation: Kejriwal Castings’ Journey to Freight Cost Reduction
For a leading DI Pipes manufacturer in India, Kejriwal Castings, freight logistics was a major bottleneck. Their reliance on manual processes, a limited transporter network, and fragmented data led to significant plant congestion and high operational costs. Their logistics team was struggling with the basics: manually sourcing vehicles and reconciling invoices.
By partnering with SuperProcure and implementing our tms transportation management system, Kejriwal Castings underwent a dramatic transformation. Our solutions addressed their core challenges head-on:
- Transparent Freight Sourcing: By implementing SP Freight Sourcing module, the company was able to secure vehicles in just 15 minutes, saving 50% of their sourcing time. This automation expanded their network and ensured they were consistently getting competitive market rates.
- Enhanced In-Plant Logistics: Our in-plant solution streamlined gate-in/gate-out processes with real-time visibility, effectively eliminating plant congestion and detention expenses.
- Automated Freight Accounting: SuperProcure’s e-POD solution digitized the entire invoice verification process, ensuring accuracy and transparency. This eliminated the delays and errors associated with manual freight audit.
The operational improvements led to significant, quantifiable results: they achieved a 7% reduction in freight costs and saw 75% on-time vehicle placement. Read how they achieved all these transformational gains in detail.
Your Roadmap for Logistics Transformation.
Discover the exact steps Hansa Metallics took to eliminate supply chain chaos and achieve 100% visibility and audit compliance.
Stop Delaying Transformation: Take Control of Your Logistics Operations Today
Look, we all know where this is headed. The digital transformation of your supply chain is not some fancy trend, it’s the new operating model. Your competitors are already on this path, and the market is moving too fast for manual processes to keep up. Relying on outdated logistics is a liability that actively erodes your margins.
You’re postponing the profitability. Every day that passes is a day of lost savings, ceded competitive ground, and unnecessary operational risk. The decision is not whether to transform, but when to lead that change. The time to build a more resilient, agile, and profitable supply chain is now.
So are you ready to transform your logistics operations? Book a Demo
Shivani Rastogi
Consultant, Metal Industry
SuperProcure
About the Author
Shivani Rastogi is a seasoned professional and a thought leader in the supply chain and logistics space with over 5 years of experience dedicated to the metals and pipes industry. She specializes in helping business leaders navigate complex operational challenges to drive profitability and strategic growth.
FAQs
Fragmented sourcing, where your team makes endless manual calls to a limited network of transporters, creates a lack of competition. This prevents you from securing the best market rate and locks you into inflated prices, directly increasing your transportation costs and eroding your per-tonne profitability.
A modern TMS streamlines communication and builds trust. Instead of relying on manual follow-ups, it provides a single, transparent platform for digital booking, real-time tracking, and automated documentation. This fosters stronger, more reliable partnerships with transporters, making you a preferred shipper.
Many companies in the metals and pipes industry see a rapid return on investment, often within the first few months. The savings are immediate and tangible, coming from a direct reduction in freight rates through competitive e-bidding, and the elimination of errors and delays in the freight audit process.
