Sohan Lal Commodity Management Limited (SLCM)
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Founded in 2009, Sohan Lal Commodity Management Limited (SLCM) Group offers technology-driven warehousing services such as scientific storage for agriculture commodities, fumigation, testing and certification and funding against storage receipts in India and Myanmar. A player in the global post-harvest space, SLCM is ISO 9001: 2015, ISO 22000: 2018, ISO 33000, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 certified group. SLCM warehouse management service is equipped with state-of-the-art technology to offer storage and protection services for the entire range of agricultural commodities. The company provides services to the entire agriculture ecosystem including farmers, processors, millers, traders, importers, exporters, commodity exchanges and the central and state governments. SLCM till date has handled more than 1080+ agricultural commodities including Cotton, Barley, Bajra, Castor Seeds, Wheat, Pulses, Maize, Spices, Aloe Vera, etc. The company currently has a network of more than 16,800+ warehouses and has disbursed loans worth more than INR 29 billion over the last three years through its wholly owned subsidiary Kissandhan business unit. SLCM Group directly touched the livelihoods of over 6 crore people. The company till date has received awards and recognitions across various categories like commodity warehousing services, financing, and technology applications in the agriculture sector. SLCM’s employee-first approach has been widely commended through honours like Times Ascent ‘Dream Companies to Work For’ and ET Now’s ‘Rise With India Dream Companies to Work For'.
Digitally Enabled Professional Warehouse Management Solution. Industry FIRST
Digital Real Time Warehouse Monitoring 24X7X365 Industry FIRST
Digitally Unified Procurement Platform
Unified Post Harvest Agri Value Chain. Industry FIRST Mobile APP based solution. Digitally Unified Agri Ecosystem Listing; Agri Trading and Agri Fintech.
SLCM Group till date has managed a technology enabled network of 16800+ warehouses and 36+ cold storages pan India with a total capacity of over 4,500 Million metric tonnes spread over 350+ Million square feet area and a throughput of more than 5000+ Million metric tonnes.
Our warehouses are equipped with top-of-the-line communication facilities to enable real time visibility and availability of data to our clients. A team of experienced, well trained, qualified professional staff manages the operations at each warehouse, which is further controlled from our centralized office in Delhi through continuous audits and inspections. The connectivity of our warehouses through advanced technology enables us to meet critical requirements of the clients like online data dissemination and provision of periodical MIS.
In a country like India where post-harvest losses are pegged at 10%, SLCM has been instrumental in devising technology enabled solution that has cut post-harvest losses to 0.5% irrespective of infrastructure, crop or geographic location. This has been clearly demonstrated by SLCM Group and validated by the detailed study of FICCI – Partnership to Scale New Heights: India-US Collaboration in Agriculture, dated March, 2015.
SLCM continuously follows the industry best practices to upgrade the processes in warehousing domain. In the first year of its operation, SLCM brought "Bar Coded" storage receipts in practice that eliminated the risk of ‘Fraud’ in terms of fake storage receipts.
SLCM has devised an SOP which amalgamates technology with agriculture domain expertise and allows the company to operate any warehouse agnostic of infrastructure, location, weather condition across any kind of agriculture commodity. The Company has received a patent for its scientific technology of storage under the name of Agri Reach in March 2022. SLCM offer's scientific support to agricultural economies of the new developing nations in ASEAN and African region. With this view, SLCM has started its operations in Myanmar.
SLCM has also obtained license from Food Safety & Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and is also accredited by Warehousing Development & Regulatory Authority (WDRA) in the private sector. The group has implemented best practices in operations to keep client’s commodities safe and secure. Service offerings are listed below:
ERP system to manage multi-location operations
Daily report from all warehouses for inward/outward stock of agri commodities
SIM based wireless cameras installed at warehouses
SIM based Biometric attendance system at warehouses
Hand-held devices which transmit data to central server
Central toll free helpline number to records all conversation
To be present in every Geo Climatic region of the world and to be the preferred Agro Service Provider across all Agriculture Value Chains.
To empower aspirations of our stakeholders by instituting a culture of trust, transparency and mutually rewarding relationships, based on sustained investments in state-of-the-art processes, technology and talent.
We endeavour our mission and vision through our core corporate pillars which are:
Customer Focus
Integrity
Professionalism
Discipline
Team Work