Wipro Technologies ties up with IATA

BANGALORE: Wipro Technologies has announced a strategic partnership with International Air Transport Association (IATA) for its e-freight initiative.

According to a release, IATA's long-term vision is to free air cargo industry processes of paper. Currently, an average shipment currently travels with up to 38 documents that are exchanged between various parties including, shippers, airlines, freight forwarders, handling agents, import/export brokers and customs.

By joining the IATA e-freight Preferred Partner programme, Wipro will develop e-freight solutions that will reduce complexity and paper-based processes. This is expected to save the airline cargo industry $1.2 billion per year.

The IATA e-freight programme forms part of its strategic "Simplifying the Business" initiative to lead and support e-freight implementation for the air cargo industry.

IATA and Wipro have worked earlier in areas like design & development of platforms, reporting applications, portals & web based applications. Wipro is also engaged in a long-term application support.

Wipro has developed "Centers of Excellences" focused on domain areas like loyalty management, customer experience, RFID, transportation management, warehouse management etc.