Automation Anywhere is using smart AI-powered logistics to help Indian charity Akshaya Patra provide five million meals for children daily.

California-based Automation Anywhere, a specialist in agentic process automation (APA), is working with the Akshaya Patra Foundation, one of India’s social impact organisations. Leveraging AI-powered automation, donor engagement processes have been streamlined by up to 70%, reducing turnaround times from over 20 hours to just 40 minutes accelerating Akshaya Patra’s mission to provide mid-day meals to five million children every school day.

Currently reaching over 2.35 million children across 25,000 government and government-aided schools, Akshaya Patra has already seen tangible benefits from the partnership. With the support of Automation Anywhere, the foundation is transforming operational areas including donor management, route optimisation and supply chain workflows to achieve greater efficiency, transparency and scalability. These improvements are enabling the organisation’s teams to focus on outreach and relationship-building efforts.

“At Akshaya Patra, we view technology as an enabler of purposeful transformation,” said Vinod Sudhakar, chief information officer at the Akshaya Patra Foundation. “Our collaboration with Automation Anywhere is helping us harness the potential of AI to not only optimise systems but to deepen our service to children across India. With smarter tools, we are driving meaningful impact at scale faster, more efficiently and more sustainably.”

Neeti Mehta Shukla, chief social impact officer at Automation Anywhere (www.automationanywhere.com), added: “At Automation Anywhere, we believe technology can help amplify social impact. This collaboration stands as proof that AI-powered automation can fuel meaningful change, helping every rupee go further, every meal reach faster and every child be nourished better. It’s about scaling compassion with precision, and building a stronger, healthier India. We are both privileged and committed to work with a mission driven organisation like Akshaya Patra.”

With phase one yielding good outcomes, the partnership is set to advance into AI-driven procurement, enabling direct sourcing from farmers and local millers and the introduction of agentic-AI-led demand-responsive production mechanisms to reduce food waste. Further enhancements in delivery logistics and resource planning are expected to amplify operational resilience as the foundation expands its reach.

Akshaya Patra will also leverage real-time data and AI-powered automation to enhance logistics performance across its fleet of 2200 delivery vehicles operating on 1500 daily routes, improving route planning, fuel efficiency and operational visibility.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation (www.akshayapatra.org) is a social impact organisation committed to addressing classroom hunger and supporting children’s health and education. It functions in 78 locations across 16 states and three union territories.