India's Flipkart opens three new fulfilment and sortation centres

31 Aug '21

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Flipkart has announced that it has strengthened its supply chain network in Karnataka with the addition of three new facilities ahead of the upcoming festive season. The new facilities will serve sellers of large appliances, furniture, mobiles, apparel, and electronics and are located in Kolar, Hubli and Anekal. Flipkart is India's digital commerce firm.

The new fulfilment centres will help create deeper capabilities to support thousands of sellers, MSMEs, small farmers from the state to cater to the growing customer demand, create more employment opportunities while enabling faster deliveries for consumers. The addition of the new facilities is a testament to Flipkart’s commitment to continue building the e-commerce ecosystem and serving customers and sellers from the state in a seamless manner while contributing to the state’s economic growth and prosperity, the company said in a press release.

Fulfilment centres are specialised facilities where products are received from sellers across the region, processed and packed and then sent to sortation centres and delivery hubs for delivery to the customers. Collectively spread across nearly seven lakh square feet, the facilities have a storage capacity of 15.6 lac cubic feet helping more than 10,500 sellers. The expansion will further contribute to the state economy and create additional 14,000 direct and indirect job opportunities, as the sellers get national market access for their products.

Flipkart has nine supply chain facilities, including fulfilment and sortation hubs in Karnataka spread across nearly 23 lakh square feet area, creating more than 26,000 direct and indirect job opportunities. With the region witnessing robust demand for e-commerce services, the addition of new facilities will also augment Flipkart’s capabilities to take the value of e-commerce to thousands of sellers from the state and millions of first-time e-commerce customers across the country.

“As a committed corporate citizen, our endeavour is to create value for all our stakeholders as we onboard lakhs of MSMEs and small sellers to serve millions of consumers from all the country. In this journey, we have invested in a tech-enabled supply chain network that is helping create thousands of direct job opportunities across the country, and also aiding indirect job opportunities in ancillary industries. The new state-of-the-art facilities will help in fuelling economic growth while setting a benchmark in the industry and make Karnataka even more attractive for e-commerce operations for all stakeholders, including sellers, MSMEs, small farmers, kiranas, and artisans,” Rajneesh Kumar, chief corporate affairs officer at Flipkart said.

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