E-com players log $4.6 bn sales in India festive week, Flipkart leads
New Delhi: Walmart-owned Flipkart on Thursday said it has strengthened its supply chain network in Haryana with the addition of four new facilities ahead of the upcoming festive season, a move expected to help create 12,000 job opportunities.
The new fulfilment centres (warehouses) 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, a statement said. 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 customers.
The new facilities will serve sellers of large appliances, furniture, mobiles, apparel and electronics and are located in Sankpa, Yakubpur, Kulana, and Rewari with a total area of more than 12 lakh sq ft and a storage capacity of over 30 lakh cubic feet, Flipkart said. "More than 13,000 sellers from the State will get augmented support to reach lakhs of new customers nationally and create additional 12,000 direct and indirect jobs in the State, thereby strengthening the State economy," it said, adding that these facilities will help serve customers from Haryana and nearby regions. "Haryana has been at the forefront of promoting the digital way of commerce and has introduced numerous initiatives, including a single-window system to provide for speedy implementation of industrial and other projects."
"Digital commerce is providing new avenues and opportunities for lakhs of MSMEs, which forms a base of India's economic growth in a big way," Vikas Gupta, Director General Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Haryana government, said. With this expansion in the State, Flipkart now has a total of 17 Fulfilment centres (FCs) in regions such as Binola, Bilaspur, Luhari, Ballabgarh and Farrukhnagar, and spread across an area of 44 lakh sq ft, creating around 22,000 thousand direct and indirect job opportunities. "As a homegrown e-commerce marketplace platform, we are proud to be at the forefront of creating value for all our stakeholders, including sellers, Kiranas, customers, partners and communities," Flipkart Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Rajneesh Kumar said.
