Flipkart, India’s homegrown e-commerce marketplace, has announced an expansion of Ekart’s supply chain ahead of The Big Billion Days and the festive season.
Ekart has added 14 million cubic feet of warehousing space nationwide, increasing storage capacity by 50%. Technology and automation enhancements have also increased peak processing capacity by more than 30%.
More than 900 additional delivery hubs have been added specifically to expand last-mile reach during the festive season and enable greater volumes of same-day and next-day deliveries. This adds to more than 8,200 Ekart facilities across the country, including fulfilment centres, sortation hubs and last-mile delivery operations, and nearly 1,200 Flipkart Minutes micro-fulfilment centres across more than 150 cities.
Taking The Big Billion Days and festive shopping to more locations across India, Ekart has added more than 750 new PIN codes to Flipkart’s reach.
To enable faster fulfilment for MSMEs, small sellers, weavers and artisans during The Big Billion Days, more than 2.5 crore units of their products have been pre-positioned within Ekart fulfilment centres, and 70 additional pick-up stations have been opened in key seller hubs to reduce seller fulfilment time.
