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Flipkart opens supply chain arm eKart
April 29, 2022
E-commerce giant Flipkart Group on Thursday made its B2B supply chain and logistics arm eKart Logistics available to businesses and sellers outside its own platform.
EKart as of now offers a range of logistics solutions, including warehousing to brands, platforms and small and large organizations. By extending its coordinated operations arm to third party sellers, Flipkart is presently in leading logistics organizations like Delhivery, Bluedart and Ecom Express.
Established in 2009, eKart grew alongside Flipkart’s e-commerce unit, handling most of its orders. The business has evolved and transformed, keeping pace with the retail landscape in India, and cases to deal with in excess of 100 million shipments a month.
With its externalization, eKart will currently offer brands, platforms, and organizations end-to-end supply chain management, including drop shipping, inventory management, distribution, and aggregation.
Also, through Jeeves, the services arm of Flipkart, it will give end-to-end solutions, for example, establishment, demo, and repair services for the after-sales needs of brands.
EKart has a growing network of fulfilment centres, mother hubs or sortation centres, and centre of delivery hubs. It additionally has automated warehouses, including cross-belt sorters and automated guided vehicles to sort shipments based on pincodes, robotic arms, automatic packaging and address intelligence for accurate and faster movement of shipments.
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