Hyderabad: India’s biggest e-commerce company Flipkart on Friday opened its huge fulfillment center at Hyderabad and plans to invest $500 million in a nationwide warehouse network.
The largest fulfillment center in the country at Gundla Pochampally on the city outskirts in the presence of Binny Bansal, co-founder and COO, Flipkart. This giant layout was inaugurated by the Telangana Finanace Minister E. Rajender.
The land is spread up to 2.2 lakh square feet and with a storage capacity of 5.89 lakh cubic feet. This is Flipkart’s 17th warehouse in the country.
The automated state-of-the-art fulfillment centre is expected to ship out 1.2 lakh items every day.
Bansal said the warehouse was designed to provide easy access to e-commerce services for sellers, while providing faster and seamless services to customers. With 50 million products, Flipkart has 45 million registered users logging over 10 million daily shipments.