As the country gears up for the festive season to ward off the ill effects of the pandemic, Flipkart (India’s homegrown e-commerce marketplace) is strengthening its supply chain across the country to help customers meet their requirements in a safe and hygienic manner.
Interestingly, women are at the forefront of driving this festive preparedness at Flipkart as they take up crucial operations at several of the newly opened supply chain facilities. One such facility is the recently opened Dankuni fulfilment centre where women are the helm of affairs and manage crucial operations at Flipkart’s second largest fulfilment centre in West Bengal. Creating nearly 3,500 direct jobs, the new facility will further Flipkart’s efforts towards increasing diversity across its supply chain to make it more inclusive. To enable more women to join the workforce, Flipkart under its initiative Vividhta, provides workplace policies that support women and their career progression. Several of its large warehouses across the country have their end-to-end operations for a particular shift entirely run by women.
With the addition of the new facility in Dankuni, Flipkart now has 7 fulfillment centres and more than 10-lakh square feet of warehousing space in the state alone and employs over 50,000 people across all these facilities.