Amazon boosts its logistics network ahead of the festive season, launches 3 new fulfillment centers
BENGALURU : In preparation for the upcoming festive season, Amazon India announced the launch of three new fulfillment centers in Delhi NCR, Guwahati and Patna. These new fulfilment centers, along with the expansion of Amazon’s existing fulfillment network, will significantly boost delivery speeds for customers in North and East India. The investment will help sellers across these states better serve their customers by placing selection closer to customers, and create thousands of new job opportunities providing an economic impetus to the region. These jobs entail a variety of roles in Amazon’s operations network, including full time and part time opportunities. All these buildings are ready and operational ahead of the upcoming festive season and will collectively support more than 2.5 lakh sellers across Delhi NCR, Bihar and Assam.
Most buildings in Amazon’s operations network are designed with state-of-the art technology, efficient building systems to minimize energy usage. They are designed to be net water zero with initiatives such as rainwater collection tanks, recharge wells to replenish water into aquifers, sewage treatment plants etc. As an inclusive place to work, Amazon FCs are designed to make them accessible to people with disabilities.
Sharing his thoughts on this announcement, Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam said, “I understand that Amazon India is expanding its capacity in Assam by enhancing storage and processing capabilities, scaling infrastructure and boosting employment. I hope that with this capacity building, Amazon will now be better equipped to benefit millions of local retailers, which in tum will contribute to the Indian economy.”
Abhinav Singh, VP Operations, Amazon India said, “We are committed to serve our customers across every pin-code in India and bring them their favourite products fast and reliably, especially during the festive season. As part of this, we have added three new fulfilment centers to our existing pan-India operations network that consists of over 43M cu feet of storage space, sort centers in 19 states, about 2000 delivery stations, Amazon Air, our partnerships with Indian Railways, India Post and much more. These new fulfillment centers will enable sellers in the region to better cater to customer needs while generating thousands of job opportunities, fostering economic growth in the local communities.”
Preparing for the upcoming festive season
Recently, Amazon announced that it has created more than 110,000 seasonal job opportunities across its operations network to meet the heightened customer demand during the upcoming festive season. These opportunities include direct and indirect jobs across India in cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, and Chennai, among others.
The company also recently signed an MoU with the Indian Railways to scale up use of railway network for faster movement of customer packages across the country. Amazon’s association with the Indian Railways aligns with the government’s vision to leverage and modernize this pillar of nation’s infrastructure and economy for achieving the vision of Viksit Bharat and Viksit Rail. Since 2019, this collaboration has been one of the key enablers for Amazon India to offer 1-day and 2-day deliveries on crores of products to customers across India and will continue to help delight customers this festive season. Over the last 5 years, since Amazon started working with the Indian Railways, there has been a 15X increase in movement of Amazon India’s parcels in railway lanes.