Ahmedabad

Amazon Seller Services Pvt. Ltd. (ASSPL) today announced the opening of a second fulfillment Centre(FC) in Gujarat, spread over 50,000 square feet with more than 170,000 cubic feet storage space in Bavla taluka on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. The two FCs together is now close to 200,000 cubic ft of storage area.

According to Akhil Saxena, Director Operations, Amazon India, more than 200 sellers across Gujarat have registered at this facility and started inbounding their products.  Over 95% of the sellers registered with this FC are from Gujarat and as many as 50%  of them are from Ahmedabad.

Amazon India has over 21 FCs across 10 states in India with a total storage capacity of over 5 million cubic feet.

Saxena said Amazon started its India journey on 5 June 2013 with 100 sellers in 2 categories. Today there are 41 departments and 100 categories with 3 crore items and 100,000 sellers. In 2013 there was only one FC in Bhivandi in Maharashtra, while today there are 21 across 10 states, the biggest of them in Telangana.

He said, ahead of the festival season, local sellers will be able to bring in selection to FCs in Ahmedabad and able to access national market through Amazon.in. The first FC in Gujarat is located at Aslali, the newer one is near Bavla.

Saxena didn’t reveal investment incurred for new FC. He also refused to reveal the employment generated through new FC, but said that people mostly from Bavla, Bhayla and Kerala villages are employed in new FC.

He said mostly home products, kitchen based products, cloths, garments, textile and consumer products are sold in Gujarat region.

Sharing the details of Fulfillment center, he said the center is dust-free place with sprinkler arrangement for fire safety. It has arrival dock, dock clerk place, cubiscan machine that identifies exact size of particular item, prep stoppage for packing for safe storage of product, storage area that can be located digitally through bar code and other datas, amnesty basket for the items that are not found in their place, damaged product baskets, packing area, packing machine, conveyor belt for delivery and shipping dispatch area.

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