Flipkart plans to consolidate Ekart, suspends month-old services

Flipkart is now looking forward to consolidating business of its in-house supply chain arm, Ekart Logistics. The e-commerce company has already suspended the customer-to-customer courier service within months of its launch and has also pulled the plug on hyperlocal delivery services being piloted across Bengaluru since March last year.

"Beginning February 5, Ekart no longer operates its customer-to-customer courier service started in May 2016, that gave people the option of having documents and parcels packed by Ekart's delivery boys and shipped to end-addresses. The move is aimed at consolidating the service offerings of Ekart, to sharpen its focus on its core business model," the company told ET.

Nearly 30,000-40,000 orders a day are processed by Ekart for third-party businesses excluding the volumes generated by Flipkart and Flipkart-owned fashion portal Myntra.

It will continue its core ecommerce offerings, including third-party logistics services to ecommerce players such as Paytm and ShopClues. It will also continue to provide warehousing and fulfilment facilities to larger retail clients such as Madura Garments.