Snapdeal now services 60% orders from its centres

Snapdeal is now servicing 60% orders from its own centres. This is in sharp contrast to the 7% at the start of 2015, the company’s Vice President-Operations Ashish Chitravanshi said. He added that the e-commerce player has added 1.3 million square feet of warehousing space spread over 25 cities.

"By the end of 2015-16, we would have invested $150-200 million in our supply chain logistics. A major chunk of this is our investment in GoJavas," he said.

The company's logistics team has grown 5 times to more than 1,000 people. Snapdeal introduced 'Snapdeal Instant' earlier this year to allow delivery within an hour. It has also launched four-hour delivery, card-on-delivery and 90-minute reverse pickups.

Apparently, the company has also invested heavily in supply-chain logistics this year.
Chitravanshi says the solid investment in logistics and supply chain has cut delivery times by 70% by moving bulk of sales to Snapdeal Plus and its fulfilment centres.

"Next year, we will continue to strengthen our network and fulfilment channels. We are looking to leverage big data analytics in a big way to further improve our customer experience," said Chitravanshi.

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