Snapdeal opens new 15 warehouses inside factory clusters across 10 metro cities

February 17, 2020: To help manufacturers who are opting to sell directly, Snapdeal opened 15 new warehousing centres at industrial hubs located across ten metro cities Ahmedabad, Surat, Jaipur, Indore, Hyderabad, Panipat, Gurugram, Mumbai, Bengaluru and New Delhi.

The new centres are located inside factory clusters like Kirti Nagar, Patparganj & Okhla (New Delhi), Reay Road (Mumbai) and Chandra Layout (Bengaluru).

“The new centres cater to the growing shipment volumes from manufacturers who are opting to sell directly on Snapdeal, bypassing the traditional structure of selling through wholesalers and retailers. Through our deep presence inside these manufacturing clusters, we now offer doorstep pick-ups from the factories. The new centres aim to make the fulfilment process simpler for the sellers so that they can devote all their resources towards production,” says the release.

5000 new manufactures this year

In 2020, Snapdeal is aiming to add 5000 manufacturer-sellers on its platform this year. Most of these manufacturers produce and sell daily use products like steel & copper utensils, kitchen gadgets like juicers & atta dough makers and fashion accessories like watches & wallets.

With Indian e-commerce now growing beyond the first 100 million urban users, a market of potentially 400 million new users is emerging across India’s Tier 2 and 3 cities and bulk of these users are looking for value-priced merchandise. This has caught the attention of manufacturers who specialize in the value-priced segment.

The new logistics hubs are expected to ensure faster movement of shipments and offer dedicated facilities for the manufacturing units, including packaging of orders and online tracking for orders in transit. The fast growth of the online market, especially in the non-metro centres, is allowing these manufacturers to tap a new set of always-connected customers, which traditional retail structures cannot capture.