Amazon India today announced the launch of three new fulfillment centres (FCs) in Delhi NCR, Guwahati, and Patna to bolster its pan-India logistics network ahead of the festive season. With over 1.2 million cubic feet of combined storage space, these FCs will lead to faster delivery of customer orders across the North and Eastern states while also creating thousands of local job opportunities in the region. These jobs entail a variety of roles in Amazon’s operations network, including full-time and part-time opportunities. Additionally, this investment will help sellers across these states to better serve customers providing an economic impetus to the region.
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 turn will contribute to the Indian economy.
Designed for the future
All three FCs 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, and efficient building systems to minimise 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.
Abhinav Singh, VP Operations, Amazon India, says, “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 fulfillment centres to our existing pan-India operations network that consists of over 43M cu feet of storage space, sort centers in 19 states, about 2,000 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.
Festive ready at Amazon.in
Amazon India recently announced that it has created more than 110,000 seasonal job opportunities across its operations network to meet the increased customer demand during the upcoming festive season. These opportunities include direct and indirect jobs across India in cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, and Chennai, among others.
The company also signed an MoU with the Indian Railways to scale up the use of the 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 modernise this pillar of the 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.
