Professional Documents
Culture Documents
•Flipkart functions
•SCM of Flipkart
•Flipkart’s profitability
Bhavik Thakkar
Kapil Makhija
ITM SION Mehboob Bhatti
Companies
Distributors of these companies
Credit period=14-30 days delivers the product in respective
Credit Limits= varies with products flipkart’s Ware house (as per
requirement)
8-35%
On sale price of product
YES
Automatic inventory check NO
Delivery time 2-5 Days
via Inventory
management system
Ordered to the company YES
Delivery time 6-15 Days
INVENTORY STOCKING
INVENTORY
MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM
Product’s
Inventory
Delivery & Logistics
No. of order served Daily > 30,000
Customer product
Location of the Logistic body is assigned delivery location
product (Delivery cost-Free
Parameter = city, locality, Type Of product,
Is Identified Cost definition, inter-city agreement etc. If ordered > 300 Rs.
Else Rs. 30 Extra)
Logistics
Priority
email- cs@flipkart.com
How are their products less expensive
than in retail
Retail store (organized) shops?
Online store
Need a shop floor or chain of shop Managed by centralized
floor. warehouses .
Need skilled sales and Need customer service associates.
management staff
Need branding and displays No need for branding and displays
of the product
Need to pay overheads such as Comparatively less Expensive as
electricity bill, telephone bill, overhead are born only for the
stationeries etc at every store. dispatch centers
Sources:-
1. Google
2. Flipkart.com