Nigeria’s notable online shopping mall, Konga, has
announced today that it will be rolling out an extensive warehouse
infrastructure project across Nigeria to reduce significantly customer delivery
time after an order and make order fulfillment for its 60,000 merchants easier
and more reliable.
Dubbed ‘Fulfilled by Konga’, the project will enable
thousands of Konga’s merchants store their
goods in Konga warehouses and subsequently have the orders delivered by Konga’s
in-house fulfillment team.
According to
Konga, merchants presently have up to three days to drop off their items at a
distributing site, where Konga’s team will go on to deliver the item on their
behalf. However, with the warehouse infrastructure project items can now be selected and shipped on the
day the order is made, while items would be delivered within 24 hours in Lagos.
The Chief Executive Officer of Jumia, Shola Adekoya
while speaking at the launch of the project;‘Fulfilled by Konga’ said: “Konga
has cemented a name for itself as an engine of Commerce & Trade in Africa,
and the infrastructure project we are currently deploying has been developed to
act as a catalyst for the entire e-commerce market in Nigeria. ‘Fulfilled by
Konga’ is a dynamic solution that makes the process of doing business easier
and more effective for our tens of thousands of merchants, whilst our customers
will benefit from far shorter waiting times for their orders”.
“Warehousing and distribution is notoriously
challenging in Nigeria; we have set ourselves a Herculean task of building a
network of technologically advanced warehousing sites across Nigeria, that will
bring speedy, cost efficient sales solutions for our growing number of
merchants looking to do business online, and will act as a considerable boost
to Nigeria’s growing e-commerce sector,” he added.
Konga’s flagship distribution centre in Lagos is an
ultra-modern 60,000 sq ft warehouse and houses over 200,000 items. With the
launch of ‘Fulfilled by Konga’, plans are now in place to double its size to
120,000 sq ft in 2017 as well as countrywide infrastructure project to build
fulfillment centers in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, as well as in Port Harcourt.
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