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Meesho is taking a road less travelled to keep up in its fight with Amazon, Flipkart
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Logistics is one of the biggest cost centres for Meesho. And the company wants to fix this once and for all with Valmo, a unique supply-chain mechanism that works with multiple logistics partners and reduces dependence on big third-party logistics companies. However, it will go through a learning curve before stabilising.
Meesho, which has emerged as the fastest growing e-commerce platform in tier-II cities and smaller towns, is now pushing the envelope on the supply-chain front. The Softbank-backed e-commerce unicorn is nurturing a unique logistics mechanism — breaking it into multiple parts to be handled by a pan-India network of small and big logistics players. So far, Meesho has been fully outsourcing its logistics requirements to established e-commerce
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