BANGALURU: Walmart-owned Flipkart on Thursday said it has signed an agreement with the Logistics Skill Sector Council (LSC) and Karnataka Skill Development Centre (KSDC) to set up a Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru for building skilled and trained workforce for the e-commerce industry in India.
Introduced to augment skill development for the logistic industry, Flipkart”s CoE will be open to aspirants who want to work in the logistics industry, a statement said.
The centre aims to bring the spotlight on the importance of skill development for the sector and complement its growth in the coming years, it added.
Spread across an area of 1,500 sq ft, the CoE for e-commerce supply chain in Bengaluru has new-age classrooms equipped with computers and offers projector-based learning for the all round development of the candidates.
Flipkart has co-developed an extensive training module along with LSC and KSDC to train candidates on the various nuances of storage and distribution, customer management, and material handling, it said adding that the training also covers the necessary soft skills required to interact with customers.
This also includes imparting knowledge on local transportation laws and regulations and giving students holistic knowledge of the end-to-end supply chain, it noted.