NAIROBI, Kenya, March 1 – Sendy, a technology company that builds infrastructure for e-commerce and consumer brands has partnered with the Small and Medium Enterprise [SME] Support Centre to offer logistics support to online traders.
The partnership will see Sendy leverage on its fulfillment infrastructure to offer online vendors a solution to enable them to effectively trade.
“We believe this partnership will unlock the potential of all online businesses to scale up their operations using Sendy. We are deliberate in democratizing logistics to the last mile. We want to enable small online businesses to trade efficiently and effectively,” said Chris Nyaga, Sendy Fulfillment’s General Manager for East Africa.
The SME Support Centre aims to build fruitful relationships with various stakeholders in Africa so as to jointly provide innovative solutions which will ensure the growth and scale of SMEs in Africa.
“The challenge of logistics still compounds many businesses. Our partnership with Sendy will offer support to a number of businesses in the online space and end-to-end logistics and fulfillment platform that will enable them to trade easier and grow their operations,” said Linda Onyango, CEO, SME Support Centre
Sendy’s Fulfillment solution is aimed at e-commerce and direct-to-consumer businesses that do not have storage or delivery systems.
It is a digital-enabled platform that relieves online sellers of logistics difficulties while also insulating them from the high operational costs that come with logistics whereas SME Support Centre(SSC) is an aggregator of SMEs in Africa on one hand and a provider of various solutions and advisory services to the aggregated SMEs on the other hand.