One day after the start of El Buen Fin, the most important discount season in Mexico, Mercado Libre expects its operations to increase by around 50%, a logistical demand that it plans to meet with the adjustments in its automated processes that have been made in its warehouse in Prologis Park Grande, in Tepotzotlan, State of Mexico.

Alejandro Caballero, director of Marketplace, assured that the preparation for this season has been going on for months, so it takes the team about five months to do the planning. They currently have six distribution centers in Mexico and four of them are in the State of Mexico, of which Tepotzotlán has 100 thousand square meters of surface area where 17 million products are stored thanks to six thousand collaborators.

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As for transportation, the yellow marketplace has four planes that take off and land at the Querétaro airport; 165 electric vans, thousands of trucks that circulate throughout the country and more than 2,500 package agencies.

In 2022, Mercado Libre announced a historic investment of 1.45 billion dollars, which meant the most important to date, which, to a large extent, was destined for this facility in Tepotzotlán and the logistics network of Mexico, where it is facilitated and enables an electronic commerce with very good levels of service that allows the company to have very fast deliveries and increasingly faster getting closer to El Buen Fin, said David Geisen, general director of MercadoLibre México.

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According to the managers, the automation that they installed with distribution bands and spiral distributors that raise the merchandise inside the mezzanine, increases efficiency and has greater processing per day and hour, finding the warehouse at 90% of its capacity at the moment. ability.

David Geisen highlighted that nine out of 10 outgoing packages are delivered through the MercadoLibre logistics network, of which the vast majority leave this distribution center, the second largest in Latin America.

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