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3PL Dec 24,2021

5 Tips to Fulfill Perfect China 3PL Services

If you are engaged in import and export work, then the word 3PL must not be strange to you. Actually, most people don’t know too much about 3PL except 3PL definition, so that’s why I am writing this article. Today, I will reveal the secrets of 3PL and introduce 5 tips for you to fulfill perfect China 3PL services.

What is 3PL and 3PL Services?

3PL is the abbreviation of third-party logistics, some times people also called it TPL. 3PL is a way that organizers use third-party businesses to outsource elements of its distribution, warehousing, and fulfillment services in logistics and supply chain management. What’s more, 3PL targets particular functions within supply management, such as warehousing, transportation, or raw material provision.

With the development of 3PL, there emerges 3PL providers. 3PL providers include freight forwarders, courier companies, and other companies integrating & offering subcontracted logistics and transportation services. 3PL providers make custom warehousing service, custom picking and packing service and custom shipping service according to the customers’ requests. The above custom services provided by 3PL providers are called 3PL services.

What’s the Condition of China 3PL Services?

Although the history of China 3PL is short, China 3PL Services is booming in these years since China is the largest manufacturer and exporter in the world. The market size of China reaches to RMB649.9 billion in 2010, RMB124.1 billion in 2017 and even RMB1.6 trillion in 2020, thus constantly narrowing its gap with developed countries.

Despite of these achievements, China 3PL Services are faced with a lot of challenges. Firstly, the market of China 3PL Services is highly fragmented. There are more than 15,000 3PL providers in China, but not a single company can occupy more than 2% market share. Secondly, warehousing management is disorder. As the amount of products stored in the warehouse is large, hence it’s difficult for China 3PL providers to update the product information and record the track of the product. Thirdly, logistics channels are not smooth. The customers are from every corner of the world, but the logistics can not reach to every corner, thus it’s important to update the logistics routes.

How to Perfect your China 3PL Services?

Firstly, improve your warehousing management. For most organizers, the stock price and the storage safety are the greatest concerns. To improve your warehousing management, you can introduce advanced automatic processing system, which can help sync, pick and pack and real-time track your orders, thus saving your time and manpower costs.

Secondly, provide custom order fulfillment services. Since different organizer has different products, order sizes and requests, providing custom order fulfillment services will not only expand your target customers, but also improve customers’ satisfaction.

Thirdly, provide solid and custom pick and pack services. As global shipping is a long distance travel, packages may be damaged during the transportation, so solid packing is essential to reduce package damage. Providing customized packaging services and formulating custom packing solutions for your customers according to the product characteristics and budget will not only earn you a good reputation, but also improve customers’ satisfactions.

Fourthly, enrich your logistics channel. As your business scope is expanded, you shall extended you destination countries and regions, and enrich the channels you can choose. Multi-logistics solutions will give your customers more choice, and they are more tend to choose you as their 3PL supplier.

Fifthly, improve your customer services. A whole 3PL services shall start from the consultant of customers, and ends with sound after-sale services. Sound customer services will help you find more potential customers and get positive feedback. Enjoy a good reputation will do good to your business expansion.

The above five tips are concluded from most successful 3PL services cases, i hope it can be useful for your business.

by Winnie

Order fulfillment Dec 21,2021

How to Perform a Successful Order Fulfillment?

What can be called a successful order fulfillment? Order delivery? Of course the answer is not complete. Actually, a successful order fulfillment not only means successful delivery, but also means delivered on time with small deficiency. Then how to achieve a successful order fulfillment is thought-provoking.

As we all know, order fulfillment starts after your goods are placed in our China warehouse. when your customers worldwide place an order in your online store, the order fulfillment center will help pick and pack and ship your products to the destination. Thus, achieve a successful order fulfillment shall include efficient warehousing management, solid packing, custom logistics solutions and superior after-sale services. I will analysis these four aspects by taking SFC —one of the best Fulfillment Center in China for example.

I. Efficient Warehousing Management

Warehouse, as the bridge of seller and the freight forwarder, plays an important role in the transportation of order fulfillment. Thus, efficient warehousing management is of great importance. As such, SFC did relevant researches and proposed solutions to ensure a safe warehouse.

SFC has Shenzhen fulfillment center and Yiwu fulfillment center, which cover a storage space of 71,649.88 square meters. Since the storage area is too large to manage, so SFC firstly standardizes its commodity information. It standardizes the customs declaration information according to the specification and size of the goods and takes SKU as the smallest inventory unit to manage. Then it introduced advanced warehousing management system. SFC adopts WMS warehouse management system, which synchronizes inventory and stores in real time and automatically updates quantity. The inventory accuracy reaches to 99.99%, and the inventory is updated in real time, supporting sync to stores in multiple platforms. Thus, sellers can manage easily since there are a great number of orders.

II. Solid Packing

As global shipping is a long distance travel, packages may be damaged during the transportation, so solid packing is essential to reduce package damage. As such, SFC provides customized packaging services for its customers. SFC formulates custom packing solutions according to the product characteristics and budget. Moreover, SFC can also provide customers with brand packaging services by printing their brand logo on the package. Thus, branded packing and custom packing solutions not only increases the customers’ brand recognition, but also increases the brand awareness.

III.Custom Logistics Solutions

Since different customers have different order sizes, so we can’t take a single logistics solution to handle their orders. SFC’s business scope includes e-commerce business & crowdfunding projects & drop shipping, so it provides drop shipping services and order fulfillment services. SFC has no minimum order sizes, providing custom logistics solutions for any size business. Customers can choose SFC dedicated lines, international express and Postal service to fulfill their orders.

IV. Superior Customer Services

SFC has more than 10+ years in order fulfillment, thus forming mature and professional customer service team. SFC is not only committed to providing superior logistics services, but also providing satisfied pre-sales and after-sales services. When customers consult our services, our customer service team will kindly and patiently answer every question in detail, and try their best to solve each problem. SFC want to establish good relationship with our customers so as to form long-term cooperation.

Above all, efficient warehousing management, solid packing, custom logistics solutions and superior after-sale services are important in successful order fulfillment. Whichever can not be fulfilled, the orders may be deficient. So we shall pay special attention to these four aspects. To get more lesson from SFC, you can search for SFC’s official website to read more relevant articles.

by Winnie

Order fulfillment Dec 8,2021

Top Five Fulfillment Centers in China

With the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce in recent years, the demand on global shipping is booming. As a major manufacturer, China enjoys huge market in export, thus “China fulfillment”, “China fulfillment services” and “Fulfillment Center in China” have become hot search words in these days. However, how to choose a reliable fulfillment center in China still disturbs many oversea sellers? So today I will introduce the top 5 fulfillment centers in China to help you out.

Top 1: 4PX

4PX (递四方速递), founded in 2004, is an international logistics company. Based on two networks, the Global Package Delivery Network (GPN) and the Global Order Fulfillment Network (GFN), 4PL provides services such as global order fulfillment services, warehousing and logistics management system services, global return solutions, global parcel direct delivery services, and global transshipment and import services.

Advantages of 4PX:

• Fast delivery of small parcels

• One-stop order fulfillment services

• Global transshipment services

• Personalized local return service

• B2B special line services

Top 2: Send From China (SFC)

Send From China (SFC) is a logistics company in China, it mainly engaged in cross-border logistics, international logistics, FBM, FBA, cross-border special line and e-commerce special line. As a leading tech-powered fulfillment company in China, it owns shenzhen Fulfillment Center and Yiwu Fulfilment Center, utilizes smart software to provide simple and reliable order fulfillment for ecommerce businesses, crowdfunding projects.

SFC are committed to providing a secure warehouse, efficient fulfillment, diverse packing options, flexible shipping solutions and other value-added services to help you enhance your business with less time and money.

Advantages of SFC：

• Free storage for 30 Days

• No minimum order size

• Customized logistics&packing solutions for any size business

• Serving for ecommerce business & crowdfunding projects & dropshipping

• Delivery rate≥99.98%

• Real-time tracking

• Global shipping

Top 3: Cosco-logistics

Cosco-logistics(远洋物流) is an international comprehensive logistics enterprise. It takes shipping logistics as its core, and provides modern and professional whole-process logistics supply chain solutions for customers at home and abroad. It is an important partner of the government, ports, railways, airports and large multinational enterprises. It mainly engaged in comprehensive freight, warehousing logistics, shipping agency, engineering logistics, project logistics, supply chain management and tally inspection.

Advantages of Cosco-logistics:

• Customized comprehensive freight solutions

• Rich experience in warehouse management

• Superior fulfillment services

• Whole-process logistics services

• Comprehensive supply chain (financial) management services

Top 4: China Division

China Division is a logistics provider of supply chain services in China, covering product procurement, warehousing management, order fulfillment, logistics transportation and value-added services.

Advantages of China Division：

• Streamline Customers’ fulfillment needs

• Maximum Customers’ satisfaction

• Self-built ERP system

• Self-own logistics channels Stone3PL

Top 5: Yunexpress

Found in 2014, Yunexpress (云途物流) is one of the leading third-party logistics companies in China and has become a leading logistics service provider of cross-border B2C business lines, providing services for cross-border e-commerce sellers. Yunexpress provides global logistics services and has four main business parts, cross-border B2C business lines, FBA transfer, postal parcel, and international express.

Advantages of Yunexpress:

• Leading information technology

• High-efficient and strong hardware systems

• Excellent capability of product innovation

• Rich and perfect overseas warehouse storage layout

The above analysis are all about the top 5 fulfillment centers in China. I hope my article can give you some tips in finding a reliable fulfillment center. If you wanna learn more, you can chat with me or directly log in: http://blog.sendfromchina.com/blog/ to get more news.

by Winnie

Crowdfunding fulfillment Nov 30,2021

Crowfunding Fulfillment is the Key to Successful Crowdfunding Projects

As to a successful crowdfunding project, there are three phases to be fulfilled. Crowdfunding Preparation, launch and fulfillment, and the key to successful crowdfunding projects are successful crowdfunding fulfillment. Now we will analysis it in detail.

Phase I: Preparation for Crowdfunding Projects

Attract attention and acquire support: Before a crowdfunding project is launched, there are a lot of work to do. While one person’s energy is limited, you can’t complete all the crowdfunding preparations by your own, so you can show your idea in your Facebook or twitter to attract more attention and acquire support.
Detailed research on successful crowdfunding projects: As is said to Tuvank, the kickstarter website is helpful for crowdfunding initiators to research crowdfunding projects. If you have a good idea but you don’t know how to fulfill it, research Kick-starter website carefully will make sense.

Phase II: Launch your Crowdfunding Projects

Calculate how much money you need: Before the project is launched, ask your friends, family, and anyone else who might give money to support you. Calculate how much they are willing to donate, and then subtract that amount from the final calculated amount. Because the less funds required on Kickstarter, the more likely the project will reach its goal. The total amount required is not the amount of funds that the project needs to raise.
Provide rewards that are fun but not cost too much: For the crowdfunding rewards to backers, it can start from $1 or $5. Some people may want to donate a project, but there is no way (or will) to give a spending gift, thus every penny is important. In addition, at this price, there is no need to provide expensive or tedious rewards as rewards, a postcard or online thanks. SFC says most of their crowdfunding customers give the backers earphone, backpack and card. So you can also have a try.
Keep contact with your backers: Crowdfunding initiator should keep in touch with your backers and let them know the progress of your project. Knowing how is the project, they can provide some suggestions, and their sense of participation and trust will be improved. Hence, they will give more support to you.

Phase III: Fulfill your Crowdfunding Rewards

After your crowdfunding projects is launched and succeed, you should immediately send rewards to your backers. But there are many complaints about rewards delay, rewards damaged, rewards are not satisfied. Hence, i recommend a reliable Crowdfunding Fulfillment Company for you.

SFC, a one-stop fulfillment center AND Crowdfunding Fulfillment center in China. SFC provides professional crowdfunding fulfillment services. SFC cooperates with over 50 international shipping partners, serving more than 100,000 customers and dispatching 500,000 packages every day. Its Fulfillment Service China serves the needs of global sellers who source their products in China, by providing them with inexpensive warehouse storage, efficient order management, and API integration, etc.

How is SFC’s crowdfunding fulfillment services?

Customers said “Reliable, Efficient, Satisfied, customized….”

Why did customers say that?

Safe warehouse and automatic sync orders (real-time monitoring and real-time tracking)
Custom-Built System for crowdfunding Fulfillment (global Shipping from China, 200+ logistics solutions, quick clearance, and export tax rebate)
Value-Added Services for crowdfunding Fulfillment (one-stop crowdfunding fulfillment services, include store, pick, pack and ship your rewards)

To launch a successful crowdfunding project, you should pay close attention to the above three phases. If you wanna get a quote from china fulfillment center SFC, please click their official website: https://www.sendfromchina.com/get-a-quote or e-mail them: fjhu@sfcservice.com

by Winnie

Crowdfunding fulfillment Nov 24,2021

Crowfunding Fulfillment is the Key to Successful Crowdfunding Projects

Phase I: Preparation for Crowdfunding Projects

Attract attention and acquire support: Before a crowdfunding project is launched, there are a lot of work to do. While one person’s energy is limited, you can’t complete all the crowdfunding preparations by your own, so you can show your idea in your Facebook or twitter to attract more attention and acquire support.
Detailed research on successful crowdfunding projects: As is said to Tuvank, the kickstarter website is helpful for crowdfunding initiators to research crowdfunding projects. If you have a good idea but you don’t know how to fulfill it, research Kick-starter website carefully will make sense.

Phase II: Launch your Crowdfunding Projects

Calculate how much money you need: Before the project is launched, ask your friends, family, and anyone else who might give money to support you. Calculate how much they are willing to donate, and then subtract that amount from the final calculated amount. Because the less funds required on Kickstarter, the more likely the project will reach its goal. The total amount required is not the amount of funds that the project needs to raise.
Provide rewards that are fun but not cost too much: For the crowdfunding rewards to backers, it can start from $1 or $5. Some people may want to donate a project, but there is no way (or will) to give a spending gift, thus every penny is important. In addition, at this price, there is no need to provide expensive or tedious rewards as rewards, a postcard or online thanks. SFC says most of their crowdfunding customers give the backers earphone, backpack and card. So you can also have a try.
Keep contact with your backers: Crowdfunding initiator should keep in touch with your backers and let them know the progress of your project. Knowing how is the project, they can provide some suggestions, and their sense of participation and trust will be improved. Hence, they will give more support to you.

Phase III: Fulfill your Crowdfunding Rewards

How is SFC’s crowdfunding fulfillment services?

Customers said “Reliable, Efficient, Satisfied, customized….”

Why did customers say that?

Safe warehouse and automatic sync orders (real-time monitoring and real-time tracking)
Custom-Built System for crowdfunding Fulfillment (global Shipping from China, 200+ logistics solutions, quick clearance, and export tax rebate)
Value-Added Services for crowdfunding Fulfillment (one-stop crowdfunding fulfillment services, include store, pick, pack and ship your rewards)

by Winnie

Order fulfillment Nov 11,2021

SFC’s Warehousing Solutions in Peak Season

If November comes, can Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas Eve and Christmas be far behind? Of course, not far. As the peak season is coming, the increase in orders also brings difficulties for warehousing management. Hence, whether the sellers can overcome the difficulties in warehousing management is of great importance.

Successful Case

Mr. Chen, a seller, established a fashion brand on Amazon. He mainly deals in clothing with more than 2000 SKUs. In the last Prime Day, his sales volume reached 10000 within 2 days, which broke the history record. So he shared his success with us, and emphasized the importance of warehousing & distribution in supply chain management.

He said: “Due to the previous misstep in warehousing management, I timely optimized the warehousing management process before Prime Day, so I can store numerous products and deliver them at a high delivery rate.”

Challenges in Warehousing & Distribution Management

As to his misstep in warehousing management, Mr. Chen classified the chaotic warehousing and distribution management as following:

I. Low utilization rate and high error rate

Disorder arrangement of the products. Due to the large amount of products, staffs place the products at random, causing a low utilization rate for the warehouse. At the meanwhile, the pickup and pack are affected since the products can not be found easily.
Too many SKUs. Since there are too many SKUs, the warehouse cannot be lean managed, causing orders mismatching, wrong delivery and less delivery.
No efficient system and SOP management process. Since there are no efficient system and SOP management process, the inventory information is inaccurate and the products can’t be prepared on time.
Unable to monitor. The logistics are over-reliant on freight forwarders, and the process cannot be tracked, causing abnormal situations where customers do not receive but the products showed proper delivery.

II. Understaffed warehousing management and loose management

Low manpower efficiency. The booming order can not meet the delivery needs.
The products cannot be delivered in a timely manner.
The packaging is abnormal, resulting in product damage during transportation and foam freight surged.

III. No SOP process management and system support

Inaccurate inventory of products and consumables affects product preparation and display of inventory information on the platform.
Unable to process the order on time.
The qualities are uneven, and the customer complaint rate is high.

SFC’s Guide to Warehousing Solutions and Logistics

There were so many difficulties, but how can Mr. Chen overcome them so quickly? The answer was that Mr. Chen contacted SFC and entrusted SFC to deal with these problems. And the reason why Mr. Chen chose SFC were as following:

I. 12-year experience in warehousing, and processes orders through fully automated equipment

SFC has 12-year experience in warehouse management, owns fully automated equipment with the maximum daily processing amount of 500,000 packages, and 99% orders can be packed, labelled and delivered on the same day.

II. Lean warehousing management and real-time update

The inventory accuracy rate is 99% : SFC’s warehouse implements product bar code management, achieving no error delivery.
Real-time update: SFC’s warehousing system can alert the abnormalities, and sync the inventory quantity to the shop in real time.
Professional SUK management process: manual spot check and quality inspection before entering into the warehouse to guarantee no damage to stock products.

III. Safe and efficient warehousing services and value-added services

The error rate is lower than 0.3: SFC conducts bar code control, achieving zero error distribution. The order is intelligently equipped with pick-up routes.
24 hours delivery, the system integration issued after the real tracking number.
Support SKU combination and dismantle, customized packaging scheme, reducing the damage rate during transportation.

Mr. Chen stored more than 500 SKUs in our warehouse, and at the same time used the customized packing and assembly scheme and logistics scheme recommended by SFC. Last year, the sales volume on Black Friday reached more than 1 million, and all parcels were delivered on the same day, which effectively optimized the cost and time-effectiveness.

For warehouse sellers, SFC has no limitations. SFC provides 30 days free for warehouse rent and SKU management fees. For more information about warehousing and distribution, you can log in SFC’s official website. If you have any problem, SFC’s professional team will try their best to help you out!

by Winnie

Order fulfillment Oct 19,2021

4-Measures to Provide Better Crowdfunding Fulfillment Services

What is Crowdfunding Fulfillment Services?

When it comes to crowdfunding, it is familiar to all. But seldom people know about crowdfunding fulfillment services. Actually, crowdfunding fulfillment services are derived from the booming of crowdfunding. As mentioned by Kickstarter, when a project is successfully funded, the creator shall complete the project and fulfill each reward to the best of their abilities. Then, in order to finish all the work that was promised and deliver rewards, the creator will generally entrust a third party to provide services such as inventory management, picking, packing, and shipping of a product that was funded online. Since the services are all work for crowdfunding fulfillment, so they are collectively called crowdfunding fulfillment services.

What Challenges Faced by Crowdfunding Campaign Owners

As is shown in the research made by SFC, the global crowdfunding market was $10.2 billion in 2018 and is expected to reach $28.8 billion by the end of 2025, with a CAGR of 16% between 2018 and 2025. It is not difficult to conclude that the booming of the crowdfunding industry will bring a promising market to crowdfunding fulfillment services. However, opportunities always exist with challenges. As the surge of demand for crowdfunding fulfillment services, campaign owners are facing with more and more common challenges. The most common challenges are as following:

High cost: budgets for shipping, packaging, storage is high, and there are some other hidden costs.
Expensive duties and taxes.
Having difficulties in organizing backers’ shipping information.
Having difficulties in providing multiple packaging options that are secure and customized.
Having difficulties in figuring out the ways to pick-and-pack a bulk of pledges.

How to Provide Better Crowdfunding/Kickstarter Rewards Fulfillment & Crowdfunding/Kickstarter Shipping Fulfillment Services?

In 2018, China surpassed the United States to become the largest participant in global crowdfunding. SFC, as a large logistics services provider, took first to join in the trend and provide fast, cheap and convenient crowdfunding fulfillment services to its customers. While seizing this opportunity, SFC was aware of the above challenges and took five measures to response.

Establishing powerful and user-friendly crowdfunding fulfillment platform. SFC has an in-house system which is specifically built with managing crowdfunding fulfillment in mind. Our intuitive software has a friendly interface and is easy to use. Through the platform, SFC can store and manage the inventory, batch-upload, edit and track orders online, email tracking information and monitor real-time costs and manage billing. Hence, SFC has no difficulty in organizing backer shipping information.
Providing value-added Kickstarter fulfillment services. Value-added Kickstarter services include pick-up from factory, add protection with bubble wrap or corner protectors, provide customized brand packing, and label on each package based on backer’s information. By taking this measure, SFC has no difficulty in picking-and-packing a bulk of pledges, and providing multiple packaging options that are secure and customized.
Optimizing global shipping from China. SFC provides DDU and DDP service, global shipping from China by EUB, special line, express delivery, proposes 200+ Custom logistic solution for cost-saving and ensures a quick clearance, and export tax rebate. In this way, the customers’ costs and taxes are saved.
Providing expert customer support. SFC employed dedicated account managers to handle such things. Having served for 1000+ kickstarter projects, we deserve your trust.

Successful Cases

by Winnie

Company news, E-commerce marketing, Ecommerce, Order fulfillment Oct 12,2021

How to Effectively Manage the Warehousing and Logistics？

With the constantly development of the global e-Commerce, the cross-border circulation and purchase becomes more and more popular. The formation of the demand for global shopping not only boosts the rapid development of new business forms and models such as cross-border e-commerce, but also brings cross-border e-Commerce logistics a bright future. However, opportunities always exist with challenges. There are some problems suffered in domestics warehousing .

Storage, as the core of e-Commerce logistics operation, plays an important role in the transportation of e-Commerce logistics. Thus, paying close attention to its situation is of great importance for sellers and logistics providers. SFC did relevant researches and concluded that the domestic warehousing management was disorder, the efficiency of picking-up was relatively low, the cost in warehousing management was high, the development of storage equipment and technology was unbalanced and the standardization of commodity information was not high. As such, SFC proposed solutions to effectively manage the warehousing and logistics, and the specific solutions are as follows:

First, standardization of commodity information. As the commodity information management has been a headache of sellers, SFC attaches importance to the checkout of the quantity and quality of products before entering into the warehouse. For goods to be stored in the warehouse, SFC standardizes the customs declaration information according to the specification and size of the goods and takes SKU as the smallest inventory unit to manage. When it turns to the pickup process, operators can improve its efficiency since the previous orderly categorization.

Second, standardization of warehousing. SFC has a storage space of 71,649.88 square meters. The logistics area and storage area are managed by layers. The storage places of the goods are arranged according to the location, the goods are marked with a unified logo, and numbered independently, thus the quantity is monitored in real time. In the process of out-put and in-put the warehouse, goods are operated according to the shelf position information, thus they can be completed in a fast, accurate and convenient manner, the efficiency is improved and errors are reduced.

Third, advanced management system. SFC adopts WMS warehouse management system, which synchronizes inventory and store in real time and automatically updates quantity. The inventory accuracy reaches to 99.99%, and the inventory is updated in real time, supporting sync to stores in multiple platforms. Thus, sellers can manage easily since there are a great number of orders.

Fourth, automation equipment. SFC adopts automatic sorting model to cope with the peak season. The fully automated logistics sorting model processes 500,000 orders per day, and the manual error rate is as low as 0.01%, which fully guarantees the delivery needs of the store.

Fifth, fast delivery. SFC delivers good from the warehouse, 99% orders can be sent out within the day after labeling and packaging, which flexible responses to the demand in off-peak and peak season. SFC updates inventory in real time, and reminds you to replenish immediately.

Sixth, low warehouse cost. SFC provides the seller with 30 days free storage rent, saving time and cost. The cost is visualized and transparent, and there is no hidden charge.

SFC has engaged in warehousing and logistics for more that ten years, it has been researching on the industry trend. As it notices the challenge hiding in the opportunity, it takes the lead in proposing the above six solutions to ensure effectively management on warehousing and logistics.

by Winnie

Order fulfillment Sep 14,2021

How to choose the five dimensions of cross-border e-commerce logistics

Logistics is the backbone of cross-border e-commerce. The rapid development of cross-border e-commerce also means the development of international logistics. Both the buyer and the seller hope that their goods can reach the other party’s hands quickly when they reach a deal. So the logistics service provider is the key bridge. So how to choose good logistics, SFC will teach you to choose from five dimensions, comprehensively improve the performance of the store.

1. category
From the perspective of logistics, different product categories, choosing different logistics channels, logistics costs will also change. If the product is not electrified, it can take domestic and international flights, and the logistics cost is relatively low. Live or sensitive products require Hong Kong-international flights. In addition, at present, some logistics providers can help sellers optimize logistics costs according to product classification by virtue of years of experience accumulation in the logistics industry and process efficiency control.
2. price
The price of international logistics is one of the issues that sellers are concerned about. Secondly, the price is also linked to the time limit. The faster the speed, the higher the price will be. In terms of price, the primary concern is to see whether service providers provide transparent, reasonable, a stable quotation is very important. Can let the service providers clearly list a variety of charging items and billing methods, so that it is more convenient for long-term and stable cooperation.

3. The limitation
Timeliness is another important evaluation standard for logistics service providers by sellers, but when choosing logistics, we should not only look at the fastest time but at the average value of timeliness. The more stable the channel, the more guaranteed the delivery time control. Especially for customers during the hot sales period, the good transport capacity of logistics service providers can play a role like a tiger adding wings.

4. The distribution
Distribution Safety and security can avoid a lot of unnecessary after-sales trouble and loss. When the seller chooses the logistics service provider, the first thing to look at is how big the enterprise logistics scale is, and whether the whole link operation is professional enough to understand them. Next is the first and last process of distribution processing, the domestic collection of goods to see whether the warehouse allocation is easy to cause mistakes. First look at its access, customs clearance advantages, straight hair or multi-layer subcontracting. The destination country looks at the quality of landing delivery and the controllability of the final process.

5. Service
Service This is an important factor to consider in addition to timeliness and price. The logistics service level is the basis to reduce logistics costs. Logistics plays an important role in reducing costs, and the reduction of logistics costs must first consider the level of logistics service, on the premise of ensuring a certain level of logistics service to reduce logistics costs. In this sense, the logistics service level is the basis to reduce logistics costs. At the same time, the details of various services determine whether this logistics provider is worth relying on and trust.

6. Packing
Packaging is one of the most overlooked details that can be quickly controlled by the seller. And how to optimize the packaging is actually closely related to the seller’s warehouse management ability. However, the allocation of warehouses and mature operators is a huge investment for most sellers, which is not easy to land and requires a long time to optimize and manage. When that seller has not had enough capital, choose a third-party storehouse to match a company to be met more reasonably actually.
SFC has a warehouse area of more than 70,000 square meters to ensure efficient storage and transportation; More than 10 years of cross-border logistics experience to ensure quality service; 100+ logistics channels provide diversified choices; Logistics aging is the average aging to ensure the stability of transportation aging. SFC insists on providing customized logistics solutions and fine operation management support for sellers with high-quality logistics and intelligent warehousing services. For details, please visit the official website.

by Winnie

Help & FAQ Sep 2,2021

How COVID-19 Impact Freight Shipping?

The COVID-19 outbreak has been causing a huge impact on people’s lives, families and communities. In these unprecedented times, the ability of freight shipping services to continue undisputed to transport food, energy and medical supplies across the continents will play a critical role in overcoming this pandemic.

There are a variety of reasons that prices and times of freight shipping have increased during the pandemic, including temporary shutdowns at port, worker shortages, increased demand, increased fuel cost, and general congestion.

However, despite the devastating economic impact of Covid-19, the effect on freight shipping has been less than first feared. According to Clarksons Research, global seaborne trade volumes declined only by an estimated 3.6% in 2020, and are on course to surpass 2019 levels this year. Vaccines could push forward the global trade recovery by one year, with trade in goods already returning to pre-crisis value levels at end-2020, it said at the time.However, despite the devastating economic impact of Covid-19, the effect on freight shipping has been less than first feared. According to Clarksons Research, global seaborne trade volumes declined only by an estimated 3.6% in 2020, and are on course to surpass 2019 levels this year. Vaccines could push forward the global trade recovery by one year, with trade in goods already returning to pre-crisis value levels at end-2020, it said at the time.

·Ocean freight

Following sharp falls during the early part of the pandemic, global trade volumes have since rebounded. However, volatility in demand, constraints on capacity and the ongoing impact of Covid-19 are causing major congestion at ports and disruption to supply chains.

Total container volumes handled at Chinese ports dropped by 10.1 percent in the first months of 2020. Agility Logistics reports considerable constraints to ocean freight around the world, impacting both key exporters, like Brazil, India, and Mexico, as well as the Europe. According to DHL, weak demand will continue to affect routes between Asia and Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Consequently, additional blank sailings are expected in the coming weeks.

·Air freight

Volumes fell by 19 percent in March 2020 due to a sharp reduction in passenger flights (which carry freight as belly cargo) and the drop in manufacturing. However, as shippers and governments turn to air cargo for essential goods, air freight rates have increased—some carriers are seeing delays with increased congestion at airports. Mid-April saw an increase in capacity, as well as a recovery in volumes transported (although they are still down, year-on-year). The overall reduction in capacity is greater than the net reduction in demand, which supports higher air freight rates.

·Land freight

Unlike ocean freight and air freight, land freight has generally remained partially available globally as roads have remained in operation, except in countries under severe lockdown. Trucking capacity is strained because of additional demand for their services—especially food and medical supply transportation—under lockdown, combined with reduced employee availability (due to COVID-19-related restrictions), leading to higher rates. Other economic sectors that require land transport, such as manufacturing, are generally not at full capacity because of lockdown. As a result, spot road freight rates have fallen in some markets. Demand for rail services has grown because of higher air cargo freight rates, blank sailings, and longer transit time for trucks.

by Winnie

Yearly Archive 2021