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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

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