Dropshipping is a retail strategy where brands don’t directly manage and distribute their product inventories. Many dropshippers are purchasing products from Aliepxress or dropshipping agents to ship orders to customers, the benefit of this model is that it does not require sellers to prepare large quantities of goods, and there will be no risk of the product backlog. But this model is suitable for small orders volume business, not for big sales.
Large-scale dropshipping companies will generally work with a Chinese fulfillment centre, the order processing will not be delayed to due an epidemic or peak season production. The timely performance is greatly improved, and the after-sales service is also more convenient, which can enhance the goodwill of buyers and improve the competitiveness of the store.
So how to choose a reliable Chinese fulfillment centre?
1. Price
The first thing is to refer to the price.
Many dropshippers tend to prefer lower prices when choosing a fulfillment centre, although cost savings are a good idea, there are lots of service providers in China, and many sellers have encountered problems such as hidden extra charges, poor service and frequent mistakes, which not only lead to higher costs for dropshippers but also delay the tail-end delivery time, which is especially important for E-Commerce owners. If the follow-up service is not good, it is easy to affect their brand reputation
If the service provider offers a price lower than the industry average, dropshippers should choose carefully in case of further problems. For example, the service provider’s quotation may be ambiguous, and various additional charges may follow after the goods arrive at the warehouse, or other various problems, such as poor follow-up service, difficult communication, untimely operation and so on, will appear.
Ship2eu dedicates to providing transparent pricing:
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Our list pricing is inclusive of receiving, order processing, picking the product, packing the order, the shipping box and postage.
We currently support 2 service levels: Standard (6-18 days), and Express(4-10days). Service levels are measured from the order placement date to the delivery date
2. Fulfillment centre's scale
The next is to see the fulfillment centre’s scale.
Many fulfillment centres are private businesses, some are in home workshop mode, goods are stored in the basement of private homes or warehouses, there are no monitoring facilities and there exist certain security risks, It may even be the operation of house family members, it is easy not to operate the goods in time to delay delivery.
Of course, it is not that small-scale fulfillment centre is not reliable, some small-scale overseas warehouse may operate more quickly. After all, the large-scale fulfillment centre itself is a symbol of strength, and the larger the company, the more it will focus on reputation, what’s more, it is easier to get the t favourable quotes from logistics providers, helping dropshippers save on logistics dispatch costs.
Ship2eu warehouse is 10000+ ㎡ with 15000+ daily orders processing capacity.
With 3 alternative warehouses located at the major ports in China, Ship2eu provides more efficient parcel turnover and a lower risk of logistics delays.
3. Professional information management system
After that, it depends on whether the overseas warehouse has a professional information management system.
With a perfect information management system, dropshippers can import store orders more easily and can track the shipping of the orders. with the system, you do not have to worry about the operation problems caused by the time difference between China and European countries, you just need to upload information to the system according to the platform order, and the fulfillment centre staff will handle the shipment directly according to the orders information.
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Having the IT architecture to support and maintain continuous iterative innovation, Ship2eu is dedicated to providing E-Commerce owners with smarter and higher-quality services:
(1) Specialization, continuously introducing more quality services, including customized services and total solutions, to meet customers’ increasingly diverse product needs.
(2) Digitalization aspect, investing in more intelligent equipment at the logistics and warehousing ends to enhance the automation of business processes and bring more efficient services to our customers.
(3) End-to-end, visualizing data through the system and displaying it intuitively to customers to comprehensively reduce customer follow-up and communication costs.
4. Service capability
Finally, it should seriously consider the service capability of the fulfillment centre. It is mainly the orders processing time and after-sale service.
The ability of fulfillment centre service can be seen from whether the goods are shelved, operated in the warehouse and out of the warehouse quickly and without mistakes to the timely feedback of information.
After-sales service directly affects the buyer’s experience, and quality after-sales service can leave a very good experience for the buyer and help the seller to enhance the brand influence in disguise.
Ship2eu connects your after-sales service team directly online. Higher efficiency and more convenient operations make processing easier and faster, which will bring back happy customers.
Fulfillment centres like Ship2eu can help you in all these aspects. Hundreds of E-Commerce owners and dropshippers benefit from years of close relationships with parcel services, an international warehouse network, and flexible, scalable, yet customized fulfillment solutions.
