Our warehouse in China facilitates and serves our clients. As our warehouse only charges when it is used, no structural fees are charged to make use of a warehouse in China. Resulting in a facilitation within China full of benefits.
In comparison with using the warehouse of your shipping agent, having an own warehouse in China can be much more profitable. As shipping agents focus on processing shipments as fast and productive as possible, an own warehouse provides you the actual profitable benefits. We’d like to share with you some benefits;
Consolidation
The most common benefit of having a warehouse in China is that you are able to consolidate smaller shipments. Especially for certain business models and business sectors, consolidation is a common supply chain operation to facilitate the supply lines.
Storage (Temporary or structural)
A warehouse in China facilitates the possibility to store goods for a certain period. Storage can be the solution when certain shipments need to wait until other shipments arrive to consolidate. It provides the opportunity to hold stock of products in storage to ensure supply. Creating less dependence on the factory’s leadtimes and therefore decreases risk on delayed supply of goods.
Packing, Re-packing, bundle products/sets, labeling, marking and so on
A warehouse can facilitate a small to bigger assembly line. It provides a location to receive additional products or packaging to organize re-packings, bundle or full packaging of bulk items. With a warehouse there is a chance to label and marking products correctly before sending out to the destination countries. Saving time and labour costs to be made if all work takes place in your destination country.
Product assembly
A warehouse in China facilitates the opportunity to do simple till medium assemblies. It provides a warehouse and location to receive and store spareparts. It can house an assembly line with the needed tools such as solding units, screw drivers, small machinery etcetera.
Sending directly from China to consumers worldwide
A warehouse in China makes you able to send out goods from China directly to customers worldwide. Leaving out shipping-, warehousing- and labourcosts in your country. Receiving factory orders, splitting shipments, organize product categories or prepare customer pre-orders are all options facilitated by having a warehouse in China. Major profit gains are seen within ecommerce, pre-order businesses and brands in B2C and B2B sectors when moving their warehousing operations (partly) to China.
One central location for (QC) quality control
A warehouse and its storage facilitation offers the opportunity to receive multiple production orders or production sample amounts at one location in China. Product quality inspections can therefore be held at one single location within China.
For some product categories and business models, inland shipping costs are significantly lower and easier to organize compared to travel costs, planning difficulties and labour costs when organizing QC inspections on site at factories nation wide. One central location is therefore saving costs and make your supply chain more profitable. Optimizing your QC inspections by executing all QC inspections at one location is therefore a profitable benefit of having a warehouse in China.
Retour items and replacements within China
Sending products or full shipments back to China from your country is mostly not profitable or unpractical. High costs and practical difficulties creates an ongoing discussion and negotiation about the costs and compensations with manufacturers.
Sending products and shipments back to suppliers within China is convenient. Receiving replacements for retours shipments are easily able to receive within China without many additional costs.
When you are in control within the borders of China, detecting problems and change ways can optimize processes, save costs and gain profits.