Santa is Not the Only One Busy Shipping All the Parcels Worldwide
Santa Claus is probably the most efficient and best-serving logistics provider in the world. After all, flying all over the world overnight and delivering all your gifts (or coal, if you’re naughty) has been efficient to the point that it makes all 3PLs jealous. In reality, if you want to catch up with the e-commerce sales season (such as Black Friday, Cyber Monday, etc.), you have a lot of strenuous, time-consuming preparation to do in advance, from inventory management to logistics fulfillment.
Still, even if you don’t have a Christmas sleigh and the magic reindeer, it’s not impossible to do the global shipping overnight. We have compiled the following five tips to help you enjoy the Christmas benefits!
5 Tips to Complete Global Shipping Like Santa
Here are 5 tips to help you better prepare yourself for global shipping during Christmas, and, hopefully, fruitful eCommerce business.
1. Get started ahead
The best way to prepare is always to get started, and get started early in addressing any challenges ahead. Let’s face it, all the efforts spent in marketing and selling could have gone wasted, if the fulfillment and distribution logistics cannot ensure the top customer experiences.
2. Control rising carrier costs
The inflation and the COVID-19 pandemic will likely contribute to skyrocketing carrier costs, and you should seek to cut down unnecessary spending as much as possible. Instead of simply passing the cost onto the consumer, which may harm a positive customer experience as well as business in the longer term, you should spare no effort in accounting for carrier increases.
3. Offset labor shortages
Labor shortages have been taking a toll on logistics for the past years. The shortage of drivers and other staffing-related issues present the logistics companies challenges to adapt to their customers’ changing business demand. To offset labor shortage, many logistics providers are turning to automation, a critical factor for many brands to consider too when looking for less disrupted, long-term order fulfilment partners.
4. Communicate with customers
Providing transparency during a critical shopping season paves the way for customer loyalty. After all, unlike Santa, you need the customers to keep going back to you and place more than one order all year round.
Presenting all information related to global shipping upfront improves the overall customer experience. But rather than sitting all day to monitor and report the logistics status to your customers, try linking them with your OMS. Customers with more realistic expectations can be better retained, even after the holiday season.
5. Optimize fulfillment options
Even when more and more consumers buy online, physical locations are still of significance in fulfilling shoppers’ demands. Pick up in-store fulfillment is expected to continue in 2023, with more brands reassess their in-store fulfillment process and try optimizing the customer experience.
About YunFulfillment Warehouse
Even Santa needs help to do all the hard work alone, and neither can any business.
Luckily, there are many ways to prioritize a holiday logistics strategy and optimize related processes, such as setting up the right fulfillment solutions, building up inventory to offset the holiday rush, or simply partnering up with the best one-station and highly integrated service supplier, such as YunFulfillment Warehouse. In addition, YunFulfillment Warehouse meets the fulfillment demands of worldwide eCommerce businesses, and offers warehouse, picking & packing, and more!
Supported by Yun Express, with a warehouse set in your consumers’ locations, Yun Fulfillment Warehouse accelerates shipping times, and reduces last-mile deliveries, thus addressing the delay issues during peak seasons like Christmas.
Much like the jolly old man himself, Yun is prepared to offer complete order fulfillment support and swift global shipping and logistics services throughout the holidays!
