Case: Dual-way pre-stowage

With increasing oil price and administrative costs as well as market costs, resources must be integrated so as to obtain more profits. Increasing the actual stowage rate is a good measure, which has been seriously concerned by transport enterprises during long-way transport, however, it is still seldom during short-way transport within port. Traditional imports and exports are independent of each other, and such single-way transport is serious waste of business resources and vehicle utilization efficiency. Integrating actual characteristics of exports/ imports transport and optimizing disorderly business resources for double-way transport may increase vehicle actual loading rate, utilization rate and profiting rate. Simply for imports containers, only the transport from imports port to unloading plant are effective with cargo, and the return with empty containers to stacking area near the imports port is just waste. Under the same method, exports have the similar wastes when the empty containers go to plant for loading. Can we utilize the empty containers to load exports cargo? Upon such integration, two single-way wastes will be eliminated and large amount of oil consumption and administrative costs will be saved. However, such operation mode requires good transport equipments (imports containers are normally heavy), large amount of business resources (no balance between exports/ imports resources) and experienced team (to handle abnormal scenarios).

Case: VMI
Japanese invested enterprise K-M is a global Top 500 manufacturer in office automation equipments. Under its original raw material logistics mode there were the following channels: 1. imports from Hong Kong; 2. Plant shift through suppliers. During such operation problems occurred such as over-stock, too high capital occupies, low efficiency, and lack of management. To handle it we started designing and operating one set of VMI system in 2003, under which all the suppliers deliver cargo to Vendor-Hub, then either suppliers themselves or we will manage such cargo, and finally deliver to K-M based on the requirements of K-M. All the operations can be managed and settled through the VLMS system of our company. In the new mode, as on-stock cargo doesn’t belong to K-M, the storage costs and occupies capital have been much saved. Meanwhile, wide application of LCL mode significantly reduces costs in customs declaration and transport. Moreover, as professional logistics management of our company is there, the error rate is much reduced. And in terms of efficiency, if provided with stable PO time, the time from sending S/O to receipt of cargo has been changed from previous 2-15 days to current 4 hours; undoubtedly this is a great progress.

Case: Milk-Run
In traditional domestic purchase of large-scale chain stores, the exports part is operated in the way of LCL through supervised warehouses; under such mode logistics costs, especially costs in transports and customs declaration, can not be effectively reduced. Yoursender hereby provides three extra solutions:
Milk-Run mode: this mode is just a multi-point collection mode, under which coordination and management on VLMS system of coordination logistics may realize that a vehicle in single-way transport can collect cargo from various suppliers in priority sequence, significantly reducing transport costs and time costs.
Mode of delivery to local supervised warehouse: this mode is to back shift supervised warehouses in traditional mode to customs supervising warehouses of the origin; as customs supervising warehouse at the origin have advantages in costs compared with supervised warehouses in Shenzhen, and warehouses at origin will make convenient for suppliers to check cargo or execute other operations, this mode definitely reduces storage and transport costs.
Mode of delivery to ordinary warehouse: this mode is to cooperate with ordinary warehouse at the origin and combine cargo from the same origin but subject with different shipping duration and trade countries at the same ordinary warehouse, then export to customs supervising warehouses in Shenzhen for further division and combination. This mode can save large amount of transport costs for cargo exports with the same origin.