When we deliver goods, the choice of logistics provider is very important. Especially when the peak season is approaching, the choice of logistics provider is even more important for product sales during the peak season. Therefore, you must be careful when choosing a logistics provider, otherwise you will screw yourself up.
1. What kind of logistics provider should I choose?
I often encounter people asking what price is suitable for logistics, but anyone who asks this question must not understand logistics. Quotation is definitely not the only criterion for us to choose a logistics provider. We also need to examine the logistics provider’s customs clearance capabilities, service capabilities, and warehousing capabilities.
When choosing a logistics provider, you must not just base your decision on the quotation. You must make a comprehensive investigation. You should even try out one or two shipments of goods first, so that you can know whether this logistics provider is feasible.
A qualified logistics provider will definitely not be a grassroots team. If you find in the process of cooperating with a logistics company that the sales, follow-up, after-sales, and finance of the company you come into contact with are always the same person, it means that the logistics company must be a small company. Because a complete logistics company must have a complete operating system, rather than just one person doing all the work.
Of course, this is just an example. We need to observe a logistics company in a variety of ways, and even carefully track the first few tickets we cooperate with a new company. We can also appropriately pose some difficult questions to these sales representatives, ask some non-routine cargo questions, and see how the other party responds. reaction. A logistics company with many customers will inevitably encounter many unconventional problems. If the other party cannot answer such questions quickly, it means that this is not a professional logistics provider.
2. The best way to understand a logistics provider
Obviously, if you want to understand a person, the best way is to get along with that person, observe his words, and observe his color. The same goes for logistics companies. If you want to understand it, you should visit the company and conduct a simple on-site inspection.
In addition, word of mouth is also very important. Ask in some groups you are a member of if anyone knows about this logistics company or has cooperated with it. After all, people who have been through it know whether it is a trap or not. Many logistics companies have warehouses and fleets. Warehouses mainly depend on safety, operability and the quality of warehouse managers. It doesn’t have to be a platform warehouse or a digital warehouse. The quality can be seen from the simple environment of the warehouse area to whether the fire prevention and anti-theft equipment is complete.
There is no need to inspect the vehicles, because there is no Mingshao Logistics Company’s cars there for viewing. Logistics companies’ cars will lose money if they are left alone for a day, and their cars have to go out to make money. If you see a neatly arranged fleet of vehicles waiting for your inspection, the answer is obvious – either they are showing off, or they have no business. The former is useless and the latter is deserted. Naturally, you would not dare to use such a logistics company.