In addition to providing a third-party logistics system, Shopee also builds its own logistics service (Shopee Logistics Service, referred to as SLS). SLS provides cross-border sellers with a one-stop cross-border logistics solution to solve sellers’ delivery problems and buy and sell at the same time. Both parties can view the real-time shipping status of the order, improving communication efficiency between buyers and sellers.
1. Introduction to Shopee Logistics Service
Shopee’s self-built logistics service Shopee logistics Sevice, referred to as “SLS”, aims to provide sellers with a pleasant shopping experience and build an efficient trading platform for sellers. . SLS provides a one-stop cross-border logistics solution for cross-border sellers, allowing sellers to save operating costs. It is a low-cost and efficient cross-border logistics solution. In terms of operation mode, sellers only need to print the Shopee waybill in a unified manner and deliver the goods to the Shopee transshipment warehouse. There is no need to prepare goods in advance to the Shopee transshipment warehouse. In terms of work efficiency, low prices and high efficiency are achieved, and the delivery price is about 30% lower than the market price. The destination can be reached in as fast as 3 days; in terms of usage scope, all Shopee markets are open.
At the same time, SLS is still being upgraded, and more leading companies in the logistics industry are joining SLS. The transshipment warehouses cover major shipping areas across the country, which can comprehensively improve the sea transportation capacity of Chinese products. Air transportation service coverage and flights are constantly increasing, and direct flights from East China and South China have been realized. Multiple logistics solutions are available in parallel, using air and land transportation to enhance transportation flexibility.
2. Logistics Development History of Shopee Logistics Service
2016 is the year of toddlerhood in the development history of cross-border e-commerce in Southeast Asia. This year, only two countries, Singapore and Malaysia, have relatively complete laws and regulations that can formally and large-scale support the import and export business of personal e-commerce small packages. At the same time, Indonesian customs has just ended a three-month red light period, and countless cross-border players have failed in Indonesia; a considerable part of Thailand’s personal e-commerce small package imports still rely on OBC (personal baggage consignment); the Philippines The luggage check-in for Filipino maids is also silently supporting the Philippines’ personal e-commerce small package import network. And all these have one thing in common. The growing demand for cross-border e-commerce and the seriously lagging laws, regulations, and cross-border service infrastructure have brought the pain points and bottlenecks of cross-border e-commerce in Southeast Asia, cross-border logistics, into the spotlight.
It was also in this year that Shopee began to launch the cross-border self-built logistics solution Shopee Logisties Service, in order to break through this bottleneck that restricts the development of cross-border e-commerce and help Chinese sellers smoothly go to Southeast Asia. . SLS’s first stop was Indonesia, which has frustrated countless sellers and logistics service providers, and opened a breakthrough in this largest market in Southeast Asia with a population of nearly 300 million. By the end of 2017, the first year after the SLS Indonesia network was built, SLS had become a dark horse in the Southeast Asian cross-border e-commerce market with a price that was 30% lower than the Indonesian market average at that time. Subsequently, SLS successively completed the construction of logistics channels in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam and other markets, and completed the opening of all sites in April 2018, realizing the grand vision of helping Chinese sellers, Chinese brands, and Chinese manufacturing to go overseas easily, and more It is in response to the “One Belt, One Road” initiative proposed by President Xi in 2013.
In 2019, with the further optimization and polishing of SLS, it has become an important part of the basic services of cross-border e-commerce in Southeast Asia, and supports the rapid and vigorous development of cross-border e-commerce in the Southeast Asian market. This has also become a new starting point for SLS to continue to move forward and serve the sustained and rapid development of cross-border e-commerce in Southeast Asia.