Empat Hal yang Perlu Anda Ketahui dari Logistik E-Commerce

Dec 19, 2016 | Uncategorized

logistics
Jika Anda berminat berbisnis di e-commerce dan ingin gabung di marketplace, ada baiknya Anda mengenal beberapa istilah di proses logistic e-commerce.  Kita kupas menjadi 4 hal penting di bawah. Yuk!

  1. E-Fulfillment Center, artinya e-commerce fulfillment center atau pusat aktivitas pergudangan e-commerce. Di sini semua produk yang dijual dari berbagai sumber penjual/merchandiser ada di sini. Semua disimpan dikelola baik dengan teknologi warehouse management system yang terintegrasi. Biasanya di sini ada pengelola pusat pergudangan e-commerce yang sering disebut jasa third party logistics ecommerce.  Fasilitas ini dapat berukurang besar sampai 1 juta m2 dan biasanya beroperasi 24 jam sehari dan 7 hari seminggu.
  1. Parcel Hub, artinya cabang-cabang pengiriman paket e-commerce yang tersebar di lokasi tertentu. Di sini paket ecommerce sudah disortir dengan destinasi customer yang jelas, dan akan dikirimkan ke pusat pengiriman parcel sebelum akhirnya di kirim ke tangan customer.
  1. Parcel Delivery Centers, artinya pusat pengiriman paket ecommerce yang merupakan tahap terakhir sebelum sampai ke tangan customer. Paket yang telah disortir tiba di pusat-pusat ini dan kemudian dikirim ke customer.
  1. Integrated Technology : Untuk menghindari kesalahan pengiriman kepada customer, maka dibutuhkan teknologi yang dengan sempurna berintegrasi dengan semua aspek dari operasional e-commerceuntuk satu sama lain. Pada intinya, keranjang belanja harus dapat terhubung dengan sistem transportasi untuk memastikan biaya pengiriman dan jadwal dikomunikasikan secara akurat dan ter  Teknologi ini biasanya dimiliki oleh e-commerce enabler, salah satunya 8commerce.

Baca juga:  8Commerce Luncurkan Paket Ecommerce Fulfillment Mulai Rp 2000an

 
 

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