One friend asked me one question, what's the meaning of "drop shipment",then I found the answer as follows:
“We are having some business websites having about 9000 hits every day.Situated in business in
What are your shipping lines ,have you done drop shipping before?
Please send your products' rates and images in well oriented manner and with Shipping detail.”------From a client
"Drop-shipping"
Definition: An arrangement whereby a mail-order or Internet merchant accepts orders for products, and then pays a manufacturer or distributor to ship the product to the customer.
其实你的那个客户是经销商, 买了产品再卖给他的用户,他这样要求直接把货送到用户那里,目的是减少1趟运输费用啦!
是指直接交运, 在美国指批发商向制造商采购货物,但约定货物无须经批发商转运,而又制造商直接运交批发商所指定的零售商的运送方式
Drop shipment means that the merchandise would be shipped from your factory (of course after you receive payment and shipping cost) and there would be an agreement not to contact my customer inorder to conduct future business and profit.
就是用他的地址，寄给他的客户。这样他就可以卖了东西直接赚差价钱。没有风险。
drop ship order--if something is drop shipped it usually means the seller don't have the items, that they will instruct the supplier to ship directly to the buyer也就是说当卖方手中没有买方所需货物时，卖方会向供货商下定单，由供货商直接提供货物给买方. drop shipment（直接发运）. 通过在不处理、不入库或不交付的情况下销售产品来完成销售订单的方法。销售公司从供应商处购买产品，然后请供应商直接将产品发运至客户。
可以参考：drop shipment----：(制造商)直运销售
dropshipment(制造商)直运销售是一个传统的销售方式: 制造商(或者批发商)直接将货物以转售方(包括发行人,零售商或者中间商)的名义运送给最终消费者客户.传统的直运销售包括三方:制造商,零售商,和消费者客户;两份合同:制造商与零售商,零售商与消费者客户;但是只有一次货物运输:制造商直接发货给最终消费者.
约定所有的包装和说明都必须使用他指定的材料,印刷和文字等等. 所以在上面的操作方式中,生产者作为"DropShippper直运人",不是要绕过国内任何人,而是要考虑以下问题: 1.货物是否符合直运销售模式?某些产品是不适合邮寄的方式来寄送的,如贵重物品,易碎物品,易腐物品,危险物品,对方国家禁运物品等等 2.如何报价?在国外,直运销售的模式非常普通,并非新兴事物.任何人都可以从专业的"DropShippper直运人(包括制造商或者批发商)那里得到详细的Dropshipment的目录或者详细的产品电子数据(包括产品图片,描述,单价等等),所以任何人都可以非常方便的用印刷目录或者在线网站开展DropShipment直运销售工作.但是对于,生产者的公司来讲,存在着这方面的报价和资料准备问题,如何给出适合的价格?而且这个价格要考虑利润,运费,包装等等问题. 3.作为dropshipment(制造商)直运销售的销售方式通常只在本国发生,不太有跨境销售,即时跨境销售也通常存在与一个经济或者地区的共同体内,因为货物的出口报关和进口报关工作是一项繁琐的工作.即使现在有强大的快递公司如DHL,FedEx,UPS等提供物流支持,但是对于,生产者的公司来讲还是存在[如何控制运费成本,如何保证货物出口和进口报关顺利,如何支付货物进口税收]等等一系列问题. 4.货款的收受问题,对于小额的直运销售方式,频繁的货物出口会造成货款收受的频繁,如果快速安全的接受客户的汇款并做外汇核销也是个问题.
5.....其他所有可以考虑到的问题......
company A: buyer in China
company B: seller in China
company C: seller in UK (producer)
(relationship between B & C: branch companies, ie. two independant companies which belong to one multinational organisation)
example:
A would like to buy cargo D from B in China, but B can't provide D at the moment for several reasons (lack of stock, or is not allowed to have production chain in China, etc...) so B has to turn to C for help and askes C to provide the cargo. But A doesn't want to buy cargo from C directly due to some reasons (Customs delcaration etc...) So the solution is: A places an order to B, and B places an internal order to C, then C delivers the cargo to A; and the payment procedure is the same: A pays B, and B pays C.
So, under this situation, this shipmenet is called drop shipment, thus the order is named as drop ship order.
drop shipment
Drop shipment or drop shipping is a type of retailing where the retailer does not keep goods in stock, but instead passes the customer's order and shipment details to the wholesaler, who then dispatches the goods to the customer directly. The retailer makes their profit on the difference between the wholesale and retail price.