For overseas brands using bonded retail stock, distinguish customer returns from unsold inventory and assess return-to-origin or destruction procedures before those decisions become urgent.
Prepare an overseas-to-China shipment by aligning the commercial record, packing detail and warehouse receiving brief, then resolving product-specific requirements before departure.
A practical supply chain planning method for overseas brands: separate demand assumptions, dispatchable stock, replenishment milestones and slow-stock decisions before a China launch.
Compare overseas-to-China supply chain quotations using the same shipment, stock profile and delivery pattern, including handling, exceptions and responsibility at each handover.
For overseas brands selling to Chinese consumers and distributors, start with the buyer and sales channel before choosing an import route or reserving warehouse space.
Describe what happens while a shipment is unloaded, stored and dispatched. A room temperature is one input; the handover brief also needs exposure limits and exception decisions.
Before stock serves both wholesale and parcel orders, agree how cartons, units and bundles are recorded. Use a conversion example to prepare the warehouse data brief.