Visability and Control: Critical Factors for Growing your Business in China
The Trade Facilitation Services provides you with:
1. Simplification and control of the route to market. Focus on investments and strategy instead of operations. By simplifying and centralizing the supply chain function, the complexity of business decreases.
2. Limitation of financial risk and CAPEX possibility. Distributors might have an increased financial risk profile or might just not have the needed capital to invest in CAPEX. By changing the route to market, you free the distributors of the need to finance the supply chain and as such, they can invest their capital in accelerating sales instead of financing an increasing inventory. This leads to fewer discussions on payment conditions and better availability of your goods in the market, which will grow sales.
3. A scalable logistics- and trading platform for market expansion. By centralizing and streamlining all supply chain- and trade activities, you create the platform to generate economies of scale, while at the same time you put the supply chain risk to one company instead of multiple ones.
4. Combined with the supply chain- and trade knowledge and regional local expertise of Ahlers, we will take care of doing your business in a compliant way, and with that also to overcome the ever changing local regulations and not to forget if any sanctions may apply. Moreover we also take care, on your behalf, of cross border financial transactions, tax payments, reporting and auditing.
Strategic decision: By taking control of your route to market and re-focusing your model from sell-in to sell-out, you need more than just logistics, import, and distribution. You need a strategic decision to change the way in which you do business in China. Obviously we are more then happy to share our local knowledge, expertise and best practices with you.
What Ahlers can mean for you:
Ahlers Trade Facilitation Services gives you the benefits and sales opportunities of having your own legal entity without having one. You use Ahlers’ trading platform and back-office services to orchestrate your route-to-market and outsource anything from transportation, import, customs clearance, order-2-cash operations, financial transactions and local distribution in China.
On top of that, through Ahlers’ shared services set-up, you also have the needed office space, legal-, IT-,accountancy-, and HR capabilities, which you need to manage your business and local operations.
Any Benelux Multi-National company that wants to sell or do business in China can use the Ahlers Trade Facilitation Services. Whether you have a legal entity and want to expand your business in growth markets, or do not have a legal entity and work with distributors, our services brings added value to achieve your revenue growth.
The services are most valuable for companies who want to transparently control their complete route-to- market including control over sales channels, such as distributors, resellers, retailers, e-Commerce platforms, whilst at the same time ‘know your customers’ and accelerate your sales, without the burden of managing your own legal entity.
Ahlers acts as your trading partner, who takes the responsibility to manage the import and total supply chain efficiently and transparently. On top of that, we use our trading platform to perform both commercial- and warranty transactions strictly on your behalf. At the same time, you are responsible to define and execute your commercial strategy, meaning you are always in complete control of the entire transaction.