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August 4, 2023 / By ASI Logistics / Uncategorized/ 0 Comments

From Abroad to Asia: Step-By-Step Guide for Seamless Imports

Navigating the complexities of international trade is a strategic move for businesses looking to expand their global reach.

Whether you are a company eager to export to Asia and unlock the vast potential of the local markets (especially given the rising demand of growing middle-class populations and the fast-paced development of e-commerce in the region), or an importer or buyer sourcing goods from abroad, the process can be complex, time-consuming, and bring unexpected added costs for companies, thus requiring meticulous planning and execution. Optimizing and streamlining this process is thus key!

In this comprehensive guide, we will walk you through the step-by-step process of exporting to and importing in Asia, highlighting the best practices and import solutions for seamless, efficient, and cost-effective operations toward the Asian markets!

The first step to exporting/importing your goods is ensuring efficient transportation across international borders. It thus requires careful coordination, adherence to shipping regulations, and selecting the most suitable mode of transportation (sea freight, air freight, road freight, multimodal).

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ASI Logistics provides comprehensive international logistics and freight forwarding solutions, ensuring your products are handled with utmost care throughout the journey.Our experienced team manages every aspect, from ensuring the products’ importability in the destination country and guiding you regarding the most adapted mode of transportation to arranging global pick-up to ensuring timely arrival at your chosen destination on the Asian continent.

By entrusting this step to ASI Logistics, you can focus on your core business while ensuring your goods are in safe hands!

Once your products arrive in Asia, the next critical step is customs clearance and registration, which ensures compliance with the region’s import regulations.

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ASI Logistics’ seasoned experts are well-versed in these processes, guiding you through and handling the paperwork on your behalf, accelerating customs clearance, and ensuring adherence to the destination country’s import guidelines.

Whether you're dealing with standard products or those requiring registration with, for instance, the Chinese National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), such as cosmetics or health supplements, our experienced professionals will guide you through the process, saving you time and effort.

We make this step hassle-free, enabling you to entirely focus on your business’ core activity.

The final step in the import process is the seamless distribution of your products to their intended destinations or final customers.

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ASI Logistics provides end-to-end door-to-door distribution services from the moment of worldwide pick-up until the last mile delivery in China, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Our efficient trucking and unloading services ensure timely and cost-effective delivery, regardless of the scale of your operations.

With ASI Logistics as your reliable partner your products reach their final destination swiftly and securely, helping you meet the demand of the Asian market.

Successfully navigating the import process in Asia is crucial for both companies eager to expand their business to the region and importers/buyers in China seeking to source goods from abroad.

At ASI Logistics, we pride ourselves on delivering tailored solutions that meet the unique import needs of our clients in China, Cambodia, and Vietnam. From international shipping and freight forwarding to customs clearance, efficient storage, pick & pack services, and seamless door-to-door distribution, we ensure your products reach their destination swiftly and securely.

Whether you are venturing into the Asian market or sourcing goods from abroad, ASI Logistics is your trusted partner to unlock endless possibilities for your business.

For the past 15 years, our reputation and success have been built on our flexibility, our adaptability, and our customer-centric ethos.

Thanks to our wide array of services, optimized solutions, and extensive network, we have been ensuring our customers enjoy the most adapted and reliable logistics and freight forwarding services!

Our goal

Provide businesses with seamless and optimized logistics and freight forwarding operations from, to, and within Asia.

ASI Logistics' core values

July 28, 2023 / By ASI Logistics / ASI Logistics Cambodia/ 0 Comments

Cambodia Case Study: Delivering Logistics Excellence

At ASI Logistics, we take pride in providing built-to-suit customized logistics and freight forwarding solutions tailored to meet your unique requirements, no matter the project or the type of goods.

Today, we'd like to share a remarkable case study that showcases the exemplary work of ASI Logistics Cambodia team in handling a challenging project for one of our esteemed customer.

Take a glimpse of our Cambodia team in action, unloading the shipments, transporting them with care, and delivering smiles to our satisfied clients!

Our customer entrusted us with the transportation and delivery of cast iron manhole covers and expansion bolts from China to Cambodia in preparation of a water purification system project they are to handle.

ASI Logistics Cambodia took care of the importing and domestic logistics of this project, offering them CIF services, import customs clearance, trucking services, and unloading services at the destination!

This project demanded meticulous planning, efficient execution, utter care, and a dedicated team of experts to ensure seamless conduct of operations for our customer.

ASI Logistics Cambodia demonstrated remarkable efficiency in handling this shipment, completing the entire project, from handling all necessary customs documentation to the final unloading and delivery at the designated destination, all within an impressive span of just 9 days.

Our team takes great pride in receiving heartfelt appreciation and profound satisfaction from our esteemed customer, who lauded the swiftness, efficiency, rapidity and exceptional quality of our process completion and services for this project!

For the past 15 years, our reputation and success have been built on our flexibility, our adaptability, and our customer-centric ethos.

Thanks to our wide array of services, optimized solutions, and extensive network, we have been ensuring our customers enjoy the most adapted and reliable logistics and freight forwarding services!

Our goal

Provide businesses with seamless and optimized logistics and freight forwarding operations from, to, and within Asia.

ASI Logistics' core values

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July 17, 2023 / By ASI Logistics / Logistics & Supply Chain/ 0 Comments

Tips for Industry-Specific Logistics: Finding Your Logistics Match

In the ever-evolving global market, companies must seek providers that understand the unique needs, challenges and requirements of their specific industry.

At ASI Logistics, we believe the core objective of the logistics & freight forwarding industry is to provide tailor-made solutions that accommodate our customer’s needs rather than forcing their business into a one-size-fits-all solution.

When selecting your logistics & freight forwarding provider, it is thus essential to focus on what to look for in accordance with your own needs, challenges, and opportunities. By considering these key factors, you are sure to select a partner dedicated to addressing the logistical intricacies of your industry and optimizing your supply chain operations accordingly!

One of the key aspects to consider when selecting a logistics and freight forwarding provider is their knowledge and expertise and how applicable they are to your industry. Each sector has its own set of logistic challenges and requirements that demand special attention.

At ASI Logistics, our dedicated teams have acquired a deep knowledge of handling logistics operations in a wide array of industries, from consumer to industrial goods, including perishables, time sensitive goods, or machine tools and parts.

Achieving an AAA Supply Chain is essential for companies seeking a competitive edge in an ever-changing and ever-more-complex business landscape.

Choosing the right logistics and freight forwarding partner is definitely an asset for companies as it enables them to gain access to the expertise, resources, and collaborative relationships needed to unlock their full potential.

At ASI Logistics, we strive to provide you with the right tools and the right collaboration for your company to succeed.

For the past 15 years, our reputation and success have been built on our flexibility, our adaptability, and our customer-centric ethos.

Thanks to our wide array of services, optimized solutions, and extensive network, we have been ensuring our customers enjoy the most adapted and reliable logistics and freight forwarding services!

June 8, 2023 / By ASI Logistics / Logistics & Supply Chain/ AAA Supply Chain • Freight Forwarding • Logistics/ 0 Comments

Thriving Amid Change: The AAA Supply Chain & the Power of Logistics

The AAA Supply Chain was coined in the early 2000s by Hau L. Lee after he observed that having a fast and cost-effective supply chain did not necessarily lead to a competitive advantage.

In response, this model emphasizes three qualities that are essential to a thriving business:

Agility
or the capability to "respond to short-term changes in demand or supply and handle external disruptions smoothly."
Adaptability
or the ability to "adjust the supply chain's design to meet structural shifts in markets and modify the supply network to reflect changes in strategies, technologies, and products."
Alignment
or the capability to "align the interests of all the firms in [the] supply chains with [your] own."

This model enables companies to swiftly respond to changes, thrive in a shifting landscape, and work in sync with their partners toward common goals.

Nearly 20 years after this term was coined, the AAA Supply Chain model is more relevant than ever.

Nevertheless, as the business landscapes evolve, new technologies and information-sharing velocity skyrocket, and in light of the lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic, Lee argues that AAA Supply Chain focuses are to be updated for companies to gain a competitive advantage in the current ecosystem. As such, the emphasis is now on super agility, architectural adaptability, and ecosystem alignment.

Achieving the balance this model advocates for can be challenging, especially given its new focuses. But in reality, your company is not alone in this journey!

Real-Time Visibility:
Collaborating with a trusted and informed logistics partner means having visibility across the supply chain, thus enabling proactive decision-making and swift responses to change.

Flexible Transportation Strategies:
In order to quickly adapt to shifts and mitigate disruption risks, companies need to rely on partners that can provide flexible and reliable solutions. Rely on our multi-modal transportation services, dynamic routing, and tailor-made, dynamic solutions to optimize your operations in the most optimal way.

💡ASI Logistics’ value-added logistics services, customer-first mindset, and reactivity are at your service to ensure your logistics operations remain agile no matter the context!

Network Optimization:
Logistics partners should work closely with companies to regularly assess their supply chain network for optimization opportunities, thus ensuring constant adaptability and improvement.
At ASI Logistics, we always remain at your disposal to further optimize your logistics and freight forwarding operations, and provide you with the right and timely insights necessary to your success.

Seamless Information Sharing:
By enabling seamless information flow and data-driven decision-making, logistics partners support companies in remaining adaptable in a changing business environment.

💡At ASI Logistics, we always remain at your disposal to further optimize your logistics and freight forwarding operations, and provide you with the right and timely insights necessary to your success.

Collaborative Partnerships:
Establishing collaborative partnerships based on trust, shared goals, and open communication is the cornerstone of the alignment criteria.
At ASI Logistics, our ethos is based on customer centricity and translates into one guiding principle: your priorities are ours.

Performance Evaluation:
By working closely with you, your logistics partner enables you to rightly evaluate your supply chain performance and maintain alignment.
Thanks to our wide array of value-added logistics services, we provide you with the visibility essential to achieving our common business objectives.

💡At ASI Logistics, our ethos is based on customer centricity and translates into one guiding principle: your priorities are ours, all the while ensuring your partners along the supply chain are in sync with your company.

💡Thanks to our wide array of value-added logistics services, we provide you with the visibility essential to achieving our common business objectives.

Achieving an AAA Supply Chain is essential for companies seeking a competitive edge in an ever-changing and ever-more-complex business landscape.

Choosing the right logistics and freight forwarding partner is definitely an asset for companies as it enables them to gain access to the expertise, resources, and collaborative relationships needed to unlock their full potential.

At ASI Logistics, we strive to provide you with the right tools and the right collaboration for your company to succeed.

For the past 15 years, our reputation and success have been built on our flexibility, our adaptability, and our customer-centric ethos.

Thanks to our wide array of services, optimized solutions, and extensive network, we drive your company to the AAA Supply Chain success!

Sources:

Hau, L. L. (2004, October). The triple-A supply chain. Harvard Business Review. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15559579/
Patrucco, A. S., & Kähkönen, A.-K. (2021, October). Agility, adaptability, and alignment: New capabilities for PSM in a post-pandemic world. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9761048/
Singhania, S. (2022, January 19). The new AAA Supply Chain - MBR Journal. MBR Journal - A Grassroots Initiative to Bridge Practice, Education, and Research. https://mbrjournal.com/2021/01/26/the-new-aaa-supply-chain/

May 26, 2023 / By ASI Logistics / ASI Logistics China • ASI Logistics News/ ASI Movers • China • News • Shanghai/ 0 Comments

Swift Transition for an Inspiring Workspace: Change is in the Air for Our Shanghai HQ

To ensure a smooth and efficient move, we entrusted the task to ASI Movers, ASI Logistics’ moving and relocation brand. With their expertise and attention to detail, they flawlessly executed the relocation within a single day, ensuring minimal disruption to our operations and a seamless transition to our new working space!

We are proud to have ASI Movers as part of the ASI Logistics family, and their expertise and dedication to excellence played a crucial role in the success of our Shanghai office move.

Check out ASI Movers’ article for more details on how they performed this office move seamlessly!

April 28, 2023 / By ASI Logistics / Logistics/ China • Freight Forwarding • International Trade • Logistics • Supply Chain/ 0 Comments

From Cost Management to Compliance: The Answers to Your Logistics Concerns

According to a report issued by Fortune Magazine, 94% of the Fortune 1000 companies faced Covid-19 induced supply chain disruptions. This figure and, more generally, the pandemic, highlighted how central to a company’s health its logistics operations are.

Does your company rely on domestic or international shipping?

Understanding where the disruptions come from is thus essential to conducting smooth operations, and the first step toward finding the right strategies to ensure one’s business runs smoothly.

Today, ASI Logistics dives into the main concerns businesses have in regard to supply chain and logistics operations, and the best practices to ensure their logistics operations not only run smoothly, yet also elevate their efficiency and even integrate into successful strategies.

Businesses around the world are concerned about how to best optimize their costs and correctly channel their spendings and investments into the functions that create the most value. Logistics operations are no exception to this logic, and finding the right solution that meets your business needs and priorities is essential.

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Your logistics partner should thus, first and foremost, be an attentive ear who takes the time to understand your business and its specificities and offers informed solutions.

At ASI Logistics, we do not believe in the “one-size-fits-all” rhetoric. Our customer-centric ethos is engrained in the designing of built-to-suit, customized logistics solutions. Whether your project calls for velocity, cost-optimization, multi-modal transportation, route optimization, or out-of-the-box solution, we treat your demand with diligence.

Thanks to our extensive portfolio of services, our teams of experts present in 8 key locations, our trusted partners, and our worldwide network, you are sure to be provided with the perfect solution to fit your needs.

Inventory management is a critical aspect of logistics operations. Companies need to balance having enough inventory on hand to meet customer demand while minimizing the costs associated with carrying excess inventory. The perfect equilibrium of this tricky balance lies in both your business model and the overall business environment you evolve in.

Relying on a flexible and responsive logistics and freight forwarding partner nevertheless remains a staple of successfully optimizing your inventory management to the needs and priorities of the time.

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ASI Logistics offers scalable and connected warehousing (bonded and non-bonded) and distributions services and optimizes their solutions to fit your needs, while our teams are dedicated to ensuring your goods arrive on time and in perfect conditions so they can meet your needs and your clients when and where they’re needed!

By working with us, you ensure that the priorities of your partner are aligned with yours, and can focus on matters the most: satisfy your customers.

Companies need to comply with a variety of regulations and requirements related to logistics operations, including safety regulations, customs requirements, and environmental regulations. Failure to comply with these regulations can result in significant fines and other penalties, in short, with great disruptions.

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Being up-to-date and informed about these regulations can be challenging, especially for businesses that lie on the smaller side.

With 15 years of expertise, readily informed teams, and an ethos of open communication and clarity, ASI Logistics is dedicated to ensuring your shipments go through registration and customs smoothly.

For the past 15 years, ASI Logistics has built a solid presence and expertise in the Asian region. With offices in 6 strategic locations, well-established partnerships, and worldwide network, we enable our customers to benefit from worldwide, flexible logistics and freight forwarding services, tailored to fit their needs.

Our goal

Provide businesses with seamless and optimized logistics and freight forwarding operations from, to, and within Asia.

ASI Logistics’ core values

April 13, 2023 / By ASI Logistics / Logistics & Supply Chain/ Air Freight • Freight Forwarding • International Trade • Logistics/ 0 Comments

Is Resorting to Air Freight the Optimal Solution for Your Business?

Time-sensitive goods: air freight is mostly used for its velocity and the reliability of its ETA by businesses whose project requires tight time management.
Indeed, this transportation method is not affected by road and rail conditions, and weather conditions cause shorter delays than they do to sea freight.
Several situations might call for resorting to air freight's 560mph, among which:
- Having to complete time-sensitive or urgent shipments, i.e., perishable goods, medical supplies, high-value goods, or time-critical components. In such cases, air freight allows transporting these goods across long distances in a matter of hours or days, depending on the origin and destination.
- Relying on just-in-time inventory management, i.e., shipping goods as they are needed instead of maintaining large inventories. Air freight then allows for reducing inventory costs and streamlining supply chain operations as goods can be flown as needed to meet production or customers' demand.
- Dealing with seasonal or promotional goods, e.g., seasonal garment collections or holiday merchandise. When dealing with tight or lean production and delivery, air freight thus appears as the best fit to meet customers' peak demand periods.
High-value shipments: for high-value goods, such as electronics, luxury items, or precious metals, air freight may be recommended due to its comparatively higher security measures and lower transit times.
Small quantities: air freight is best fitted to accommodate smaller volumes due to its comparatively scarcer available space and higher rates.
Easily reaching the entire world: when shipping internationally or across long distances, air freight can be comparatively more efficient, as it allows for faster delivery times. It is also a particularly good choice when trying to reach remote or difficultly accessible locations with limited transportation options.

As highlighted by the World Bank, resorting to air freight can be leveraged by companies and integrated to their business strategy and used to leverage their operations.

"The use of air freight can create competitive advantages" for producers who can then agree on shorter order times and for manufacturers who can then use the velocity of air freight to replenish inventories as the need arises.
"Air freight can be used as part of a strategy of diversification," allowing businesses to introduce products with shorter shelf lives or provide reliable delivery of smaller volumes in a new market before switching to cheaper modes of transportation that can accommodate larger volumes once the market is established.

As a leader in logistics and freight forwarding, ASI Logistics provides customized, high-quality air freight solutions crafted to fit your needs. Thanks to our comprehensive range of air, sea, and land freight services, we provide you with the right solution for your cargo.

Partnering with a reliable logistics provider is essential to any company's success. By working with ASI Logistics, you ensure your goods arrive at their destination safely and on time, your logistics operations are optimized to your needs, and your contact persons' priorities are aligned with yours.

We understand that your business relies on timely and cost-effective logistics solutions that don't sacrifice quality. Prioritizing our clients’ needs, embracing the uniqueness of every request, and building long-lasting business relationships are at the core of our ethos.

Thanks to our wide range of services, 15 years of expertise, and outside-of-the-box thinking, we strive to offer customized solutions that meet our customers’ specific needs and demands.

March 24, 2023 / By ASI Logistics / Logistics & Supply Chain/ Freight Forwarding • Logistics • Sea Freight/ 0 Comments

Sea Freight: When Slower Rhymes with Smarter

Shipping large quantities: sea freight is ideal for shipping large quantities of goods or large items, as it can accommodate large volumes of cargo.
Long-distance shipping: sea freight is the chosen means of transportation for long-distance shipping, especially thanks to its cost-efficiency.
Lower urgency or flexible timeframes: sea freight is a slower yet more cost-efficient mode of transportation. Hence, if your schedule and type of goods allow it, sea freight is an excellent choice.
Environmental friendliness: compared to air and land freight, sea freight is the most sustainable option and is set to become even more so as clean energy shipping is developing, allowing one to reduce transportation-induced carbon emissions efficiently when moving large quantities of goods. As more and more businesses and customers are concerned about the environmental impact of shipping, sea freight thus appears as the chosen path for companies working toward sustainable operations.

As a leader in logistics and freight forwarding, ASI Logistics provides superior quality and high-efficiency customized sea freight services for businesses of all sizes, no matter their project.

Partnering with a reliable logistics provider is essential to any company’s success. By working with ASI Logistics, you ensure your shipments arrive at their destination safely and on time, your logistics operations are optimized to your needs, and your contact persons’ priorities are aligned with yours.

We offer both FCL & LCL service with a wide choice of ocean carriers, thus allowing us to be flexible and offer more frequent sailings, additional vessel space, and reliable schedules.

We provide you with the right tools to craft the logistics solution most adapted to your needs and priorities, i.e., businesses can choose between an emphasis on cost-efficiency, velocity, or sustainability as the main feature of their logistics operations.

By working with us, businesses can also measure the environmental impact of their logistics operations, which they can integrate into their sustainability report and promote to their customers and partners.

March 16, 2023 / By ASI Logistics / Logistics & Supply Chain/ Cambodia • China • E-Commerce • Freight Forwarding • International Trade • Logistics • South East Asia • Vietnam/ 0 Comments

International Trade Tips: Navigating Asia’s booming e-commerce logistics landscape

Following the Covid-19 pandemic, consumers' and businesses' habit of relying on e-commerce to acquire goods has become more engrained in daily practices.

Given the role played by Asia in global manufacturing, it is no wonder that this rise would significantly impact this region's logistics sector.

According to "Asia: The highway of value for global logistics," published by McKinsey, Asia is set to account for 57% of the global e-commerce logistics market growth between 2020 and 2025. They note that "this may make Asia the single-most-important region for global trade and logistics activities going forward."

Furthermore, if e-commerce rises worldwide, it does so even more in Asia. While China already ranks as the most penetrated e-commerce market globally, with the digital economy accounting for more than 38% of its GDP in 2020, other Asian countries are not far behind. In particular, South-East Asia is experiencing a surge in e-commerce, boosted by massive growth in the digital payments sector, the rise of social commerce (the usage of social media and other online media to sell or buy products or services), and the maturing of e-commerce live streaming.

The rise of E-commerce has led to an increase in demand for transportation services and adapted warehousing facilities in Asia.

To answer this demand, resorting to multiple transportation modes has become vital to optimize operations and reduce costs. For example, a company might resort to a combination of air, sea, and land transportation to move goods from one location to another instead of relying on only one mode of transportation.

In addition, E-commerce has led to an increase in demand for adapted warehousing space. Indeed, the latter needs to answer the prerequisites specific to customers' e-commerce activity and region of operation. Depending on your operations, you might want to ensure you can rely on strategically located facilities or that they offer warehouse management and added value serv

It is important to note that the Asian logistics infrastructure is not uniformly developed across the region. On the one hand, East Asian countries such as China can rely on robust infrastructure and networks and established providers to support the rise of e-commerce. On the other hand, several ASEAN countries' infrastructure and logistics services are yet to mature, despite rapidly developing and attracting investors

You might thus want to adopt agile supply chain practices to respond quickly to customer demand and market conditions.

Hence, we can measure the importance for businesses whose manufacturing operations or retail market happen in the region to rely on trusted logistics partners with solid expertise in freight forwarding from, to, and within Asia, a reliable network, and adapted facilities.

For the past 15 years, ASI Logistics has built a solid presence and expertise in the Asian region. With offices in 6 strategic locations, well-established partnerships, and worldwide network, we enable our customers to benefit from worldwide, flexible logistics and freight forwarding services, tailored to fit their needs.

Our goal

Provide businesses with seamless and optimized logistics and freight forwarding operations from, to, and within Asia.

ASI Logistics' core values