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

Exciting news! ASI Logistics has relocated its Shanghai headquarters to a vibrant new office, reflecting our company’s growth and positive transformations. With ASI Movers ensuring a seamless move, our teams now thrive in a collaborative and inspiring workspace. Discover how our commitment to people development fuels our dynamic company culture and how this will benefit your own business!

Change is in the air at ASI Logistics!

We are thrilled to announce that our Shanghai headquarters have recently relocated to a brand new office space. This local move reflects not only our recent company development but also means a lot of positive changes for our teams!

ASI Movers Springing Into Action

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!

People Development: An Office to Foster Our Company Culture

At ASI Logistics, we understand the importance of a comfortable and inspiring work environment.

With People Development being one of our core values and drawing from Human Relations Theory, our new workspace is designed to prioritize our teammates’ well-being and satisfaction and create a positive and inspiring environment to further our already thriving dynamic, productive, and innovative company culture!

Located in Shanghai’s Suzhou Creek, with a peaceful view of the flowing river, our new office is designed to foster collaboration, creativity, and a strong sense of unity among our team.

With a thoughtfully planned layout that brings our talented colleagues together, it encourages collaboration and the exchange of ideas between teams.

In this brand-new warm and stimulating atmosphere, we are ready to create the most fitted solutions for your logistics needs!

Choosing ASI Logistics as your logistics and freight forwarding partner means benefiting from the services that not only understand the intricacies of international trade but also place great importance on the well-being and development of its team members.

Looking forward to welcoming you to our new office space as we accompany your business on its global journey!

For the past 15 years, ASI Logistics has built a solid presence and expertise in the Asian region. With offices in 8 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

👉Customer Centricity👈

👉Sustainability👈

👉People Development👈

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

Logistics is key to business health, but also source of many concerns. Today, we tackle the most common apprehensions companies raise regarding their logistics operations. From cost management to compliance, including inventory management, find out how to not only ensure smooth logistics operations, yet also make them part of successful business strategies! 

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.

Cost Managementt: Spending Where It Matters

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.

 

💡THE ANSWER💡

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.

Supply Chain Disruptions: Leveraging Flexibility in Uncertain Times

Disruptions in the supply chain, such as natural disasters, geopolitical events, or transportation disruptions, can have a significant impact on a company’s logistics operations.

💡THE ANSWER💡

At ASI Logistics, we are committed to being the most up-to-date and responsive in case of such disruptions. Our a solution to any disprution.

Inventory Management: Meeting Customers’ Demands While Minimizing Costs

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.

💡THE ANSWER💡

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.

Compliance & Regulations: Ensuring Smooth Import & Export

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.

 

💡THE ANSWER💡

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.

Logistics and freight forwarding efficiency are essential to a business’ success. That is the reason why we developed comprehensive sets of services that cover all the needs that might arise over the course of your company’s journey!

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

👉Customer Centricity👈

👉Sustainability👈

👉People Development👈

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

E-commerce revolutionized the Asian logistics industry. How then to master your operations in the region? In today's article, ASI Logistics breaks down everything you need to know and guides you through optimizing your logistics operations in Asia.

The rise of E-commerce has transformed how both B2C and B2B companies operate and disrupted traditional business models.

For businesses involved in E-commerce, logistics, and supply chain are the most strategic aspects of their operations. In today's article, we explore the impact of e-commerce on your logistics operations in Asia and lay out the best practices for managing your logistics operations in the region.

Asia: the region where e-commerce spreads its wings the widest

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.

What to pay attention to if your e-commerce business operates in Asia

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

👉Customer Centricity👈

👉Sustainability👈

👉People Development👈

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China is “Orderly Reopening”: What impact for your supply chain?

In the case of China, the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic have only seen little to no supply chain disruption, except for the initial outbreak and lockdown in 2020. Indeed, most disturbances were related to the virus’ effects on the main trade lanes to North America and Europe. China thus appeared as a reliable exporter in 2020 and 2021.

What about now? With the country’s zero-Covid policy coming to an end, and as international travel and thus business visits ease, one can wonder what does the future hold?

Let's find out!

Smoother cross-border and inter-provincial operations

Cross-border operations that involve China have become smoother as authorities announced the “orderly reopening” of the land border crossings to “smooth customs clearance” at ports and the end of anti-covid measures for all imported cold-chain foods and non-cold chain items.

Concrete actions by many border cities have quickly followed these announcements.

For instance, the town of Ruili (Yunnan) now allows cross-border drivers to pass directly through the port to deliver goods, whereas before, there were to be different drivers on both sides of the border. The end of PCR test, health code requirements (that slowed down border crossing), and closed-loop system are among the most common changes.  Cross-border land operations are thus to be smoother from now on.

In parallel, the domestic travel code (通信行程卡) going offline has meant that travel restrictions within the country have been lifted.

Both these sets of measures indicate smoother logistic operations within the country and between China and its neighbors.

Living with the virus: what does it mean for your supply chain operations?

Despite this easing of logistic operations, China turning away from the strict implementation of the dynamic zero-covid policy means that supply chain disruptions are likely to occur if workers fall sick.

However, most experts agree that these possible disruptions will not affect supply chains or demand for an extended period of time. According to them, the majority of the end of the policy's prominent effects will wane in the coming months. 2023 is thus likely to be marked by economic recalibration and a gradual return to pre-pandemic normality, all the while the population gets used to living with the virus and resumes regular consumption. 

In short, one can expect short-term supply chain disruptions as the country reopens but an overall return to normalcy in the longer term, aided by smoother domestic and cross-border logistic operations.

No matter the context, ASI Logistics, strong of 15 years of expertise, provides you with the most adapted logistic solution to fit your needs and ensure you enjoy the benefits of smooth operations.

Our strength? We are customer centric and know that your needs and demands require tailor-made solutions, adapted to your business and the current environment.

Thanks to our eight offices, including six conveniently located on China's east coast logistic hubs (Shanghai, Nanjing, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Ningbo, and Hong Kong), its two branches in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and its worldwide network of logistic experts, ASI Logistics accompanies you at every step of your product's journey from, to and within Asia.

ASI Logistics wishes you a happy new year 2023!

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Supply Chain shift from China to South East Asia
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Production shift toward S.-E. Asia: What does it mean for China?

Supply Chain shift from China to South East Asia

Over the past decade, more and more manufacturing operations have been switching away from China and toward South East Asian countries such as Vietnam.

This phenomenon is rooted in an increase in Chinese labor costs, the rising importance of the South East Asian market, and China's new economic orientation centered on higher value-added products and the service sector.

These past weeks, the recent adjustments of the country's zero covid policy have sparked new series of comments on this trend, as some wonder what will the impact of this policy shift on production and logistics be.

Is China's importance in the global supply chain lowering for good?

Not quite! While China's role is definitely going to evolve, its prominence in the global supply chain is unlikely to wane.

Indeed, while some labor-intensive industries and electronic products manufacturers have already started to relocate to South East Asian countries, Vietnam in particular, China remains its biggest source of import, especially when it comes to raw materials and core parts.

Analysts thus note that the two countries' value chains will further intertwine in the future, fostering renewed cross-border exchanges between the two countries.

Furthermore, over the past decades, China has developed a robust and well-connected transportation network in terms of land, sea, or air routes.

As such, whether in terms of import or export, China can rely on its logistic web to ensure its centrality in global trade. As noted by Xiaomi's spokesperson, "currently, no overseas country can replace China's supply chain clusters." Indeed, China has become a central nod to logistics operations not only in the Asian region, but worldwide.

Finally, following the shift in China's zero-covid policy, analysts note that the logistics and business relations between South East Asian countries and China will only become smoother in the future. Indeed, as cross-border movements and quarantine policies are easing, international trade in the region will gradually recover its pre-pandemic state.

How to ensure smooth supply chain operations in the region?

As manufacturing operations increasingly shift toward South East Asia, finding a logistic partner with expertise and presence in your key supply chain locations is essential.

ASI Logistics Cambodia

Thanks to its eight offices, including six conveniently located on China's east coast logistic hubs (Shanghai, Nanjing, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Ningbo, and Hong Kong), and its two branches in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Phnom Penh, Cambodia, ASI Logistics accompanies you at every step of your product's journey.

ASI Logistics teams wish you a happy new year 2023!

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Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi starts production in Vietnam to boost delivery efficiency. Global Times. (n.d.). Retrieved December 30, 2022, from https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202207/1269827.shtml

Explainer: How no covid-zero in China could impact Vietnam. Vietnam Briefing News. (2022, December 12). Retrieved December 30, 2022, from https://www.vietnam-briefing.com/news/what-no-covid-zero-in-china-could-mean-for-vietnam.html/