What do you call it (name of a type B2B service) ?

[ReaderScars]

What is this type of service called?

In order to keep your suppliers and customers separate, goods are delivered from the supplier to a third party of for anonymous repacking and delivery to your end distributor/client. What's this service called, please?

[3200gt]

Don't know, but why can't your supplier deliver direct to your customer in plain packaging and del notes etc?

[Stephanie Plum]

Fulfilment.

[jammy_basturd]

Dropshipping.

[DSLiverpool]

It's called having a real business with stock, a warehouse and staff - if you don't want to do that rethink your model.
I do it for a mate but it's one item and a favour - he can't afford professional fulfilment on his margin.

[ReaderScars]

Stephanie Plum said:

Fulfilment.

Yep of course! This *is* a service fulfilment houses offer, forgot about that - had focused on their services being B2C but like you say, they do B2B.

Thanks, by the way!

Edited by ReaderScars on Sunday 20th July 18:02

[ReaderScars]

jammy_basturd said:

Dropshipping.

Nein - not what I do, nor am I looking to move into.

[ReaderScars]

DSLiverpool said:

It's called having a real business with stock, a warehouse and staff - if you don't want to do that rethink your model.
I do it for a mate but it's one item and a favour - he can't afford professional fulfilment on his margin.

Condescending and innacurate, got the hump with some sh!tty customers this weekend?

[DSLiverpool]

ReaderScars said:

DSLiverpool said:

It's called having a real business with stock, a warehouse and staff - if you don't want to do that rethink your model.
I do it for a mate but it's one item and a favour - he can't afford professional fulfilment on his margin.

Condescending and innacurate, got the hump with some sh!tty customers this weekend?

Yes probably a bit but I'm fed up with overnight competitors who sell from a laptop and add nothing, I'm not saying that's you.

It's specialised fulfilment and it's expensive, eg mate sells software that needs a specialisec USB connector to the item, he is a programmer so the software via USB stick comes to us, the adapters come to us, we pack it in a generic box with his printed label and ship it. It's low volume high cost so we do it as a favour but to get a company to do this in larger scale I can advise one on merseyside who can exactly do this to a high degree of complexity if required.

[ReaderScars]

DSLiverpool said:

... I can advise one on merseyside who can exactly do this to a high degree of complexity if required.

No immediate requirement and it might never happen but to start with it only be a single pallet which would need redirecting to one address and kept complete.

I think Stephanie Plum's suggestion is a good, simple solution (until I'm running a 'real' business )

[ReaderScars]

ReaderScars said:

..got the hump with some sh!tty customers this weekend?

DSLiverpool said:

Yes probably a bit...

Is this the reason why?

[DSLiverpool]

ReaderScars said:

ReaderScars said:

..got the hump with some sh!tty customers this weekend?

DSLiverpool said:

Yes probably a bit...

Is this the reason why?

That would be doing St Herrens a favour, it would improve it!