In early June 2024, SHEIN, the world's leading fashion e-commerce platform, officially launched a semi-hosted model to provide sellers with more flexible and efficient fulfillment options. Compared with the traditional full-hosted model, the semi-hosted model allows sellers to retain more inventory control, while enjoying SHEIN's official warehousing and logistics support, greatly reducing operating costs and improving delivery efficiency. The launch of this new model has brought new growth opportunities for cross-border e-commerce sellers.
Relying on a global logistics network, intelligent warehousing management system and excellent customer service capabilities, U-Speed successfully passed strict screening and evaluation, won high recognition from SHEIN, and officially became SHEIN's semi-hosted official certified warehouse (the two systems are being connected), fully helping sellers improve overseas fulfillment efficiency and achieve efficient delivery and refined operations!
SHEIN's "certified warehouse" covers domestic collection, overseas warehousing, inventory management, last-mile delivery, after-sales service, etc., providing sellers with a one-stop overseas warehousing and distribution solution.
SHEIN semi-hosted model
The semi-hosted model is a service model that lies between the full-hosted cross-border e-commerce platform and the merchant's complete self-operation.
SHEIN's semi-managed model is different from the traditional full-managed model, providing sellers with greater flexibility and autonomy. Merchants can select products and put them on the shelves independently, but they must prepare goods locally overseas to achieve local fulfillment and complete order delivery within 7 working days. At the same time, SHEIN makes concessions on pricing power. Merchants provide supply prices and SHEIN assists in optimizing sales strategies. Compared with the full-managed model, the semi-managed model does not require commissions, deposits or additional store opening fees, which lowers the entry threshold and enables sellers to manage inventory and sales strategies more flexibly.
In addition, the semi-managed model is between full-managed and fully self-operated, which not only gives merchants more autonomy, but also can rely on SHEIN's logistics warehousing, exclusive marketing activities and reverse return management and other operational support. Merchants can not only formulate their own product selection strategies, but also enjoy the market resources brought by the platform to improve operational efficiency and sales performance. In terms of products, merchants who settle in must ensure that the weight of the single product is above 400g, and there is no limit on the volume, but currently do not accept clothing, swimwear, underwear and pajamas, wigs, quality jewelry and food products. All goods must be stored in overseas warehouses and the sellers are responsible for delivery.
SHEIN semi-hosted model is mainly for sellers who have the ability to stock overseas, especially for boutique sellers who want to improve inventory turnover, independent sellers with multiple platforms, and brand sellers who want to expand brand influence. This model provides cross-border sellers with a lower entry threshold and a more efficient fulfillment method, enabling them to occupy a more advantageous competitive position in the global market.
Logistics issues are always the key
In recent years, the biggest improvement in cross-border e-commerce lies in the establishment of overseas warehouses, bringing goods closer to customers.
Whether it is a full-hosted or semi-hosted model, how to deliver goods to overseas consumers faster and more efficiently has always been the core challenge faced by Chinese cross-border e-commerce companies such as SHEIN. In recent years, cross-border e-commerce companies have continuously increased their investment in overseas fulfillment, warehousing and logistics, aiming to comprehensively improve logistics efficiency and optimize user experience.
Choosing an officially certified warehouse can effectively reduce the operating pressure of the platform and ensure stable and efficient logistics. U-Speed certified overseas warehouses provide sellers with safe and reliable warehousing solutions to ensure that goods are delivered to overseas consumers on time, helping sellers speed up the export of goods and improve service quality and customer satisfaction.
U-Speed Overseas Warehouse - SHEIN Semi-Hosted Logistics Solution
U-Speed has warehouses in the West and East of the United States, which are close to ports and airports, helping SHEIN semi-hosted merchants to rationally plan warehouses and ship goods nearby. By optimizing the warehouse layout, it not only reduces logistics costs, but also efficiently meets the strict fulfillment requirements of the SHEIN platform to deliver within 7 working days, achieves rapid response, and enhances market competitiveness.
U-Speed East and West Coast Overseas Warehouses, with a total area of 20,000 square meters, have a strong fulfillment capacity of handling 50,000 orders per day. The warehouse can receive general goods, sensitive goods, pure electric goods and other categories of goods, support one-stop logistics services for the first-leg warehouse, from domestic cargo collection to overseas warehousing, and then to terminal delivery, providing safe, efficient and cost-effective cross-border logistics solutions. Relying on professional teams at home and abroad, U-Speed can respond to sudden problems in the logistics process in real time to ensure stable and smooth operations.
To ensure efficient operation, U-Speed overseas warehouses are equipped with complete hardware and software facilities to comprehensively improve warehousing and delivery efficiency. The warehouse is equipped with light and heavy shelves, which can flexibly store multiple categories of goods. Forklifts, pallets, electronic scales and other equipment help standardize the management of large and batch operations. At the same time, the WMS warehouse management system realizes real-time order tracking and inventory monitoring, combined with paperless operation of PDA terminals, greatly improving picking efficiency.
In terms of security, U-Speed overseas warehouses implement 24-hour all-round monitoring and are equipped with complete fire-fighting facilities to ensure the safety of goods. With efficient warehousing operation capabilities and intelligent management systems, U-Speed provides cross-border sellers with reliable overseas warehousing support, helping them to expand the global market without worries.
U-Speed has successfully joined the SHEIN semi-managed official certified warehouse, marking another important breakthrough in our cross-border e-commerce logistics field. In the future, we will continue to leverage the advantages of our global warehousing network, intelligent management system, and efficient fulfillment capabilities to provide SHEIN sellers with more stable, faster, and more economical warehousing and logistics solutions.
SHEIN's semi-hosted model provides sellers with a more flexible way of operation, and U-Speed, as an official certified warehouse, will fully support sellers to achieve efficient fulfillment, optimize inventory management, and enhance market competitiveness. Choose U-Speed to make cross-border logistics simpler and global fulfillment more efficient!
