USE OUR PARTNER NBS
TO LINK TO
THE US MARKETS
How
to begin distribution in the United
States
1. Find a location
2. Lease or buy an office and warehouse,
3. Hire a staff,
4. Set up your infrastructure i.e. phones fax, order
processing hardware and software, etc..
5. Move in inventory
6. Begin generating orders….
Or
Use
NBS to setup a fulfillment program
1. Ship inventory to NBS
2. Sell products to your US customers
What
NBS will do for a manufacturer
Receive and manage the inventory
Package or repackage product
Generate orders
By phone using customers name if
wanted
By fax with toll free fax lines
available
Internet via your URL or one of ours
Pack and ship orders
Manage website
Coordinate promotions
Produce marketing materials
Bill orders
Collect for orders
Handle return items and warranties
Set up internet based accounts for our customers to review
their
inventory.
Assemble kits
Integrate US and foreign production components
Product made in foreign country,
packaging made in USA,
NBS puts product into package.
Some components made in foreign
country, some made
in USA. NBS puts components together.
Manage sales on account for customer.
Clear credit of potential customers
Control receivables from US customers
Receive funds from accounts
Transfer funds
Costs
avoided by using NBS fulfillment
The cost of buying or renting warehouse space
The cost of hiring personnel to staff an office
The cost of setting up an e-commerce order processing
system
The cost of managing a website
If our customer already has a website
setup for taking
orders it can be linked to NBS’s site
or our customers
send orders for picking and shipping
only.
If all orders are charged to credit
cards they can be
managed from either the manufacturers
location or
NBS’s.
If orders are sold on open trade
accounts those
accounts can be managed from our
customers’ offices
in their home countries or by NBS in
the USA.
What
are the costs?
The cost of shipping it to Mt.
Olive Illinois
Mount
Olive is in the middle of the US. It is
cheaper to
ship in bulk to the middle of the
country and then ship to
various locations after the product is
sold than to hold the
inventory on the east or west coast
and ship to various
locations after the sale.
The cost of storing the product in an NBS warehouse
Holding costs in MT Olive are low. A
typical skid of goods
can be stored for $10 per month.
The cost of the order process
NBS can provide dedicated phone
numbers and answer in
our customer’s name to take phone
orders
NBS can receive orders placed on the
Internet and linked
to the NBS e-commerce program.
NBS responds to our customers
submitting orders on the same system.
NBS operates in an area of the US where the
quality of
employees is high but the cost of
labor relatively low.
Our customer service personnel speak
without regional accents and are easy
to understand.
The cost of packing and shipping
NBS will charge on a per order basis
depending on the
product and the order volume.
The cost of outbound freight
Outbound shipping charges will be
based on NBS’s
already heavily discounted package and
LTL rates.
The cost of return item processing
NBS will implement whatever the
manufacturer’s policies
are regarding return items and
warranties.
NBS
vs. Other Fulfillment Companies
NBS uses state of the art technology in its operating
software
Our customers can manage their sales
and inventory from
anywhere in the world in real time
using NBS’s Internet
based operating software.
NBS is a small enough company to value the business
from a small manufacturer but large enough to handle a
medium sized manufacturer without choking.
NBS has volume discounts with carriers such as UPS and
Fedex and passes those discounts on to its customers.
NBS has no fixed pricing format. Prices are set up to fit
the
customers needs.
NBS has a very low occupancy cost which it passes on to
its customers.
NBS has high percentage of long term employees who are
very experienced and highly dependable.
NBS is a drug free company and hires only bondable
US citizens: our customers’ inventories are safe and secure.
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