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RHIEM is a global and very reliable full-service fulfillment provider, where you can outsource the entire store logistics from order acceptance to complete delivery & billing of the order including returns management.
\nAs a 3PL fulfillment provider, RHIEM takes on all the services you want to outsource – we do not work with rigid and inflexible prices, but always with completely individual and customizable modular prices, which we calculate with you specifically on the basis of your requirements.
\nTherefore, a statement about the actual costs of your fulfillment with us is hardly possible without an extensive discussion, detailed planning and calculated offer – but below we give you a first insight into our offer & cost structures, so that you can better assess the extent to which RHIEM can become your future & reliable fulfillment service provider.<\/p>\n
Fulfillment by RHIEM requires that you store your products with us. This is exactly where the complexity of the costs begins: How many items do you want to store with us? How big and how heavy are they? Do all items have to be counted individually? Does a visual inspection have to be carried out for each item before storage?<\/p>\n
As you can quickly see, the individual putaway costs already vary greatly at goods receipt: a soccer ball manufacturer with large quantities but few SKUs will generate significantly different putaway costs than a cosmetics manufacturer who wants to put away many small SKUs but smaller quantities.<\/p>\n
At RHIEM, the costs for pure warehousing are determined by SKU, picking location or warehouse card.<\/p>\n
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The pure picking costs can also hardly be determined in general – we generally calculate picking costs according to SKU & the number of individual picks. However, items in B2B or B2C fulfillment make significant differences, because the individual picks or quantities per order are significantly different here and naturally have an impact on the price.<\/p>\n
RHIEM has fully digitalized and intelligent warehouse logistics. This means that, depending on the customer, we can differentiate whether several orders can be made at the same time or only one pick per picker. Of course, this also has an influence on the final price for fulfillment.<\/p>\n
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For example, the fulfillment costs for picking and packing orders vary according to our customers’ specifications. The football manufacturer mentioned above will have far fewer requirements regarding the transport protection of its products than an online wine merchant. For wine merchants, there are also the additional expenses and costs for labeling the shipping packaging – after all, transport service providers need to know that glass is inside the package and that the package must not be handed over to minors at the recipient’s premises, as there is alcohol in the shipment.<\/p>\n
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The shipping packaging itself also plays a decisive role in fulfillment costs. The wine bottles need certified outer cartons to protect the fragile product in the best possible way – this special packaging is more complex to produce and therefore more expensive than the soccer manufacturer’s transport packaging.<\/p>\n
Customized products have been the trend for years – a supplier of individually flocked jerseys also produces significantly more work per order than the wine merchant and also significantly more work than the football manufacturer. We carry out such jersey flocking for our long-standing customer Schalke 04.<\/p>\n
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You benefit from our shipping volume and the associated fleet prices of the shippers! For the various transport companies, it is of course much more lucrative to come to us with a truck to load thousands of orders than to come to each retailer individually to pick up just a few orders. <\/p>\n
But despite this significant simplification of transport routes, we can hardly make any generally binding statements about the price of fulfillment, even when it comes to shipping costs. The price per delivery naturally depends on the size and weight of the product, its labeling requirements or destination address: if goods are shipped internationally, the price may be higher. Customs documents and accompanying documents, special labeling requirements or certain limit quantities for dangerous goods. <\/p>\n
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In principle, we charge for every return we receive, because every return must be checked by us according to your requirements: is the item undamaged and can it be put back into storage? Does the article have to be specially checked before storage (e.g. for “tightness”, cf. the football manufacturer) or even always destroyed?
\nIf you intend to sell the item as “B-goods” in your store in the future, the item may have to be restocked under a different SKU in a different storage location and with different packaging – all these different requirements influence the final price and thus the total fulfillment costs.<\/p>\n
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If you take a moment to add up your costs for your own warehouse, your employees, their vacation and sick days, your costs for various packaging and packaging materials, you will very quickly come up with five to six-digit amounts per month.<\/p>\n
In fulfillment, we take all these problems off your hands at once! You no longer need your own warehouse, no expensive warehouse staff, no energy costs for heating and air-conditioning warehouse and hall space, and no provisions for shipping materials. And what’s more: with RHIEM as your fulfillment partner, you have unique opportunities for scaling! Because we already ship to almost every country in the world – your next step in scaling your business is just a few steps away thanks to our existing logistics network and expertise. And a step into European or global logistics is also possible for you without any new know-how transfer, because all logistical expertise is already available at RHIEM and you can access it immediately!<\/p>\n
So if you’re thinking about the next step in scaling, it’s definitely worth talking to RHIEM as your next fulfillment partner. The rule of thumb that you should have at least 500 orders per month to make external fulfillment worthwhile also applies.<\/p>\n
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As you have seen so far, the costs for fulfillment are highly individual. No customer has the same service requirements as another, and hardly any product has identical requirements in terms of labeling obligations, dimensions, weight or transport protection.
\nOur costs for global fulfillment are roughly made up of the following parameters:<\/p>\n
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For each customer, we charge a basic fee, a customer-specific management fee, which is based on many other parameters, including the shipping volume or required license fees for third-party systems.<\/p>\n
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In addition to the basic fee, the monthly fulfillment costs are made up of the variable and order-dependent costs of the fulfillment services ordered, as described above.<\/p>\n
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If you store products with us, you will incur various costs, which we divide into the following categories, among others.<\/p>\n
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If the items are to be collected by us by a forwarding agent, the pure forwarding costs for the transportation of the items will be charged.<\/p>\n
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Incoming goods & warehousing costs also include the usual costs for warehousing itself, i.e. the maintenance of our warehouses, their heating, lighting and the necessary personnel.<\/p>\n
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We generally invoice pick, pack and commission orders on the basis of individual SKUs. In addition to the service, the packing costs also include the necessary packing material – if your items require special packaging or protective inlays, the costs are roughly reflected in the packing costs.
\nThe packaging costs include desired additional services such as additional advertising brochures or flyers that are to be included in the orders.<\/p>\n
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When your orders leave our warehouse, you and the recipient always have a transparent overview of the delivery status – so you can also see when an order is sent back to us by the customer.<\/p>\n
In the run-up to our cooperation, you specify exactly how we should handle these returns. For example, you could specify that we should only carry out a visual inspection of the returned product. If the visual inspection reveals damage that impairs the function, you can specify how we should proceed. destruction of the item or a discussion with you to check whether you can restore the function by repair.<\/p>\n
We agree the price of all services and the associated expenses with you before the order is placed – so there are no unpleasant and sudden surprises in returns management and you can take care of the further sale of your items in peace.<\/p>\n
Let’s turn the question around: What does warehousing cost you? The hall rental and its heating or air conditioning? The packing and shipping materials that you always need to have in stock in various sizes and in sufficient quantities? What about the countless votes on labeling requirements or customs documents? How much time do your employees spend on semi-automated and almost-functional packaging processes? Do you also need to double your warehouse capacity in time for Christmas, but can manage with half the capacity for the rest of the year? How often are you annoyed by incorrect deliveries or incomplete parcels?<\/p>\n
External fulfillment with RHIEM takes all these costs and worries off your hands. Of course, fulfillment costs a lot of money in clinical terms – but this money is largely used depending on orders and sales. The same capital is tied up in your own warehouse and cannot be used for marketing or sales.<\/p>\n
Let’s look at the costs together – and also at the possibilities and market opportunities! You should then decide whether external fulfillment costs too much.
\nCosts for fulfillment services – always individually tailored to your needs
\nRHIEM has been providing successful and sustainable fulfillment for global brands and major retailers in B2B and B2C for decades. Thanks to our experience, know-how and expertise in various market segments, we can provide you with a fulfillment offer that is precisely tailored to your requirements. Let’s look together at how we can scale your eCommerce sales.<\/p>\n
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