Sendy Limited introduced a fulfillment service for online retailers in Kenya. This is a unique provision that allows retailers to focus on growing their businesses and selling more. According to Sendy, the center will set free online sellers from logistic troubles.
With the Sendy Fulfilment Centre, online sellers do not have to worry about problems that come with logistics. It insulates them from the high operational costs that come with logistics. The logistics giant has set up a state-of-the-art Fulfillment Centre coupled with multiple picking locations across Nairobi.
The Centre, according to Sendy, is tailored towards e-commerce and direct-to-consumer businesses that do not have storage or delivery systems, and it will pick, pack, and ship orders to customers for a fee of 13 percent of the product’s selling price.
The price also includes picking up the shipment from the vendor’s location, three shipping attempts, 60 days of storage, and inventory tracking. Businesses using the solution will be able to access quick and flexible financing to buy additional inventory and manage their cash flow.
Without standard fulfillment and logistics capabilities, a large portion of Kenya’s 1.5 million registered small enterprises and burgeoning online entrepreneurs face expensive logistics and storage costs, as well as a significant amount of time spent on logistics.
All that vendors need is to register:
Vendors simply register on the Sendy Fulfillment platform by:
- Uploading their inventory
- Then send items to a Fulfillment Center near them.
- When a consumer places an order with a vendor, Sendy ships it on the vendor’s behalf from the Fulfillment center closest to them.
“Then our Fulfillment service will pick, pack, and ship orders to your customers so that you can spend more time growing your business,” said Sendy.
Internet Access
According to a McKinsey study, by 2025, half of Africa’s population will have access to the internet, and online shopping may account for $75 billion, or 10 percent of total retail sales.
Innovative business models and better-optimized supply chains, including fulfillment, are projected to drive development in the face of infrastructural problems, tough operating environments for small firms, and a new crop of businesses.