A new TikTok Shop fulfillment service demonstrates the importance of ecommerce to the entertainment platform. Hiring is taking place for logistics professionals to build the new fulfillment service from the scratch.
This is a pretty serious undertaking as anyone in the logistics industry will know and shows a firm commitment by TikTok Shop to becoming a best in practice ecommerce experience. It’s only by owning the delivery experience that customers can be delighted and key strategic relationships with sellers, 3PLs, and Logistics Providers will be needed to make this a success.
It’s putting down a pretty big marker in the sand as for the TikTok Shop fulfillment service to be a success consistent high volume sales will be needed. Neither retailers nor fulfillment partners want stock languishing on the warehouse shelves and the best fulfillment operations see stock landing and being shipped out to customers within days. This suggests that key sellers with high profile campaigns and expected resultant high volumes of sales will be first to use the new service.
You might be wondering why you’ve never heard of the TikTok Shop fulfillment service before and that’s because it will be brand new, built from the ground up and the current recruitment openings are for industry professionals that can undertake to build and manage the service.
TikTok are aiming to build an ecommerce ecosystem that is innovative, secure and intuitive for users, and seeking professionals that can execute inventory movement among different warehouses, B2B transport, B2C transport, parcel consolidation, direct linehaul, volume allocation, B2C reverse logistics, B2B reverse logistics, volume forecast, merchant replenishment, and inventory control.
If you are a logistics professional and would like to apply, you’ll find the open vacancies here. If you are a retailer, watch this space and we’ll update you when the TikTok Shop fulfillment service is open for business.
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fascinating advancement in social commerce.