The Effects of COVID-19 on the Supply Chain and Dropshipping from China (E127)

Brian MillerFounder of Easy China Warehouse Notes: Air shipping50% Shipped in passenger flightsOver 30 day shipping timesDirect LineLabel with USPS label in ChinaUsing DHL Express shippingWait and ship by seaOpportunitiesSmaller factoriesLower quantitiesImprove the supply chainMore people are buying online Bio: Brian Miller has been living in China for the past 10 years. He previously worked for one of the largest Chinese government owned manufacturers managing their North American Export operations. He now runs a 3rd party logistics warehouse in Shenzhen China called EasyChinaWarehouse.com. The company provides 3rd party logistics and shipping for Amazon FBA sellers and any ecommerce company creating products in China. Previous to Easy China Warehouse he founded and an E-commerce company which sells Bluetooth speakers. Sponsors: Drip – Get a free demo of Drip using this coupon code!Spark Shipping – eCommerce Automation Links: https://www.easychinawarehouse.com/ Transcript : Charles (00:00): In this episode of The Business eCommerce I talk with Brian Miller about how COVID 19 has affected shipping and supply chain from China. This is the Business of eCommerce, episode 127. New Speaker (00:18): Welcome to the business of eCommerce to show that helps eCommerce retailers start, launch and grow their eCommerce business. I'm your host Charles Palleschi and I'm here today with Brian Miller. Brian is the founder of Easy China Warehouse, a third party logistics company in Shenzhen. I asked Brian on the show today to talk about how COVID 19 has affected shipping and supply chain from China. So Hey Brian, how are you doing today? Brian (00:40): Great. Thanks for having me. Charles (00:41): Yeah, awesome to have you on the show. I'm super interested in this topic. I feel like obviously kind of covert right now, everyone's going to talk to you about it, but seeing that from the eyes of how it affects e-commerce, I think we've all kind of felt it, but so you're on the ground right now in China, right? And you've been there for, Brian (01:00): Yeah. So yeah, so our company is located in Shenzhen, China, which is the S in the South of China. If people are familiar with Hong Kong, we actually bought Hong Kong. So a lot of people probably know Hong Kong over Shenzhen and that's where we are right now. Charles (01:14): And Shenzhen is basically the shipping capital of the the world at this point. Right? I know that one of the big, Brian (01:20): Yeah. Yeah, it's one of the shipping capitals. It's also one of the hardware capitals of the world. So most of the hardware in the world is actually manufactured at a Schengen. And most of the big companies that we know that make hardware like Apple any of the Bluetooth speaker companies computer manufacturers are all here. So it's an important supply base for that type of manufacturing as well. Charles (01:44): Okay. So this episode will come out next week, but we're talking right here on probably good to know. May 12th 2020. Right. In case someone looks back at us. So cause, cause just topics moving quick, right? Like everything we say this week is very different than last week and last month. Right. But you've been on, you've kind of been seen this since the very beginning, since what, January, right. Chinese new year. Brian (02:09): Yeah. So around that time, basically in December when I was in China in, in 19 we kinda heard a little bit about a virus that was around and people didn't know much about it and that we shouldn't be that concerned. And at that time, no one really knew what it was about. And actually at the end of January, it was when the Chinese government made a formal announcement that there was this virus, the Krone virus that we know today. And so in January is when kind of the ramp up of everyone starting to try to protect themselves with masks and kind of stay inside started in China.