Blog – E-commerce

Summer holidays around the corner, imagine a resort where they not only know just what you want and need for your ultimate holiday, but can take care of everything as well. So the only thing you need to do is get there. That’s what The Netherlands is for your e-commerce.

E-dream destination

What makes The Netherlands the best start for your European e-dream destination? The reason we are called the warehouse of Europe? Why 80% of the products entering our country, have Europe as end-destination? Like any great holiday, it is a combination of factors:

• We are centered in the middle of the biggest consumer markets in Europe: UK, France and Germany. With late order cut-off times compared to Germany and the UK as the main parcel hubs are in very close vicinity.
• Our extensive infrastructure with great multimodal connections to the hinterland. And excellent access from Asia and America.
• High variety of e-fulfillment service providers. From green courier providers to e-fulfillment players that offer every needed service from setting up a new supply chain model that best meets your needs to back office. No matter the question, with so many specialists The Netherlands always has a solution.
• Attractive tax benefits like VAT deferment and bonded warehousing. Making your business easier and providing substantial cash flow benefits.
• E-commerce requires highly educated, multi-lingual and flexible workforce. A trading nation for centuries we know no other way J.

Combining growth & green

E-commerce is an incredibly fast growing market. By 2020 it will be 25% of total retail sales! Biggest challenge is to keep up with that, while being as efficient as possible and green doing so.

Green? Yes! It is key if you don’t want to miss your connection to the sustainable environmentally-friendly future of doing business. European laws demand change. European cities are already banning old diesel trucks. ‘Order today, deliver tomorrow, prime-time’ was pivotal in the beginning of e-commerce, getting consumers to see that shopping online is as easy (if not more) as going to the store. But it is by far the most (cost)efficient and green choice. Consumers need to be made aware that delivery costs depend on the lead-time.

It’s like booking a flight to get to your holiday destination: leaving on Monday costs far less than the exact same flight in the weekend.

Come see us in London June 25!

Want to make sure you have the best preparation for your ‘holiday’? Come see us at the London seminar ‘Brexit: Impact on the Supply Chain in the UK and the Netherlands’ which we organize together with Gerlach & Co B.V. You can register via Justine ten Hoorn.

If you would like to talk about Brexit, its possible effects on your business specifically and how to have the best possible e-commerce journey in Europe, please send me an e-mail to schedule an appointment at the seminar.

The following day, June 26, we will be present at the congress ‘Leaders in Logistics – E-commerce Delivery’  with a group of our members.

Ready for the best holiday ever? Start your e-commerce trip in The Netherlands!