Expanding Your Delivery Capabilities Using DHL BBX

As technology expands, the borders that once kept nations at war, lovers apart, and businesses from thriving are rapidly coming down. With advancements such as eCommerce stores, payment solutions and mobile-friendly business platforms, selling globally is a real and viable option for most businesses today.

One area that remains a stumbling block for small and medium-sized businesses is international shipping. SMBs are finding it difficult to deliver their promises of fast and easy order processing. This is where DHL BBX comes in. 

Break Bulk Express is an international express shipping service for bulk shipments. The beauty of this service is that instead of being charged for multiple shipments, DHL arranges for the orders to clear customs as a single unit, saving businesses significantly both financially and procedural.

DHL Relationships Sales Manager Ashish Agarwal walks you through Break Bulk Express and how it can help your online store’s logistics. Check out the full presentation below.

What is Break Bulk?

It’s pretty simple. You have several packages going out to a single destination. Sending out each package as an individual shipment is costly both in terms of time and in terms of shipping, customs, and processing fees. The beauty of a service like DHL Break Bulk Express is that it alleviates all of this headache and financial burden. Rather than shipping each order out individually, DHL puts all these orders into a single shipment. This saves tremendously on customs charges and paperwork.

How Does Break Bulk Express Work?

BBX specifically caters to high volume shipping. Normally high volume shipping is incredibly time-consuming: You need to prepare an invoice for each individual order, store each invoice, and record it. By using BBX, you save time and money on customs and fees. Here’s how it works: 

1. Collect multiple orders into a single shipment.
2. Use one shipping label and invoice for the entire consolidated shipment (Agarwal calls this bulk shipment the “mother” shipment).
3. This shipment is then shipped all together, clearing customs as one single shipment and the paperwork needed is faster and easier to prepare.
4. The mother shipment is then received by a DHL gateway where it’s broken down into the individual orders that you originally had to send out.
5. Individual orders are then shipped out to each consignee within the country.

Benefits of Using DHL BBX

There is no doubt that DHL’s Break Bulk Express shipping service is breaking ground within the international shipping industry. Among the benefits already listed, here are a few major gains that smaller sized businesses can realize using this service:

Faster Processing and Clearance 

Because you only have to create a single invoice, BBX provides a faster processing time for high volume shipments. Since shipments are cleared while in the air, customs are faster and easier than they’ve ever been in the past.

Economic Solution for Expensive International Shipping Charges 

We already touched on how Break Bulk Express can save you money, but let’s clarify just how much. For one thing, when you use BBX, you pay just once for customs fees, duty, and tax management costs even though you’re really shipping out multiple orders.

What’s more, Break Bulk Express helps businesses save on warehousing costs. This is because businesses normally have to wait for all the individual orders to be gathered into a final shipment before everything is shipped out. DHL covers this angle for you.

Additionally, DHL offers businesses door-to-door pricing rather than the usual, high-priced international shipping charges. Those are all major savings that can add up to tens of thousands of dollars at the end of the year. Here’s an example to illustrate what you could save with Break Bulk Express:

Aza, a major fashion model in India partnered with the hybrid BBX. After using the service for just a short time, Aza reported seeing major savings across the board including 60% savings on banking charges, 5% savings on export clearance charges, and 40% savings on processing times. The numbers tell the story for themselves.

Time Definite End of Day Delivery Promise

As mentioned previously, the shipment process is smooth and fast. Once received by the DHL distribution center, individual shipments are sent out via the main distribution network within the country and delivered to the consignees. This allows businesses to fulfill end of day delivery promises, building integrity and brand reliability.

Easy Online Shipment Prep

Finally, BBX uses the laughably simple EasyShip app. This app gives you full control from end-to-end. You can use it to gain easy access to shipment information and invoices, prepare individual shipment details quickly, consolidate individual waybills under one larger waybill for easy consolidated shipment, and track packages online and in real time. The EasyShip app even has EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) used to send all shipment details directly to your consignees.

Break Bulk Express: The Shipping Service That Just Keeps Giving

If cost effective and time efficiency weren’t enough, Break Bulk Express offers more benefits to smaller-sized business including:

• Neutral delivery to an importer of record keeps invoices confidential
• Flexible payment of duties, taxes and customs charges
• IoR, responsible for compliance, payment of taxes, filing completed duty entry and associated documents – built in

BBX Shipping: Expand Your Business Prospects

Break Bulk Express is opening new doors for businesses of every size. If you are concerned with your shipping budget, then BBX from DHL is a great option that can help you fulfill international orders in a faster, more convenient and economic way.  

Expand your business reach with BBX shipping today!