Salesupply has further expanded its global e-commerce fulfillment network with two fulfillment centers in Scandinavia. By adding strategically located warehouses in Sweden and Denmark, Salesupply offers merchants a cost-saving alternative for expensive international last-mile deliveries, even at low order volumes.  

This expansion allows Salesupply to reduce the last-mile delivery cost in Nordics significantly

Save on local delivery in Scandinavia 

E-commerce profits have been under pressure, making cost reductions critical for the sustainability of many online stores. Cross-border deliveries to Scandinavia offer significant cost-saving options. Starting at rather low order volumes of 300-400 per month, merchants can save up to €5 per parcel on last-mile delivery when products are stored locally.   

Local fulfillment & local preferences 

The newly connected e-commerce fulfillment centers in Denmark and Sweden enable international e-commerce players to act fully like local stores. The warehouses have contracts with known local delivery heroes, enabling local delivery times, - rates, and - preferences. An example of local preferences in Scandinavia is the importance of pick-up points. With the new warehouses, Salesupply automatically connects its fulfillment clients in the Nordics to the popular, vast PUDO network.  

E-fulfilment platform solves multi-warehouse complexity 

Salesupply provides its clients with a network of over 25 e-commerce fulfillment centers strategically located across Europe, Northern America, and Asia. This enables our clients to go for a multi-warehouse set-up to optimally serve their customers around the globe with local rates and fast delivery. This is how our e-fulfillment platform takes the complexity out of the multi-warehouse strategy: 

• Only one WMS connection needs to be created 
• The warehouses have one equal way of working 
• Clients have a complete overview through the integrated dashboard 
• They have one dedicated contact for all warehouses  

Find out more about Salesupply and how it can help your business grow here!

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By Direct Link - Norway is a highly digitalized country with a well-established e-commerce market. Having a population of 5,3 million, Norway is the smallest country in the Nordics in terms of number of inhabitants. It is also the only country in the region that is not a member of the European Union. This fact places some special demands on international e-retailers who want to sell to Norwegian online consumers. Norway has its own VAT system called VOEC, VAT On Electronic Commerce (more on VOEC below).

Thanks to large oil deposits, Norway has developed into one of the richest countries in the world. The GDP per capita is USD 88 000, which is by far the highest in the Nordics. The price level is also high, with an OECD price index at 139.

Norwegian consumers have a strong interest in cross-border online shopping. In 2022, 77 percent of Norwegian online consumers had shopped from abroad. During the last few years, the most popular cross-border shopping destinations have been China, the United States and the United Kingdom. However, when it comes to marketplaces, that list is topped by German fashion giant Zalando.

Norwegian e-commerce consumer preferences

The Norwegian online consumers favors more or less the same product categories as consumers in their neighboring countries. In 2022, the top three categories were clothing and footwear, cosmetics and skin care, and consumer electronics.

When it comes to delivery options, the Norwegians hold delivery to mailbox as their number one alternative, followed by delivery to postal service point, and at home at the doorstep.

For a long time, invoice was the most popular payment method in Norway. That is not the case anymore. In 2022, the most popular options was Klarna or equivalent, credit card, PayPal or equivalent, and debit card.

To find out more about VOEC follow the link below:

Https://www.skatteetaten.no/en/business-and-organisation/vat-and-duties/vat/foreign/e-commerce-voec/

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By Salesupply - Expanding your e-commerce business to Scandinavia just became easier and more affordable. Webstores can now offer native customer service in the Nordic countries even when their customer service ticketing volume is low.

Salesupply just formed a strategic partnership with H1, one of the leading customer service providers in Scandinavia.  

Being the only customer service specialist strictly for e-commerce, Salesupply aims to simplify international expansion for online stores. With the shared customer service of Salesupply, online stores can make use of well-trained customer service agents in 36 languages, even if their ticketing volume is (still) low. The partnership with H1 enables Salesupply to offer this pay-as-you-use shared customer service model in all Scandinavian languages as well.  

Compete like a local everywhere

“I am extremely happy that we are now also able to support online stores with their expansion to Scandinavia. Quality always comes first at Salesupply, which is why we are glad to be working with H1.” says Hans Siebum, Managing Director Global at Salesupply. “H1 is one of the most renowned customer service providers in Scandinavia. We have a lot in common when it comes to service excellence, scalability, and customer flexibility.”

Find out more about Salesupply and all the solutions it can provide for your e-commerce here! 

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The four markets have to deal with some cross-border shopping elements. Usually, cross-border consumers in the Nordic region shop abroad from China, the United Kingdom and Germany. Only on Norway, the consumers tend to prefer to buy cross-border from the American market. This may have something to do with the fact that eBay is very popular among Norwegian consumers. In Denmark, the United Kingdom is the favorite cross-border shopping destination, while the Swedes prefer Germany. When looking at a cross-border level in the Nordic region only, Sweden is for foreign consumers the most interesting market to shop cross-border. Especially the Finnish consumers are keen on shopping from Swedish shops

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Hear presentations on award-winning campaigns, challenges, and secrets about how they’re fighting off Amazon. With unrivaled resources, logistics and funds at its fingertips, the arrival of this retail juggernaut will change the face of Scandinavian eCommerce as we know it. Having already bought the amazon.se domain, it’s a question of when not if.

Learn from our excellent speakers including:

• Allan Bo Christiansen, Digital Developer, Atea
• Martin Bystedt, Head of User Experience and Digital, TUI
• Charlotte Bachmann Katz, Chief Digital Officer,  KappAhl
• Bo Damgaard, Managing Director, OMD
• Carl Wåreus, Head of Agency, Google
• Pino Roscigno, Director of Marketing, Stadium

Unlike every other retail conference, eTail Nordic is focused on small group learning and interactive formats so that you can make connections in an intimate setting and actually leave with actionable takeaways to add value to your eCommerce strategy for 2019.

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