1. The troubles

Chinastarts to be the biggest IC consuming market, which makes more and more multinational IC design, manufacturing and sales companies aim atChinamarket to develop business. Correspondingly, more and more IC OEMs and encapsulation factories start to transfer their manufacture base to the Yangtze Delta and the Zhujiang Delta. However, the logistics operations in Chinese market are still complex at this stage. Especially for the IC industrial players, the complex logistics operations, like bonded brochure transfer in different regions, free duty import, VAT refund, and foreign exchange remittance…etc, those cost much time and deduct efficiency. So, how to improve the logistics efficiency and reduce operations cost as possible becomes a big issue for the managers in Chinese IC industrial enterprises.

2. LINKSTAR is the Logistics trouble shooter

Linkstar is a leading, professional third party logistics service provider inChina.

Understanding the specific logistics needs from Chinese IC industrial enterprises, Linkstar studies the design, production and sales process in the industry carefully. In result, Linkstar got a inside understanding in the value chain of IC industry. Combining with the successful logistics operations practices inChina, Linkstar gropes for a set of useful logistics solutions to shoot the troubles for our IC clients:

·          Multimodal transport utilization process

·          Bonded/Non bonded transportation visible monitoring (GPS/online monitor)

·          Bonded/Non-bonded warehousing service package ( Value added service included)

·          Inbound/Outbound customs tariff management (BLP/FTZ policy applications)

·          Foreign exchange remittance

3. The benefits customer are obtaining from Linkstar Solutions

Upon Linkstar’s tailor-made solutions and superior services, customers obtain:

·          Optimized bonded brochure transfer, free duty import and VAT refund operations process among OEM, encapsulation factory and customer

·          Lowest logistics operations cost (example: no “H.K one day tour” any more)

·          Highest operations efficiency , shortest order Lead-time

·          HUB & Spot operations utilization, cross-region operations efficiency. (Today,LinkstarDistributionCentersin shanghai WGQ FTZ and HK W/H had become the distribution HUBs and RDC for many IC enterprises.)

4. Successful Practice

A multinational company mainly designing and selling integrated chips outsources its manufacture and encapsulation to two different producers and its customers mainly distribute in the Yangtze Delta and the Zhujiang Delta. Linkstar designs a solution that solves its logistics problems involved in the chip process and encapsulation, such as bonded brochure transfer and logout, international balance, and bonded brochure application for customer etc.

By Linkstar, the customer enjoys:

·          Logistics cost decrease 5-8%

·          Lead-time of manufacture decreases 2-3 days

·          Lead-time of distribution decreases 1-1.5 days