Why do international freight forwarders care so much about the account date and always urge you to pay?
2024/11/6 16:58:42 COMROM: BROWSE:
The account period is the freight forwarder can not escape the pain, crushing a freight forwarder is usually not no business, but the capital chain is broken, the account period is crushing people. Let's talk about it today.
First, the global coronavirus outbreak in 2020 will increase fuel costs and reduce aircraft capacity, but freight costs will be high. Many freight forwarders have not paid freight in advance, especially a large number of epidemic prevention materials with high risk of customs declaration, and they began to withhold invoices. CASS's air freight settlement system did not increase the deposit ratio because of the epidemic, but in 2022, the epidemic is basically under control, CASS evaluates the deposit ratio according to last year's freight committee, and many freight forwarders are required to increase the deposit ratio this year. This year, there are fewer epidemic prevention materials, competition will be more intense, many freight forwarders have also relaxed the account period, plus increase the deposit ratio, which undoubtedly increases the financial pressure.
Second, shipping is even worse, any cabinet tens of thousands of dollars, small customers 100% see the bill of lading, the financial pressure of large customers can be imagined.
Air freight is the same, because of the rise in fuel costs, rising air freight costs, a ticket freight is tens of thousands of dollars or more, if the monthly settlement, a single customer will produce millions of accounts receivable, bringing great financial risk.
Third, many times the account is clear to know terrible, before the same line is 30-45 days of the account period, most companies can only accept 30 days, air transport examples if the same line according to the rules of 5 gross profit a KG, freight is so high, the average market freight 50+ some places will be 70 or 80 freight. Randomly send a ton, 50,000 freight, accounting for 2 months of funds, earn 500 yuan, according to the current market loan interest of 6%, do not have to remove people eat horse feed, office costs, tax costs, in case the customer ink ink freight, you say make money? Is it necessary to accept the goods? CASS checks out twice a month. The more goods, the greater the financial pressure. If you accept this kind of goods, you may really not make money.
Finally, credit is like you lend money to others, the current popular word, owe money is grandpa, at present, many unrestrained enterprises delay again and again, when the final payment is a buckle again, causing a lot of losses to the enterprise, money is difficult, do not pay a lot of reasons, every day can say a lot of different excuses, every employee in the freight forwarding industry is very busy, there is no time to ask for payment. There are many international logistics links, which are easy to cause different degrees of damage, delay or loss, so it is best to return the money as soon as possible, and the bag is not safe.
Every year, some logistics companies have various problems with cash flow.
The occurrence of a bad debt often means that at least one month is done in white, in order to reduce the company's capital risk, for the account period receivables, the collection is relatively tight in order to accelerate *.
Advanced capital cost is high, the risk of new cooperation customers is not very controllable, some even old customers, may be deadbeat, resulting in a serious shortage of cash flow, so the freight forwarder so care about the account period, always urge payment.
Therefore, for different customers, to take different collection strategies, small companies do not recommend to give the account period, otherwise endless trouble.
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