Yixun.com, a subordinate online shopping portal of Tencent, has recently reached overall strategic cooperation agreement with SF Express. All distribution tasks that Yixun.com cannot fulfill on its own will be handled by SF. This cooperation marked Yixun.com the first E-commerce platform which employs SF as an exclusive 3PL partner.

 

After this partnership, the number of cities in which Yixun’s pay-on-delivery service is available has increased from less than 100 in 15 provinces to over 300 in all provinces, covering an enormous area with more than 90% of China’s GDP. 80%-90% of total orders handled by SF are second-day-delivery available, delivery to regions that are over 1,000 km away will be arrived on the third day.

It was reported that Yixun began high-level contact with SF since middle 2013 and both sides had paid high attention to this project. Bu Guangqi, CEO of Yixun made a series of visits to SF management level including Wang Wei, SF President, both hoping to make this cooperation between B2C portal and 3PL an pioneering endeavor in the industry.

This joint effort started a trial in Guangdong province in July, since when approximately 200 thousand parcels in Yixun south China warehouses were delivered till October, with an extremely high success rate of 99.29%, and not one single complaint has been received, which greatly boosted the two parties’ confidence. Then on Nov.11, a crazily shopping festival for the Chinese, they established a joint project team which guaranteed the effective and timely coordination, and further brought the delivery service nation-wide.