If you thought sequence of events was not important, think again. The UK wholesale market is case study for you. Dropship suppliers have made minor changes in the usual model and are making far more money for their customers and for themselves than you would imagine. To explain things better, here is a side-by-side comparison of the usual UK wholesale model with the innovation.

The Usual Model

They say that cash flow is the most important term when it comes to business. Your company could be making a lot of profit. However, at the same time, if it is out of cash, it will run into some rough weather very soon. This is why the dropship model is such a boon for start-ups and highly leveraged companies.

This is how the usual UK wholesale model works if you take the traditional route to buy anything. Let's consider a mobile phone wholesale contract for our purpose:

Assess Demand: First and foremost, you must have a rough guess of what demand you are going to face in the forthcoming season or so. What makes it even more difficult is the fact that you may have to predict the demand by each model that the mobile phone wholesaler may be offering you. Ask anyone, and they are most likely to say that this is next to impossible. Even Fortune 500 companies have not been able to accurately predict the demand of customers. It is dependant on human behavior, which is erratic. Hence, the old model builds risk as a part of your process because you have to make a prediction, which in all likelihood will be wrong.

Buy: What's even more devastating is the fact that you have to make payments based on these predictions. Hence, the risk component is involved, and to cover the costs, you raise your markups, making your product an unviable choice. However, cash goes out the moment you make the purchase. Even if it doesn't, a commitment for outflow of cash is entered into.

Store: When you get the goods, you need to make arrangements for its storage. We all know about the economies of scale. So, let's say, if a large wholesaler were to store the goods, they could do it much cheaper and much more effectively than you can.

Sell: Cash is finally released when you sell. This is firstly an uncertain event with regards to timing. Secondly, you have received a shipment, and now you will make one. Two shipments are clearly unnecessary when you can do with one. Hence, this takes up your transport costs even higher.

Dropshipping eliminates the uncertainty and creates a positive cash flow cycle, that is, you get paid before you pay. This is the reason why it is continuously touted as being superior to the usual UK wholesale model in all regards. The only thing that is difficult is finding a good dropshipper. But with some guidance, that too is very much accomplishable.

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