Max HenryFounder & Executive Director, Global Supply Chain Council (GSCC) · Founder & Executive Director at Global Supply Chain Council (GSCC)

APAC Customs Delays? Here's How We Tackle It!

25 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief segment, the speaker answers a question about coping with frequent, unpredictable customs delays in the APAC region. The core advice centers on proactive sales and operational inventory planning. Key recommendations include using ABC classification to prioritize stock, maintaining appropriate stock levels across different shipping tiers (A, B, C), and ensuring that inventory is available simultaneously in warehouses, in‑transit, and at the origin point. By diversifying stock locations and leveraging various shipping methods, companies can buffer against customs hold‑ups and keep fulfillment flowing despite delays.

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Shen question, how do you deal with unpredictable customs and delays in APAC, which is quite often these days? What we do is it is more to do with the better planning, sales planning and operational planning of the inventory. That's what we do, not only in this company, in previous also, because if you are dependent, then you need to make sure that what are your ABC classification, how, how your stock levels are And if you maintain it pretty well by all the means, whether it is A, courier, or C, then you would make sure that any point of time you have stock in warehouse, in transit, as well as origin. Okay. All right, good. We're going to cover those questions.