The subscription box was initiated by delivering customers with samples of personal care products to upsell customers into buying the standard sizes of the sample products they enjoyed has proven to be a successful marketing tool. This allows customers to try products and brands risk-free. The heightened orientation to new products helps customers discover optimal products for their choices and wants. They came into fame when the company Unilever started to start using their service.

Subscription box trend arises

Amid the pandemic, mostly the people stayed in their homes because of the lockdown and were not allowed to go out and do their day-to-day needs. Thus, increased their spending on subscription box deliveries, advancing this trend especially in other countries abroad where the average citizen caters to more than one per subscription. Even as restrictions loosen, the subscription box fads are proving their stickiness, while the supply chain supporting this boom struggles to deliver on-time and secure capacity to keep up with the increasing market. Not to mention a greater increase month over month, COVID-19 pandemic was a surprise and a challenge not to most of us citizens of every nation but some businesses as well. To uphold the market and freight deliveries the company was looking for every partner to help them put all the different packages together this is to ensure that the cost of freight will not be too high for every customer to shoulder, therefore, they come up to be partners with another forwarder to service for all their clients all around the world. 

Diversifying transport services

Parcel carriers like USPS, FedEx, and UPS, and even those businesses that are not into freighters diversified their way to help out with the freighting, storage, and a lot more to ease the law of supply and demands for the products to be delivered to its consumers on time without damages. This is what we call embracing technology to save jobs and the business. This may not be easy and requires a lot of work and patience to get into success but once it peaks up and works out well, one feels good that you made it out from scratch with better oversight. On the part of the business owners, companies, and corporations, one of the hardest tasks of an entrepreneur is to meet the prerequisites of the need which in other words means managing supply and demand. For this reason, the manager has to make do with other ways and strategies to match up with pressure. This is to secure and avoid a gap between supply and demand.

There are many difficulties and challenges when it comes to handling subscription boxes and one of which is transport. Here are some problems:

• Fuel costs
• Customer servicing
• Environmental issues
• Technology technique 
• Economy

Outsourcing all or a portion of your freight and business processes can often provide the required mastery and skills, people, capacity, and IT systems needed to help lessen expenses, improve vision into the supply chain, effectively manage the supply chain and achieve greater regulatory keeping.

Challenges Affecting Supply Management

The one thing about problems in supply supervision is how to conquer the delays caused by your subcontractor, suppliers, and freight companies. The good management for this is to have proper channeling of communication to your suppliers. This is to know in advance the problem that needs to be given priority and to be communicated as soon as possible to the recipient of the goods. The second is how to keep up with the customer demands, and how soon they will want their goods to be delivered. The way to manage this is to plan a better design for your system and better information within your organization. Thirdly is the shortage of skilled workers especially in this pandemic situation. It is real because businesses are mostly hard up and even close and loses their capital. For this, it’s a matter of time only time can tell when this pandemic ends. All these are only a few to tell problems when it comes to managing a business but one thing sure is for every problem there is always a solution. In businesses small or big human relationships should be taken into consideration. Always consider the welfare of your staff and workers because these are the same people who will bring your business to success if you know how to listen to them, know their needs and show them that the management cares and offers help. In return for such kindness is that they will love and work well in your company.

It may not be simple to handle a person but learning how to communicate is a two-way process; that is by listening and acting on the solution. Invest to educate oneself in a certain business one wants to have so that you will know how to tackle problems one step at a time. Knowing how to handle a certain business can greatly affect business growth and performance. Focus on index exposure throughout your supply chain to regularly assess and ease drawback risk. To not be knowledgeable on these topics is ensuring the fall of one’s business and ruining any chances of a successful business venture. Stand and reach for your dream.

Thus, altogether regulating supply and demand is difficult for small as well as large organizations. Where small businesses deal with problems such as investment costs, manpower issues, technical expertise, etc. Large businesses face problems in raw material supply, transport, and many other such factors which affect these companies on a large scale. The best way to manage supply and demand is to anticipate demand and then create products consequently. This is where the sales forecast becomes significant for companies. Without a proper sales projection, the company will not be able to achieve a balance between supply and demand. Companies nowadays need to be aware of the current trends and needs of the consumers to create products that will not waste their funds and resources.