Reply from GlobeInNov 16, 2020
Hi Lia,
We're very, very sorry about this continuous, frustrating delay in your October shipment. You should have received an email from our CEO and Founder, Vlad. If you haven't seen it, I've pasted a copy below which provides information for your shipment and a detailed explanation of what has been going on with our move. Please let us know if you have any further questions and we'll be happy to help you further:
Dear Customer,
Thank you for sharing your feedback and frustrations about our shipping delays both with the Customer Service Team and in our GlobeIn Mavens Community. I hear you and I know that I’ve let you down not just this month, but for the past several months. For this, I sincerely apologize.
I’m sure you’ve heard from our team that we are moving to a new fulfillment center and I also know you may have grown weary of this explanation. I take responsibility for not having addressed our fulfillment issues and shipping delays sooner.
The process of moving fulfillment centers usually takes 6-12 months and we will have completed our move in just under 3 months because we believe it was urgent and critical to improving our customer’s experience.
There are 12 major steps to the process of moving to a new fulfillment center and we want to assure you that we are nearing the end at steps 10-12. In full transparency, I want to share with you these steps, so you can see how far we’ve come and where we are going.
+ We needed to identify the fulfilment center space requirements to ensure that as we grow we can continue to offer you more products and that there is space within our facility to meet those needs.
+ We needed to locate and vet the best and most efficient providers in our industry to ensure that orders are accurate and not held back by technological limitations.
+ We needed to evaluate our new potential fulfillment center’s packing procedures and performance to ensure orders are packed properly and securely.
+ Patrick, our Director of Fulfillment Operations, needed to visit our new facility to determine how successful our operations will be by witnessing their procedures, speaking with warehouse associates, and evaluating the facilities cleanliness.
+ Once we had gone through this vetting process we needed to choose the center that is best suited for our company, our growth, and that would be able to address our concerns and also the concerns of our customers.
+ Once we made this decision we needed to inform the new fulfillment center that they were our selected partner and sign agreements.
+ We needed to provide our previous fulfillment center 30 days notice that we were moving our operations.
+ We needed to complete inventory analysis to determine what inventory will be transferred to the new partner and determine how many trucks will be required to ship thousands of products and plan accordingly.
+ We needed to ensure that our internal systems were synced and connected to our new partner’s and then test these systems before starting operations and training our staff on how to use these new systems.
+ We are currently transferring our inventory to our new fulfillment center and are about 75% complete.
+ As products are delivered to our partner they are receiving them into their system. Once 100% of the products have been transferred and then received this step will be complete.
+ We are currently packing and shipping orders from our new facility! However, since step 10 and 11 are not 100% complete there are still orders that are delayed.
In some cases we are still waiting to receive items from artisan groups. Some items are still held up in global ports and at US Customs due to Covid. We may continue to see delays across the supply chain due to Covid this year, as rates spike again. Closures are out of our control, but we are doing everything we can to meet your expectations while at the same time, supporting the artisans who make GlobeIn possible. For this reason, and when possible, we may split up your order so that you receive the items in stock without delay.
If you have any other feedback for us, please always feel free to visit https://globein.com/maven-feedback. Our team reviews this feedback together on a monthly basis and discusses how to improve. We always aim to make your experience better and we know that this move, although difficult now, will ultimately make your shipping faster and better in the coming months.
Sincerely yours,
The GlobeIn Team