Benefits

A 3PL built from both sides of the table.

Fulfillment, sourcing, and the access most founders never get — run by operators who treat your brand like the product it is.

Two ways to work with China

The long way, and the road we run

Same goods, same factories. What changes is how much of your money is stuck, and how much of the invoice you can actually read.

The long way

What the market has taught you to expect
  • Capital frozen in a container for weeks before a single sale
  • A season’s stock committed before you know what sells
  • Dead stock marked down to clear
  • An invoice you cannot audit, and fees you never agreed to
  • Storage billed from day one
  • Hostage inventory the moment you try to leave

The road we run

What you get with Silk Road
  • Produce closer to demand, ship direct, free the cash
  • Never freeze a whole season in a sea-freight cycle
  • Inventory turns faster, less capital tied up in perishable stock
  • One locked, line-itemed price you can reconcile to the SKU
  • Ninety days of storage free to start
  • Fast offboarding, in writing, whenever you want it
The contract

Five promises. In writing.

Not values on a wall — commitments in your contract. Each one fixes something a China 3PL has already done to a founder like you.

I

Transparent, flat pricing

One rate card, line-itemed. No fee that appears after you’ve signed.

II

Photo proof of every shipment

Archived 90 days, yours to open any time. No “we count wrong sometimes.”

III

A named, fashion-literate human

One person who owns your account and knows what a strike-off is. Not a ticket queue.

IV

A 30-day no-hostage exit

Written in. If you leave, your inventory leaves with you — no lost season.

V

Brand-protective defaults

Local last-mile labels, never declared under value, never mixed with another brand. Nothing about the parcel says China.

Written into every Silk Road contract — not a promise on a page.

What you get

What each layer actually gets you.

Four ways we work with you — and what each one changes about running your brand.

Fulfillment

Your weekends back

Accurate picks across thousands of variants, goods handled like fashion, returns graded and back on the shelf — not dumped in a bin.

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Sourcing

A factory that behaves

The bulk matches the sample you approved, the MOQ fits your size, and you never translate a single message.

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Access

Doors you couldn’t open alone

Vetted factories, packaging at real MOQs, and a room of founders building what you’re building.

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Growth

A partner who reads your P&L

Guidance from operators running the same numbers you are — your 3PL as a growth conversation, not a cost.

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Built for fashion

The things a generalist simply can’t do.

Fashion breaks the systems built for everything else. These are the problems we’re made for — and the reason a generic 3PL can’t replace us.

The SKU math
30 styles × 4 colors × 7 sizes
= 840 SKUs

A generalist’s warehouse system chokes on that matrix. Ours is built for it — thousands of variants, no mis-picks, no mis-bins.

Returns, graded to resale

Inspected, steamed, refolded — A-grade to stock, B-grade to sample sale.

20–40% handled

We speak the sample ladder

Proto, strike-off, lab dip, PPS, TOP — your factory’s language.

6 stages

Branded packaging, low MOQs

Tissue, mailers, dust bags from small runs — not 5,000-piece minimums.

from 100 units

Compliance, cleared first

Fiber, care, and origin labels verified in-house — before customs.

checked in-house

The photography burden

Product shot in China before it ships — no couriering samples to a studio.

shot on-site
Live inventory

Your inventory isn’t a spreadsheet

One live record of every unit, down to the size and the colourway — not a file someone in another timezone updates twice a week.

Inventory Live
12,480
Units on hand
342
Active variants
118
Orders today
Oversized hoodie — heavyweight
Black · Bone · Moss / XS–XXL
1,284
Silk slip dress
Ivory · Ink / 6–16
412
Chain-link necklace, 18k
One size
96
Leather derby
Tan · Black / 39–45
338

One honest view of your stock and orders, accurate to the variant.

Returns inspected and graded before anything goes back to stock.

Tracking written back to your store the moment it ships.

Cash off the shelf

Your best season shouldn’t be your tightest.

Produce closer to demand, ship fast, and stop freezing a season’s capital in inventory that hasn’t sold yet.

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