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Fulfillment for Special Industries: Cosmetics, Fashion, Food

Vietnam Post Logistics
27 June, 2025
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In e-commerce, making a sale is only half the journey — the other half is how to process the order, package it, and deliver the right product to the right customer as quickly as possible with the best experience. For specialized industries such as cosmetics, fashion, and food, the fulfillment puzzle becomes more complex and requires dedicated solutions.

This article will provide a comprehensive analysis of the requirements and fulfillment solutions for each of these industries, helping e-commerce businesses choose the right operational model, reduce order errors, improve customer retention, and sustainably scale up.

Fulfillment for special Industries: Comestic - Fashion - Food

Fulfillment for Specialized Industries – Why Dedicated Solutions Are Necessary?

Unlike general products, industries like cosmetics, fashion, and food often have strict requirements for warehousing, order handling, and delivery. Applying a generic fulfillment solution easily leads to errors, delayed shipments, high return rates, or even damage to the brand’s reputation.

Some common fulfillment challenges in these specialized sectors include:

  • Storage requirements: Cosmetics require cool warehouses, food requires temperature and expiration control, and fashion needs protection from moisture, dust, and wrinkling.
  • Complex order handling: Sorting by size, color, expiry date; quality checks; packaging aligned with marketing campaigns or brand concepts.
  • High & fluctuating order volumes: Especially during holidays, sales, and promotions, fulfillment must be flexible enough to process thousands of orders per day without bottlenecks.
  • High return rates if the service is poor: These industries rely heavily on customer experience; late deliveries, product errors, or careless packaging will dramatically increase returns and exchanges.

Therefore, businesses in these industries need a fulfillment partner that understands their sector, has the right infrastructure, and can customize their operational processes to specific needs, rather than using a “one-size-fits-all” service.

Fulfillment for the Cosmetics Industry

Characteristics of the cosmetics sector
Cosmetics offer good profit margins but come with high demands in terms of:

  • Quality preservation: sensitive to temperature, humidity, and light.
  • Aesthetic packaging: These products impact customer emotions and experience.
  • High-order personalization: gifts, samples, skin/tone matching.

Additionally, cosmetics are usually small in size but fragile, easily degraded, and have short shelf lives, requiring careful packaging and proper preservation.

Fulfillment requirements for cosmetics

  • Dedicated cool storage, stable at 20–25°C, avoiding direct sunlight
  • Apply FEFO (First Expired, First Out) to avoid near-expiry stock
  • Shock-proof, break-proof packaging, using eco-friendly materials, if positioned as premium
  • Customizable orders: include gifts, greeting cards, discount codes, or product bundles
  • Attach branded tags, labels, or campaign samples

Real-life case study
The Vietnamese cosmetic brand LAVIO uses a fulfillment system with separate storage areas for sensitive goods, featuring real-time temperature tracking and batch date checks upon warehouse entry. Thanks to integration with multiple sales channels (Shopee, TikTok, Facebook), they process over 500 orders per day with complaint rates below 1%.

Fulfillment for the Fashion Industry

Characteristics of the fashion sector
This sector has a very large number of SKUs, classified by size, color, style, season, with short product life cycles and easy “out-of-trend” risk. Additionally:

  • High return rates (30–40%) due to sizing issues or differences from photos
  • Needs fast return handling & repackaging
  • Requires aesthetic packaging to maintain brand image

Fulfillment requirements for fashion

  • Detailed inventory management by SKU (SKU = product + size + color + material)
  • Fast and accurate pick & pack by size/color
  • Packaging that preserves garment shape: paper bags, shaped carton boxes, moisture absorbers, mesh bags, etc.
  • Integrated return handling, especially for marketplace orders
  • Branded tagging, invoicing, or labeling as needed

Real-life case study
Local women’s fashion brand SweetyCloth partnered with a fulfillment provider that has a dedicated return handling module. Thanks to product quality checks for returned items (like new, with tags), the rate of reselling returned goods increased by up to 60%, saving significant warehousing and operational waste costs.

Fulfillment for the Food Sector (Packaged & Fresh)

Biggest challenges

  • Extremely short shelf life (especially fresh food)
  • Strict temperature control, with separate zones: frozen, chilled, dry
  • Ultra-fast delivery, within 6 hours in urban areas, sometimes same-day
  • Food safety certificates and traceability documentation

Fulfillment requirements for food

  • Cold chain-standard warehouses with temperature control from inbound, storage, to outbound
  • FEFO system to manage batches and expiry dates
  • Safe packaging: shock-proof, leak-proof, insulated, with dry ice or cold packs
  • Integration with express delivery services (2–4 hours)
  • Real-time temperature status updates throughout the delivery process

Real-life case study
Startup Organic House, selling organic vegetables in Hanoi, chose a fulfillment partner with a chilled warehouse in Long Bien, integrated with fast delivery, 3 shifts per day. Thanks to the 6-hour store–sort–ship process, their customer satisfaction rating on Shopee and their website reached 98%.

What Should Businesses Consider When Choosing a Fulfillment Partner for Specialized Industries?

Criteria Cosmetics Fashion Food
Temperature control Mandatory (cool storage) Not required Mandatory (cool/frozen storage)
Shelf-life management FEFO Not applicable FEFO mandatory
Fast delivery Priority Priority Mandatory (express)
Return complexity High Very high Limited
Customized packaging High Medium – High Medium
E-commerce platform integration Mandatory Mandatory Mandatory

Vietnam Post Logistics Fulfillment Solutions

Vietnam Post Logistics is one of Vietnam’s leading logistics providers, pioneering in delivering comprehensive logistics solutions for customers across warehousing, e-commerce, international and domestic logistics, as well as import and export services.

With a nationwide transportation network reaching up to 230 countries and territories, end-to-end international fulfillment has become one of Vietnam Post Logistics’ spearhead services in today’s digital era. It helps businesses improve efficiency, optimize costs, and elevate their competitive position, thanks to outstanding advantages such as:

  • A diverse system of warehouses, including modern international-standard bonded fulfillment warehouses strategically located from North to South.
  • Connectivity with the global postal system covering 192 countries, along with partnerships with major airlines and global logistics providers.
  • Advanced Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Order Management System (OMS), enabling customers to track inventory, order status, and return rates in real time.
  • Fast, accurate, and flexible order processing services with tasks such as size sorting, labeling, gift wrapping, including personalized inserts, date/batch/barcode checking, and more.
  • A team of professional and highly experienced Vietnam Post Logistics staff and specialists.

There is no “one-size-fits-all” fulfillment model. For e-commerce businesses in specialized sectors like cosmetics, fashion, and food, choosing the right industry-specific fulfillment partner can help save 20–30% of operating costs, reduce complaints, increase customer retention, and — most importantly — create a consistent and professional shopping experience.

If you are seeking a fulfillment solution for your product category, don’t look at price alone — ask about industry experience, warehouse suitability, management, and returns handling systems, and most importantly, whether they can support your sustainable growth.

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