Omnisdek

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2023: SDEK's exit from Omnisdek's business

July 18, 2023 it became known about the exit SDEK from joint business with the manufacturer of postamates. Omnic As explained by "" To the businessman the commercial director of SDEK Maxim Tolstobrov, the companies "shared a vision" for the further development of the OmniCDEK business.

At the same time, the express delivery operator will continue to work on the direction of the posts, but through a partnership with Halva. The traffic of shipments has already been distributed to the posts of partner networks and the current network of points of issue of orders, Tolstobrov said.

OmniCDEK Postamate

OmniCDEK emphasized to the newspaper that up to half of the network's posts were franchised. One of the company's partners, in a conversation with the publication, added that from the end of April 2023, some franchise holders began to face difficulties due to their disconnection from the system that allows receiving and sending packages. SDEK promised to partially cover the losses of its franchisees due to the downtime of the checkpoints, one of the operator's partners told the publication.

According to Ekaterina Antsiferova, Development Director of the Beta PRO Fulfillment Operator, the OmniCDEK project was an experiment, and its share in the total volume of SDEK's business was minimal. Having calculated the labor costs and investments in the project, the company apparently decided to continue to work according to the partner scheme, and not to develop its own direction in the segment, she adds. By July 2023, SDEK operates more than 4.1 thousand points of issue of orders (PVZ).

Оборот.ру Commercial Director Vladimir Bugaevsky says that a significant increase in the share of marketplaces developing their own PVZ networks negatively affects the business of logistics companies. By July 2023, the delivery model through checkpoints remains in demand for buyers of goods with a low check in traditional online stores, he said.^[1]

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