What is OPS? What is the role and importance of OPS?

x Are you new to the field of Import-Export and Logistics and need to learn about the OPS position?
x Do you want to know the role and importance of OPS in Logistics?
x Are you a business or unit specializing in Vietnamese - International import and export goods and want to find a reputable transporter with extensive experience in customs clearance procedures, etc.?

Proship.vn will quickly answer the questions you are interested in raised above based on available experience and professional qualifications so that Import-Export Enterprises can understand what OPS is, what role it plays as well as the importance of OPS. how. Along with that, Proship Joint Stock Company also wants to introduce to customers the Chinh Ngach retail import-export service to other countries at the best low price, suitable for all domestic and foreign businesses and corporations.

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What is OPS in Logistics? Work? What are the requirements?

What is OPS?

Import-export is gradually becoming a hot industry, attracting many young people's attention because of its job opportunities and good salary and bonus regime. When talking about Import and Export, we definitely have to mention OPS - Ops is a job position that requires a lot of work at seaports and airports to pick up and export goods.

In the Import-Export - Logistics Enterprise, this position has specific requirements that are very different from other job positions. Ops in logistics stands for "Operations" - Field/Delivery. The OPS position in logistics is a field delivery staff position. This position requires frequent travel, is the most strenuous, takes a lot of getting used to, and is not as demanding as other positions.

What is OPS? What is the role and importance of OPS?
OPS stands for "Operations" which is understood as Field/Delivery and this is also a job position that operates regularly at seaports.

What is the job of OPS?

The tasks of the field delivery position must be done, such as:

  • Receive a set of export - import documents from Sales/Docs and pay taxes, clear customs for exported goods or pick up goods (imported goods) at the branch, ICD (inland port), port, airport;
  • Receive documents and requests from Sales/Docs to prepare documents such as C/O, Fumi, Phyto, licenses, certificates, etc. or have to go for inspection, support for analysis and classification;
  • Declare customs information or support documentation staff (CS) to declare when necessary,...

OPS requirements

To become an OPS, you need to meet the following requirements:

  • Firmly grasp and clearly understand the goods clearance process;
  • Ensure good health and maintain a spirit of steel to be able to work under harsh weather;
  • Agile, not afraid to move because work requires frequent travel between ports, warehouses...;
  • Be proactive and know how to manage time because immigration time falls into many different time frames;
  • Proactive, skillful, able to communicate with customers;
  • Maintain a high sense of responsibility and be careful because basically, import and export goods are related to quality and security.

=> Although it does not require high professional qualifications, OPS often has to work outdoors so the salary is quite good. According to statistics, the salary of OPS employees ranges from 6 - 8 million VND/month (not including allowances and other additional bonuses).

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Learn the role and importance of the OPS position

After knowing what OPS is, it is also necessary to learn about the role and importance of Operations OPS. Basically, the OPS employee position in Logistics also has similar job positions, jobs related to freight transportation.

We can understand that it is the job of Field Employees/Workers in Import-Export, Logistics, and Foreign Trade Companies. They will directly go to airports or seaports to clear customs for goods, ensuring goods are imported and transported to warehouses. Therefore, this position makes an extremely important contribution to the import and export activities of those goods. Join Proship in collecting the following useful information:

Role of OPS Departments

* Import-export and logistics sales staff:

  • Import-export sales staff (Trading or Oversea Sales): A common position at companies supplying products to foreign countries. This means that employees holding this position require good foreign language communication skills. In the Company, sales staff always play an important role because they directly affect the Company's profits.
  • Sales staff at shipping lines: The task in this position is to sell and support ship freight for business activities in the field of port ships. Ship sales staff will work with ship import-export companies or directly with customers to determine ship freight prices.
  • Sales staff at forwarding companies (Forwarder): Different from ship sales staff, for this position you need to handle more tasks: freight, tracking, customs procedures,... Overall, this is quite a difficult job, but in return the income is also very good.

* Staff vouchers:

  • Documentation staff in Import-Export Company: this is a job related to documents needed for import and export of goods. In some small companies, tasks also include meeting customers, packing goods, tracking and placing orders, customs declaration, etc.
  • Documentation staff of the forwarding company: because the nature of the forwarding company (forwarder) is an intermediary position, the documentation process will often be quite heavy because it must be recorded carefully. In addition, you also have to keep taking notes and regularly go to the port to work with customs.

* Purchaser:

Don't be confused with a purchasing staff at a retail store! Each profession will have its own specific tasks. OPS purchasing staff is the person who will find partners, evaluate material quality, negotiate prices and close orders. Purchasing staff must also coordinate smoothly with the sales and warehouse departments to have consistency in purchasing and importing goods to the warehouse. The job requires agility, flexibility and the ability to handle situations, but the compensation is usually very good.

What is OPS? What is the role and importance of OPS?
Positions related to OPS always play an important role, almost deciding the success or failure of goods import and export activities.

* Staff of international payments:

This is a job related to international payment operations, such as opening L/C, T/T transfer, checking documents, etc. When working in this position, you not only need to communicate well in English but also must have background knowledge of finance, import-export, etc.

* Field/delivery staff:

As the name suggests, when doing this job, most of the time you have to be present at the ports at the time of goods delivery. Specifically, you will be asked to perform the following tasks: delivering and receiving documents, paying taxes, completing shipping procedures, etc.

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* Parking/vehicle dispatcher:

As a vehicle/yard dispatcher, you are required to use vehicles to transport goods. You will control the vehicle and watch to move goods accurately into and out of the container. The work is quite heavy, so most men will take on this position.

Which school should I choose for an OPS position?

Currently, the need to recruit OPS positions is very high. After graduating, all graduates have the opportunity to join the Logistics industry and can become a real and specialized field staff. To meet the human resource needs of the market, there are currently many Logistics training schools that are also training you to work in this position such as: Maritime University, National Economics, Foreign Affairs. Trade, Hanoi Transport, Ho Chi Minh City Transport,...

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Does PROSHIP accept LCL shipments from Vietnam - USA, Germany, Australia, Japan, Korea, China,... via Chinh Ngach sea route?

PROSHIP.VN is pleased to provide to the market "Cheap LCL cargo shipping service to Mainstream countries" with professional operating and business processes, giving the highest priority to customer benefits to bring great experiences. Use the perfect, most valuable service.

With this service, our Company, as a consolidator, will collect LCL shipments of many Shippers at CFS, arrange, classify and pack them together. into a container, then arrange transportation from the loading port to the destination port. Such combined packing is called consolidation. This form helps save costs, time and effort for Shippers, Businesses, etc.

Proship's role is to promote international trade activities, contributing to the added value of goods. Or to put it more easily, trade goods between different regions of the world can be traded conveniently and easily thanks to shipping companies and agents like us.

Transporting Chinh Ngach LCL goods to other countries and importing goods from other countries to Vietnam is carried out according to the following schedule:

  • For goods exported from HCM (at Cat Lai Port, Saigon,...) - Australia, USA, Germany, Japan, Korea,...: Door to door delivery Proship - Pick up at the factory in Vietnam and deliver directly to the recipient and On the contrary, all sea freight costs are included...
  • For goods imported from Australia, America, Germany, Japan, Korea,... - HCM (at Cat Lai Port, Saigon,...): Proship will arrange to contact the shipper to check the expected delivery date information for collection. Arrange suitable train schedules, book the earliest train to transport to Vietnam and deliver to customers.
What is OPS? What is the role and importance of OPS?
Chinh Ngach marine retail import and export service at Proship is trusted and chosen by many shippers and businesses based on many criteria of low price, quality, flexible retail receipt - retail delivery method,...

Proship collects retail items and ships them from Vietnam - USA, Japan, Korea, Germany, Australia,...

Retail items Proship accepts shipping to the following countries:

  • Confectionery and grain products;
  • Seafood products, Vegetable products, Coffee, Cashew nuts, Pepper, Cassava and products from cassava;
  • Animal feed and raw materials, fertilizers of all kinds;
  • Handbags, wallets, suitcases, umbrellas, hats;
  • Plastic raw materials, Plastic products, Rubber, Rubber products;
  • Rattan, bamboo, rush and carpet products, Wood and wood products;
  • Textile fibers and yarns of all kinds, garments, textiles, curtain fabrics, other technical fabrics;
  • Paper and paper products;
  • Ceramic products, porcelain, glass and glass products;
  • Shoes of all kinds, raw materials for textiles, garments, shoes, leather;
  • Computers, electronic products;
  • All kinds of phones, phone accessories, camcorder components, camera components;
  • Other equipment, machinery, tools and spare parts, electric wires and cables;
  • Iron and steel of all kinds, electronic products and components;
  • Transport vehicles and spare parts, sports equipment and parts, toys, etc.
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Proship provinces and cities with seaports receive goods in Vietnam

Proship collects LCL cargo at major seaports in Vietnam such as: Cam Pha Seaport (Quang Ninh), Hon Gai Seaport (Quang Ninh), Hai Phong Seaport (Hai Phong) Nghi Son Seaport (Thanh Hoa). Cua Lo Seaport (Nghe An), Vung Ang Seaport (Ha Tinh). Chan May Seaport (Thua Thien Hue), Da Nang Seaport (Da Nang), Dung Quat Seaport (Quang Ngai), Quy Nhon Seaport (Binh Dinh), Van Phong Seaport (Khanh Hoa), Nha Trang Seaport (Khanh Hoa). Ba Ngoi Seaport (Khanh Hoa), Cat Lai Seaport (Ho Chi Minh City), Vung Tau Seaport (Ba Ria - Vung Tau), Dong Nai Seaport (Dong Nai), Can Tho Seaport (Can Tho) ,...to major seaports in the US, Germany, Australia, Japan, Korea, Shanghai,...

Charges for import and export of retail goods Chinh Ngach

Factors that determine the cost of import and export of Chinh Ngach LCL goods at Proship:

  • By nature of goods: Ordinary goods, heavy goods, chemical goods, high-value goods, fragile goods, bad-smelling goods, goods requiring special loading,...;
  • Goods by weight of goods;
  • According to goods delivery conditions: Door to door, CY-CY, or CY door;
  • All types of goods packed into special containers, Open top, Flatrac,...;
  • Seasonal goods: High season goods, low season goods, rice season goods, Tet season goods;
  • Quantity of goods shipped regularly or not, quantity shipped by shipment...

Proship's target customers are from LCL shipping service

Proship's target customers are:

  • Corporations, domestic and foreign companies that need to transport goods;
  • Factories, projects, general agents and services for domestic goods, international import and export;
  • Small and medium-sized enterprises have a need for international sea transport and import-export for the fastest time and the smallest cost savings.

Process of collecting and shipping LCL goods by container from Vietnam - Japan, Korea, Germany, Australia, America,...

Steps to collect and transport LCL goods to other countries along the Chinh Ngach route:

  • Step 1: First, Proship will receive the goods from you, package them and then transport them to the CFS warehouse;
  • Step 2: At the CFS warehouse, the shipment is placed in a container, sealed, sealed, and then the container will be delivered to the carrier at the CY warehouse;
  • Step 3: After loading the container onto the ship, the company will transport the goods to the specified discharge port;
  • Step 4: Upon receiving the D/O delivery order, Proship will present it to the container management department at the destination port, receive the entire container and bring it to the CFS warehouse in the importing country;
  • Step 5: After the consignee presents the HB/L secondary bill of lading to the CFS warehouse management department, the consignee will take the goods to their warehouse.

So, you have the answer to the question of what OPS is and how important it is. This is a job position that is no longer unfamiliar to those pursuing the import-export profession. When working as an OPS Field Delivery Officer, you will accumulate a lot of experience to complete procedures, legal documents,... and other necessary professional skills.

Please continue to follow and update specialized knowledge in the next News - Sharing series. And when you need to pair retail goods with other customers, please contact Proship at 0909 344 247 to get a quote for the best Chinh Ngach retail import-export service in 2023.

Shipping contact hotline: 

Ms Tien: 0909 986 247
Ms Dung: 0939 999 247
Ms Duy: 0902 581 247

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