TikTok, owned by ByteDance in China, will build a global fulfillment centre in Seattle, and set up an e-commerce supply chain system, said its job listings on LinkedIn, as first revealed by Axios on Oct. 11 .
The ads in the past two weeks invited applicants for the “planning and solution design of fulfillment centres,” tasked with diverse fields in logistics, supply chain, and inventory management. In the United States, TikTok has offices in New York and Los Angeles.
Claiming TikTok is the ideal platform to provide a better e-commerce experience to users, with its more than one billion online users, the company’s ads suggest it can compete with other shopping platforms such as Amazon and Walmart….