As a product of cross-border e-commerce, overseas warehouse relies on and contributes to cross-border e-commerce. When sellers choose appropriate overseas warehouse according to their products, and make good use of the advantages of overseas warehouse and operate overseas warehouse, cross-border trade can be fully developed. So, what are the challenges we need to solve in selecting, utilizing and operating overseas positions? Let’s take a look!
About using overseas storehouse, want to choose to use overseas storehouse according to own product first. Offshoring has its advantages, especially in terms of cost reduction. For example, faucets are not standardized, heavy and convenient for sellers to manage. They can be shipped to overseas warehouses in bulk by sea, which greatly reduces logistics costs. Therefore, they are suitable for overseas warehouses. However, some products need to go through inventory analysis to better use the overseas warehouse. Such as clothing, shoes and other seasonal consumer goods, sellers need to do inventory and sales cycle control, in order to better use overseas warehouse.
With the help of a third party overseas warehouse, the seller had better prepare 300-500 pieces of single goods at a time. After the goods are ready, contact the service provider of overseas warehouse. They will send the goods to the overseas warehouse and put them on the shelves. If the seller is not sure, try not to send too much for the first time. After the first batch of products are delivered to overseas warehouses, they can be sold. After a period of time, the sales situation and trend of a CERTAIN SKU in the past month or three months will be analyzed, and then replenishment will be made according to the forecast. If the sales are good and the quantity is large, shipping can be considered to reduce the cost again.
Overseas warehouses established and operated by third-party logistics enterprises will provide services such as customs clearance, warehousing quality inspection, order acceptance, commodity sorting and distribution for a number of cross-border e-commerce enterprises. Overseas warehouse can also provide FBA return and exchange, transfer, rebeating or label, product testing, pay customs duties and other services. In this way, it can solve the transportation problems of logistics of small and medium-sized e-commerce enterprises.