What is an overseas warehouse? How to choose a reliable overseas warehouse?
What is an overseas warehouse?Overseas warehouses are warehousing and logistics nodes established by cross-border e-commerce export sellers in areas close to buyers abroad in order to improve order delivery capabilities. They usually have the functions of overseas goods storage, distribution processing, local distribution, and after-sales service.
When choosing an overseas warehouse, you must first understand the advantages of an overseas warehouse, and then choose a suitable and reliable overseas warehouse according to your own product needs.
1. Advantages of overseas warehouses
1. Reduce logistics costs:
The logistics cost of shipping from overseas warehouses is lower than that of shipping from China. This is because overseas warehouses can be closer to the target market, reducing the cost and time of cross-border transportation.
2. Accelerate the timeliness of logistics:
Delivery from overseas warehouses can save the time required for customs declaration and clearance, greatly shorten the time of the entire transportation process, and improve the timeliness of logistics. This is especially important for items that need to be delivered quickly.
3. Increase product exposure:
Having an overseas warehouse means faster and more convenient delivery capabilities in the local market. When local customers choose to shop, they generally give priority to local delivery, because this can greatly shorten the time for receiving goods. This increases product exposure in the market and increases sales opportunities.
4. Improve customer satisfaction:
During the transportation process, there may be problems such as damaged goods, short-packages, and wrong goods, and customers may request returns, exchanges, or reshipments. If there is an overseas warehouse, these problems can be adjusted and solved in the overseas warehouse in a timely manner, which greatly improves the timeliness of logistics and increases customer satisfaction.
1. Need to pay overseas storage fees:
The use of overseas warehouses requires payment of certain storage fees, and the fees vary from country to country. Therefore, sellers need to carefully calculate the cost when choosing an overseas warehouse.
2. Inventory requirements:
Overseas warehouses have certain inventory requirements for sellers. For some specially customized products, choosing overseas warehouses may not be suitable.
3. High losses due to unsalable products:
In the process of selling in overseas warehouses, if the products are unsalable, it will become difficult to deal with the inventory. Finding a suitable sales channel is also a big problem.
4. Localization challenges:
The establishment of overseas warehouses also faces the challenge of localization. Including adapting to and overcoming factors such as culture, laws and regulations, and consumption habits of the local market.
1. Is there a professional team in China?
Some overseas warehouses are only responsible for the part after overseas warehousing. Once there is a problem, the goods are already overseas, which is often difficult to deal with. The overseas warehouse service with a domestic professional team will grasp the specifications before the goods are sent to the overseas warehouse. Haituotong overseas warehouse can provide cross-border e-commerce sellers with one-stop import and export customs clearance services, good customs clearance qualifications, mature Experience in customs clearance, fast and efficient, to avoid overseas problems to the greatest extent, and also to maximize the avoidance of additional costs overseas.
2. Does the warehouse provide insurance?
Friends who have experience in e-commerce operations know that it is normal for goods to be lost, damaged, and delayed during the operation process. However, for cross-border transportation, due to various reasons such as cumbersome procedures and national regulations, similar The situation is more commonplace. In response to this situation and in order to adapt to market competition, some overseas warehouses have begun to introduce various types of insurance, such as cargo damage insurance, lost item insurance, and delay insurance, which are aimed at the pain points of cross-border e-commerce. Once there is a problem with the warehouse, these types of insurance allow the seller to get a reasonable claim and not lose money.
3. Scale and hardware facilities
It is difficult for an overseas warehouse company with a scale of 5K square meters or even tens of thousands of square meters to close down or disappear overnight, and the stability of small overseas warehouses is relatively poor. Due to its own conditions, there is room for emergency measures in the face of emergencies Insufficient goods can easily cause the seller to lose goods; the same is true for hardware facilities. Perfect facilities mean that overseas warehouses can provide services more efficiently and maturely.
4. Whether it has independent taxation
The protection of taxation and law not only guarantees the legality of your process, but also guarantees the legality of the processes of other customers in overseas warehouses. In a common warehouse system, only when everyone is legal can it be truly guaranteed.
5. Calculation method of warehousing and other expenses
There will be no pies in the sky, but traps will fall! Some overseas warehouses are under the banner of special discounts and offer attractive low prices, but the billing standards are vague. After the goods are shipped, they will take the opportunity to take you through for various reasons. In the end, the gains outweigh the losses. Therefore, when cross-border sellers choose overseas warehouses, the prices of various charges must be clear and clear, so as to prevent them from being trapped.
6. Whether to provide a mature management system
To some extent, overseas warehouses are also a kind of service provider. A mature system can not only meet the needs of basic operations, but also has an intelligent system, which uses big data technology to generate data reports such as inventory, sales orders, and inventory, and completes various processes more efficiently and smoothly, thereby ensuring customers, commodities, and overseas warehouses , The communication between logistics companies is barrier-free, and the information is accurate and timely.
Here I suggest that you do a good job of market research when choosing overseas warehouses. Don’t blindly pursue low prices and lead yourself into the trap of bad overseas warehouses. The key is to comprehensively consider the pros and cons of overseas warehouses and reduce the risk of commodity circulation overseas.
Remarks: The above content is only an internal opinion and is for reference only.