What are the advantages and disadvantages of overseas warehouses?
Amazon sellers often encounter problems such as blocked accounts, unavailable products, and customer returns. This is the norm in the e-commerce industry. Among the many products on Amazon, consumers may return or exchange products because they are not satisfied with the products or the color is not suitable. For non-local sellers who use Amazon's FBA service, returning items is not good news, because Amazon will not relist the returned items, even if there is nothing wrong with the items. So how should these commodities be handled? Amazon will not return goods across borders, and it would be a pity to destroy them. So what is an overseas warehouse? What are the advantages and disadvantages of overseas warehouses?
Overseas warehouses refer to storage facilities established overseas by enterprises. In cross-border trade and e-commerce sales, the role of overseas warehouses is to send goods to target market countries through international transportation and store them in local leased or self-built warehouses. Overseas warehouses are used to store goods, and then respond to local sales orders as soon as possible, sorting, packaging and delivering directly from local warehouses in a timely manner. This reduces complex customs clearance steps.
Advantages of overseas warehouses:
1. Shipping from overseas warehouses can reduce the logistics cost of shipping from China.
2. Shipping from overseas warehouses can save the time for customs declaration and clearance, greatly shorten the transportation time, and improve the timeliness of logistics.
3. With its own overseas warehouse, sellers can give priority to local delivery when receiving new orders, effectively shortening the time for buyers to receive goods.
4. In the process of transportation, the goods may be damaged or the wrong goods are sent. The seller can use the overseas warehouse to make adjustments, return and exchange the goods quickly, reduce the waiting time of customers, and improve satisfaction.
1. Overseas storage fees need to be paid, and the storage costs in different countries are also different, so the seller must calculate the cost.
2. Overseas warehousing has specific requirements for the seller's inventory, and specially customized products are not suitable for overseas warehousing sales.
3. The inventory in overseas warehouses is difficult to handle, and it will become a big problem to sell the accumulated goods through appropriate channels.
