What is overseas warehouse service? What are the overseas warehouse services?
Overseas warehouses refer to warehousing facilities established overseas. In cross-border trade e-commerce, overseas warehouses refer to domestic enterprises transporting goods to target market countries through bulk transportation, establishing local warehouses, storing goods, and then re-purchasing goods according to local requirements. Sales orders are responded to promptly, picked, packed and shipped directly from local warehouses. So what is overseas warehouse service? What are the overseas warehouse services?
The most typical overseas warehouse services generally include: integrated warehousing and distribution services (including goods collection, distribution, picking, distribution, packaging, etc.) and transfer services.
Advanced services: return processing, return inspection, overseas after-sales, repair, clearance processing, dropshipping, labeling and replacement, overseas warehouse slow-moving inventory processing, returns to the country, replacement packaging, warehouse-in-warehouse service, first-leg, last-leg .
More personalized services: including company registration, VAT, photography of overseas scenes, shooting videos, etc., are already being provided by overseas warehouses.
1. First leg transportation
The first-leg transportation of goods from China to New Zealand mainly includes international express, air freight line and sea freight line; after arriving in New Zealand, it will be transported to overseas warehouses, which can help sellers clear customs.
2.Transshipment service
Cross-border e-commerce platforms such as Amazon and eBay will establish their own warehouses for sellers to store, but the cost will be relatively high; New Zealand overseas warehouses provide transfer services, that is, sellers can first store some goods in third-party overseas warehouses, which need to be supplemented. When the goods are delivered to the official warehouse, a certain transfer fee will be charged.
3. Return inspection/label replacement
When a buyer returns a product, it is difficult for domestic sellers to deal with it. Overseas warehouses will provide after-sales services such as testing, label replacement, and packaging replacement for the returned products to help cross-border sellers better handle after-sales issues; however, services will also be generated fee.
4. Drop shipping
The seller transports the goods to the overseas warehouse in New Zealand. When a buyer places an order, the overseas warehouse will arrange the shipment and transportation of the product and deliver it to the buyer. There are also some companies that provide unsourced shipments, which are more suitable for novice cross-border sellers.
5. Clearance processing
For sellers’ excess inventory stored in overseas warehouses, we will also provide clearance processing, which mainly includes destruction, return to the country, distribution, etc., mainly in the form provided by logistics companies.