What products are suitable for overseas warehouses?
"Overseas warehouse" means that companies export goods in batches to overseas warehouses in accordance with general trade methods. After receiving orders, the goods are delivered to overseas customers and consumers. "Overseas warehouse" is a key part of the overseas layout of Chinese companies. Under the model, enterprises have price and time advantages in exporting products. Supporting enterprises to build a batch of "overseas warehouses" for export products not only promotes the innovation of enterprises' development of foreign trade business models.
1. Faster arrival speed: compared with domestic direct shipping, order response time is effectively reduced by 50-70%. Greatly improves user experience and product turnaround time.
2. Lower logistics costs: Domestic re-weighting is relatively high, and re-weighting in overseas warehouses is cheaper, so the cost of heavier products is lower in comparison.
3. Satisfy small batch B2B orders at any time: Small batch B2B orders are a blind spot in cross-border trade, and overseas warehouses can quickly cover this part of the demand.
4. Increase product exposure and order rate: through AliExpress traffic support and shorter logistics timeliness, attract more consumers and increase sales.
5. Fast return and exchange processing: overseas warehouses handle local returns and exchanges, saving time and improving customer satisfaction and experience.
6. No congestion during peak seasons, and customs clearance issues will not affect buyer experience
7. Expand sales categories, including large-ticket items
8. Warehouse management and cargo handling are replaced by a third party, making the operation simple
1. A product with a certain sales volume. This type of product has stable sales. Using overseas warehouses can further improve the user experience and reduce the refund rate, thereby gaining more market share.
2. Holiday supplies, such as Halloween products, Christmas products, and party supplies. Users have high requirements for the logistics timeliness of such products, and consumers are relatively willing to pay higher shipping costs to enjoy faster and more convenient logistics services. And such products rarely incur additional warehousing charges.
3. Items that are large in size and weight or cannot be transported directly by domestic small packages, such as large household items, home appliances and other large items. If you use FBA to deliver these things, you will often lose money if the price is certain, but using overseas warehouses can reduce a lot of costs.
How can we do a good job in overseas warehouses?
1. The market demand for the product must be large. This is a basic principle. Small sales volume is not suitable for overseas warehouses. After all, placing excess products in warehouses requires certain storage fees. However, the market size is more reasonable and needs to be evaluated by the seller based on the capital situation and turnover rate.
2. Shipping from overseas warehouses, compared with domestic shipping, greatly saves logistics and distribution time, increases customers’ shopping experience, leaves a good impression on the product, and lays the foundation for listing in the long run.