What are the advantages of overseas warehouses?
What does overseas warehouse mean?"Overseas warehouse" refers to warehousing facilities established overseas. Cross-border e-commerce companies export goods in batches to overseas warehouses in accordance with general trade methods. After the e-commerce platform completes the sales, the goods are delivered to overseas consumers.
In cross-border trade e-commerce, domestic enterprises transport goods to target market countries through bulk transportation, establish local warehouses, store goods, and then respond as soon as possible according to local sales orders, directly from the local warehouse in a timely manner. Picking, packaging and distribution.
Many e-commerce platforms and export companies are developing overseas logistics systems by building "overseas warehouses". The construction of "overseas warehouses" allows export companies to send goods in batches to foreign warehouses to achieve local sales and local distribution in the country. Since its inception, "overseas warehouse" has not only been about building warehouses overseas, it is also an optimization and integration of existing cross-border logistics and transportation solutions.
Those working on the Amazon platform often encounter uncertain factors such as port congestion and liquidation, especially during peak seasons. If the goods are delayed on the way, the store may be out of stock. In serious cases, it will not be able to keep up with the activities and affect the listing ranking. Therefore, it is very necessary to prepare goods in advance, so that overseas warehouses can become the hub for cargo storage and transfer before the peak season and play a very important role.
In 2021, Amazon has introduced capacity limits for sellers whose inventory index IPI is below 450 points, which will further increase sellers’ demand for overseas warehouse services. Some goods are kept in overseas warehouses, and some are delivered to Amazon warehouses. When the inventory is insufficient, the goods are transferred from overseas warehouses to Amazon warehouses.
During the peak season, some sellers encounter that the goods have been delivered to the Amazon warehouse, but they have not been able to wait for them to be put on the shelves. In a popular warehouse, there are a lot of goods delivered by UPS/FEDEX express delivery. There are too many goods piled up in the designated area, and Amazon employees cannot handle them at one time. The goods being delivered are constantly being delivered every day. If they are piled at the end, they may not be put on the shelves for half a month or even a month.
The overseas warehouse model consists of three major service parts: first-leg transportation + warehousing management + local delivery
1. First-leg transport merchants transport goods to overseas warehouses by sea, air, land or multimodal transport.
2. Warehousing management Merchants use the logistics information system to remotely operate overseas warehousing, sorting, and packaging goods, and manage inventory in real time.
3. After consumers place an order in the country where the overseas warehouse is located, the goods will be shipped directly from Haituotong's overseas warehouse and delivered to the customer through the local logistics company. The existence of overseas warehouses has brought great convenience to cross-border e-commerce logistics, and more and more cross-border trade is gradually inseparable from overseas warehouses.
1. Improve consumer experience.
After customers place an order, the goods are shipped directly from overseas local warehouses, which greatly shortens the delivery time, reduces transit, and reduces the rate of damage and packet loss; in addition, when delivering, using domestic logistics companies, consumers can also check logistics information in real time; When returning or exchanging goods, you can also deliver goods directly from domestic warehouses to improve the consumer experience. 8pineapple has overseas warehouses all over the world and can provide you with one-stop cross-border e-commerce logistics services.
2. Promote sales.
Using overseas warehouses has certain advantages in shipping speed, which can increase product prices to a certain extent and increase gross profits. At the same time, it also improves consumer experience and stimulates secondary consumption, thereby increasing overall sales.
3. Reduce logistics costs.
Cross-border e-commerce exports goods to overseas warehouses in the form of general trade, and completes the first-leg transportation in the form of batch shipments, so that international express delivery can be shipped in pieces to save costs.
4. It can effectively avoid cross-border logistics peaks.
During the holidays, sellers will concentrate a large number of shipments, which will inevitably seriously affect the speed of logistics and thus affect the buyer's delivery period. And for overseas warehouses, sellers need to prepare goods in advance and send them in batches to overseas warehouses. Once an order is placed, it can be shipped, without the problem of slow logistics during peak periods.