Which sellers are overseas warehouses suitable for? Foreign trade novice to know in advance!

The application of overseas warehouses in the past two years has made many cross-border e-commerce companies see its advantages, and it is one of the effective solutions to break through the traditional timeliness and increase profits!

The delivery process of cross-border e-commerce is divided into direct mail delivery and overseas warehouse delivery.

Direct mail delivery means that after overseas buyers place an order, the seller will ship directly from China to overseas consumers. The operation is simple, but the timeliness is slow, and it takes ten and a half months to arrive.

Delivery from overseas warehouses is through bulk transportation such as sea or air, and the goods are prepared in advance in overseas warehouses. After the buyer places an order, the seller sends an order directly from the overseas warehouse or the FBA warehouse that the platform cooperates with, which greatly shortens the waiting time for consumers. Days to arrive.

Compared with direct mail, overseas warehouses have four outstanding advantages

First, overseas warehouses can send large and super large items, such as electric vehicles, furniture, etc.

When using small packages or special line mail, such products with large volume and weight will be restricted by specifications, and the shipping cost will be relatively high. If you choose overseas warehouses, you can avoid specification restrictions and reduce logistics costs.

Second, overseas warehouses can avoid FBA warehouse explosion, stagger the delivery peak, and reduce shipping costs.

Every year during the Christmas period, there will be a peak delivery period, the logistics cost is expensive, and the timeliness will also slow down. Through overseas warehouses, sellers can prepare goods in advance and stagger peak periods. At the same time, because most of the first-leg transportation of overseas warehouses uses container shipping, it has more scale advantages and lower logistics costs.

Third, while overseas warehouses reduce logistics costs, they also reduce the difficulty of customs clearance.

Compared with the bulk customs clearance of direct mail, most of the goods in overseas warehouses are head-hauled by sea, and generally adopt the traditional foreign trade logistics customs clearance import process, which reduces the barriers to customs clearance.

Fourth, choose localized high-quality express delivery for goods delivery, process orders more quickly, withdraw funds, and improve consumer user experience.

There are also differences in logistics services in different regions. Overseas warehouses are warehouses established in the target country, and their staff will be more familiar with the local logistics situation. Compared with direct mail by air, overseas warehouses can help sellers choose the best quality and fastest delivery method. At the same time, due to the reduction of the transshipment process, the possibility of package damage and loss will also be reduced, and the shopping experience can be greatly improved. Moreover, if customers want to return or exchange the goods, it will be faster, as long as they return to the overseas warehouse. Returns and exchanges are also available!

Therefore, many big sellers now like to cooperate with third-party overseas warehouses. For example, most of the sellers who cooperate with Jingmao Cloud Warehouse. In the early days, in order to improve the timeliness of delivery, they used international express delivery and delivered by air, which cost a lot. Later, they began to stock up at Jingmao Cloud Warehouse one month in advance based on the peak season demand derived from annual sales data, which not only ensured delivery timeliness, but also reduced logistics costs.