The difference is that we need to do the customer service work of overseas warehouse delivery, so we must require overseas warehouses to have their own ERP management system, otherwise more orders are easy to make mistakes. In addition, from the marketing point of view, using overseas warehouse delivery can achieve real multi-channel sales, rather than relying solely on Amazon sales. Through overseas warehouses, inventory backlog can be effectively reduced and sales can be increased.
How to choose an overseas warehouse? Before we choose overseas warehouses, we must first make clear the ultimate goal of choosing overseas warehouses, which can be roughly divided into two parts: improving inventory turnover and capital utilization. See the figure below for details:
Then, based on the purpose of choosing a third-party overseas warehouse (self-opening warehouse is not discussed here) and the operation mode of the store, the criteria for selecting overseas warehouses are introduced from three aspects: cost, timeliness and safety, and each seller can choose according to the specific focus.
The costs here are mainly details such as warehousing, distribution, labeling, label replacement, return and maintenance, and whether there are other potential costs.
The aging part focuses on inventory aging, order processing aging, delivery aging and price.
The key consideration of safety is whether there is a perfect insurance and inventory management system and whether the personnel are operated by a professional team.
At the same time, we also suggest that you do a good job in market research when choosing overseas warehouses, and don't blindly pursue low prices and make yourself fall into the trap of bad overseas warehouses. Considering the advantages and disadvantages of overseas warehouses comprehensively, reducing the risk of goods circulating overseas is the key.