Overseas warehouse

Overseas warehouse is a warehousing and logistics node set up by cross-border e-commerce export sellers in regions close to buyers abroad to improve their order delivery ability. It usually has the functions of overseas goods storage, circulation processing, local distribution, and after-sales service.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of overseas warehouses?

advantage

1. Reduce logistics costs

The logistics cost of shipping from overseas warehouse is lower than that of shipping from China.

2. Accelerate logistics efficiency

Shipment from overseas warehouse can save the time for customs declaration and clearance, greatly shorten the transportation time and speed up the timeliness of logistics.

3. Increase product exposure

With its own warehouse overseas, local customers generally give priority to local delivery when shopping, which can greatly shorten the time of receiving goods.

4. Improve customer satisfaction

During transportation, there may be situations such as damage, short shipment and wrong delivery of goods. Customers will ask for return, exchange and re delivery, which can be adjusted in overseas warehouses, greatly saving the timeliness of logistics.

shortcoming

1. Overseas storage fees need to be paid. The storage costs vary from country to country, so the seller must calculate the cost.

2. Overseas warehousing has a certain amount of inventory for sellers, and some specially customized products are not suitable for overseas warehousing sales.

3. It is difficult to deal with overseas warehouse sales inventory, and selling through appropriate channels is a major problem.

4. Finally, the establishment of overseas warehouses also faces many localization challenges.

Various overseas warehouse services in the cross-border e-commerce market can be described as diverse, and cross-border e-commerce sellers who lack understanding of them should choose the services that are truly suitable for them from many products, which is like looking for a needle in a haystack. You can first understand and then choose the overseas warehouse that is suitable for you.