How can cross-border e-commerce logistics cope with this survival crisis?
the cumulative number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States has exceeded one million, a large number of international passenger flights have been grounded, and air freight prices have reached new highs. With this, the cross-border e-commerce and logistics industry is facing great challenges!
the global supply chain is on the verge of collapse
at present, cross-border e-commerce is seriously affected by the epidemic, and the continuous spread of the epidemic makes the local logistics service capacity abroad stretched. The high cost of aviation logistics makes a large number of cross-border trade goods have to find other channels other than aviation, and the cycle of the whole cross-border supply chain has been greatly prolonged.
in view of the needs of epidemic prevention and control, many countries have adopted travel restrictions. When everyone locks themselves at home, the demand for online shopping will increase rapidly, but the epidemic has led to the interruption of the global supply chain, the sharp reduction of flight capacity and the sharp rise of freight, which have greatly troubled the logistics and delivery of cross-border sellers.
traditional cross-border enterprises face great challenges
the sudden outbreak of the epidemic has completely disrupted the business plans of foreign trade and export enterprises. In the face of the continuous intensification of the epidemic in some overseas countries, the front line of the global joint fight against the epidemic has been stretched, and the development of export trade has also fallen into a" protracted war ". In this process, many large traditional foreign trade enterprises have failed to survive the" cold winter ".
in the past, cross-border logistics service providers relied too much on offline sales and service methods. In the face of the epidemic, they did not have the ability to resist risks. This traditional mode of operation and service almost fell under the impact of the epidemic. After the epidemic, cross-border logistics enterprises will face unprecedented challenges.
How can the cross-border logistics industry meet the challenges?
first of all, cross-border e-commerce logistics will face a reshuffle in the industry. Due to the impact of the epidemic, the original market rules will be disrupted, and the cross-border e-commerce logistics industry will survive. Some enterprises face great challenges for survival, but at the same time, it also gives some enterprises with new ideas or better operation methods a lot of new opportunities. And the opportunities must be left for those who can quickly adjust and optimize the product line layout in the shortest time to adapt to the outside world Department changes, enterprises with strong adaptability
secondly, cross-border e-commerce giants and medium-sized platform logistics systems continue to coexist. With the development of cross-border e-commerce platforms and the maturity of small and medium-sized cross-border e-commerce in market segmentation, the corresponding cross-border e-commerce logistics is also gradually differentiated, with the emergence of self operated logistics of cross-border e-commerce platforms and third-party integrated service logistics of small and medium-sized platforms. Therefore, the continuous coexistence of cross-border e-commerce giants and small and medium-sized platform logistics systems is an inevitable trend.
the rise of the third-party logistics integrated service system. With the market segmentation, more and more small and medium-sized cross-border e-commerce platforms appear. Small and medium-sized cross-border e-commerce platforms mainly focus on product sales and customer maintenance. Therefore, they do not have enough funds to establish their own logistics system, so they can only rely on third-party logistics enterprises. This is the reason to promote the development of comprehensive services of third-party logistics
under the epidemic, the new forces in cross-border logistics
under the influence of the global epidemic, the problems of cross-border logistics industry have been completely exposed. It is gratifying that