overseas warehouse is one of the most popular words after cross-border e-commerce. According to the announcement of the General Administration of customs, cross-border e-commerce will grow rapidly in 2020, with 2.45 billion import and export lists released through the customs cross-border e-commerce management platform, a year-on-year increase of 63.3%. In 2020, Chinese enterprises will create more than 1800 jobs worldwide, with an increase rate of 80% and an area of more than 12 million square meters. Cross-border e-commerce depends on the Internet Non contact transactions on the Internet are less affected by the epidemic, and some offline transactions are also transferred to the Internet due to the epidemic. The rapid development of cross-border e-commerce is inseparable from the cooperation of"overseas warehouses"
first, overseas warehouses connect with local goods
for E-Commerce orders sent from China to the United States, it takes about 15 working days to reach the destination through traditional logistics (such as slow delivery), while the existence of overseas warehouses greatly shortens the waiting time of buyers and can arrive in 2-5 days, You can even receive the package the next day. During the epidemic period, buyers' shopping convenience was improved, which also provided strong support for sellers to prepare goods in peak season, and helped to solve the "last mile" distribution problem of Chinese products in overseas markets. Since the establishment of the first overseas warehouse in Los Angeles in 2015, Zhengyuan overseas warehouse has seven large warehouses in Europe and America, with a total area of 500000 feet, equipped with intelligent operation of OMS system and processing up to 10000 tickets per day
Second, overseas warehouses stop and stock goods in the peak season
with the arrival of the peak season of cross-border e-commerce and Amazon's restrictions on policies, inventory and warehouse, a large number of goods flow into overseas warehouses. Chinese sellers are no longer limited by the number of shipments, reducing the input of logistics costs. They can store large quantities of goods in overseas warehouses and send them to Amazon warehouses regularly or irregularly, so as to prevent product sales from falling due to shortage in peak seasons. According to incomplete statistics, in December 2020 alone, zhengyuanmei's overseas warehouse received cross-border e-commerce 10W + packages with about thousands of containers
the rise of cross-border e-commerce provides a new way for "made in China" to go global. As a key step in cross-border logistics, overseas warehousing fully reflects its indispensable value. In the future, overseas warehouses will conduct in-depth exploration in information construction, intelligent development, diversified services and localized operation, so as to help Chinese products better enter the global market
cross border e-commerce is the most important link after product selection, operation and sales logistics. In today's increasingly fierce competition among multinational sellers, logistics speed must be one of the important links to determine whether sellers can survive
if you have overseas warehouses, you can deliver goods overseas and locally, so that the logistics speed can catch up with local sellers and have the opportunity to compete fairly in product quality and marketing skills
however, in addition to attracting public attention, the explosive growth of overseas warehouses has not only brought opportunities, but also brought hidden worries to cross-border sellers and foreign trade logistics
opportunities: Overseas warehouses under cross-border e-commerce
including capital with Chinese and foreign backgrounds, have accelerated their distribution in emerging markets such as Europe, America, Southeast Asia and Africa. Many countries have dense overseas warehouses and fierce competition. The current overseas warehouse can be said to have "collected thousands of pets"
cross border sellers worry that
the rise of cross-border e-commerce has brought a new growth engine for the form of overseas commodity transactions. In order to break through the last mile barrier, overseas warehouses have also soared and become an important part of the supply chain. However, there are hidden worries in the overseas warehousing market
for the seller:
1 High labor cost. Judging whether genuine products are good or not and whether they can be resold quickly after returning to the warehouse is a great challenge
2. The seller who enters the overseas warehouse for the first time has no purchasing experience, slow sales and overstock inventory
3. When the seller transforms into an overseas warehouse, it will face supply chain adjustment, inventory pressure and cash flow pressure
for logistics suppliers, Localization
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