It is easier to build cross-border route products, completely represent other people’s products or own network resources than to rely on multi-link resource integration. To make a route plan, you must first identify your own capabilities, as well as customer resources, supply chain, trunk transportation, customs clearance channels or warehousing and other advantageous links. Among them, the system is a necessary technical condition, and industry data is also a resource. The second is network planning, which directly determines whether the product can be implemented, as shown in the table. The establishment of a plan is also a process of combining segmented resources by commercial means, establishing an operating timetable, and organizing and coordinating scattered resources. The third is to grasp the key points. The overseas expansion of large domestic logistics companies is nothing more than taking the development path of building nodes, warehouses and transshipment hubs, and finding agents. In an ideal situation, core resources are self-controlled, and carriers are obtained. The first-hand price, space and box guarantee; secondary resources are moderately outsourced to form a sound service capability output in a lightweight way. International express giants have their own integrated network, but when expanding their business in other countries, due to local regulations, regionality, market and other factors, they will also outsource.
The success of cross-border logistics products requires resource support, but more importantly, operational issues. Many problems need to be optimized in design and practice: the difference in taxes and fees for different import declaration methods, the lack of importers for overseas warehouse first-leg goods, the need for live electric products to transit from Hong Kong, China, the e-commerce platform basically prohibits offline ordinary mail channels, the terminal price difference between LTL delivery and express delivery, the difference between “air plus delivery” and direct delivery by express delivery, etc.
Before starting operations, it is necessary to build an online system and pickup network to achieve seamless connection with terminal sellers and customers, such as order placement, delivery, warehousing, declaration, API interface, recharge and billing, etc., increase direct customers and shorten the account period. If conditions permit, you can enter the online delivery of e-commerce platforms; complete the design of packaging, documents, labels and track query. Through trial tickets, verify the availability of barcodes and label styles, as well as the connection and timeliness of each link, and improve operator training and customer service support. Nowadays, most of the terminal customers are concentrated in the hands of dedicated line companies and large express delivery companies. If there is no sales promotion team and cargo collection network, as well as the ability to obtain sales from downstream terminal customers, you can consider using an agency or cooperation mechanism. When the product and route coverage is narrow and the goods received are not on your own advantageous routes, you can find peers to ship after negotiating the freight rate and earn the difference.