1. If you have overseas warehouse storage services, you need to consider whether the service provider’s warehouse is in the East, Central, or West Coast of the United States. At this time, you need to refer to your own previous shipping data to see which region Amazon will allocate more when allocating. After all, the first-leg logistics costs and warehouse costs in different regions will be different.
2. Do you provide labeling services? Because we are worried that the products will easily go wrong after they are sent, we send them to overseas warehouses without labeling. If the other party does not provide labeling services, we cannot cooperate.
3. If you return goods from FBA to overseas warehouses, do you provide label replacement services? If the goods have been returned, it means that there is a problem with the store or listing, then label replacement is a necessary operation. Most service providers will only cover the original label instead of tearing it off and re-labeling it. As long as Amazon can scan the latest label, this is acceptable. At this time, we also need to know how fast the other party handles the labeling service. After all, if the seller delays for one day, he will lose one day.
4. Does it support Amazon self-pickup service? After the label change is completed, the goods must be sent to FBA. Generally, there are two ways of logistics. The first is that the overseas warehouse helps you ship through UPS, and the other is that you create a demand in the background and choose Amazon self-pickup. If the warehouse can support Amazon self-pickup, this will save you a lot of money.
5. Does it support one-click dropshipping service? If you have both FBA and FBM products, then if the overseas warehouse can provide one-click dropshipping service, it can also save you a lot of things. After all, the cost and time difference between shipping directly from the local area and shipping from the domestic area is quite large. And if it is shipped from the local area, there are also considerable advantages in traffic inclination and listing conversion.
6. Is there an ERP ordering system? Although some service providers who have just entered the market can support specific service needs, they all adopt offline ordering methods, which requires sellers to fill in the EXCEL form, and then place orders and follow up on progress through WeChat or email. If there are many products and the service frequency is high, it will be a lot of work for the seller. If the service provider has its own ERP ordering system, we can place orders and inquire directly in the background, and it is not easy to make mistakes in management.
7. Cost issues. When doing business, the most important thing is profit. If we use overseas warehouses and it does not bring us much profit, then we have to consider whether it is worth doing so. After all, we need to invest a lot of money. If you can’t make money for the company, then it’s a hooligan. So after getting the quotation from the service provider, we must calculate the cost as clearly as possible. After calculating in this way, we can also clearly know how much benefit we can get if we use overseas warehouses, which will also directly affect our pricing strategy.