The best way to master overseas warehouse business is to learn the system of overseas warehouse. Logistics focuses on process management of process execution. “No system, no process”. The system is the backbone of the logistics industry. Logistics that is not synchronized with the information flow is out of control. The concept of cloud warehousing comes from cloud computing, which improves the efficiency of warehousing management through intensive computing power. Cloud warehousing is a logistics network based on multiple warehouses, connected by information and transportation, and at the same time constructs the inventory distribution logic within the network. Under this model, multiple or parallel warehouses can make full use of the resources of the whole society to provide fast, fast and economical warehousing and distribution services.
Smart warehouse division and smart allocation make reasonable inventory decisions based on demand distribution characteristics. If there are multiple warehouses in different regions in Europe and the United States, then the stocking strategy must consider factors such as order distribution and logistics timeliness, and the same stocking in different warehouses must also rely on the system to calculate the optimal cost and timeliness and decide on the order fulfillment party.
Amazon’s global cloud warehouse platform, driven by precise supply chain planning, links multiple warehouses to manage nearby stocking and predictive allocation. In the field of supply chain, software is mainly divided into planning, execution and management. Warehouse management system (WMS) is a typical SCE (supply chain execution) supply chain execution system. Although the prices of WMS software on the market are different, many functions seem to be similar. In fact, the value of the system is not determined by its price, but by the degree of matching between the software and the process. In the face of large-scale operations, performance and reliability are also critical.
Overseas warehouse WMS should be adapted to the use of overseas local employees, obtain planning instructions from upstream e-commerce platforms, order systems, and foreign trade ERP (enterprise resource planning), control and track the operation process in the warehouse, and integrate with external automation and equipment.
Based on the data provided by the overseas warehouse system, the enterprise establishes statistical databases such as piece counting, traceability and quality assurance, standardizes the process through the system, establishes performance indicators, ensures the standardization of process execution, and realizes refined operations. The ERP warehousing module is oriented to financial accounting, mainly providing functions such as procurement assistance and inventory cost collection and calculation, emphasizing result management, while WMS focuses on process control and result output. Unlike management systems such as CRM (customer relationship management) and HR (human resource management), WMS is not “cloud-based” in large quantities. Placing systems with high-frequency transactions and high real-time requirements on the cloud may affect the stability of internal operations.
However, under the open service model of overseas warehouses, the connection between external and e-commerce orders requires the application of SaaS (software as a service). Cross-border e-commerce companies do not care about the internal processes of overseas warehouses, but only care about service results. WMS itself does not need to be personalized. Nowadays, there are also cloud-based applications after the WMS is split, such as label printing, WCS (warehouse control service), automation and hardware integration technologies, and other applications are placed on the public platform.