Compared with the traditional foreign trade export enterprises’ model of renting overseas warehouses, super-large brand enterprises such as SF Express, Jumei, and Export Easy use the self-operated overseas warehouse model to reduce comprehensive costs and improve service quality.
The main feature of self-operated overseas warehouses is to establish overseas warehouses for cross-border e-commerce in the form of independent legal entities, such as SF Express’s overseas warehouses. For enterprises like SF Express, the initial investment in self-operated overseas warehouses is not large. Enterprises can use the information and warehousing of business systems to eventually achieve scale and obtain low-cost advantages.
At present, SF Express’s overseas warehouses have exceeded 75,000 square meters, laying a solid foundation for SF Express’s cross-border e-commerce strategy. Another logistics company in Shenzhen also adopted the self-operated overseas warehouse approach to develop cross-border e-commerce projects. Through self-operation, overseas sales increased by 40%. The efficiency advantage of self-operated overseas warehouses is very obvious. At the same time, it can also enjoy the support of local tax policies, and will not increase product costs due to the increase in warehouse rent. The most important thing is that because of the self-operated overseas warehouses, they have full control over the management rights, operating rights, and pricing rights, and can be transformed and adjusted at any time according to the production scale and actual production of the enterprise.