Domestic JD.com, Cainiao, Suning, etc. are all developing warehousing technology. Amazon has already laid out a complete and powerful warehousing and logistics system. However, eBay does not have substantive layout and measures in logistics, and its business model is slightly declining. Large sellers account for a high proportion of FBA, and the proportion of shipments from self-operated warehouses continues to decrease. Logistics and labor costs have also increased sharply. From a logistics perspective, many sellers’ self-operated warehouses are losing money.
Open service-oriented third-party overseas warehouses must continue to expand their markets, expand their business scope, and strive to solve more customers’ problems. In the entire business chain of cross-border e-commerce, the more services it undertakes, the higher the requirements for system capabilities. The services required for localization demands must be based on reducing overseas warehouse costs, which must rely on technology.
The investment cost of automated three-dimensional warehouses is relatively high, and it is still necessary in the long run. Modern warehousing technology includes equipment technology such as loading and unloading, handling, measurement, transportation, and unit containers, data collection and identification technology represented by barcodes, sensors, RFID, etc., information and simulation technology such as software systems, EDI, and optimization simulation, and automatic classification. Automation technologies such as picking, auxiliary handling, and storage, as well as general Internet of Things technologies.