Overseas warehouses have become an important logistics method for cross-border power sellers and have now become a standard seller. According to reports, more than 76% of sellers are using overseas warehouses, and more than 91% of sellers use FBA.
Amazon FBA + overseas warehouse logistics method, of course, many multinational sellers choose FBA + how to use overseas warehousing logistics method. According to statistics, Amazon sellers can save 50% of shipping costs by choosing FBA transportation service.
Choosing overseas warehouses is an important way of logistics. Multinational sellers have the following needs: on the one hand, they use overseas warehousing services to save logistics delivery time; on the other hand, they use overseas warehousing + exchange and other services , while improving delivery time, sellers and consumers can enjoy various value-added services in overseas warehouses.
We summarize the advantages of overseas warehouses as follows:
1. Reduce logistics costs and storage costs
Overseas warehouses can help sellers reduce storage costs. According to the latest Amazon’s storage fee policy has been that for a long time, goods have been stored in Amazon FBA warehouses for too long, and storage costs have soared. The seller can choose to transfer part of the goods to a third-party overseas warehouse, change the label of the new product to FBA and return it to the warehouse.
2. Speed up the delivery time
Sellers ship replenishment directly from overseas warehouses, eliminating the need for packages to travel from home to abroad. At the same time, after the first-leg transportation solves the complex problems of transportation, customs declaration, and customs clearance, you no longer have to worry about customs declaration and clearance of items in the warehouse.
3. Meet personalized needs such as returns
When an Amazon seller has a problem with returning or exchanging goods, the seller can contact the third-party freight forwarding company to achieve return labeling of FBA goods. Return operation. Overseas warehouses can help customers change labels, package, and re-enter the FBA warehouse to sell again.
3. What are the benefits of combining third-party overseas warehouse + FBA?
First, increase the speed of Amazon warehouse replenishment. Overseas warehouses ship directly from the local area and quickly replenish the goods to the Amazon warehouse. Having the same space and time advantages as local merchants, it is an efficient choice for sellers to choose overseas warehouses. It can not only greatly improve buyers’ shopping experience, but also conform to the development of the cross-border e-commerce market.
Second, reduce the risk of Amazon warehouse rejecting warehousing. Sellers who use overseas warehouses can not only replenish goods to Amazon warehouses faster, but also check logistics and distribution information throughout the process. At the same time, due to the reduction of transshipment processes, the rate of product damage and packet loss is also greatly reduced.
Third, reduce customs risks. For sellers, the overseas warehouse headway adopts the traditional foreign trade logistics method and imports according to the normal customs clearance process, which greatly reduces customs clearance obstacles. It also breaks through the restrictions on the weight, volume, value, etc. of transported items, and expands the transportation categories. and reduce logistics costs.
At present, Amazon FBA + overseas warehouse has become a powerful weapon in cross-border e-commerce competition. Whoever can make good use of Amazon FBA + overseas warehouse will become the biggest winner in the localization of cross-border e-commerce sellers.