With the development of Amazon, more and more sellers are beginning to join Amazon, and many sellers will choose to use overseas warehouses. So why do Amazon sellers use overseas warehouses? This will be introduced in detail below.
For cross-border e-commerce sellers, logistics is one of the main factors affecting sellers’ sales. Sellers generally choose products with shorter logistics times among the same products. Amazon sellers can solve the problem of long logistics time for overseas buyers by using overseas warehouses. The main reasons for using overseas warehouses are as follows:
1. Amazon sellers can improve the delivery speed by using overseas warehouses. Sellers can quickly deliver goods locally through overseas warehouses, and can also immediately replenish goods to Amazon’s warehouses. Overseas warehouses have space and time advantages, which can improve buyers’ shopping experience and are more in line with the development trend of the cross-border e-commerce market.
2. Sellers using overseas warehouses can also reduce the risk of warehouse rejections and returns. Sellers using overseas warehouses can also query detailed logistics and transportation information, while reducing shipping steps and reducing product damage and loss. Rate.
3. Overseas warehouses can also reduce customs risks. The first leg of overseas warehouses is generally through traditional exports for freight logistics. According to normal customs clearance imports, customs clearance obstacles can be reduced and logistics freight can be saved. .
4. The competitive advantage of using overseas warehouses is higher. Sellers can achieve unified management of different products through centralized transportation through overseas warehouses. The return and exchange services for sellers are very competitive. Overseas warehouses will also provide Sellers provide services such as returns, exchanges, label changes, repackaging, and dropshipping to avoid loss of goods.
However, sellers generally need to invest a large amount of funds to use overseas warehouses, and they cannot return in the short term, so it will have an adverse impact on the seller’s capital turnover. In addition, if sellers who use overseas warehouses make mistakes in product selection and market control, it will lead to unsaleable products, which will lead to a shortage of goods, resulting in increasing warehousing costs.
The above content has introduced in detail the reasons why Amazon sellers use overseas warehouses. Sellers using overseas warehouses can improve delivery speed and promote sellers’ sales. At the same time, it can also reduce the risk of warehouses rejecting returns and reduce customs risks. However, using overseas warehouses may lead to overstocking, so sellers need to make a choice based on their actual situation.