Overseas warehouses are an emerging industry in recent years. They are actually developed on the basis of domestic e-commerce warehouses. Due to foreign restrictions and the scarcity of warehousing management talents, the overseas warehouse industry is still in a mixed state. So. What are the modes of overseas warehouses?
There are currently three common overseas warehouse cooperation models on the market.
The first is the 3PL model, in which overseas warehouses serve as third-party warehousing service centers to provide standardized services to cross-border sellers. The seller signs a service contract with the overseas warehouse, and the overseas warehouse provides the seller with in-warehouse operation services and last-mile delivery services.
The second is the warehouse-in-warehouse model. The warehouse-in-warehouse model is a service model suitable for cross-border sellers with stable sales and large scale. It is also commonly used as some large overseas self-operated warehouses. Channel supplement. In this model, cross-border sellers will sign a service contract with an overseas warehouse, agree on the lease area and pay a certain monthly warehouse rent. In addition, sellers can choose to hire a local management team to operate this warehouse-in-warehouse, or they can choose to have their own warehouse personnel in overseas warehouses complete daily in-warehouse operations.
The third type is the one-stop service model. The one-stop service model usually appears in overseas warehouses with strong head-haul capabilities, such as barns. These companies provide one-stop services, including the consolidation, warehousing, customs clearance, processing, outbound and distribution of goods. Overseas warehouses provide value-added services to sellers. Commonly used billing models include using first-haul services to waive warehousing fees. But in fact, the cost of these services needs to be borne by the sellers themselves. Sellers need to comprehensively consider the service quality and timeliness of overseas warehouses before making rational decisions.
The above is the relevant content about the models of overseas warehouses. Overseas warehouses are an asset-heavy industry, and it is also an industry with increasingly strict compliance inspections. On the one hand, overseas warehouse operators are faced with the pressure of high debts and have to charge fees everywhere to recover their investments as soon as possible. On the other hand, they have surrendered to the market involution this year and continue to reduce their charging services. This has also led to uneven service quality in overseas warehouses, and even chaos has occurred where sellers’ inventory is always lost inexplicably after collecting goods at low prices. Therefore, when choosing an overseas warehouse service provider to cooperate with, sellers need to keep their eyes open and choose an overseas warehouse service provider with standardized operations.