Cross-border companies basically have product development jobs, but few supply chain management jobs. In fact, people who understand products may not understand supply chains, but people who understand supply chains must understand products. Therefore, understanding supply chains is a dimensionality reduction of familiar products. If you want to make a product a hit or make your brand bigger and stronger, supply chain management is an indispensable link.
Supply chain refers to the network chain structure formed by upstream and downstream enterprises involved in the production and circulation process, which involves providing products or services to end users. The supply chain mentioned here refers to the supply chain for products developed by enterprises or individuals engaged in cross-border e-commerce, which cannot be compared with the supply chain of traditional production links. In the cross-border e-commerce product supply chain, sellers can understand the key factors and resources required for the product through the product’s industrial chain and suppliers, and establish a complete product supply chain with certain advantages based on their actual situation and combined with comprehensive capabilities such as product research and development and production, so that the product can stand out in the industry, meet inventory needs in terms of output and production speed, and bring consumers diversified, diversified and customized products, thereby enhancing core competitiveness. Therefore, optimizing the product supply chain of cross-border e-commerce is a matter of attention to details. Industry dynamics, upstream resources, supplier analysis, product planning, etc. all need to be considered comprehensively.
After confirming the direction of product selection, you should first understand the product, obtain samples, and then conduct decomposition analysis, trial testing, etc. Non-electronic products mainly study product materials and designs, while electronic products mainly study functions and quality, which involves more fields. The best way to understand a product is to communicate with the manufacturer. The manufacturer has already screened the upstream supply chain of the product, and has a clear understanding of the situation of its peers and will analyze the product in detail. This is the fastest way to learn. Judging from the current situation of many cross-border companies or individual sellers, product development is basically through the 1688 website to purchase samples and judge products. This method cannot obtain more information in depth and can only serve as a simple product procurement and ordering platform.
The main processes of cross-border e-commerce supply chain development: category sample testing, manufacturer sorting, supplier analysis, product analysis, product design, purchase orders, production and manufacturing management, cargo delivery, logistics docking, return and recycling, etc.