Cainiao Network (hereinafter referred to as Cainiao) is a logistics platform directly sponsored by Alibaba. It is a logistics technology company with big data as its core and the largest 4PL (fourth-party logistics) in China. It has five major business segments: end-to-end express delivery network, supply chain warehouse and distribution network, cross-border network for global…
eBay is more stable or slow, with a slightly flat growth and insignificant growth, but it is open, diverse and inclusive. The products of each commercial seller on eBay can be exported to 68 countries and regions on average. Chinese sellers mainly use five logistics methods, including postal parcels, international express, dedicated logistics, overseas warehouses,…
Everything in e-commerce is about speed, which puts overseas warehouses in a passive position – fast warehousing so that sales can be made as soon as possible; fast delivery so that customers can receive the goods and get the money back as soon as possible; if things go wrong, use the overseas free period to…
Alibaba (hereinafter referred to as Alibaba) is a company with a strong platform strategy, and global operation is one of its directions. Logistics, e-commerce retail, finance and cloud computing are listed as Alibaba’s four major “business infrastructures”, among which e-commerce business is still its main body, accounting for 80% of its revenue source, but its…
Warehouse relocation is an unconventional activity that may only occur every few years, but it is a very systematic and complex project. Due to changes in business scale, warehouses become congested or idle, and what follows is the relocation of warehouses or the opening of branch warehouses. Similar to the “dual-machine hot standby” mechanism in…
Full declaration of cross-border e-commerce items: (i) For inbound items that belong to the online shopping bonded mode, e-commerce business enterprises shall declare to the inspection and quarantine agency 7 working days in advance. (ii) For inbound items that belong to the direct mail mode, e-commerce business enterprises shall declare to the inspection and quarantine…
The concept of supply chain was proposed in the 1980s. In 1985, American scholar Michael Porter proposed the concept of value chain in his book “Competitive Advantage”. The value chain divides enterprise operations into multiple aspects, including internal logistics, production operations, external logistics, marketing and sales, services, procurement management, technology development human resources management, infrastructure…
1. Definition of cross-border e-commerce logistics Cross-border e-commerce logistics refers to a business activity in which trading entities located in different countries or regions reach a transaction through an e-commerce platform and make payment settlements, and then deliver goods through cross-border e-commerce logistics to complete the transaction. Cross-border e-commerce logistics in a narrow sense refers…
In recent years, with the development of global cross-border e-commerce, the development of the cross-border logistics industry has encountered unprecedented opportunities. However, from the perspective of the development of China’s cross-border e-commerce industry, as of the first half of 2018, my country’s cross-border e-commerce transaction volume reached 4.5 trillion yuan, and the future growth rate…
There are two ways for cross-border e-commerce enterprises to cooperate with overseas warehouse enterprises, namely, through leasing or cooperating with other enterprises to build warehouses and improve business. The leasing method will incur operating costs, logistics costs, and warehousing costs, while cooperative construction will only incur logistics costs. From the perspective of the operating entity,…