How does the overseas warehouse operate?

Overseas warehouse refers to a logistics mode in which e-commerce enterprises deliver goods to the destination country/region by express, air, sea or multimodal transportation in the form of pre-built or leased warehouses, and then complete transfer stations or local distribution according to customer orders.

1、Cooperation mode

Cross-border e-commerce sellers and third-party "overseas warehouse" cooperation model has two kinds: one is leasing; one is cooperation in construction. Leasing method will exist operation cost, logistics freight, storage cost; cooperation construction only produces logistics freight.

2、How to ship

After the order of "overseas warehouse" is generated, the merchant can notify the third party to carry out the shipment through the form of EXCEL report or API.

The warehouse staff will order, pack and dispatch the goods on the same day according to the order details submitted, and the delivery will be completed within 24 hours. In our warehouse, what products are available in what bays, how many pieces of each can be seen on the system, each commodity has a barcode, when out of the warehouse, the use of terminal scanning gun scan is easy to find.

3、How to prepare goods in time

Third-party "overseas warehouse" will share real-time inventory information to the seller, once the merchant finds that the goods are selling well, it is necessary to prepare in advance for delivery to the overseas warehouse. In general, an inventory warning value must be set. For example, when the inventory is less than 10, the merchant will be notified to prepare for stocking. This value is based on sales conditions to adjust, if the daily sales is 10, then the inventory warning value will be preset to 100. merchants can do inventory analysis and cycle analysis based on sales conditions, such as internet payment processing an average of 10 SKU sales per day, from customer orders (out of storage) to confirm receipt must be 5 days, if the use of air freight stocking, from procurement to storage to 7 days, so a cycle is 12 days, that is, when the product inventory remaining 120 pieces, the merchant should start the purchase order. The merchant can also set a minimum stock alert in their back office system. When the system indicates that the SKU is red, the merchant will have to purchase it.

Note: Not all items are suitable for overseas warehousing. It is generally recommended that those goods that have been standardized, are hot or have large volume and weight should go to overseas warehouse, or those goods that have generated certain sales scale despite the slow sales rate can also choose to go to overseas warehouse.

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