Cross border e-commerce and cross-border logistics are symbiotic. Compared with the booming cross-border e-commerce in China, the weakness of traditional cross-border logistics is becoming increasingly prominent, which restricts the development of cross-border e-commerce to a certain extent. Driven by a variety of conditions, overseas warehouse, as a new business form of cross-border logistics stimulated by cross-border e-commerce, effectively solves the shortcomings of traditional cross-border logistics and enhances the competitiveness of small and medium-sized cross-border e-commerce enterprises.

Nowadays, more and more cross-border e-commerce sellers choose overseas warehouses in the logistics mode. At present, overseas warehouses in the market are roughly divided into three categories: Amazon FBA warehouses, proprietary overseas warehouses and third-party overseas warehouses. Different overseas warehouses can meet the delivery needs of different sellers, and each of them has its own advantages and disadvantages. If a seller wants to choose an overseas warehouse service provider suitable for his own use, he needs to make a decision after careful investigation.

1、 Amazon FBA warehouse

FBA, full name of Fulfillment by Amazon, refers to the warehousing and logistics service in which the seller delivers the goods to the Amazon operation center, Amazon is responsible for storing and managing the goods, and picking up, packaging and distributing the goods.

The advantages of FBA warehouse are obvious: because Amazon attaches great importance to the buyer's shopping experience, the FBA warehouse can also better obtain customer praise and reputation and improve sales by virtue of Amazon's high-quality services.

However, the FBA warehouse also has some disadvantages: the use cost is high, it does not provide customs clearance services for the first batch of goods, the warehousing system and rules are stricter, and the restrictions on goods are more flexible, so the service of the FBA warehouse is not very friendly to some sellers.

2、 Self operated overseas warehouse

The self operated overseas warehouse is an overseas warehouse established by the seller itself. In short, the seller itself does not need an additional cooperative service provider, but can achieve a one-stop logistics process from order to sorting to packaging to distribution. As the overseas warehouse system is complex, the construction is not a small project, so only brand merchants with strong financial strength, certain logistics system foundation and large size can be able to build their own overseas warehouses.

Of course, its advantage is that its autonomy and freedom can be fully controlled by itself, and the optimal logistics solution can be formulated at any time according to the product demand. At the same time, it greatly reduces the impact of the partner's stock explosion during the peak sales period.

However, due to the huge investment in self built overseas warehouses, professional component teams are responsible for all aspects of formalities and tax issues. How to connect the warehousing operations of domestic and foreign operators also requires managers to make a good balance. The overall management is more complex, and businesses need to bear higher risks and costs. It is an unattainable logistics mode for ordinary small and medium-sized buyers.

3、 Third party overseas warehouse

The third-party overseas warehouse, namely the overseas public e-commerce logistics center, is a warehousing facility established overseas by domestic enterprises. Latin America (Shenzhen) international warehousing is a type of enterprise that focuses onMexico Overseas WarehouseIt is also one of the overseas warehouses used most by cross-border sellers. The third-party overseas warehouse mainly serves small and medium-sized sellers of cross-border e-commerce, and can provide integrated overseas warehouse services from localization warehouse to whole process in the form of independent logistics service providers.

The advantage of the third-party overseas warehouse is that compared with the FBA warehouse, it is more flexible and independent, breaks through the restrictions of commodity weight, volume and price, and helps sellers expand their sales categories. In addition, the third-party overseas warehouse can provide some personalized services for the seller, and can also provide good support for overseas warehouse transit, goods return and label replacement services, so that the seller can handle the goods inventory and adjust the sales strategy.

The shortcomings of the third-party overseas warehouse are actually related to the overseas warehouse service provider selected by the seller. The overseas warehouse with better warehouse management can avoid various common problems as much as possible with more experience and advanced intelligent equipment; However, overseas warehouse service providers with insufficient scale and experience may have problems such as untimely service, slow response to international policy changes, logistics congestion or warehouse explosion, which may cause bad experience or even loss to sellers.