What is the difference between various overseas warehouses

What is the difference between various overseas warehouses

As we all know, cross-border e-commerce requires storage warehouses. For example, we are more familiar with Amazon; For overseas warehouse, in fact, it is just a more unified name for us, but whether it is self-built overseas warehouse, rented overseas warehouse, or Amazon FBA warehouse, in fact, these three belong to the overseas warehouse series.

First, let's take a look at the similarities and differences between self-built warehouses, rented warehouses, and Amazon.

Let's see what the similarities between these three are. Sellers need to ship in bulk in advance, and the way of delivery is generally selected by air and express, which can effectively avoid the logistics peak. It can shorten the delivery time, improve customer satisfaction, and help the store's sales growth.

This is the common denominator of these three summed up by Xiao Yu. And then let's look at the differences between the three.

Product size options vary

FBA warehouse has certain restrictions on the size, weight and category of the selected products, so the selected products tend to be small, high profit and good quality products; Rented overseas warehouse selection range is wider than FBA warehouse, like some large volume, large weight products are also suitable; However, the self-built overseas warehouse has no scope requirements, and it can be determined according to its own needs, which is the advantage of the superior warehouse.

The requirements in the revenue bin are different

As we all know about FBA, the requirements in the revenue bin are very strict. Each product requires a product label specified by Amazon, and the outer box should not only have a corresponding label, but also have the corresponding packing information, in addition, the size and weight of the outer box and the card should have corresponding requirements, otherwise it can not be normally stored! The storage requirements of the rented overseas warehouse will not be as high as the FBA warehouse, as long as the product label is affixed so that it can be scanned into the warehouse, some overseas warehouses will also provide sorting and assembly of products before the shelf; Youcang overseas warehouse can flexibly adjust the management of the products to the warehouse, and provide more personalized services!

The difference in service

FBA warehouse will not provide the first customs clearance service for sellers; Some third-party overseas warehouse services will provide the seller with the first process of customs clearance services, and even have a one-stop service including tax payment and delivery to the warehouse; Superior warehouse overseas warehouse can directly use its own overseas warehouse company as an importer for customs clearance.

The distribution of warehouses will also be different

FBA warehouse is divided by default, often the seller's products will be dispersed to different warehouses for mixed storage, manual adjustment to centralized warehouses will also be distributed to different warehouse management according to different types or sizes of products; Rented or self-built overseas warehouses generally place goods in the same warehouse for centralized management.

The permissions that apply are different

FBA warehouse can only receive products from sellers on Amazon platform, and other platforms can only ship products through the multi-channel delivery function in the Amazon account; Renting or self-built overseas warehouses does not have this requirement, as long as they can receive goods, no matter where they are sold, they can be used.

In addition, Xiao You want to say that overseas warehouse also has a transit role, many sellers have the use of overseas warehouse and FBA warehouse at the same time, the peak season can directly transfer goods from overseas warehouse to FBA warehouse, saving the time from domestic delivery.

About the difference in cost

The cost of choosing an overseas warehouse is not low. In contrast, if the volume is large, the cost of using FBA warehouse will be higher than renting overseas warehouse; Generally, when the average daily order volume is more than 1000 orders, self-built overseas warehouses begin to have advantages in terms of cost.

Another point is the issue of return and exchange

Amazon supports unconditional return and exchange of customers, FBA warehouse will not conduct any identification of returned products, and will not charge any fees for buyers. Even if the product is returned without quality problems, Amazon will not sell the product again to a second buyer. Such a return method is actually more biased toward customers, which will lead to a higher return rate. If the product is returned, either destroyed or sent back to the seller, Amazon will charge an additional fee.