Most people who do cross-border e-commerce have probably experienced similar scenarios: having too much inventory is afraid of not selling out, and having too little inventory is also worried about running out of stock. Once the goods are stored in the warehouse, the daily storage fee is like dripping water from a faucet. It may not seem like much to the naked eye, but at the end of the month, it is a considerable amount.
It should be noted that most third-party ordinary warehouses charge by day, and some even start charging from the day of storage, causing many sellers to calculate time costs before stocking up.
1:Under the pressure of stocking up, warehousing costs have become an implicit burden
The pace of cross-border logistics itself is inherently uncertain, and any fluctuation in flight adjustments, customs clearance queues, overseas deliveries, and other links may cause goods to stay in the warehouse for longer.
As the time goes on, storage fees often hurt costs more than imagined, especially for sellers who are expanding their stores or exploring new products, making them more passive.
Due to this uncertainty, many sellers are looking for a more flexible way: one that can both handle dropshipping and reduce the pressure caused by inventory backlog.
2: Free storage period has become a concern, but it is also accompanied by doubts
Many sellers have heard of the free storage period launched by cross-border cloud warehouses, which can last for dozens of days and is exciting, but also raises concerns about whether it will be reimbursed in other fees.
For example, whether there is an increase in operating fees, whether the outbound fees are too high, etc. After all, the industry is deep, and for safety reasons, asking one more question is not harmful.
At this time, the domestic cloud warehouse and the US overseas warehouse have formed a complementary model. Domestic cloud warehouses are responsible for processes such as warehousing, shelving, sorting, and synchronizing orders. The overseas warehouse is responsible for local delivery, reducing timeliness risks, and handling returns and exchanges. And when the two are combined, the long buffer period brought by the free warehousing policy does indeed alleviate sellers' inventory anxiety.
3:Dual warehouse linkage is changing the way sellers stock up
There is already a service provider (Taijia Cloud Warehouse) in the market that provides 60 days of free warehousing in domestic warehouses, calculated based on the actual warehousing date, to ensure that sellers will not be charged as soon as the goods enter the warehouse. For sellers who need to stock up in advance, this model makes the operational pace easier, without having to worry about burning warehouse rent every day.
On the US warehouse side, there is also a similar no warehouse arrangement, allowing sellers to prepare inventory before the peak season arrives and improve performance stability. Combined with automatic synchronization of multi platform orders, label processing, package splitting and merging, cross platform operations are also lighter.
4:The key to choosing a cloud warehouse is not how much it saves, but whether it is suitable or not
Not all cloud warehouses have a dual warehouse system of domestic warehouse and overseas warehouse at the same time. Some only provide a single warehouse mode, some have short free days, and some are not transparent enough in terms of pricing for value-added services.
When choosing, sellers usually pay more attention to details such as whether the re stocking fee is reasonable, whether the channel is stable, and whether the warehouse operations are standardized.
From the real feedback of most sellers, the greatest value brought by free warehousing is not the cost savings, but rather the fact that the stocking pace is no longer chased by daily rent.
After the inventory management of cloud warehouse delivery service providers becomes easier, people can naturally focus on operations and achieve better long-term development. Cross border e-commerce is a journey that requires patience and strategy, and those who maintain the pace often go further and more steadily.
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