With the hot development of cross-border e-commerce, the requirements for cross-border logistics service level are also increasing, many cross-border sellers do not know how to choose between overseas warehouse and FBA warehouse, let's understand the difference between FBA warehouse and overseas warehouse.
The difference between overseas and FBA
Differences in service platforms
Overseas warehouse can provide sellers with global warehousing and logistics services, while FBA warehouse mainly serves sellers on the Amazon platform and provides warehousing and logistics services related to the Amazon platform.
Differences in logistics services
FBA warehouses do not provide customs clearance services and need to be solved by the seller, while some overseas warehouses are to provide customs clearance services, door-to-door goods, customs clearance, transportation, distribution and other complete logistics services.
The difference in the selection range
FBA warehouse storage requirements are much stricter than overseas warehouses, so the selection of products is biased towards small scale, high profits, good quality products, and overseas warehouses can accept a wider range of products, in addition to those prohibited products can not be accepted, other products are not strict requirements, oversized products are a good example.
Different warehousing costs
Compared with FBA warehouse, the storage cost of overseas warehouse is lower, especially for large goods. At the same time, overseas warehouse can be used as the backup warehouse of FBA, and the goods can be shipped to overseas warehouse in advance, and then shipped from overseas warehouse to FBA warehouse when the FBA warehouse is insufficient. In this way, we can not only enjoy the convenience brought by FBA warehouse, but also reduce the storage cost compared with FBA warehouse.
Inventory limitation
Amazon in the off-season inventory restrictions are very strict, so that sellers can not store a lot of goods in the FBA warehouse, once the peak season inventory can not keep up with sales will appear out of stock risk, overseas warehouse is not this restriction, as long as there is a place, can be put.
Returns and exchanges are handled differently
Amazon supports buyers to return goods without any reason, and the returned products will not be sold twice even if there is no problem, and can only be destroyed or sent back to the seller. On the contrary, the account of the overseas warehouse is used for the end delivery, which can help the seller to detect the quality of the returned products and determine whether they can be re-listed for sale, helping the seller to reduce losses.
Different storage risks
FBA warehouse is associated with the Amazon account. Once the account is closed due to the problem of the products sold, the goods placed in the FBA warehouse will also be temporarily sealed and cannot be sold, and there is no risk of being suspended in addition to paying storage fees for overseas warehouse storage.
Other value-added services
FBA warehouse only provides the delivery service of orders through the system, the seller needs to attach the label in advance, if the label cannot be scanned, the goods will not be placed on the shelf, the overseas warehouse is flexible, can provide assembly, label change, sorting and delivery services, if you need special value-added services, the overseas warehouse is more flexible than FBA.
Overseas warehouse and FBA warehouse have their own advantages and disadvantages, and can complement each other. A reasonable choice can better help the seller. For some sellers with sufficient funds, FBA can be chosen, which has a faster time limit. There is no great requirement for the time limit, and if you want to save storage costs, you will choose overseas warehouses.
Power Time International Logistics has its own overseas warehouse in Los Angeles, focusing on providing integrated solutions for cross-border e-commerce sellers such as medium and large shipment, FBA transfer, return and label change, customs clearance and transfer, and end distribution.
