In 2021, where is the future of cross-border e-commerce's offshore warehouse?

According to statistics, the number of overseas warehouses in China has exceeded 1800, and warehousing services can be realized all over the world. It has become a new foreign trade infrastructure to support the development of cross-border e-commerce and expand the international market.

After a year's baptism in 2020, the cross-border e-commerce industry has undergone extensive and profound changes. As one of the foundations of cross-border e-commerce, overseas warehouse has also experienced a big leap. When it comes to 2021, the foreign business environment and logistics capacity are still complex. Where is the future of overseas warehouse in 2021?

1. Intelligent AGV warehouse will greatly improve efficiency.

In the traditional warehouse, 60% - 70% of the time is wasted on manual picking up, which is the common "people looking for goods". The application of AGV (automated guided vehicle) warehouse will greatly liberate the inefficient state of warehouse operators.

AGV car is equipped with electromagnetic or optical GPS devices, which can navigate along the preset track in the warehouse, so as to achieve a revolutionary breakthrough from "people looking for goods" to "goods looking for people", and greatly improve the efficiency of shelves, sorting, sorting and delivery in the warehouse, so as to reduce labor costs and improve sorting efficiency for the "warehouse" and "distribution" links of cross-border e-commerce logistics chain.

In addition, the investment of AGV can not only improve the efficiency, but also reduce the manual error rate and work 24 hours, so as to reduce the loss rate and error rate in warehouse operation.

2. Information flow, business flow, capital flow and logistics "four flows in one".

In 2020, with the change of business environment, the fracture of traditional sales chain and the change of consumers' shopping consciousness, many enterprises realize the importance of "online digitization" and "brand going out to sea". Whether it is "internal circulation" or "external circulation", it is an unavoidable test for enterprises to find a new way out.

Channels are business channels. Information flow, business flow, capital flow and logistics "four flows in one" are also building the digital transformation of enterprises. First, it needs internal policy support to provide all kinds of preferential benefits. Second, it closely cooperates with overseas cross-border e-commerce platforms to give full play to the operation advantages of domestic enterprises and the cost performance advantages of made in China, and take advantage of local overseas warehouses to seize market opportunities.

3. Carefully organize local distribution resources, improve their own professional warehousing service capacity.

In last year's cross-border e-commerce logistics environment, the low efficiency of end course logistics is a "roadblock" restricting the development of cross-border sellers. It also leads to the failure to deliver goods to the warehouse, resulting in "warehouse explosion", slow container pick-up at the port and terminal, occupying more containers and equipment, thus leading to a vicious circle.

At present, the main reason is that the overseas logistics infrastructure is not perfect, which can not meet the "blowout" e-commerce development level in 2020, and it is difficult to overtake on a large scale in the short term, which needs the coordinated progress of "branch line", "distribution" and "warehousing".

As overseas warehouses generally have the opportunity to integrate terminal distribution resources, carefully organize high-quality local distributors to provide customers with cost-effective, timely and fast distribution channels, which is also part of the warehouse's own professional ability, and also the need to build its own moat in the future business competition.

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