Play Localization! That'S How You Want It.

Localization is the inevitable trend of cross-border electricity suppliers, which means that more and more sellers are going to build offices, warehouses and customer service centers overseas. Because there is a fundamental point of localization overseas, and foreign markets are particularly expensive, so how to save overseas warehouses?

First, site cost

01 location of rental warehouse

Site selection is the first step. Generally speaking, three principles will be followed, one is the convenient suburbs, the suburbs near airports and ports, two is the larger radiation range, and the three is as close to the Amazon warehouse as possible.

For example, near Houston harbor, suburb of Losangeles, near Amazon FBA of Dallas, and New Jersey suburb near New York.

Site selection determines the approximate warehouse rent, but generally there is room for 10-20% bargaining. It can try to prick the bargain: small area, poor environment, pillars, unsafe, easy to damp, too old...

02 rack equipment

The price of foreign goods, conveyor belts and pick trucks are very expensive abroad. Taking shelves as an example, the shelves sold by Costco will cost about 70 dollars, and they will not be pported and installed.

Buying shelves at home will be half cheaper, but pport and tax issues will also be considered.

Another way is to rent racks, which are relatively low in cost, because of package pportation, installation and annoying subsequent dismantling.

Choose the shelf not to be beautiful and color, durable and good, but must match, the length and height should be consistent with the warehouse to avoid space waste.

Two, operation cost

01 operating expenses

The water and electricity charges in the US and Europe are very cheap, and there will be no big cost.

Computers, tables and chairs, printers, telephones, paper labels can be considered from domestic procurement, but pay attention to models and interfaces.

The deposit of the warehouse and the deposit of the water and electricity charge can be delivered at the initial stage of the warehouse. After the termination of the warehouse contract, the deposit can be returned.

02 insurance cost

The landlord will ask you to buy insurance, usually 800$-1500$one year, and you can also talk about your negotiating ability.

You can see more than a few insurance companies, each family is different, usually General Liability Insurance can do.

03 logistics costs

Foreign logistics options are relatively few, UPS, USPS, DHL, FEDEX... Keep accounts, do not say, large discounts, everyone knows.

But there are a lot of product rules in foreign logistics, so we must study more. Sometimes you will find that UPS and DHL are the same logistics products. The two goods are sometimes cheaply developed and sometimes bundled.

Three, manpower cost

01 wage costs

If it's an overseas warehouse worker, the salary in California is usually 15 dollars a while, Dezhou is 12 dollars, and some remote areas in the East are 10 dollars.

Of course, these should be taken into consideration when looking for the venue.

Mainly speaking of different types of employment problems, blacks basically do not work, and there are problems to drive away.

Lao Mo can move things, but his hands and feet are not very clean.

European refugees and illegal immigrants are not very reliable.

The Chinese uncle in the US is good at using some, but complain a lot, and guide them well.

02 efficiency cost

In the arrangement of work, the division of labor must be clear. The straight-line jobs such as delivery, receiving, moving, picking and packing can arrange foreign uncle, because they have simple thinking, quality inspectors and customer service such as phone calls.

And the daily workload must be arranged. They hate working overtime. Even if they come early, they will stand at the door until they go to work.

Four, other costs

Fire Law and order: fire is in accordance with the standard, the price is almost the same. In terms of law and order, the cheaper the law is, the worse the law and order is.

System: in terms of warehouse system, it is recommended to use domestic systems, because ERP, logistics and platforms are well connected, and are very mature; foreign systems are rather rigid and difficult to adapt, and they also need to be sinicization, which is very expensive.

Generally speaking, overseas warehouses do not have tens of thousands of electricity providers to start.

The whole process of overseas warehouses will take about three months, so it will be more economical to prepare ahead of time, but the whole overseas warehouse will need at least hundreds of thousands of successful operation. At present, only a few large sellers are suitable for playing, and small and medium-sized sellers can consider using third party overseas warehouses.

The second "overseas warehouse two sessions" has brought together nearly 100 overseas warehouses, including high cost performance, scarce and emerging markets. In addition, they can listen to 7 1 billion level sellers and 4+ overseas sellers to share overseas dry goods, as well as new and old platform analysis policies such as Amazon and Joom.