What are the requirements for choosing an e-commerce warehouse?

For e-commerce companies, the ability of warehousing and logistics is directly related to whether they can occupy a place in the fierce competition. At present, the domestic e-commerce warehouse hosting companies are mixed, and each company has different advantages. A good third-party warehousing and logistics company can bring too much convenience and save effort. Of course, if the choice is wrong, it may affect the user's reputation in the later stage, so make a good choice.

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What are the requirements for choosing an e-commerce warehouse? I suggest you pay attention to the following indicators:

1, define your own needs.

There is no best, only the most suitable, and the same is true for choosing a third-party warehousing service provider. First of all, according to the characteristics of business and products, we should make clear our own requirements and make targeted choices, which will not only achieve our own logistics service level, but also reduce our operating costs and achieve a win-win situation. I suggest you consider the following six aspects.

(1) Where is your logistics scale and customer base?

(2) What is your daily inventory, the number of SKUs, and do you have any special needs?

(3) your commodity turnover rate, timeliness requirements and distribution scope;

(4) What are your requirements and expectations for storage space, such as shelves, temperature and humidity, ventilation facilities, etc.

(5) What is your budget range?

(6) Do you want to connect the system to the third-party warehousing service provider system?

2. Cargo safety

No matter which mode of transportation is used, safety should be considered, because both buyers and sellers certainly want to deliver the goods to customers in a very safe way. If safety cannot be guaranteed, a series of problems may affect consumers' evaluation of your store.

3. Information level of warehousing and logistics enterprises

Fully consider the informatization level of warehousing and logistics companies, such as whether they have the ability of order management, warehousing management, transportation management, automation management and customer service management. , can make enterprises know the goods management in transit, product inventory and customer satisfaction in time, and can make enterprises make decisions more quickly and accurately.

4. Flexible service

When choosing a third-party warehousing and logistics company, enterprises should consider the expectations of target customers for warehousing and logistics. If some have personalized requirements for storage environment, delivery timeliness, delivery location, delivery methods, etc. When choosing a warehousing and logistics company, we should pay attention to whether it can provide personalized services to meet customers.

5. Is the charge reasonable?

Cost is a common concern, because high cost will greatly reduce the profit margin of products, and low cost may not guarantee the quality of service. Therefore, we also need to focus on this point when choosing warehousing services, and we need to weigh the pros and cons.

5. Service experience and level of warehousing companies

Enterprises can understand the service experience and level of logistics companies from all aspects and choose logistics service providers that meet their own business characteristics. It is best to have service experience in the same type or similar industry, so that service providers can provide relevant customer service case references.