The development of cross-border e-commerce has led to the development of cross-border e-commerce logistics, but there are still a series of problems that can not be ignored, such as logistics timeliness, logistics cost, logistics system and so on, which have become the constraints of its development.
With the development of e-commerce, consumers’living and consumption habits have changed greatly. With the increase of shopping channels, consumers’ consumption habits have gradually changed from the previous price demand to the quality demand. The proportion of enjoyable and spiritual consumers is gradually increasing.
At present, the shopping modes of imported cross-border e-commerce mainly include the following:
(1) Platform e-commerce using direct mail and spelling for shipment
(2) Platform e-commerce using bonded warehouse or direct mail for delivery
(3) Self-operated e-commerce using bonded warehouse or direct mail delivery
(4) Using bonded warehouse or direct mail delivery platform + self-operated e-commerce:
With the development of economic globalization, trade and commerce between countries become more frequent. Exporting superior products overseas and importing needed products have become an important measure to promote the economic and social development of countries in the world. The emergence of the Internet has brought tremendous changes to the global economic development. More and more producers can realize the “disintermediation” development through the Internet. The use of the Internet can reduce the number of nodes in the circulation link, so as to achieve point-to-point product direct access. With China’s economic development entering a new normal era, cross-border e-commerce logistics, as a new bright spot of national economic growth, has attracted the attention of the state and the business community.
Innovative Development Direction of Cross-border E-commerce Logistics Business Model
Cross-border e-commerce logistics and cross-border e-commerce coordinated development. E-commerce and logistics are symbiotic. In recent years, the development of domestic e-commerce has driven domestic logistics industry to become a new hot industry, which is a good illustration of this point.
Therefore, the development of cross-border e-commerce will inevitably stimulate and drive the rise of cross-border logistics. The coordinated development of cross-border e-commerce and logistics industry can be achieved through resource and technology sharing and strategic coordination. It is cross-border logistics that promotes its own growth through the development of e-commerce, such as the development of mobile technology and the popularization of network, which has a great impact on cross-border e-commerce and logistics. Cross-border logistics should conform to the development momentum of e-commerce so as to become an important link in the development process of cross-border e-commerce.
Cross-border e-commerce and logistics can first find the initial source of their supply, especially in warehouse preservation, packaging, transportation and other aspects, strengthen cooperation, while promoting and meeting e-commerce needs, reduce logistics costs, reduce logistics time, reduce goods losses, and achieve coordinated development.
Sharing of multiple logistics modes
It embodies the effect of polymerization. Cross-border logistics includes international logistics, domestic logistics and so on. It involves entry-exit customs and commodity inspection. The logistics time is longer, the distance is farther and the way is more complex. Cross-border e-commerce is facing the global market, both sides of the transaction have certain differences in the level of logistics and commodity categories, so the requirements of logistics will be quite different.
Domestic logistics companies need to give full play to their strengths in Transnational E-commerce logistics, explore the types of E-commerce markets and the products they sell, and take the products with advantages as a breakthrough point to adapt to overseas markets step by step.
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