Intro:
In the increasingly fierce cross-border e-commerce market, POD clothing sellers have attracted a large number of consumers with their unique design and customized services. However, with the joy of business growth, in order to improve services, especially the delivery time, many POD clothing sellers began to send explosive products to overseas warehouses, especially some mainstream e-commerce platforms, such as Amazon, prompting POD clothing sellers to do so, so that the high storage costs are like an invisible burden. Starting to eat away at our profit margins. If we cannot control the cost of warehousing, it will often make our profits greatly reduced, and even make a shout, then, in the face of increasingly high warehousing costs, how should we POD clothing sellers respond? This article will reveal the components of warehousing costs, and create a smart fee avoidance strategy for POD clothing sellers to help them in the fierce market competition and move forward steadily.
Section 1: Revealing the composition of storage costs
The small partners who have some understanding of overseas warehouses know that warehousing costs are not so simple as a single number, it is composed of a series of complex factors. In-depth analysis of its internal structure helps POD clothing sellers to accurately locate cost pain points, so as to correct the symptoms.
1. Rent and property management fee: This is the basic part of the storage cost, depending on the warehouse area, geographical location and supporting facilities and other factors.
2. Inventory management fee: includes manpower and system input of goods receiving, storage, inventory, sorting, packaging and other operations.
3. Logistics processing fees: involves loading, unloading and handling costs of warehousing, warehousing, allocation and other links, as well as possible express or transportation costs.
4. Insurance and security fees: In order to ensure the safety of goods, property insurance premiums and maintenance costs of fire prevention, anti-theft and other facilities need to be paid.
5. Disposal fee for unsalable goods: The cost required to clear inventory for overstocking, seasonal goods out of season, etc.
Section 2: How POD clothing Sellers can avoid excessive warehousing costs
In the face of complex storage costs, POD clothing sellers should use innovative thinking and fine management to cut costs from the source and improve operational efficiency.
1. Accurate forecasting and flexible supply chain: Use data analysis tools to accurately predict sales trends and reduce inventory overstocking caused by overstocking. At the same time, the establishment of flexible cooperation with suppliers, to achieve small batch, multi-batch purchase, that is, EZEJ technology pod a customized platform to promote the main “ Small single fast reverse ” Mode, help the seller to reduce the pressure of warehousing.
2. Optimize inventory layout and classification: Scientifically partition storage according to commodity characteristics (such as popularity, volume, weight, etc.) to improve picking efficiency. Conduct regular inventory counting and ABC analysis, giving priority to the storage management of high value and high turnover commodities.
3. Automation and intelligent upgrade: The introduction of automated storage equipment (such as intelligent shelves, automatic picking robots, etc.) and warehouse management system (WMS), reduce manual operation errors, improve work efficiency, and indirectly save labor costs.
4. Shared warehousing and cooperative logistics: Consider sharing warehousing resources with other merchants, especially industry partners who complement each other in the off-peak season, and share fixed costs together. At the same time, integrate a number of logistics companies, through the bidding mechanism to obtain better freight, reduce logistics processing costs.
5. Active promotion and inventory recovery: Regularly carry out promotional activities, using time-limited discounts, buy gifts and other ways to accelerate inventory turnover. For dead sales, we can seek cooperation from professional recycling platforms to convert inventory into cash and reduce the disposal fee of dead sales.
Tips: The pressure of warehousing costs often comes from the slow sale of goods, based on this point, we must do a good job of measuring the goods, do not determine the potential of the goods before, too much to prepare the goods, resulting in unable to sell, at the same time, for the sales of products began to decline, but also reduce inventory reserves, of course, If a product is confirmed to have a market, then as long as you find the right direction, even if there is a slow sale on a certain platform, you can also rely on opening other sales channels, such as other platform stores or more independent stations in line with its style, you can still sell it out, which for POD clothing sellers, you need to control the operation skills of multi-platform sales. And actively open up new sales channels, should also be what we have to do, is the so-called, do not put eggs in a basket inside, that is the truth.
Supportive Section: Support cloud warehouse and operation to reduce costs and increase efficiency
For POD clothing sellers with limited resources, it is an efficient solution to choose to cooperate with a third-party cloud warehouse or entrust a professional operation team to manage the warehousing business. Cloud warehouse provides on-demand payment, flexible expansion of warehousing services, effectively avoid fixed cost risks; The agent operation team relies on professional experience and scale advantages to help the seller optimize the inventory management process and further reduce costs.
Conclusion:
POD clothing sellers in the pursuit of design innovation and quality service, but also need to pay attention to the key operational indicators of warehousing costs. Through accurate forecasting, optimization of inventory layout, technology upgrading, sharing resources, active promotion and other diversified strategies, sellers can effectively avoid excessive storage costs, release more funds for product development and market expansion, so as to be invincible in the highly competitive POD clothing market.
