If you’re ready to grow your business with cross-border eCommerce, then this post is for you. Having a clear strategy for preparing your eCommerce business for international shipping is vital to ensuring smooth integration.

As you begin to expand your business to include a number of selling channels, it’s important to ensure that each product’s description is adapted and optimized for each channel you are selling on. This doesn’t just mean staying in line with the channels’ guidelines and taxonomy, but also adjusting your headlines and descriptions to match the type of shopper who is using the channel.

Multi-Warehouse Inventory Management Best Practices

One of the most significant barriers eCommerce entrepreneurs face when deciding whether to move over to a multichannel business model is multi-warehouse inventory management. The logistics of fulfilling from more than one warehouse when selling from more than one channel can feel overwhelming, with a lot of sellers holding back due to fear of these logistics and the extra costs that may result.

If you have reached a plateau in your eCommerce sales, it could be the time to scale up and add another marketplace to your platform portfolio. Expanding to new marketplaces exposes your products to brand new target audiences and will dramatically increase your profits. According to a BigCommerce study, 48% of product searches done online start on marketplaces like eBay and Amazon. It’s no surprise when Amazon’s share of online shopping, as a whole, is somewhere around 37%.

Dropshipping has become a very popular eCommerce fulfillment strategy. Why? Because it alleviates the risk of having to pay for and hold products until they sell, enabling you to concentrate on marketing your store rather than fulfillment logistics.Overall meaning you lower running and operating costs. But dropshipping is not without its own frustrations. The biggest of these challenges, which most dropshippers face today is to manage multiple dropship suppliers. Having multiple suppliers means coordinating inventory and order data logistics to ensure that you and your online store are always in-line with your supplies.

Inventory Matters now and well into Quarter One

If you already have an online store (such as through your business website or another channel such as Amazon) you certainly have had to deal with the issues of effective Inventory Management.  Ordering too much, not ordering enough, uncertainty of your stock at any given moment…these are all issues you’ve had to deal with, I’m sure.