How to trace the origin of cross-border e-commerce products and how to make the supply chain opaque?

Cross border e-commerce is becoming more and more popular, and various kinds of fake goods are also frequently exposed. Why? The cross-border e-commerce import and export commodities are often difficult to trace due to the factors such as many batches, miscellaneous varieties, wide sources, numerous consignees and wide coverage. When cross-border e-commerce platforms cannot clearly, transparently and visually control the real-time whole process of overseas goods purchased by their own platforms, how can consumers believe that their products must be authentic and their quality must be reliable? Therefore, the root of cross-border e-commerce counterfeiting lies in that the supply chain is not transparent, which provides an opportunity for illegal merchants and creates extremely bad shopping experience for consumers. However, many cross-border e-commerce enterprises have been opaque in the supply chain from the beginning to now. What should we do?

How do supply chain experts view the traceability of cross-border e-commerce products?

Let’s first listen to acloudear, an expert in cross-border e-commerce digital transformation and SAP platinum partner. In the cross-border e-commerce pain points of the white paper on digital transformation of cross-border e-commerce enterprises, experts mentioned in several pain points: logistics tracking is difficult, process visibility is weak, traceability is difficult, lack of real-time inventory information, data fragmentation, etc. All point to the opaque supply chain!

Pain points of cross border e-commerce operation in white paper

The opaque supply chain will directly lead to the difficulty in tracing the source of cross-border e-commerce commodities. How to break this?

Tracing the source of cross-border e-commerce goods and the conventional method of opaque supply chain

Many cross-border e-commerce enterprises usually seek technical solutions to the pain of opaque supply chain of cross-border e-commerce. For example, we are now familiar with the “Traceability Technology”, which can store commodity information through chips, two-dimensional codes, bar codes, etc. Realize the information list of the whole process from delivery to logistics to platform and consumers. So that consumers can rest assured? In fact, it’s not true. What’s more important is how to let cross-border e-commerce operators control the goods in real time on the cloud.

How to break the opacity of cross border e-commerce supply chain?

All managers who can pay attention to and realize the opaque supply chain from the operation of cross-border e-commerce are trying to find a simple and efficient solution to solve the dilemma of cross-border e-commerce growth. Whether it is the traceability of cross-border e-commerce goods, supply chain transparency or digital transformation of cross-border e-commerce enterprises, the key lies in the realization of “global operation visualization”. How to realize the visualization of cross-border e-commerce global operation? This requires an ERP system for cross-border e-commerce digital solutions. Acloudear introduced the omni channel solution of global operation visualization and digital transparent supply chain of cross-border e-commerce through the case of Guangzhou speed pigeon, a successful digital transformation enterprise of cross-border e-commerce.

On the cross-border e-commerce digital management platform based on SAP cloud ERP, it is easy to realize the omni channel management of cross-border e-commerce operation, including supply chain.

From suppliers to procurement and logistics, real-time visualization and transparency can be realized on the cloud to fully ensure the timeliness and accuracy of cross-border e-commerce commodity traceability. From packing to customs declaration, the system can realize real-time control on the cloud.

In conclusion, it is not difficult to break the opacity of supply chain in order to realize the traceability of cross-border e-commerce goods. The key is to select ERP, especially cloud ERP, to give real-time feedback. Secondly, how the cross-border e-commerce ERP helps enterprises to achieve commodity traceability and global operation visualization has become the key to solve the problem. The above scheme can be easily completed in three steps. The supply chain is transparent, the product quality is more guaranteed, the experience of consumers is improved, and the value and profit flow in this way.

In fact, the above overview provides an overview of the global operation visualization of cross-border e-commerce enterprises,

To achieve transparent, accurate and reliable traceability of goods in the supply chain,

Please search and download the white paper on digital transformation of cross border e-commerce enterprises

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This article "How to trace the origin of cross-border e-commerce products and how to make the supply chain opaque?" by AcloudEAR. We focus on business applications such as cloud ERP.

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