ISA, assume Walmart.com was creating a cross-border trade e-commerce marketplace integration platform. The platform aimed to streamline the process of online selling by small merchants in one country and online buying of those products across international borders by international shoppers, offering seamless integration of Walmart Ecommerce USA’s marketplace.walmart.com to multiple of its Walmart International Online Marketplaces (for example, Walmart U.K. walmart.uk, Walmart Canada walmart.ca, Walmart Mexico walmart.mx) and also to the international marketplaces of Walmart’s Strategic Partners like JD.com in China and Rakuten.com in Japan. Top-tier U.K. companies already on the platform include STATSports, which has grown from its home base in Northern Ireland to be a global leader in wearable tech for professional and amateur sportspeople; Glasgow-based BuyBox, which sells home and garden products; Nodor, which manufactures and sells Red Dragon darts and other sporting equipment from its headquarters in Bridgend, Wales; and Leicester-based Pertemba, which exports a wide array of products to 18 countries worldwide.

**Cross-Border Trade CBT E-commerce Marketplace Integration Platform Overview**:
- *Purpose*: To develop a unified e-commerce platform that enables efficient B2B2C cross-border trade.
- *Target Users*: Sellers and buyers in various international markets, including small businesses and large enterprises.
- *Key Goals*: Enhance user experience, improve operational efficiency, and ensure compliance with international trade laws.

The cross-border trade CBT e-commerce marketplace platform would also included Cross-border Fulfillment Services. Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) offers end-to-end fulfillment services for Walmart Marketplace sellers. With one of the world’s largest supply chains, Walmart, and now building on it Walmart’s Cross-Border Trade E-Commerce Marketplace Integration Platform was assumed to be uniquely positioned to provide the scale, quality, cost, and efficiency cross-border online marketplace sellers need to grow a successful business on any of Walmart’s global marketplaces. For example, Canada-based entrepreneurs and e-commerce sellers can take advantage of simplified onboarding, streamlined fulfilment, targeted promotions, integrated financial services and other support to help them rapidly scale and grow in the U.S. Since Canada-based sellers must be able to provide fast and reliable fulfillment delivered with duties prepaid (DDP), the WFS would be a substantial value-add to those sellers.

*Fulfillment Model 1: Ship with Walmart Cross-Border Trade E-Commerce Marketplace (Export Hub) Model:*
Walmart Cross-Border Trade E-Commerce Marketplace Integration Planform is partnering with FedEx to provide this Logistics solution to the Sellers. In this model, FedEx would take up the onus to clear the Customs Duty and complete the last mile mile delivery. The cross-border E-commerce marketplace sellers could make use of this service at the cost of a competitive charge. The seller could make use of their own domestic mode of shipping or FedEx as carrier to the FedEx Cross Border fulfillment center. However, their entire (NOT partial) catalog should be shipped through only one (NOT multiple) Export Hub location. Creating the order in FedEx Cross Border (i.e., not the domestic FedEx Fulfillment entity) needs to happen after the seller ships, because upon notifying FedEx, Walmart Cross-Border Trade E-Commerce Marketplace Integration Planform needs to also provide them the tracking number of the inbound shipment. Also, there’s no point in telling FedEx about an order before the seller even acknowledges, since the seller could still cancel it. Walmart Cross-Border Trade E-Commerce Marketplace Integration Planform need to factor in what’s being communicated to the customer. In particular, Walmart Cross-Border Trade E-Commerce Marketplace Integration Planform needed to intercept that shipment notification from the seller and replace the tracking number that’s provided to the underlying platform (to Canada) with a new, universal, tracking number from FedEx (providing end-to-end visibility). Otherwise the customer is going to get tracking updates only on the domestic leg to the FedEx facility, which is not very helpful.

*Model 2: Fulfill with Walmart Cross-Border Trade E-Commerce Marketplace:*
Cross-border Trade E-commerce marketplace sellers store part of their Catalog of items at FedEx Fulfilment Center (FC) well ahead in advance, whereas keep the other portion of their item Catalog stored at their own inventory warehouse location. The location of the SKU should be mutually-exclusive, that means a particular SKU can be fulfilled by either the seller or by FedEx and cannot by BOTH. When a Canadian customer places and order, if the item happens to be present in FedEx FC then the order fulfilment would happen automatically without needing any involvement from the sellers. In case if the item is not present on the FedEx FC then the cross-border E-commerce marketplace sellers need to ship the product to FedEx FC first, before FedEx does the customs clearance and last-mile delivery. Assumptions for Model 2, Fulfill with Walmart: 1) Canada-based Seller would be storing a part of item catalog (typically top selling items) at FedEx FC. The location of a particular SKU is mutually exclusive, which means that a particular SKU could be fulfilled from either FedEx FC by FedEx FF (acting as Channel Integrator) or from Seller’s warehouse by the Seller and NOT from both locations.

*Model 3: Merch Direct Model:*
In this model, the sellers could keep the access to the entire inventory at their own warehouse location (without needing them to store at the FedEx FC). However, at the time of fulfilment the sellers need to have access to the Invoice, Packing Slip and Instructions that they need to put on the shipment and ship by FedEx.

**Walmart Connect**
Cross-border Sellers can also use the Walmart Connect media platform to run impactful advertising and marketing campaigns and access Seller Center tools that help them speed up processes, identify growth opportunities and optimize their catalog and listings. In general, Walmart Connect provides a platform for advertisers to reach potential customers through various channels, including online, in-store, and sponsored media across the web. Advertisers can benefit from the association with Walmart’s trusted brand while advertising their products or services using Walmart Connect.

"[***Walmart's Cross-Border E-Commerce Marketplace Integration Platform was integrating Payoneer's  white-label cross-border B2B payment product into its overall solution to cross-border marketplace sellers listed on various Walmart E-Commerce international entities:***
Business purpose of white-label cross-border B2B payment product is to payout the monies owed to Sellers on cross-border trade e-commerce marketplace . For example, Canada-based Marketplace Sellers list their items on Walmart.ca and through Walmart's cross-border trade e-commerce marketplace integration platform, those Canada-based could also sell their items to shoppers on Walmart.com/USA. If item is sold, then Walmart takes a referral fee and remits the rest to the Marketplace Seller. E.g. Item sells for $100. Walmart referral fee is 10%. Walmart needs to payout $90 to the seller. Walmart is using Payoneer as the licensed money transmitter; Payoneer is basically integrating its white-label cross-border B2B payment product into Walmart's cross-border trade e-commerce marketplace integration platform. As part of the seller onboarding, we need to a method to payout monies owed to the seller. 

**End-to-End Payments Solutions Overview:**
 A carrier would then calculate import duties/tariffs, prepare export/import documents, calculate currency conversion and estimates cross-border shipping / handling costs in order to display a transparent fully-landed cost to  the shopper (e.g., Canadian shopper). We are not using any currency conversion by the carrier. The sellers’ prices are in Canadian dollars; the ‘fully loaded’ price we show to the customer is in Canadian dollars. Therefore  the duty is also calculated in Canadian dollars. There’s no currency conversion needed to calculate the customer price. Secondly, the shipping/handling cost does not factor into the price we calculate for the customer. The seller independently determines what their customer-facing shipping fees are (this could be $0, aka free shipping). CBT/Logistics is sent a message with the estimated cost of logistics services. A Cross-Border (CB) seller decides for her-or-himself how much tax to collect from the Canada-based shopper. The carrier would calculate and guaranteed the amount of taxes in local currency (e.g., CAD).   A Canada-based shopper would pay Walmart.ca in Canadian Dollars (CAD). The carrier automatically  transmits duties payment to local customs authorities). The Cross-Border (CB) “seller sends shipment notification to Walmart.ca. A hub processing and transportation fees are billed by carrier at the shipping date local currency conversion rate.” The parcel will be shipped to the domestic facility of the carrier which would provide the last mile-mile delivery service. The CB sellers have the option to make use of logistics services at negotiated rate card provided by the carrier (FedEx or others). “However, their entire (NOT partial) catalog should be shipped through only one (NOT multiple) Export Hub location.” An Order Management System (OMS)  calculates Walmart. CA’s commission and generates an account payable invoice with the exact amount to be paid to the (CB) seller.
 
Walmart.ca “automatically transfers funds to the Payoneer” (and/or other B2B payment vendors like for example World First or Tipalti)  “Canadian funding account.” Walmart.ca would need to pay the Cross-Border (CB) sellers in their local currency, or the currency of their choice (a U.S. based seller would want a payout in USD or for example in renminbi to fund future product sourcing from China).  Initially the payments to CrossBorder Sellers may go out biweekly. The goal probably would evolve to making payout more flexible spreading out the payments over the two weeks, or week period(s) as number of sellers grow. As “per the seller payout calendar, a payout request is sent to Payoneer” (and/or World First, Tipalti) “for the amount to be paid in the CB seller escrow account maintained by Payoneer or other payment vendors. “ Daily funding of the escrow account will probably factor in any adjustments (variance between estimated and actual logistical services costs) to be made up at settlement time, as funds cannot be withdrawn from an escrow account. Walmart.ca marketplace must also maintain: A starting balance of total seller payables - closing balance of total seller payables.
Payoneer transfers funds to the CB seller's wallet in the desired currency.
The carrier sends in arrears a biweekly or monthly aggregate sellers’ USD invoice/payables (i.e., billing file) for services provided to a (PSM) Parcel Spend Management service provider (e.g., Green Mountain).  
The PSM service provide (Green Mountain in this case) verifies the billing data and uploads billing file to a Data Collection Center (DCC).
After the file got uploaded into DCC, tracking numbers are linked to Rate Cards through a billing repository and shipping service rates can be applied.
CBT-Logistics “receives the actual billing from the carrier and sends an adjustment to the payout to CB seller for any variance. On the next payment to the seller, the adjustment is taken into account with the payout amount.” We are currently working with FedEx to see if there’s a way we can avoid having to make this adjustment at the end. If we can get more accurate data early on (the weight of the package going through the export hub, as and when it goes through the hub), then we can proactively charge the correct amount to the seller. 

Also, Payoneer and Linnworks (ecommerce inventory and order management software vendor) worked with Walmart-U.K. walmart.uk to offer U.K. sellers integrated payment options and centralized inventory and order management workflows to help them simplify and streamline cross-border operations and scale as demand grows.

***Working Capital Product:***
I personally believed that Walmart Cross-Border E-Commerce Marketplace Integration Platform should had Payoneer to also power three types of working capital solutions for Walmart Cross-border third-party sellers/merchants, according to a press release on Tuesday. Payoneer could had integrated its white-label working capital product into Walmart's cross-border trade e-commerce marketplace integration platform. The new solutions, in my opinion, would had assisted Walmart International E-Commerce cross-border third-party sellers with growing their businesses by offering different working capital options that suited a merchant’s particular needs. The instant cash flow can help sellers branch out into new categories, get ready for busy seasons and expand into different markets.]"