As a necessity of human life, in addition to its basic functions, it can also show people's personality and professional characteristics. Most consumers have a fanatical pursuit of tasteful, comfortable, fashionable, individual and trend-leading clothing, which makes clothing products more personalized, which puts higher requirements on clothing manufacturers from the design. Therefore, clothing companies must keep up with the changing seasons and trends, and constantly design clothing products that meet consumer tastes. In order to adapt to changes in the market, garment manufacturers produce a wide variety of garments and newer styles, the more they can capture the hearts of customers. Under this rapidly changing market demand, clothing companies must improve their flexibility and rapid response capabilities, which must require clothing companies to do a good job in the logistics and warehousing management of clothing, and continuously improve the warehousing, sorting, inventory, and inventory management of clothing. The efficiency of warehousing operations such as returns is particularly important for clothing logistics.
Warehouse management should be scientific
Due to the different names, styles, and fabrics of branded clothing, various types of clothing also exhibit different styles and characteristics, which change with the four seasons, and the varieties are very rich. In order to satisfy consumers' minds, branded clothing products have pursued advanced updates in both types and styles. This has forced the life cycle of branded clothing products to be shortened, and even new types of clothing will be withdrawn from the market less than two weeks after entering the market. Possibly, the frequent loading and unloading of clothing puts forward the quantity of storage management, so the disadvantage is that some storage space is not fully utilized, which affects the utilization rate of storage capacity.
In order to effectively use storage capacity, many brand clothing warehouses have mobile storage spaces, which are mainly used to store those garments with short storage time or large batches. The mobile storage spaces can often be shared, which can increase the utilization rate of storage space. The storage location is not easy to be remembered, and the clothing is difficult to find, which increases the difficulty of entering and exiting the warehouse. There are many different sizes and colors of the same type of clothing, which cannot be mixed. After the mixing meeting, the sorting will cause certain difficulties and affect the accuracy of sorting.
Increasing the efficiency of warehousing operations will reduce costs, but at the same time it will reduce the utilization rate of warehouse capacity and increase the cost of warehousing space, which is really a "double-edged sword." Warehouse operation efficiency and warehouse capacity utilization are contradictory phenomena in logistics, which need to be considered from the sum of warehouse operation costs and warehouse space costs. Therefore, for the status quo of brand clothing with small batches, many varieties, high frequency of storage and retrieval, and easy error in sorting and counting, a combination of fixed storage and mobile storage can be used.
Then it is necessary to reasonably determine the ratio of fixed storage positions and mobile storage positions. For example, for the ten clothing varieties of a clothing company, ten storage locations are reserved, and different fixed storage locations are set up respectively. The storage operation cost and storage space cost are repeatedly calculated. According to statistics, the storage operation cost increases with the fixed storage space. The increase in the number of storage locations presents a downward trend of geometric multiples, and the cost of storage space increases with the increase in the number of fixed storage locations.
Clothing sorting must be efficient
The garment sorting operation not only requires a large workload and a complicated process, but also requires short operation time, high accuracy and good quality. This puts forward new requirements for the sorter's picking strategy. It is especially important to adopt a scientific and efficient sorting method, formulate a thorough sorting operation plan, clearly divide the labor, and carry out efficient sorting operations.
Sorting operations should be designed in a reasonable order for each item, such as clothing item number, shelf number, quantity, product name, and specifications, so as to avoid the phenomenon of multiple objects, multiple objects, and sorting confusion during picking. Increase sorting time and reduce sorting efficiency. Before planning and designing sorting operations, it is necessary to determine the sorting method that can be used.
Commonly used sorting methods can be divided into four types according to the sorting timing: quantitative sorting, periodic sorting, quantitative seeding sorting and periodic seeding sorting. Which sorting method is used depends on the efficiency of the sorting method. To analyze the operating efficiency of a sorting method, the following aspects need to be considered: the order or delivery note is processed through the information processing process to form a picking instruction, There are four kinds of time for walking and moving goods, accurately finding the storage location of the goods and confirming the picked goods and their quantity, picking is completed, and the goods are sorted and concentrated. According to the above four aspects, different weights are assigned to the importance of the efficiency of the sorting operation, because the sorting operation of general clothing does not take long in the actual picking, but it takes a lot of time to find the clothing and walk. , It is necessary for clothing companies to do a good job of distribution in the above four aspects.
Through the above analysis. In general, various sorting methods have their own advantages and disadvantages. When selecting a sorting method, it should be analyzed according to the specific situation, and the best, most economical and reasonable sorting method should be selected. In short, shortening the time to find goods and shortening the walking distance can improve the sorting efficiency. If you can effectively use the sorting, rectification, and use the light and color to distinguish the shelf numbers, product numbers, and product names with concise labeling, it will not only improve the efficiency of sorting operations, but also reduce the error rate of clothing sorting.
In order to effectively solve the problems of low warehousing efficiency, difficult inventory control, and chaotic storage locations, clothing companies have achieved the purpose of calmly coping with the unpredictable changes in the market. Many companies rely on barcode technology to achieve warehousing management. Informatization, through the establishment of a unique code matching each type of clothing, a barcode printer is used to make a barcode label and paste it on the outer packaging of the clothing or hang it on the clothing tag. Because most clothing is not suitable for using self-adhesive barcode labels. Therefore, clothing companies use tag printers to print barcodes on clothing tags. The fixed content on the clothing tag is printed in batches in advance, and the bar code is temporarily printed out by the tag printer.
After the clothing is sold, the bar code on the tag is torn off by the point of sale, and the bar code content is scanned with a bar code reader to the computer for subsequent data processing. Through the cooperation between the bar code on the tag and the information processing system of the point of sale and clothing company, the entire sales process can be effectively traced and managed.
If barcode management is the core of clothing logistics, then inventory is the basis of clothing business management. Its job is to ensure that the book number is consistent with the actual number. The person in charge must be meticulous and careful. Generally, brand clothing retail stores use it. Chain model, many stores and wide distribution. The same brand is distributed in various stores, and each store is operated independently. It is difficult to know the inventory of each store, whether it is lost, whether it is on the shelf in time, and so on. Clothing counter inventory is a very tedious and error-prone task for various retail stores. Using the clothing inventory machine can easily achieve counter inventory, improve work efficiency, and will not cause any inventory errors. Through the inventory machine to regularly inventory each branch, you can know the difference between the actual inventory and book inventory of each store. If there is a difference, check it in time. Explain the reasons and plug the loopholes in the inconsistency of accounts.
For apparel companies, they should make full use of information technology to explain that they can quickly improve their business processes such as sales, purchases, storage, and distribution, and assist companies in rationally configuring inventory to achieve rapid distribution, pipeline sales, stores and consumer needs. Special personnel are responsible for controlling the in and out operations of clothing and dealing with various problems in the process of warehousing operations, including the collection, storage, distribution, distribution, and return of clothing. If the above three aspects can be done well, it will not only improve logistics Operational efficiency can better adapt to the unpredictable changes in the apparel market.
