In recent years, with the rapid development of the third party logistics industry, managers have higher and higher requirements for shelves. Simple storage of goods can not meet the requirements of logistics on sorting and efficiency. Therefore, shelf practitioners have been thinking deeply. Our enterprises should face up to the relationship between logistics and warehousing from the following aspects through years of experience in warehousing planning.
Warehousing is an indispensable part of modern logistics
We can further understand the importance of warehousing to logistics system from the perspective of supply chain. From the perspective of supply chain, logistics process can be seen as a series of "supply" and "demand". When the rhythm of supply and demand is inconsistent, that is, the two processes can not be well linked, the products produced can not be consumed immediately, or there is demand but no products are met. At this time, it is necessary to establish product reserves and store products that cannot be consumed immediately to meet subsequent needs. There is both "flow" and "stillness" between supply and demand. Stillness is the storage of materials. Static is to better connect the two dynamic processes of supply and demand.
Warehousing can guarantee the quality of goods.
Product quality inspection in the process of commodity storage can effectively prevent fake and inferior products from entering the market, protect the rights and interests of consumers, and also protect the reputation of manufacturers to a certain extent. There are two main steps to ensure the quality of products through storage: one is to carry out quality inspection to see whether the goods meet the storage requirements, unqualified products are strictly prohibited to be mixed in the yard; the other is to avoid physical and chemical changes of products as far as possible during the storage period, so as to minimize the loss of inventory goods.
Warehousing ensures smooth social reproduction
The storage process of goods is not only the necessary guarantee for the smooth circulation of goods, but also the guarantee for the social production process.
Warehousing accelerates commodity circulation and saves circulation expenses
Although the goods are in a static state when stored in the warehouse, which will lead to the increase of time cost and financial cost, in fact, on the whole, it will not only cause the loss of time and the increase of financial cost, on the contrary, it will help to speed up the circulation speed and save the operation cost. When I talk about the necessity of warehousing, I have already said that warehousing can effectively reduce transportation and production costs, thus reducing the total cost.
Warehousing can prepare goods for entering the market.
Warehousing can complete sorting, packaging, quality inspection, sorting and other procedures before the goods enter the market, shorten the working time of the follow-up links, and speed up the flow of goods.
