Supplier selection of home appliance logistics

The selection of home appliance logistics suppliers is generally carried out through bidding. In the specific operation process, the household appliance production and circulation enterprises achieve the goal of integrated logistics management by controlling the household appliance logistics suppliers.

1. Selection principles of home appliance logistics suppliers

The following principles should be considered when selecting home appliance suppliers.

(1) The principle of lowest logistics cost priority. Generally, it is the first choice for some home appliance enterprises seeking to reduce logistics costs. For example, Midea Electric's recent tender advertisement clearly pointed out that transportation quotation is the main basis for bid evaluation.

(2) The principle of continuous optimization of logistics system. Generally speaking, it is the choice principle of home appliance enterprises to develop from traditional logistics to comprehensive logistics and hope to promote the continuous improvement of logistics through the joining of external logistics providers.

(3) The whole process control principle of logistics operation. Generally speaking, it is the choice principle of home appliance enterprises to pursue the controllability of the whole process of internal logistics and external logistics and provide important guarantee for the operation of home appliance logistics through advanced information means.

(4) The principle of efficient supply chain coordination. Generally, it is the first choice standard for home appliance enterprises to pursue supply chain coordination, that is, through the choice of home appliance logistics suppliers, to achieve a high degree of cooperation in enterprise supply chain management.

(5) The principle of integrated logistics operation and integrated management. That is to say, logistics suppliers are required to provide integrated logistics services and give targeted enterprise logistics analysis and solutions when household appliance enterprises put forward production logistics operation requirements.

2. Selection method of home appliance logistics suppliers

There are many methods to choose home appliance logistics suppliers, including qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis and comprehensive analysis. Among them, expert scoring, cost analysis and analytic hierarchy process are commonly used.

3. Home appliance logistics supplier control

The control of home appliance logistics suppliers emphasizes the control of the whole process of logistics operation, so home appliance logistics generally requires logistics suppliers to have a logistics information system suitable for their own business. Household appliance production and circulation enterprises can effectively control logistics suppliers through real-time sharing and online monitoring of logistics information, and assess and evaluate related services.

At present, there are many unique home appliance logistics suppliers, such as COSCO Logistics, Haier Logistics, China Merchants Logistics, Changhong Minsheng Logistics, Sinotrans, Baogong Logistics and Ande Logistics. They provide comprehensive logistics services for home appliance production and circulation enterprises through integrated logistics operation processes such as transportation, warehousing and distribution, and through advanced logistics information systems during operation.

Home appliance enterprises monitor logistics suppliers in real time through information systems. The logistics information system with enterprise's own characteristics owned by Andrew and Bao Gong, as well as LES used in Haier's logistics operation control, all provide effective technical support for the whole process control of home appliance logistics operation. The control flow of home appliance enterprises to each link of logistics supplier operation is shown in the figure.