The role of warehousing in logistics (the more specific, the better, thank you)

The basic economic function of warehousing is 1. Integrated shipping integration is an economic benefit of warehousing. Through this arrangement, the integrated warehouse receives materials from a series of manufacturing plants and sends them to a certain quota, and then integrates them into one shipment. Its advantage is that it can achieve the lowest transportation rate and reduce the congestion of customer loan collection platforms. The warehouse can integrate the internal transfer from the manufacturer to the warehouse and the external transfer from the warehouse to the customer into a larger shipment. In order to provide effective integrated shipment, each manufacturing plant must use the warehouse as a storage place for stopover goods or a product sorting and assembly facility. Because the main advantage of integrated shipment is to combine the logistics process of invoice small batch shipment with specific market areas. The integrated warehouse can be used by a single vendor, or it can be used jointly by several vendors to use the leased integrated services. By using this integration scheme, each individual manufacturer or shipper can enjoy that the total logistics cost is lower than the cost of their respective direct shipment. 2. The warehouse operation of sorting and cross platform is similar to the integrated warehouse operation except that the products are not stored. The sorting job receives customer combination orders from manufacturers and sends them to individual customers. The sorting warehouse or sorting station sorts or divides the combined orders into individual orders, and arranges the local transportation department to be responsible for delivery. Because long-distance transportation transshipment is bulk express, the transportation cost is relatively low and it is not too difficult to track. Apart from involving multiple manufacturers, cross-platform facilities have similar functions. Retail chain stores widely use cross-platform as 4k to supplement the inventory of FMCG stores. In this case, the cross platform firstly transports the whole vehicle's goods from multiple manufacturers; After receiving the products, they are classified by customers with labels, and distributed by location without labels; Then, the product is like a cross. Cross the "platform" like that and load the trailer designated for the appropriate customer; Once the trailer is full of combined products from multiple manufacturers, it is released and transported to retail stores. Therefore, the cross-platform economic benefits include the full-load transportation of trailers from manufacturers to warehouses and from warehouses to customers. Because there is no need to store products, the processing cost of cross-platform facilities is reduced. In addition, because all vehicles are fully loaded, the platform facilities are more effectively utilized and the platform loading utilization rate is maximized. 3. Processing/postponement warehouses can also be used to postpone or delay production by undertaking processing or participating in a small number of manufacturing activities. A warehouse with packaging capacity or labeling capacity can postpone the final production of products until the demand for products is known. For example, vegetables can be processed in the factory and made into canned "glazed". Glazing refers to canned products that are not labeled, but can be used to attach personal labels. So glazing means that the product is not assigned to a specific customer, or the packaging configuration is still in the manufacturer's factory. Once the customer places a specific order, the warehouse can label the product, complete the last process and finally complete the packaging. Processing/delay provides two basic economic benefits: first, the risk is minimized, because the final packaging is not completed until the specific ordering label is finalized and the packaging materials are accepted; Secondly, by using various labels and packaging configurations for basic products (such as glazed cans), the inventory level can be reduced. Therefore, the combination of risk reduction and inventory level can often reduce the total cost of logistics system. Even if the cost of packaging in the warehouse is more expensive than packaging in the manufacturer's factory. 4. The direct economic benefit of storing this warehousing service is subordinate to the fact that storage is crucial for the selected enterprise. For example, lawn furniture and toys are produced all year round, but they are mainly sold in a short marketing period. On the contrary, agricultural products are harvested at a specific time, but the bottom consumption is carried out all year round. In both cases, the inventory in the warehouse is needed to support the marketing activities. Storage provides a buffer for inventory, and improves the efficiency of production activities under the conditions of material source and customer demand. Effective warehouse management The following aspects should be considered: 1. Whether human resources can be effectively allocated and operated is one of the important criteria for efficient warehouse management. Manual management technology can help warehouse enterprises that are troubled by employees, assist managers to decide the number of warehouse employees needed, and evaluate the performance of warehouse workers by using engineering labor standards and support systems. In addition, the company should provide incentives to the team composed of employees rather than individuals to give full play to the team's greatest potential. Many warehouse management systems lack the consideration of manual management and performance appraisal, or lack the connection of manual management. 2. The design of warehouse layout and the improvement of equipment are the hinges of the whole logistics system. Whether the warehouse layout is reasonable or not affects the working efficiency of the whole warehouse. For example, warehouses can be divided into different pick-up areas according to product categories. In this way, the whole box, unpacking and whole plate are operated separately, which can avoid the chaos on the spot and reduce the damage of goods. 3. The function of developing additional value-added service warehousing is not limited to the simple warehousing function now. Therefore, providing additional value-added services, such as distribution and processing, combined packaging and labeling, can realize additional value-added functions of the warehouse and improve income and customer satisfaction. 4. The central command center in the warehouse can be a project management organization to guide the completion of new inventory accounts, report the implementation results and the progress of various departments, and keep in touch with external customers. The command center should include two parts: people and systems. Warehouse management system can not only realize the functions of "in-wall" system, including incoming and outgoing goods management, inventory management, order management, picking, re-inspection, basic information management of goods, goods location, replenishment strategy, and moving combination in the warehouse, but also consider the connection between warehouse management system and transportation management system, customer management and employee management system. The role of people in the command center is irreplaceable by technology. Logistics project leaders need to allocate limited resources optimally on the basis of a large amount of data. Warehousing is not an automated business, and there are too many uncertain factors in warehousing, so it is necessary for the person in charge who is familiar with warehousing both inside and outside to play the role of chief controller.