What is warehousing logistics for?

Warehouse logistics is the use of self-built or leased warehouses and sites to store, keep, load and unload and distribute goods.

The traditional definition of warehousing is given from the perspective of material reserve. Modern "warehousing" is not "warehousing" or "warehousing management" in the traditional sense, but warehousing under the background of economic globalization and supply chain integration, and warehousing in the modern logistics system.

Storage activities, or the basic functions of storage, include six aspects: goods in and out, inventory, sorting, packaging, distribution and information processing. Among them, the management of goods in and out of the warehouse can be said to be the most basic activities of warehousing and the basic functions of traditional warehousing, but the management means and level have been improved. The sorting and packaging of goods used to exist, but it is more common, deeper and finer, and even combined with the management of goods in and out of the warehouse, which constitutes the basic function of modern warehousing.

The reason why "distribution" is regarded as a storage activity is one of the basic functions of storage, because distribution is not a general transportation, but a natural extension of storage, which is the memory requirement for warehouse to develop into a distribution center. Without distribution, the warehouse is still an isolated warehouse.

As for information processing, it is a common phenomenon in modern economic activities and should also be one of the contents of warehousing activities. Without information processing, it is not modern warehousing.

The purpose of warehousing:

In order to meet the needs of upstream and downstream of the supply chain. This is significantly different from the past, which only met the needs of "customers" in depth and breadth. Whoever entrusts who puts forward the demand is the customer.

Customers may be upstream manufacturers or downstream retailers or enterprises, but warehousing can meet the needs of both direct customers and indirect customers. Warehousing should be integrated into the upstream and downstream of the supply chain, and the role positioning and service function of warehousing should be established according to the overall demand of the supply chain.