Overview of warehousing activities

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 now it is more common, deeper and more detailed, 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.