How to Improve Enterprise Warehouse Management

Lead: Today's society requires logistics to be as time-saving and efficient as possible. How to improve the space utilization rate and operation efficiency of logistics center is the key for enterprises to maintain their competitiveness. Therefore, how to improve the level of warehouse management is the focus of enterprise research. This paper first puts forward the shortcomings of traditional warehouse management, and then puts forward my own views on how to improve the level of warehouse management.

How to improve the warehouse management of enterprises In today's society, the logistics industry is developing like mushrooms after rain, and various products are circulating frequently. With the increase of product circulation, the number of warehouses is also increasing, so there are a lot of big warehouse. The birth of these operational warehouses has, to a great extent, facilitated the temporary transit of goods transportation and promoted economic and social development. However, the nature of these warehouses leads to frequent goods in and out of the warehouse in daily activities, which can not be completed on time and the storage space is not fixed, which makes the warehouse management complicated. Try to maintain the best inventory and try to be idealistic? Zero inventory? Approaching, managing inventory and ensuring maximum supply under the premise of reducing financial resources, material resources and manpower are the goals pursued by many enterprises. Therefore, it is of far-reaching significance to study how to improve the warehouse management level, minimize consumption, improve efficiency and better serve the material supply.

First, the shortcomings of traditional warehouse management

The traditional warehouse management mode is simple, just a static management, and it is difficult to make full use of enterprise resources. The traditional warehouse industry mainly maintains and keeps its related items according to the consignor's entrustment, with a single function. Warehouse management is only some activities in the warehouse, such as packaging, putting on shelves, receiving goods and taking delivery of goods, but it often pays insufficient attention to the planning, layout and location of the warehouse, and does not introduce new warehousing technology when operating traditional business. Modern warehouse is no longer a static storage place in the past, but requires mastering the real-time dynamic data of the warehouse in order to provide materials more timely and accurately. Zero inventory? Its idea is to minimize unnecessary inventory, speed up the circulation of internal inventory, improve its transparency and make rational use of resources. Specifically, the following points need to be improved.

1. The warehouse system design is unreasonable.

In the design process of logistics system, the specific number of warehouses and their geographical location depend on three factors: product demand, manufacturing point and customers. Warehouse is often the embodiment of enterprises' efforts to win benefits and time, but the traditional warehouse design can no longer meet the high requirements of market diversification, nor can it meet the high-level and high-quality services demanded by consumers.

2. Backward inventory methods

The traditional goods inventory is carried out by hand, and the person in charge of inventory comes to the scene with a pen and paper, and it is extremely inconvenient to record information one by one, especially for large items. In addition, counting items to complete data collection does not mean the end of the whole counting process. After collecting the data, manually input it into the computer and summarize and compare the relevant data. This operation process not only consumes a lot of time, but also wastes manpower. At the same time, the accuracy is not high enough, and human errors sometimes occur.

3, written records affect the accuracy.

In the traditional mode, goods in and out of the warehouse often rely on paper documents and non-automated systems to track and record the goods in and out, and mainly manage the warehouse according to people's memory. For a large-scale storage area, the uncertainty of human factors often leads to the extra complexity of collecting information such as storage points of goods, and delivery delays occur from time to time, so the inventory increases, which is different from modernization. Zero inventory? Contrary to the concept, it is difficult to guarantee the accurate delivery date, which leads to inaccurate decision-making. This way of collecting data mainly by manpower is difficult to systematize, resulting in a waste of manpower, increasing storage capacity, reducing the utilization rate of limited space in warehouses, slowing down the speed of capital turnover, which is not conducive to the improvement of enterprise benefits.

4. Management software can't respond to market changes in time.

With the increase of the quantity and variety of inventory, the frequency of entering and leaving the warehouse is getting higher and higher, which greatly hinders the work efficiency in the traditional operation mechanism of the warehouse. With the increasing commodity logistics, the original computer-based warehouse management system has been difficult to meet the requirements of timely, fast, accurate and efficient warehouse management. A modern distribution and fulfillment center is essential, and traditional software cannot easily realize the changing business process.

Second, ways to improve the efficiency of warehouse management

1, make a reasonable warehouse decision.

Reasonable warehouse decision-making is the basic premise to improve the quality of warehouse logistics. Warehouse decision-making includes warehouse design, location and layout. First of all, it is necessary to make a major plan for the material handling, space requirements and layout involved in the warehouse design, and at the same time choose the exact location of the warehouse. These decisions largely determine the characteristics of the warehouse itself, and only through these can the possible handling efficiency be obtained. The following will explain the above aspects respectively.

First, the location of the warehouse.

Using location analysis technology to select warehouse address. After the site selection is completed, the exact construction site should be determined. The main factors to be considered when selecting an analysis are service cost and service availability. Among them, the acquisition cost corresponding to procurement has the greatest influence on site selection. In addition, operating costs and equipment installation costs (such as taxes and fees, highway passages, railway tracks, insurance rates, etc.). ) must be evaluated. The above expenses are different in different regions, so the warehouse location can be adjusted appropriately to become the corresponding supplier for customers. For example, in order to improve the transportation efficiency, frozen food related dealers should adjust the warehouse location appropriately.

Secondly, the layout of the warehouse.

Whether the general layout of the warehouse is reasonable or not has great influence on the storage and transportation quality, profit level, storage and transportation cost and operation efficiency. When building a new warehouse, we should pay attention to the overall layout of the warehouse and make appropriate adjustments to the old warehouse. The layout of the warehouse should cooperate with the warehouse operation process and be determined by the floor plan of material handling and budget, so as to better serve the product process. Optimize the warehouse layout as needed.

Third, the physical design of the warehouse.

In the warehouse, the main function is to move the stored products, and the warehouse is usually regarded as a structural design that serves the product flow to the maximum extent. Therefore, it is necessary to accurately study the products that need to be distributed, and determine the average weight, total volume and total scale of materials when they enter and leave the warehouse.

2. Carry out order cycle counting.

According to Pareto's law, the inventory classification of A-B-C mode is adopted to improve the regular inventory plan, reduce the inventory of enterprises, grasp the distribution of goods, and accurately grasp which goods are overdue and which are slow to turn around. Practice has proved that regular inventory can obtain accurate inventory records and improve the quality of inventory management.

3. Implement warehousing automation.

Firstly, the bar code technology is introduced. In warehouse management, bar code technology is used to automatically collect relevant data such as warehouse distribution, personnel warehouse, warehouse transfer, arrival inspection, inventory counting, warehouse delivery, etc., so as to ensure that all links can input data efficiently and accurately, and strive to ensure that enterprises can accurately and timely grasp the actual data in inventory and properly control or maintain enterprise inventory. Because barcode identification is simple, accurate and fast, it may save a lot of manpower to use barcode in distribution centers or warehouses that supply materials. At the same time, it can effectively avoid human error, ensure work efficiency and make goods run smoothly.

Secondly, the automated warehouse needs to be strengthened. At present, the development of automated warehouse to intelligent automation benefits from the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology. Data acquisition technology, scanning technology and bar code technology are applied to automatic guided vehicles, conveyor belts, warehouse stacking vehicles and other equipment.

4. install WMS system.

WMS can improve operation speed, production efficiency and inventory accuracy. When connecting with automatic identification equipment, WMS or similar scheme can be adopted. At present, many distributors are trying to find this solution, and the warehouse has undoubtedly become a relatively front-end organization applying this technology, which has also brought many benefits to its users. At the same time, WMS can make full use of warehouse assets, equipment and space. It can save manpower to a great extent and realize the optimization, standardization and efficiency of the warehouse. In addition, WMS can closely meet customer requirements. By tracking the inventory corresponding to the location and strictly implementing inventory control, customers have great confidence in the specific quantity of products that can be sold in the inventory, thus reducing the inventory and making the best use of it. Zero inventory? Make full use of warehouse space and reduce customers' demand for external warehouses.

In addition, a network warehouse can be established to reduce the operating cost as much as possible and improve the warehouse efficiency.