What are the main differences between cloud warehouse and traditional storage

Difference:

(1) different categories of warehousing

Traditional warehousing storage goods category monolithic, a warehouse only one or a few categories.

Cloud warehouse is a concentration of multiple categories, can be based on customer orders to different warehouses to pick up goods, and even off-site nearby match, automation, intelligent equipment to improve the efficiency of goods picking.

(2) Different management modes and elements

The control of traditional warehousing mainly focuses on inventory quantity and safety.

The cloud warehouse focuses on the operating time efficiency of the cabin as well as refined management.

(3) equipment and technology are different

Based on the characteristics of the multiple small batch shipments, the cloud warehouse compared to traditional warehousing needs to ensure the overall correctness through hardware equipment and software systems. In terms of hardware equipment, there are a series of automated equipment such as automatic sorting machines, alley stacking cranes. In terms of software, there is a warehouse management system and RFID bar code information processing system, the above is not fully equipped with traditional warehousing, but also the main difference.

Expanded

In the cloud storage concept under the warehouse, and even the entire warehousing logistics sector, will be subject to a new impact and reform; the original traditional warehousing and logistics has been slowly being changed by the Internet big data, the previous warehousing and logistics only for customers to store goods and other low-level services; in the cloud warehousing environment, all of the In the cloud storage environment, all the warehouses will master all the customer's resources circulation, goods in and out, financial accounts and other information.

And through this information, cloud warehousing can be analyzed through big data computing: the customer's goods in and out of the warehouse law, sales law, the law of capital, cash flow law, and even reflect the national product market changes and the industry's rise and fall law.

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