What are the storage decisions?

When making an effective storage decision, the following aspects must be considered:

1. Effective manual management

Labor is the most important factor in any successful storage. However, with the development of economy, manual processing procedures become more and more complicated, and labor costs account for a large part of inventory costs. The effective allocation of human resources is one of the important standards of 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. If the management of human resources is simply introduced, but it is not combined with logistics and warehousing, it will lead to the disconnection of the overall informatization of enterprises. For the warehouse management part of China Material Storage and Transportation Corporation, Shili Technology fully considers the needs of enterprises for manual management, and can compare the existing number of employees with the number and tasks that need to be completed on any day, so that the warehouse can accurately understand the performance of each department or even each employee after the day's operation.

2. Warehouse layout design and equipment improvement

As the hub of the whole logistics process system, whether the design layout of the warehouse 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. In addition, the improvement of warehouse equipment is also reflected in the packaging of goods and materials. For a long time, in order to pursue "zero inventory", warehousing enterprises have been investing in improving the storage environment and warehouse construction to attract the attention of shippers. However, the warehouse utilization rate cannot be kept at 100% all the time, and the storage cycle is getting shorter and shorter. At this time, the input of goods packaging has become a consideration to improve the efficiency and competitiveness of the warehouse.

Advanced packaging can not only provide effective protection for goods, attract shippers (especially those goods that are difficult to preserve), but also facilitate mechanized storage operations. The introduction of radio frequency and automatic data acquisition technology makes packaging standardized and clustered, which can give full play to the efficiency of loading and unloading machinery, thus improving the efficiency of loading and unloading, handling and stacking, and accelerating the mechanization of warehousing operations. On the other hand, the automatic sending and receiving of modern warehousing information requires not only the unification of material packaging dimensions and specifications, but also the material information to be reflected on the packaging through bar code and other technologies, which is the goal of material packaging standardization. Therefore, improving material packaging is beneficial to the automation of warehouse management. At present, most WMS software in China includes RFID technology and other automatic data acquisition functions.

3. Develop value-added services and realize reverse logistics.

The main income of traditional storage comes from storage fees, so I hope the warehouse will always be full. Intelligent warehousing companies are no longer limited to receiving, storing and transporting goods, but begin to provide additional value-added services to shippers or retailers. Some manufacturing industries hope to provide products to multiple markets at the same time, and retailers also hope that customers can receive the goods they need or sell them specially. The warehouse will process the products (goods) before leaving the warehouse, design, assemble, package and label the products according to the needs of the owner, and then distribute them to different markets. For example, the internal processing of PC is to assemble the original scattered computer accessories into the PCs that customers need, and all this does not require computer manufacturers to complete the scattered goods out of the warehouse, but is completely completed by the warehouse.

Reverse logistics is also showing an increasingly important position. For many manufacturers or retailers who do not have their own logistics storage system, the support of storage centers for reverse logistics has become one of the competitive factors. The nerve center of any action is a warehouse. The effective management of product recovery, processing, maintenance and return in warehouse center has an extremely important impact on customer service.

In the book logistics system of Vision Technology, WMS not only realizes the processing of book recycling, but also shows the processing situation in the library in real time (such as repairing damaged books), which strongly supports the expansion of value-added services.

4. The central command center in the warehouse

The central command center 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. The operation in the warehouse is completed in a "four-walled" warehouse. 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 and goods location, replenishment strategy and moving combination in warehouse, but also consider the connection between warehouse management system and transportation management system, customer management and employee management system. Under the warehouse management system, the storage location of products and the storage location in the supply chain can be queried in real time, and the goods can be delivered accurately and reasonably in the multi-node network by using real-time information. This is the role of WMS as a library command center. Professional logistics software companies generally provide a series of information services such as warehousing, distribution and integrated logistics, just for the connection and unification of the whole logistics process. When WMS is introduced into the warehouse, it should also leave a good interface for the future information application of other logistics links.

Although there is a perfect warehouse 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.