Logistics Management Process

Conventional logistics management process basically includes order processing operations, procurement management operations, inventory management operations, production logistics management operations, financial analysis of logistics management, performance evaluation and improvement.

1, order processing

Logistics center transactions begin with customer inquiries, business department reports, and then by the receipt of orders, business department inquiries on the date of shipment of inventory, loading and unloading capacity, circulation processing load, packaging, distribution load, etc. to respond to the customer, and when the order can not be delivered in accordance with the requirements of the customer, the business department to coordinate. Since logistics centers generally do not collect payment with the goods, but settle the bill after a period of time, the sales staff also checks whether the credit limit of the customer has been exceeded according to the credit status of the company at the same time the order information is processed. In addition, during a specific period of time, the salesperson also counts the number of orders placed during that period of time, and transfers and allocates shipment procedures and quantities. Returns are also processed at this stage. In addition, the business department also formulates the report calculation method, does the report history data management, and sets the minimum lot size for customer ordering, the ordering method, or the deadline for ordering checkout.

2, procurement

Since the acceptance of the transaction order due to the requirements of the supply of goods, the logistics center by the supplier or manufacturer to order goods, procurement operations include the number of commodities to seek statistics on the supplier to inquire about the transaction conditions, and then based on the number of us and the supplier to provide more economical ordering batch, to put forward a purchase order. After the purchase order is issued, the tracking operation of warehousing and stocking is carried out.

3, goods into the warehouse

When the purchase order is issued, in the procurement staff into the warehouse at the same time tracking urging, warehousing and inventory administrator can be based on the purchase order on the scheduled date of warehousing, to do warehousing operations scheduling, warehousing station scheduling, and then in the day of the merchandise warehousing when the goods into the warehouse to do the warehousing information check, warehousing quality inspection, check whether the goods are in the warehouse and the content of the purchase order is consistent, when items or quantities do not match the contents. When the items or quantities do not match, it will make appropriate corrections or treatments and log the inventory information into the file. The warehouse administrator can specify the unloading and stacking of pallets in a certain way. For the goods returned from customers, the returned goods are also inspected and categorized, and then logged into the warehouse.

4. Inventory Management

Inventory management includes warehouse management and inventory control. Warehouse area management includes the placement of goods in the warehouse area, the size of the region, the distribution of the region and other planning; control of goods in and out of the warehouse to follow: first-in-first-out or last-in-first-out; in and out of the development of the way the goods include: goods used in the handling tools, handling methods; storage area storage position adjustment and change. Inventory quantity control is based on the general number of goods out of the warehouse, the time of entry into the warehouse, etc. to develop the number of purchases and purchasing time, and to do the purchasing time warning system.

5, replenishment picking

By the statistics of customer order information, we can know the real demand for goods, and on the day of shipment, when the number of inventory is enough to supply the demand for shipment, we can print the outbound picking list and various picking instructions based on the number of demand, and do the planning and arrangement of picking area, the selection of tools, and the deployment of personnel. Outbound picking not only includes picking operations, but should pay more attention to the picking of goods on the shelves of the replenishment, so that the picking operation can be smooth and not out of stock, which includes the replenishment level and replenishment of the time point of the booking, replenishment schedule, replenishment of the workforce deployment.

6, shipping operations

Completion of goods picking and circulation processing operations, you can implement the merchandise shipping operations, shipping operations include the main content based on the customer order information printing shipping documents, set the shipping schedule, printing shipping batch report, shipping the goods on the address labels, and shipping checklist. The scheduler decides the shipping method, selects the collection tools, assigns the collection operators, and decides the size and number of vehicles to be transported. Warehouse management or shipping management personnel to decide the planning and layout of the shipping area and the placement of the goods to be shipped.

7, distribution operations

Distribution of goods entity operations include loading goods and real-time distribution, and to achieve these operations must be pre-planned distribution area division or distribution routes, the distribution of the order chosen by the distribution of the road to determine the order of loading of goods, and the distribution of goods on the way to do the tracking and control of goods, distribution of the unexpected conditions of the processing.