What are the main differences between cloud warehousing and traditional warehousing

Cloud warehouse is simply a company that provides warehousing services on behalf of the shipment. The characteristics of the cloud warehouse is that the single volume of volatility, the variety of goods, the timeliness of the shipment, the customer base is huge, and so on.

Relative to traditional warehousing, cloud warehouse what is different? Mainly the following five points:

1, storage mode

Traditional warehousing in most cases is the storage area and picking and distribution area **** the same, in essence, is the less varieties, large quantities of access to the warehouse mode determined by the mode of operation. The library is mostly flat library, three-dimensional high shelves. Because of the characteristics of large quantities, in and out of the number of boxes or pieces as a unit, and even pallets as a secondary unit and carrier.

While the cloud warehouse has to cope with the characteristics of multi-species, small batch, and at the same time in the current premise of manual operation, must be used in a specialized storage area to improve the storage utilization rate, in order to improve the picking efficiency.

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2, picking

Traditional warehousing out of the warehouse in large quantities, many of them directly using forklifts for picking, in the assessment of picking efficiency is also a box or to take as the main unit. Because of the large number of varieties, can directly repeat the inventory in large quantities. But e-commerce needs to win on a large scale, a variety of varieties, but the number of small, or even single-digit, so such a fine operation is the countless use of forklifts such as the completion of the rough tools, common is the picking trolley, crates.

3, packaging complexity

Traditional warehousing since the factory factory usually do not need to carry out the second packaging, so the traditional warehouse has no obvious packaging line, even if the need for packaging is to strengthen or security reasons for packaging to strengthen.

And the cloud warehouse, in order to cope with the diversity of products, customers buy different characteristics, according to the characteristics of different commodities, under the constraints of the cost of time, the development of packaging solutions, to ensure the safety of the goods in transit, which is incomparable to traditional warehousing.

4, inventory mode

Traditional warehousing inventory most of the regular, and fewer categories, large quantities, can be repeated batch inventory.

Cloud warehouse is not, in order to achieve the storage of the accounts above the unity, and the daily number of inbound and outbound storage, more categories, such conditions, in order to achieve the true accuracy of the data, the need to carry out a very flexible inventory work, the differences in the processing should be constantly through the system to guide the control of the processing to achieve the number of changes in the state of the location of each system and the synchronization of the real thing. Through the strict control of these efforts to make up for the inability to conduct a static inventory of the supplement.

5, distribution mode

Traditional offline warehousing is mainly logistics and distribution (LTL logistics, trunk logistics), courier as a supplement; while the cloud warehouse is mostly courier-based (four-way) there are also a few large-scale e-commerce platforms to build their own logistics and distribution system. For e-commerce, through the third-party warehousing on behalf of the shipment, you can reduce the management costs of their own operations and asset investment, reduce the risk of their own operations, than the traditional offline warehousing is obviously more suitable.