What role does warehousing play in logistics?
Warehousing activities, or storage of the basic functions include items of import, inventory, sorting, packaging, distribution and information processing six, among them, the goods out of storage in the database and storage management can be said to be the most basic activities, is the basic of traditional storage, but the management means and management improved; sorting and packaging items, the past is there, but now more widespread, more in-depth, more sophisticated, and even have the goods out of storage and storage management combination, together constitute the basic skills of modern warehouse; the "distribution" as warehousing activities, as one of the basic functions of the warehouse that is because the distribution is not a general sense of the transport, but is a natural extension of the warehouse, warehouse and distribution center for the development of memory requirements, if there is no distribution, warehouse It is still an isolated storage warehouse; as for information processing, is a common phenomenon in modern economic activities, of course, should also be one of the warehousing activities, from information processing, will not become the modern warehouse.
Warehousing methods and levels are reflected in effective planning, implementation and control. Planning, implementation and control are the basic connotations of modern management. Scientific, reasonable and precise storage can not be achieved without effective planning, implementation and control.
Warehousing conditions are specific tangible or intangible places with modern technology. "Specific", because each enterprise's supply chain is given, the place is of course specific storage; of course refers to tangible places of warehouse, yard or tank, under the background of modern economic, storage can also be carried out in the virtual space, also need a lot of modern technical support, leaving the modern warehouse facility equipment and information technology, there is no modern warehousing.
The purpose of warehousing is to meet the needs of the upstream and downstream supply chain. This differs greatly from the past in meeting the needs of the customer in depth and breadth. Who commissioned, who demand, who is the customer; customer may be the upstream producers, may be a downstream retailer, may also be the enterprise, but can not only meet the warehouse direct "customers" demand, should also meet the "indirect" customer is customer demand; storage should be integrated into the supply chain. Downstream, according to the overall demand of supply chain to establish the role of service and storage.
Warehousing is, first and foremost, a logistics activity, or logistics activity is the essential attribute of warehousing. Warehousing is not a production, not a transaction, but one of the logistics activities for production and transaction services. This shows that warehousing is only one of the logistics activities, logistics and other activities, warehousing should be integrated into the entire logistics system, should be associated with other logistics activities, and coordination. This is a significant difference from the past "warehouse management".
