Question 1: What does logistics sorting mean? Logistics sorting: Generally speaking, it means to distinguish between packaging. In logistics companies, express companies, postal services, etc., they are sorted according to the arrival location and classified according to the same location: many small items are packaged into one piece or a whole piece. Express delivery companies in foreign countries or more developed cities have sorting equipment and can be distinguished by barcode scanning.
Question 2: What are the selection methods that can be used by new tobacco logistics centers? The cumulative investment in the construction of cigarette logistics infrastructure for commercial enterprises in the tobacco industry is 13.6 billion yuan, with a total logistics land area of ??nearly 10,000 acres and a total construction area of ??13.6 billion yuan. The warehouse covers an area of ??3.09 million square meters and has a total capacity of 3.03 million boxes. The completion of these logistics infrastructure has met the practical needs of cigarette sorting and distribution, established the image of modern logistics in the industry, and laid a material foundation for the current and future development of the industry.
At present, 98 of the 99 delivery points of industrial enterprises have completed system deployment, 9067 sets of vehicle-mounted equipment have been installed, and the utilization rate of industrial systems has reached 71.8%; commercial enterprises Handheld devices have been deployed at all 381 delivery points across the country, with a total of 799 handheld controllers. The level of logistics informatization of industrial and commercial enterprises continues to improve, and we are actively moving towards the goal of “comprehensive perception, comprehensive coverage, full process control, and comprehensive improvement”.
To develop tobacco logistics, we must first further optimize the operation process, re-divide the cigarette sales cycle in accordance with the principles of science, rationality and efficiency, and design more scientific delivery routes to achieve seamless cigarette sorting, warehousing and distribution. seamless connection and strive to improve customer response speed.
Secondly, we must form strong competitiveness in terms of costs and expenses. On the one hand, as a logistics center, independent accounting must be fully implemented. The establishment of an independent accounting mechanism is conducive to stimulating the cost management awareness of managers and is the basis for cost analysis and cost control. On the other hand, to truly form a cost competitive advantage, generate scale benefits through large-scale operations, break the division of administrative divisions, and explore regional distribution models are effective means to establish cost advantages in tobacco logistics distribution.
In addition, tobacco logistics should also establish its own service advantages by providing on-time delivery and cigarette delivery information inquiry services.
In short, modern logistics is the future competitive advantage of the tobacco industry. Tobacco companies must build modern logistics from the perspective of building the core competitiveness of the industry, thereby further consolidating existing network channels.
2 Introduction Editor
The cigarette automated sorting system began to be designed in March 2005 and was officially put into production in May 2006. The successful development of this system provides a new and effective automation technology platform for tobacco companies to improve cigarette sorting capabilities, speed, accuracy and timeliness, reduce logistics operation costs, improve workers' working conditions, and improve service quality to retail customers. . The scientific connotation and rigorous system quality demonstrated by this system in terms of process, coordination, and technology will also effectively drive and promote the improvement of the tobacco company's internal management level and personnel quality. The basic information of this system is introduced as follows.
System design principles
The positioning of the Beijing Tobacco Logistics Center construction project is firstly applicable and secondly advanced. The overall design of the system must not only meet actual usage needs, but also adapt to future business model changes and technological developments. It must also consider its demonstrative and display functions, so it must grasp the integration and unification of applicability and advancement. In order to achieve this, the following nine principles were determined in the design work:
1. Practicality: System design should first meet the business operation needs under the current marketing system.
2. Economical: Based on domestic technology, domestic equipment, and self-research to solve technical problems. In the current situation of uneven daily cigarette sales and wide variety of cigarettes, the basic design parameters of the system should be scientifically determined and the system resources and equipment quantity should be reasonably allocated. Reduce construction costs and save future system operating costs.
3. Process rationality: Strive to make the sorting process design scientific, complete, ingenious and applicable, with a simple process path, one-way forward flow of logistics, and avoid roundabout and reverse logistics paths.
4. Moderate advancement: The system is required to have a high level of automation, but the degree of automation is not required for process links that are secondary, have complex actions, have a low level of standardization, and cannot currently change the status quo.
5. System flexibility: The system must be able to adapt to the sorting operations of cigarette products with different packaging specifications and packaging forms. A problem with one subsystem during operation cannot affect the normal operation of other subsystems; a problem with one part of a subsystem does not affect the normal operation of other parts.
6. Scalability: The system should have expansion and adjustment functions, adopt a modular structural design, and leave expansion interfaces for future business to facilitate the expansion of each functional module, so as to ensure that the entire system can adapt to the business in the future. It leaves reserved space for development to avoid duplication of investment when expanding the system, while leaving interfaces with other systems in the center.
7. Efficiency principle: Research, develop and adopt high-speed and efficient sorting technology and equipment.
8. Reliability principle: Reliability is one of the most important technical indicators. It is necessary to ensure the reliability of the entire system based on the reliability of each subsystem and the reliability of each individual device. It should be caused during the design stage... >>
Question 3: What is a logistics warehousing sorter? To put it bluntly, it is a person who distributes goods.
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Question 5: What does it mean that the express sorting order is completed? The sorting by region is completed and ready to be sent to the corresponding region
Question 6: What does it mean that the Vientiane Logistics Sorting Center has been warehoused? ! It's been two days and I haven't moved or said anything. I feel so tired after seeing this logistics. I have been sorted in Beijing. I want to see how long it will take. I still haven't received it after 6 days. I don't even have the intention to ship it. The sorting center transfers it to department 13, and department 13 transfers it to department 19. Who knows where department 19 receives it and transfers it!
Question 7: What does routing logistics mean? Routing paths: Standard alternatives include lateral routing, return routing, midpoint routing and gap-maximum return routing
Supplementary methods: Standard The alternatives include equal space for each product category and equal supply time for each product category.
Picking logic: order picking VS batch picking
At the distribution network level, tactical decisions mainly involve inventory management and distribution route optimization. Note that logistics may require managing countercurrents as they flow forward.
Question 8: What are the operational links in the operation process of the distribution center? For an enterprise logistics distribution center, its operation management mainly includes the following links:
1. Receiving link: The basic elements in this link include the accuracy of goods receipt, the rationality of cargo space allocation, and the timeliness of putting on shelves. The key point of receiving goods is to form inventory promptly and accurately so that goods can be shipped in time. In addition, the accuracy of location data directly affects picking efficiency and accuracy, so receiving goods is very important during the entire operation. In most cases, receiving the goods is even one of the most important aspects.
2. Storage link: The accuracy of inventory is determined by many aspects, and daily maintenance and organization are very important. A cluttered shelf will not meet inventory accuracy requirements. Timely inventory can always maintain inventory accuracy at a high level.
Picking link: Picking is usually one of the links that logistics managers pay most attention to, but picking is only a very common link among many links, because of the many factors in the picking link, such as picking efficiency, picking accuracy, etc. , is not entirely determined by the election itself.
The effectiveness of inventory ABC classification storage, wave allocation principle, optimization of picking paths, review methods, and even picking label printing methods all restrict picking efficiency in different aspects. For large logistics distribution centers, picking efficiency is an important indicator that managers pay great attention to. This depends not only on the process design and management itself, but also on the selection method.
4. Delivery link: The key element of the delivery link is the timeliness and accuracy of delivery. The usual indicator is to examine the time from picking to loading and shipping (of course this depends on the management of transportation). In fact, in the delivery process, efficient collection management and review strategies are the factors that determine the efficiency of the delivery process. This is especially important in large logistics distribution centers.
5. Return link: Some returns are relatively simple, such as medicine, food, etc.; some are very complicated, such as clothing, books, etc. For complex returns business, there should be a dedicated system to support it, and it cannot be completed simply by using a goods receipt strategy. Returns will form new inventory, so the importance of returns processing goes without saying. From a manager's perspective, the timeliness of returns is one of the most important indicators.
6. Transportation link: The transportation link has become an indispensable and important part in the logistics process. Its basic elements are mainly transportation time, transportation quality (such as protection and safety of goods, etc.). Of course, transportation costs are also one of the factors, but they have nothing to do with transportation management itself.
7. Information processing link: In fact, the realization of all links is inseparable from the support of information systems. Looking at the information processing link alone, its basic elements include the effect of information system maintenance (reflected in stability, fault handling time, etc.), the information system's support for each major operation link, and the security of the information system. Information systems are ubiquitous in modern logistics distribution centers. Without the support of information systems, modern logistics systems will not be able to operate normally.
8. Customer service: The content of customer service mainly includes communication with customers, such as order acceptance, order modification confirmation, return confirmation, order tracking service, complaint handling, etc. According to the principle of ISO9000 certification, the purpose of any business activity is to satisfy customers. From this point of view, the importance of customer service is highlighted.
9. Equipment and system maintenance: From the production activity itself, equipment maintenance is a major event related to normal production. But managers often ignore it. What could have a greater impact on efficiency and costs than normal and stable production? In a logistics distribution center, there is a wide range of equipment, and the importance of each equipment is different. Preparing enough spare parts and strictly implementing maintenance plans are the basic elements of equipment and system maintenance. The performance results are the integrity rate of the equipment and Availability metrics.
Question 9: Differences between e-commerce logistics and traditional logistics and warehousing management. The key factors that affect the differences between e-commerce warehousing logistics and traditional retail logistics are mainly the customers they target, the customer's order volume, order lines Number, order real-time, order accuracy, order volatility, returns and exchanges, etc. How these key factors will affect the planning and operation of e-commerce warehousing and logistics are discussed in detail below.
(1) The average number of order lines is small
Traditional retail logistics has dozens or even hundreds of order lines. These goods may be distributed in every corner of the warehouse. Order picking: walk around the warehouse to complete order picking. E-commerce warehousing logistics has only a small number of order lines. In most cases, such as JD.com and Dangdang.com, it will not exceed 10. A few, such as No. 1 Store, will have between 10 and 20. If you still choose the buttons commonly used in traditional retail logistics There is no order picking. Each picking trip only requires a lot of walking in the warehouse to pick a small number of items. Statistical analysis of a large amount of actual data shows that as much as 70% of the time in the picking process is spent walking. Therefore, it is necessary to design a picking trip that can complete multiple orders at the same time to improve picking efficiency, such as picking first and then sowing, or picking and sowing in one mode.
(2) Small inventory of a single SKU
Compared with traditional retail, e-commerce sales platforms do not have the limitations of traditional store space. Therefore, in order to attract and satisfy more customer needs, e-commerce sales platforms The SKUs sold should be more comprehensive, such as Amazon and Dangdang, which have hundreds of thousands or millions of SKUs.
However, because the storage space cannot be expanded infinitely, how to place more SKUs in the limited storage space requires less stocking of each SKU. Therefore, the storage units in e-commerce warehousing logistics are mainly boxes, rather than the traditional pallets. From the perspective of selecting storage equipment, box-type shelves, such as shelf shelves or medium-sized shelves, are mainly chosen instead of pallet-type shelves. In terms of operation strategy, most storage and picking are integrated, and a small number of large SKUs are allocated storage and picking space respectively. There are replenishment operations from storage to picking.
(3) High requirements for accuracy of operations
Compared with traditional industries, the e-commerce industry has higher and stricter requirements for the accuracy of warehousing and logistics operations. Therefore, in terms of internal operations of e-commerce warehousing and logistics, every effort must be made to ensure the accuracy of picking. For goods that have been picked and ready for delivery, 100% review must be done, and in most cases, packaging must be carried out operate. Therefore, in the planning and operation of e-commerce warehousing logistics, in addition to picking, how to improve review/packaging efficiency is also a top priority.
(4) High real-time requirements for operations
In recent years, many e-commerce companies have rushed to launch ultra-short delivery times, such as JD.com’s 211 delivery and Yixun’s One-stop delivery. Delivery three times a day, etc., which requires the warehouse to complete order picking, review, packaging and other operations within 1 or 2 hours. Compared with the 24-hour or 48-hour order response time of traditional retail, e-commerce warehousing and logistics operations must ensure that orders are produced as they arrive and the production of orders is completed in a short time. Therefore, how to improve the response speed of orders is also a research focus.
(5) Orders are highly volatile
Various e-commerce promotional activities such as Double 11, Double 12 and store celebrations attract a large number of orders. Within ten days and a half, It’s not uncommon for news to fail to reach customers. It can be seen that e-commerce orders are very volatile. When planning and designing e-commerce warehousing and logistics, the configuration of venues/personnel/equipment, etc., must be flexible enough to meet the needs of large-volume shipments during major promotions, and must be fast. At the same time, there are often group buying/juhuasuan activities for single products or combinations. Such activities will also attract a large number of temporary orders and place extremely high requirements on back-end e-commerce warehousing and logistics. Therefore, in e-commerce warehousing logistics planning and process design, it is also necessary to focus on the rapid production of orders for such activities, and even design a special shipping process.
(6) The volume of returns is large
Due to the characteristics of the e-commerce industry, customers cannot see the physical items and place orders based only on pictures and text descriptions. After receiving the physical items, , there may be a large gap with psychological expectations. Therefore, compared with traditional retail logistics, the amount of returns from e-commerce is huge. For the back-end e-commerce warehousing and logistics, it is necessary to have a strong ability to process returned goods, quickly select the returned goods, and ensure that the returned goods can be put on the shelves in a timely manner.
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Question 10: The meaning and basic principles of distribution. Distribution refers to the selection, processing, and processing of items within an economically reasonable area and according to customer requirements. Logistics activities that include packaging, segmentation, assembly, etc., and delivery to designated locations on time. Distribution is a special and comprehensive form of activity in logistics. It is a form that closely combines business flow and logistics. It includes business flow activities and logistics activities, and also includes several functional elements in logistics.
The connotation of the concept of distribution
1. Distribution provides logistics services, so meeting customer demand for logistics services is the prerequisite for distribution.
1) Since in the buyer's market conditions, customer needs are flexible and changeable, and consumption characteristics are multi-variety and small batches, so in this sense, distribution activities are by no means simple delivery. activities, but should be corporate business activities based on marketing planning.
2) Since in the buyer’s market conditions, customer needs are flexible and changeable, and consumption characteristics are multi-variety and small batches, therefore a single delivery function cannot better meet the needs of the majority of customers. The demand for logistics services, therefore, distribution activities are the unity of multiple logistics activities. (As stated in my country's "Logistics Terminology".) Some scholars believe that distribution is "small logistics". It's just that the level is somewhat lower and the scope is somewhat smaller than that of the large logistics system.
In this sense, the logistics functions included in distribution activities should be more comprehensive and more comprehensive than those proposed in my country's "Logistics Terminology".
2. Delivery is an organic combination of "matching" and "delivery".
The so-called "reasonable allocation" means that before delivery activities, they must be reasonably organized and planned according to customer needs. Only "organized and planned" "distribution" can achieve the so-called "low-cost, fast" "delivery" in modern logistics management, thereby effectively meeting customer needs.
3. Delivery is within a positive and reasonable area.
Delivery is not suitable for large-scale implementation and is usually limited to one city or region.
Elements of distribution
Consolidation
Consolidation is the operation of gathering scattered or small batches of items for transportation and distribution.
Collection is an important part of distribution. In order to meet the delivery requirements of specific customers, it is sometimes necessary to collect items ordered from several or even dozens of suppliers and distribute the required items to designated containers. and place.
Collecting goods is the preparation workbench or basic work for distribution. One of the advantages of distribution is that it can concentrate customers on a certain scale of goods collection.
Sorting
Sorting is the operation of sorting and stacking items according to type and order of entry and exit.
Sorting is a functional element of distribution that is different from other forms of logistics, and it is also an important supporting task that determines the success or failure of distribution. It is to improve delivery and support delivery preparatory work, and is an inevitable extension of different delivery companies competing in delivery and improving their own economic benefits. Therefore, it can also be said that sorting is an inevitable requirement for the development of delivery to advanced forms. With sorting, the level of delivery service will be greatly improved.
Distribution
Distribution is the use of various picking equipment and transmission devices to sort the stored items according to customer requirements, complete the equipment, and send them to the designated delivery location .
Assembling
When the delivery quantity of a single customer cannot reach the effective carrying load of the vehicle, there is a question of how to concentrate the delivery goods of different customers and carry out matching loading to make full use of the transportation capacity. problem, which requires assembly. What is different from ordinary delivery is that delivery through assembly can greatly improve the delivery level and reduce delivery costs. Therefore, assembly is also a functional element with modern characteristics in the distribution system, and it is also an important factor that makes modern distribution different from previous deliveries. One of the differences.
Distribution transportation
The main difference between terminal transportation, branch transportation and general transportation forms in transportation is that distribution transportation is a form of transportation with shorter distance, smaller scale and higher quota. , cars are generally used as means of transportation. Another difference from trunk transportation is that the route selection problem of distribution transportation is not shared by general trunk transportation. The main line of trunk transportation is the only transportation line. However, distribution transportation has many distribution customers and general urban transportation routes are more complicated. How to Combining the best routes and how to effectively match the equipment and routes are the characteristics of distribution and transportation, and they are also difficult tasks.
Delivery service
Transporting the goods to the customer is not the end of the delivery work. This is because there are often inconsistencies between delivery and customer order. All previous efforts in delivery will be wasted. Therefore, in order to successfully realize the handover of the delivered goods, handle relevant procedures effectively and conveniently, and complete settlement, the unloading location and unloading method should also be paid attention to. Delivery service is also a unique feature of delivery.
Distribution processing
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