Optimization Of Distribution Center For Clothing And Footwear Enterprises

A boutique Footwear Company is a wholly-owned company established in Hongkong by a listed company in China. It landed in the Chinese market in 2004. After years of careful layout, its business scope is all over the country.

In the process of product sales, in the face of growing customer demand for services, the company has continued to improve the management of the entire supply chain in addition to continuous innovation in the research and development of new products.

Logistics characteristics of clothing and footwear enterprises

Clothing and footwear products have a strong seasonal and short popularity cycle. If the market reaction rate is slow, in the fierce market competition, enterprises will pay a heavy price.

In fact, the products of many enterprises only stay in the middle part of circulation, and have not reached a realistic sale at all. Huge inventory and capital pressure have seriously restricted the development of enterprises.

For a best-selling product, as long as the product is out of stock, it can be exchanged for cash. Therefore, it is necessary to hold the offline time of these products, shorten the time in the library as far as possible, let the product reach the sales terminal at the fastest speed, and create value for the enterprise; and for trial sale products or for the style of Ji Xin's launch, it is necessary to increase the scope of product display and trial sale, and carry out different collocation in different regions and different periods. Once a good market reaction is achieved, it will become a best seller, fast production and fast supply.

It is necessary to clear out the counter as soon as possible and replace the new varieties.

In particular, inventory can not be overloaded, otherwise it will cause great losses to enterprises.

Single product management is the refinement of goods management in the supply chain of clothing and footwear enterprises.

Single product management is to divide every product into varieties, money, color, code, price, fabric texture and so on in the whole production, marketing and logistics links.

Through single product management, the turnover rate of goods can be increased, the number of goods allocation can be increased, inventory of unsalable goods can be greatly reduced, and the speed of catching up with sellers can be accelerated.

In recent years, the development of clothing and footwear market has shown more and more varieties and small batch trends. This trend will also affect all aspects of supply chain management of clothing and footwear enterprises.

How to meet the development trend of clothing, shoe and hat products in many varieties and small batch, and reasonably control inventory, we need the joint efforts of production enterprises and logistics enterprises in the industry to build a common distribution system, and establish a fast supply chain of clothing shoes and caps by establishing modern logistics facilities such as distribution centers.

Urgent need for information management

In order to effectively solve the problem of backlog of inventory, interact with market changes, manage more and more suppliers and customers with high efficiency, and optimize logistics distribution network, A set up Guangzhou RDC and Shanghai RDC in Southern China and East China where suppliers are more concentrated. They are allocated to Beijing DC, Shenyang DC and Chengdu DC, and are directly distributed to sales terminals.

The entry and exit of RDC and DC are usually based on the purchase orders and sales orders of A company. Due to the large number of styles, colors and sizes, it is difficult to accurately receive, stock, pick up and deliver goods according to the incoming and outgoing orders under manual conditions. It often leads to a large number of strings of colored strings, resulting in errors in warehouse receipt and delivery, incorrect distribution of stores, and inaccurate varieties, resulting in the occurrence of store breaks and broken codes, loss of sales opportunities, or the implementation of price cut and sale of color broken code products, which has a negative impact on the company's earnings.

The key to solve this problem is that the logistics center should have advanced warehouse management system, and adopt mature bar code solution in the collection and delivery.

By collecting and delivering data, and automatically matching and matching with orders, accurately recording the entry, outgoing and order execution conditions, the efficiency and accuracy of order execution can be improved, and the accuracy of inventory can also be guaranteed.

Based on this demand, A launched the Shanghai Power software supply chain product WMS warehouse management system in early 2006.

Powerful WMS system

Power WMS covers all aspects of warehousing management. It provides good support for warehousing operations, warehousing operations, warehousing, inventory, adjustment, allocation, quality inspection, bonded management, label, assembly, disassembly, replenishment, VMI and other business operations and value-added services. It also provides good flexibility and expansion capability, which is suitable for both single warehouse management and multiple warehouse management.

The functions of the system are as follows:

All operations covering warehousing management include: receiving, loading, picking, shipping, inventory management, value-added services, billing management, bonded management, statements and performance analysis, etc.

Support multi party, multi warehouse and multi owner management of third party logistics (3PL);

Support authority management and operation rule setting;

Support the operation of multiple package units.

Support bar code for cargo location management and goods management;

Support cargo status management / product quality management;

Supporting storage management in the bonded area;

Provide warehouse value-added services, such as packaging, assembly, labeling, customs clearance, etc.

Support the management of batch number, serial number, production date and warranty period.

Support for up to fifteen types of custom batch attributes management.

Support multiple Picking Strategies and picking according to custom batch attributes.

Support physical inventory, cycle counting and dynamic inventory.

Support the storage and pportation tracking function of customers and suppliers;

Integrated distribution management can complete the waybill generation, dispatching and loading, vehicle tracking, receipt confirmation, etc.

The perfect billing management can complete the warehousing / pportation contract management, warehousing / pportation cost settlement, warehousing / pportation receivable and payable reports and so on.

The documents and report forms issued by the system can be customized.

The Power Portal system provides real-time inventory, out / in store queries, document tracking, and online ordering.

Power WMS, as an open professional warehouse management system, can exchange data with other information systems.

Power Data Exchange supports multiple modes of data exchange, providing real-time interaction, asynchronous synchronization, timing synchronization, and artificial synchronization.