How To Solve The Pain Of Intelligent Transformation Of Shoes And Clothing Storage In The "Involution Era"?

Shoes and clothing industry, one of the traditional pillar industries in China, is in an important position in the national economy. In recent years, the development of China's footwear and clothing industry has entered a stable development period, and the growth rate of industrial scale has declined. Since the beginning of 2020, the new crown pneumonia epidemic swept across the country, but also had a profound impact on the whole industry. How to stand out in the market with slow growth, how to reduce operating costs, and how to respond to market demand quickly under the influence of the epidemic situation have become the problems that shoe and clothing enterprises need to face.

Roland Berger footwear industry report shows that with the changes of macro-economy, China's footwear industry has entered the stage of stock competition, and the future stock competition is efficiency competition. At the same time, consumers are changing. In recent years, China's shoe and clothing consumption has transformed from a single consumption mode in the past to a diversified and personalized consumption mode of fashion, culture, brand and image. Consumers' requirements for clothing and shoes, whether in terms of quality or style, have become increasingly "picky". In addition, shoes and clothing channels and retail formats are also changing. On the one hand, the rise of e-commerce has a huge impact on China's traditional offline retail formats and people's consumption habits. On the other hand, the traditional offline retail formats are also undergoing structural adjustment, and the specific needs of consumers for different retail channels appear value stratification.

The changing trend of the market, consumers, channels and competitive environment faced by the shoe and clothing industry puts forward higher requirements for its supply chain capability. Warehouse inventory is the core link of shoes and clothing logistics, and the storage scene has become the focus of supply chain transformation. At present, there are still many problems and difficulties in shoes and clothing storage

　　 Storage operating costs remain high

High logistics costs and warehouse operating costs have been plagued by shoe and clothing enterprises. According to the data of logistics storage costs (i.e. storage costs) released by China Federation of logistics and purchasing, China's warehousing costs will reach 5.0 trillion yuan in 2019, with a year-on-year increase of 7.4%, accounting for 34% of the total cost scale of the logistics industry. How to reduce the warehouse operation cost and improve the warehouse turnover efficiency and accuracy has become a problem that shoe and clothing enterprise managers and logistics directors have to think about.

　　 Warehouse information and automation are generally low and difficult to manage

At present, it is a common phenomenon that the production line and logistics warehouse of Chinese shoe and clothing enterprises rely heavily on traditional manual way. According to the data from the information center of China Logistics Technology Association, as of 2019, the proportion of garment industry in the application of active automated warehouse is only 3.2%. In the situation of aging population, difficult recruitment and unstable inventory, the dependence on manual will make the warehouse difficult to manage.

　　 Warehouse management mode and automation application scenarios are complex

At present, the e-commerce penetration rate of shoes and clothing industry has reached 35%. The transformation of shoe and clothing supply mode puts forward high requirements for the management efficiency of traditional warehouse. For example, the increase in the proportion of returned goods from e-commerce has led to a sharp increase in the processing pressure of reverse logistics; the increase in the personalized demand of consumers has increased the demand for small batch, multi batch and fast reverse, forcing the efficiency of warehousing and warehousing to be greatly improved; the increase in the types and quantity of SKUs has increased the difficulty of goods classification and picking; The surge in peak shipment volume, such as the promotion and the new season, has brought more uncertain factors of personnel management.

In view of the above problems, some shoe clothing enterprises have begun to use RFID, voice sorting and other technical means to reduce the difficulty of warehouse operation and improve efficiency, or use the goods to person technology to realize the automation and intelligence of warehousing. At present, common goods to person solutions, including automated three-dimensional storage system and multi-layer shuttle car, can effectively improve the storage density and warehouse management efficiency, but its high transformation cost, long construction period and return on investment cycle have deterred many enterprises.

　　 Shoes and clothing storage In recent years, the box storage robot system, which is quite popular in recent years, provides a new idea. As the initiator and leader of the box type storage robot system, Hairo innovation realized the application of the first clothing warehouse project in 2018, using the kubao robot system instead of manual to realize intelligent picking, handling, sorting and other functions, helping the warehouse to realize information and automatic management, improving the efficiency of workers by four times, and realizing the increase of storage density by 80%.

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Foshan in 2018 Clothing warehouse

It is understood that the warehouse box type storage robot system independently developed by Hairou innovation can realize rapid deployment. The actual measurement of 2000 square meters of warehouse can be deployed within a week and put into operation within one month, which can increase the storage density by 80% ~ 130% and achieve a 3-4 times increase in human efficiency. In view of the complex application characteristics of footwear and clothing industry, whether it is multi SKU, 2b2c delivery, return, peak period (large promotion, seasonal distribution) and other scenarios of shoe and clothing manufacturers, Hairo innovation provides effective and feasible customized solutions to realize warehouse automation and intelligent manufacturing upgrade management.

Xinhe clothing logistics center in 2020

The innovative application of the "goods to person" scheme represented by box storage robot is Shoes and clothing As an epitome of enterprise warehouse automation upgrading, warehouse automation upgrading has gradually extended and explored from picking to warehousing, storage, handling and other aspects of the whole process. We expect that in the future, more large-scale shoe and clothing enterprises will realize the efficient operation of warehouse network by applying innovative warehouse automation solutions, so as to adapt to the rapid changes of the supply chain and complete the flexible and intelligent supply chain transformation.