Some experiences on visiting a logistics company today

This morning, I went to a logistics company with two colleagues to visit and inspect 60 logistics warehouses in the country. Today I only went to one of them. Logistics companies are generally located in the suburbs of the city. Today, they are no exception. After about half an hour's drive, we found the logistics park and entered the park, several rows of Large Steel Plate warehouses stood and waited for our review. It was refreshing.

Cai Zong, General Manager of the logistics company, took us to the warehouse first to learn about the situation of some warehouses. Because of the large warehouse, there were not so many goods in it, however, there are good rules, and the number of the location is indicated at the top of each location. This is to use software to manage the storage location of specific goods. Some goods are just transferred here, so there is no need to renew them. Just stop the car there and it will take a long time to pull it away. This is the simplest way of freight.

Next, let's take a look at how their company manages the software. They use a remote access method to log on to the remote server to use the software, the advantage of this is to avoid the maintenance of the terminal client, and reduce the price of the software that calculates the cost by points. Of course, to use this method, you must ensure that the network is unobstructed, so they use the VPN dual-line method. When the manufacturer needs to transfer the goods, it can send a data file to the material company that needs to transfer the materials. The logistics company can import the data file to their software system for execution, this reduces Repeated input and the difficulty of developing data interfaces.

In addition, the Repository also has monitoring deployment, which is also required.

Through conversations with Mr. Cai, we have learned that many large companies are operating in this way of cooperation with logistics companies, and manufacturers do not have to build their own warehouses, you do not need to manage the logistics company. You only need to issue a transfer instruction. The logistics company has the advantage of national layout and is also specialized in logistics management, in addition, we can integrate multiple cargo resources to reduce transportation costs. In this way, the overall material warehouse costs will decrease, which is more cost-effective than self-built logistics, this is also a trend for enterprise operation in the future.