There have been a customer complained to us. He found a localized warehousing logistics software in China, and the two major problems of domestic logistics software were found: First, the real warehousing logistics software is very small. Second is the logistics business. Very familiar software company is very small. Although the customer's evaluation is inevitably biased, some of the status quo are also reflected in the domestic logistics software industry.
Modern logistics is supported by information technology. The heat started in 2000 has also promoted some of the development of logistics software technology and software companies. According to incomplete statistics, there are currently 500 manufacturers who offer logistics management software services in China. The logistics management software in the market is also different. Each weight, some is to cover the large and full-scale management system of the entire supply chain, and some are expanded from the inventory management module in the original ERP, and some are refining from logistics projects. Developed, commercialized software systems.
Logistics is the physical movement of suppliers from suppliers to demanders, including: packaging, loading, handling, inventory management, circulation, transportation, delivery, information processing, etc. Among them, the execution center involves all other features except transport, so the efficiency of the execution center determines the efficiency of the entire supply chain, the effective management of the execution center is the top of the entire supply chain management.
Warehouse Distribution Management System (WMS)
From the perspective of cost analysis, logistics costs account for approximately 30% of the final price of the commodity, while the operating cost of warehousing implementation is equivalent to 70-80% of total logistics costs, visible, warehouse operation efficiency management is the core of logistics management The link. Logistics is called the third profit source of the company, only in reasonable and effective management of logistics operations, improve efficiency, reducing logistics operation costs, can create value for the company. The high storage cost is mainly due to the reasonable utilization of the warehouse space; the warehouse workflow is not smooth, leading to low efficiency; the warehouse area is simple, unreasonable, the warehouse operation (mainly picking operation) has affected, but also causes labor force Waste and low productivity; the information processing link of the order is weak, the picking instruction is mainly the paper medium, and the delivery order will directly use the customer orders to pick, there is no location information, which is severely reduced, and the accuracy is low, thus causing customer satisfaction. The reason for this current situation: First, because my country's logistics industry is still in the stage to mature, the overall logistics planning ability is still insufficient; the second is that the logistics information is not high, and the management of logistics enterprises or logistics sector Still manual management, also manifested in the market lack of excellent warehouse management software.
Warehousing and distribution execution optimization technology has been developed abroad for 30 years. Domestic just started, excellent warehouse distribution management system can effectively improve the utilization of warehouse resources, improve implementation efficiency, reduce the operating costs of the warehouse distribution center. Logistics companies have simply rely on human experience, and they don't say that it is easy to cause human dependence, and it is inevitable that the management is easy to obscure and high cost operation of the entire enterprise.
The characteristics and connotation of WMS
WMS provides a warehouse to perform a full management function - from receiving the order to the goods shipped. The management of the distribution center is essentially the management of the task. The core operation mechanism of WMS determines whether it can truly realize human resources, equipment utilization, warehousing layout, order fulfillment. WMS integrates and rationally uses the resources of the warehouse according to the principles of operation, and allocates the task. WMS focuses focus on the optimization and effective management of warehousing, while extending to the transportation distribution plan, interacting with the information interaction of the upstream supplier customers, effectively improving the performance efficiency of the warehouse of the warehouse enterprises, distribution centers and production enterprises and Productivity, reduce costs, improve the satisfaction of corporate customers, thereby enhancing the core competitiveness of the enterprise.
It should be noted that inventory management and real warehousing management system in the ERP system are essentially different. Inventory management focuses on the amount of management, relatively simple. The Warehouse Management System (WMS) needs to integrate all kinds of resources (manpower, equipment, capacity), need to use a large number of algorithms to achieve optimization, and this optimization does not have a fixed mode, must be based on the actual situation and strategy of the company. Development is adjusted. Current status and trend of logistics software market
Although the manufacturers who can provide logistics management software services now have 500, they are really high-tech and condensed advanced management ideas, and there are few domestic software that is enough to have foreign mature logistics management software. Logistics management software, core first is management, and the advanced management idea of condense in software is the soul of the software. Truely combined with advanced management ideas, mature information technology and logistics business, is the logistics software required by the market.
1. Customer is more detrimental when selecting logistics management system software
"Logistics Heat" also directly promotes "logistics software heat". In just three years, hundreds of logistics software vendors have occurred in the market, and many software companies engaged in ERP have also turned to develop logistics software. Traditional transportation and warehousing companies are also aware of the importance of information technology in transformation to specialized third-party logistics enterprises, and they have used logistics management systems, hoping to enhance the company's management and acceleration. However, due to foreign logistics software "Soil and Soil refinement", most logistics software in China "innate lack", the system of rushing up horses did not achieve the desired effect. After two or three years of exploration and practice, domestic logistics enterprises are more generous, no longer only the only one of the goods, and value the actual adaptation of the software management system and its own business, and it is also available for the company's own demand for logistics software. Correly understanding, caution when purchasing logistics software.
2, the specialization, submailing of logistics software
Only professional talents can be deep. Logistics management is an integrated system engineering, and the entire logistics operation is organic combination of basic functions such as transportation, storage, loading, handling, packaging, circulation, distribution, delivery, and information processing. Logistics software has also gradually subdivided from the beginning, differentiation of WMS (Warehouse Distribution Center Management System), TMS (Transport Management System), OMS (Order Management System), etc. For logistics companies and corporate logistics, the efficiency of the warehouse distribution execution determines the efficiency of the entire supply chain, so the effective management of the execution center has become the top priority. Warehousing management is long abroad is a professional field, how to reasonably plan and distribute the use of the implementation center resources, resulting in higher efficiency, reducing the cost of logistics enterprises, improving customer service quality, win better customer satisfaction, need Have professional knowledge and rich practical experience.
3. The familiarity and management of logistics business have forward-looking and creative logistics software favors the market.
In the rapid development of domestic modern logistics, only a few years, many logistics companies are still in the development stage, and many logistics software vendors are still lacking in the logistics industry, so some logistics software is only existing process management of logistics enterprises. Informatization does not have a real management of these logistics companies. It is favored by the market and customers, and more suggestions that have accumulated rich experience in the logistics industry, can make more recommendations for logistics companies or logistics business processes, and can manage management to enterprises in the process of helping companies complete informationization. The promotion is the software that brings benefits to the company. While providing software products provided by customers, these software also use their experience in the logistics field to optimize business processes and management, such as helping customers develop more value-added services, more optimizing resources utilization and improve implementation efficiency. .
