I believe friends who work in warehouse management have encountered the following problems:
1. Storage without planning: The warehouse lacks planning, and the identification of the storage area and storage location is unclear. The placement of goods is also relatively casual. Over time, this situation will occur: I was picking up goods, oh, I tripped! Huh? what is it? Why is it here? What's its use? Should I throw it away? In such a warehouse environment, the utilization efficiency of the warehouse is not high and the operational efficiency is low.
2. There is a large gap between the recorded data in the warehouse and the actual situation. Warehouse personnel are usually busy receiving and shipping goods, and many products are not registered in a timely manner. They sometimes rely on memory and sometimes on imagination to make up for the accounts! Errors and omissions in documents have become a daily routine in the warehouse. There is also lag in the transmission of warehouse data, which leads to the inability to timely handle out of stock and stagnant material situations.
3. The lack of expiration date management and high warehouse losses are due to the large amount of items stored in the warehouse, coupled with inaccurate recording, resulting in the inability to remember when those goods arrived and how long the expiration date was. And when shipping, there was no strict first in, first out policy, resulting in an increasing amount of stagnant materials.
4. Difficulties in handling abnormal orders, such as when purchasing and receiving goods, sometimes sending too much or too little, whether to accept or not; For example, if a customer cancels an order and you don't see it, and sends it out, and you want to stop them, what should you do?
5. Lack of error prevention reminders in daily shipping and receiving operations is usually handled manually. Warehouse managers are not aware of the progress of the operation, nor are they clear about whether the operation meets the standards, whether the wrong goods are received or not. As a result, when problems arise, it is often too late to pursue legal action.