Seven Wolves And Other Brands Will Shift Some Warehouses To Xingtai Logistics "Logistics Outsourcing" Into A Trend.

Reporters recently learned that XTEP, Seven wolves Other brands will spanfer part of the warehousing business to Fujian Xingtai Logistics Co., Ltd., which is located in the headquarters warehouse of magnetic stove, which is managed by Xingtai logistics. Electronic Commerce The warehousing and distribution links in business are managed by Xingtai logistics.

However, as the market competition intensifies, more and more industrial enterprises begin to concentrate their energies on core businesses and outsource their non core logistics businesses to professional logistics enterprises. The industry believes that industrial enterprises " Logistics outsourcing "This is the trend of the future. However, due to internal and external constraints, there is still a long way to go for industrial enterprises and logistics enterprises.

Concentrate on core business

The reporter understands that almost all brand enterprises have their own logistics centers, which are generally composed of four or five departments, such as warehousing department, spanportation department, planning department and planning department. The main responsibility is to formulate and improve the company's logistics management plan according to the overall objectives of the enterprise, and supervise and coordinate all logistics links according to plan.

"In the initial stage of enterprise development, logistics departments are generally established only under the central operation of a certain center. With the continuous growth of enterprises, the functions and personnel of the logistics department have been continuously enriched in order to improve the efficiency of product distribution and the quality of distribution services, thus forming the logistics center nowadays." Cheng Yueming, director of the 361 degree logistics management center, briefed reporters.

Admittedly, the logistics center has become an indispensable part of many industrial enterprises. But to run this business well, we need to spend a lot of manpower, material and financial resources. "Building warehouse needs to buy land. After the warehouse is built, we should improve its internal hardware and software conditions. In terms of software, professional companies are required to develop a most suitable information system, and hardware, such as shelves, forklifts, pallets and other infrastructure.

Moreover, the cost of distributing the national network and matching logistics personnel is also a large number. According to the insiders, the rising cost of logistics is a major factor in promoting the "logistics outsourcing" of industrial enterprises.

According to Zhang Renyou, deputy director of XTEP logistics center, the headquarters warehouse of the company has been put into operation for seven or eight years. With the rapid development of XTEP in recent years, its total capacity has been unable to meet the company's future strategic planning. Is it buying land to build warehouses or outsourcing warehousing business? XTEP chose the latter.

"Transfer to Xingtai logistics warehousing business, from product warehousing to warehousing, the management procedures in this process are completed by the company. We only need to appoint a staff member to track and summarize the operation of this part of the warehouse in a timely manner." Zhang Renyou believes that when a brand develops to a certain extent, the enterprise must determine its core business. If a business is not the core business of the brand, but it is extremely important for the development of the brand, then it can outsource the business to a better professional company, so that the brand enterprise can devote more resources and time to the core business, such as product research and development, market development, and technological spanformation.

"Most customers believe that the role of logistics enterprises is to spanport the products they produce to their destinations. In fact, the role that modern logistics enterprises can play is far greater than this. Especially for production and operation enterprises, if we can entrust the logistics activities that we originally dealt with to the professional logistics service enterprises, we can not only concentrate more on the main business, but also greatly increase the speed of logistics and reduce the cost of logistics. During the interview, many logistics enterprises sent such a message to reporters.

Logistics outsourcing risks remain

Although the concept of "logistics outsourcing" has been known by most industrial enterprises, there are only a few enterprises that try to outsource. Most enterprises generally believe that there is no real professional third party logistics providers in the area, and with regard to cost and information security concerns, enterprises have mostly absorbed most of the logistics activities themselves.

"There must be risks in the process of logistics outsourcing by industrial enterprises". A chief executive of the brand enterprise, who does not want to be named, told reporters that in the process of outsourcing, industrial enterprises and third party logistics providers usually use contracts to achieve coordination among enterprises, which conceals many risks in management and information.

"Communication between industrial enterprises and logistics providers, information feedback and information distortion will all affect the cooperation between the two sides. Another critical point is that if the logistics business is completely outsourced, the product structure information of the enterprise will also be known by the third party logistics providers. In this case, we have concerns about the leakage of enterprise information. Cai said.

There are also many business owners worry that "logistics outsourcing" will enable their enterprises to control logistics capabilities have been reduced, "original warehousing, distribution and other aspects of their own doing, once the problem is also relatively good solution. After this business is outsourced, a logistics supplier may undertake multiple brand logistics businesses. If it is the peak season, there will inevitably be a risk of being shelved in warehousing and distribution.

Wang Jian, vice president of Fuzhou University and vice president of China logistics society, said that for the time being, although the logistics system in Jinjiang has been greatly improved, the regional platform for integrating all kinds of logistics resources has not yet been established, and there is still a lack of logistics enterprises that include modern spanportation and distribution, warehousing, circulation processing, packaging, logistics information and logistics finance.

On the other hand, at present, many enterprises have only begun to understand logistics outsourcing, and the consciousness of "logistics outsourcing" has just come into being. It is for these reasons that the "logistics outsourcing" situation has not yet formed.

Establishing information sharing mechanism

Logistics outsourcing, for industrial enterprises, the most important thing is the choice of logistics providers. Therefore, the strength of logistics enterprises determines to a large extent whether the "logistics outsourcing" era can really come.

According to the insiders, after more than ten years of accumulation and development, many Jinjiang logistics enterprises have gradually developed from a traditional freight enterprise to a comprehensive strength logistics enterprise. But to truly grow into a professional third party logistics provider, we need to work hard in terms of talent introduction and information upgrading.

It is understood that Xingtai logistics always "will become China's most professional third party logistics supplier" as a company vision, as early as a few years ago, the company has introduced the international advanced logistics information system, compared with the traditional information system, the system in spanportation management, from order, scheduling, pick up, load, tracking, return to the final calculation, all of the network management; and in warehousing management, it supports library management, support system sorting, support bar code scanning, and can generate inventory reports.

It is worth mentioning that the "WMS warehouse management system" adopted by the company will also carry out the order analysis and simulation calculation according to the sales situation of each customer, so as to reasonably plan the reservoir area and realize the minimum SKU and warehouse management. That is, through the system, we can quickly find the location of a certain color and a size in the warehouse, thus greatly improving the efficiency of sorting and shipping the customers, and effectively avoiding the error rate caused by manual sorting.