In today's increasingly fierce competition, "zero inventory" has become the goal of many manufacturing enterprises, the following Hongxing Yongli will introduce inventory management software, bar code and RFID technology to help achieve "zero inventory" is how to achieve. Tell the case: Changhong mobile warehouse!

As the intersection of logistics, warehousing involves warehousing, sorting, warehousing, inventory, outbound, replenishment and other aspects of work. The amount of information in circulation is very large. How to collect relevant information efficiently and accurately has become a problem that many enterprises must solve. Changhong mobile warehouse is how to achieve "zero inventory", please look down;

For manufacturing enterprises, warehouse management is the core link of supply chain management. Because warehousing is the intersection of all aspects of enterprise logistics, it connects important links such as procurement and production, production and sales, and wholesale and retail. Not only that, warehousing is an important hub for material circulation and an important link in the flow of information.

Warehouse management is divided into two types: one is finished product management; One is raw material management. Traditional warehouse management relies on paper and manual recording. The entry and exit data of goods rely on manual input into ERP system. However, with the increasing frequency of warehouse entry and exit, the circulation speed of goods is accelerated. This manual operation mode not only has low labor efficiency and increases the operating cost of the system, but also cannot provide timely and accurate data for the functions of entry and exit statistics and inventory statistics in ERP system, which affects the decision-making speed and market competitiveness of enterprises.

With the development of wireless technology, solutions based on wireless computer communication network begin to be concerned by more and more manufacturing enterprises. Wireless local area network relies on wired network combined with wireless communication technology to realize the expansion of mobile points and application points that cannot be laid out computer network signal lines. Wireless network communication technology solves the problem of operator mobility and realizes the real-time transmission of data.

The home appliance market is the most competitive market in China. Household appliance enterprises have serious overcapacity and increasingly meager profits, and the backward supply chain management system is also one of the bottlenecks affecting their market competitiveness. At present, China's home appliance industry is in a difficult situation. The downstream is facing the pressure of large chain stores, and the upstream is facing the challenge of increasing raw material costs. The home appliance manufacturers in the middle must use the intensive competition method of tapping internal potential to seek a place in the market competition. Therefore, as the "third profit source" logistics is regarded as the most promising link for manufacturing enterprises to reduce operating costs and improve operational efficiency.

To profit from circulation is the fortress that China's home appliance industry urgently needs to conquer, and it is also one of the biggest profit growth points of the home appliance industry at this stage. The enterprise mobile solution of barcode combined with wireless technology has become a powerful weapon for some home appliance enterprises to cope with market competition.

1, to the circulation to profit.

Sichuan Changhong Electric Co., Ltd. is a diversified and comprehensive multinational enterprise integrating R & D, production and sales of color TV, rear projection, air conditioning, audio-visual, digital network, power supply, device, flat panel display, digital media network and other industries. It has jurisdiction over Jilin Changhong, Jiangsu Changhong, Guangdong Changhong and other equity participation, holding companies.

From the overall situation of the home appliance industry, high cost, low efficiency, and multi-link are the main problems facing its logistics field. An important feature of the electrical appliance industry is that the depreciation rate of goods is particularly high, and the goods stored in the warehouse will lose 5% of the profit a day. This has tended to "meager profit" of home appliance enterprises, is undoubtedly an important factor restricting the development of enterprises. As the "leader" of China's home appliance industry, Changhong is no exception.

In the past, Changhong logistics information integration is not high, information processing points scattered, time lag, data accuracy is not high, seriously restricting the company's operational decision-making. Changhong management believes that the current competitiveness of home appliance companies is not simply reflected in whether the product quality can meet market requirements, but more importantly, how to produce and deliver products and services that satisfy customers when the market demands. This requires companies not only to ensure high-paced production, but also to achieve minimum inventory under the warehousing. As a result, Changhong put forward the idea of "logistics is a mobile warehouse", using time to eliminate space and abandoning the backward concept that the more inventory, the better.

Changhong has more than 40 raw material warehouses, more than 50 finished product warehouses and more than 200 sales warehouses in Mianyang. In the past, warehouse management was mainly done manually, and various raw material information was entered manually. Although the ERP system is applied, all kinds of information about raw materials are recorded on paper, and the storage location is completely dependent on the memory of workers. After the goods are put into storage, all the data are manually entered into the computer.

For manufacturing enterprises, each raw material in the warehouse has an inventory bottom line, excessive inventory affects the cost, and insufficient inventory requires timely orders, but the paper and pen method has a certain lag, the real inventory and the inventory in the system there is always a gap, can not achieve real-time. Due to the lag of inventory information, headquarters can not make timely and accurate decisions. Moreover, the manual entry method has low efficiency and high error rate, and the problem is more serious when the frequency of delivery is increased.

2. Move towards precise management

In order to solve the above problems, Changhong decided to apply bar code technology as well as wireless solutions. After careful selection, Changhong chose the enterprise mobile solution jointly provided by American Xunbao Technology Company and its partner, Gao Li Kaiyuan Company. The solution uses the bar code technology of Xunbao Technology, and uses the SymbolMC3000 as the mobile processing terminal, and cooperates with the wireless network deployment to collect and manage the warehouse data.

At present, Changhong mainly uses SymbolMC3000 to manage the raw material warehouse and more than 2000 square meters of freight yard needed for its TV production, and to manage the data in the warehousing, outbound and inventory links.

3. Warehousing operation

A complete warehousing operation includes receiving, acceptance, shelving and other operations. Changhong has nearly 200 suppliers across the country. First, the raw materials stored in the warehouse must be identified and classified according to the barcode provided by the suppliers. Identification by bar code ensures that the system can record the information of each monomer and track the monomer.

After receiving the delivery note from the supplier, the warehouse consignee in Changhong immediately uses the SymbolMC3000 to scan the bar codes of various raw materials to be put into storage, scans the bar code number on the delivery note, transmits it to the warehouse data center through the wireless local area network, retrieves the order form in the system, queries the order status of the put-in-storage product in real time, confirms whether the goods can be received, and submits it to Changhong's ERP system.

After receiving the goods, Changhong's ERP system will automatically record the acceptance status of the product, send the order information to the receiver's handheld terminal, and instruct the operator to place the product on the location designated by the system. After the operator places the goods in the designated storage location, the system automatically records the storage location of the goods and modifies the system inventory to record the storage time of the parts. Through these steps, Changhong's warehouse managers can track the inventory status of each product in the system and realize real-time monitoring.

4. Stock-out operation

A complete outbound operation includes shelving, packaging, delivery and other operations. By using the wireless network, Changhong's warehouse management personnel can query the inventory status of the products to be shipped in real time when they are off the shelf, realize the first-in-first-out operation, specify the product library location to be shipped for the operator, and issue action instructions through the system to realize path optimization. When packaging, the system automatically records the list of goods in the package and automatically prints the packing list. When shipping, the system automatically records the quantity of shipped products and automatically modifies the system inventory.

Through these steps, Changhong can track the delivery of each order product in the system, realize timely delivery, and improve service efficiency and customer response time. The warehouse operator receives the delivery prompt from the warehouse data center, consults the task list on the wireless terminal, scans the delivery order number and customer code, confirms the delivery after the scan is correct, and closes the delivery task after the center receives it.

5. Inventory operation

Changhong regularly conducts inventory of inventory items. Before bar code and wireless technology were used, Changhong's warehouse operators counted the items, recorded the inventory quantity, and submitted all the disk store data sheets to the data entry clerk for input into the computer.

Since both the quantity counting and the computer entry work take a lot of time and cannot be carried out at the same time, it is often the case that the computer entry clerk has nothing to do at first and then gets too busy. However, the warehouse staff are in a hurry when taking inventory, and then wait around the computer entry clerk for the result of the inventory. This happens almost once a month.

With the deployment of enterprise mobility solutions, this phenomenon has been completely eliminated. The warehouse operator holds the mobile terminal and scans the bar code and location of the goods directly on the location. The system automatically compares with the records in the database and returns the inventory results to the warehouse personnel through the display screen of the mobile terminal. Through the wireless solution can accurately reflect the goods inventory, to achieve accurate management.

The enterprise mobile solution of bar code combined with wireless technology makes Changhong's inventory management achieve very obvious results. It not only reduces the inventory cost for Changhong, but also greatly improves the efficiency of the supply chain. More importantly, accurate and timely inventory information enables Changhong's management to make timely adjustments to market changes, greatly improving Changhong's competitiveness in the home appliance market.

Note: The above is Changhong mobile warehouse is very unusual, bar code and RFID technology to help achieve "zero inventory" solution. The specific management plan needs to be customized according to the actual needs of the company's warehouse. Contact us: 0755-27225517-8026 (Software Technology Development Department)