Warehouses that provide distribution sorting services can be used by manufacturers, wholesalers or retailers to combine and stock products in anticipation of customer pick-up. This distribution classification can represent a variety of products from different manufacturers, or a variety of distribution classifications specified by customers. The difference between an on-site stock and a complete product classification is the degree and duration of warehouse utilization. Manufacturers with on-site storage strategies usually temporarily stack products with narrow varieties in the warehouse, and stack and reserve in a large number of small warehouses to designate specific markets within a limited time; Warehouses that provide distribution sorting services typically have a wide range of products, are limited to a few strategic locations, and function year-round. Distribution classified warehouses allow customers to reduce the number of suppliers they have to deal with and thus improve warehousing services. In addition, the distribution warehouse can also combine products to form a larger shipment volume, and thus reduce transportation costs.

The e-commerce industry is becoming more and more hot, the development is more and more rapid, therefore, e-commerce warehousing also continues to develop, e-commerce warehousing and our traditional warehousing what are the differences, next to share with you.

With the increasingly mature online retail market, e-commerce continues to flourish, e-commerce warehousing demand also shows a rapid growth trend. In the e-commerce supply chain, enterprises are more concerned about how to send the goods to the hands of customers faster and more accurately, and how to respond to the changing order demand at any time, which also determines the huge difference between e-commerce warehousing and traditional warehousing.

The supply chain logistics of traditional industries such as steel, machinery industry, furniture and building materials can be allocated according to the planned time, and its warehousing management pays more attention to the safe storage of goods, biased storage; The supply chain logistics of the e-commerce industry has high requirements for the timely rate of orders, and its warehousing management pays more attention to the turnover efficiency and liquidity of goods.

Different inventory management purposes make the core KPIs (key performance indicators) of e-commerce warehousing and traditional warehousing completely different.

For e-commerce enterprises, if the speed of goods warehousing is slow, it will delay the speed of goods shelves, and then affect the sales speed; Slow delivery of goods will lead to slow delivery of goods, which will affect the customer's shopping experience.

Therefore, compared with traditional warehousing, e-commerce warehousing for goods inbound and outbound efficiency, that is, goods turnover efficiency requirements will be higher, from goods warehousing, to selection, warehousing, each link should be as compressed as possible to spend time.

Pre-warehouse refers to the warehousing and logistics close to consumers in the internal warehousing and logistics system of the enterprise. The traditional industry has little demand for pre-warehouse, but with the gradual rise of the e-commerce industry, the competition of various e-commerce enterprises in the field of logistics has become increasingly fierce, and many e-commerce giants have laid out pre-warehouse in recent years, and pre-warehouse has become a powerful weapon of "next-day logistics". E-commerce warehouses have a stronger demand for advance warehouses.

There are many differences between e-commerce warehousing and traditional warehousing, and it is not feasible to respond to the needs of e-commerce with traditional warehousing. In addition, due to the high cost of e-commerce warehousing construction, most enterprises often lack the ability to build their own supply chain network, and the possibility of market resource integration and warehousing outsourcing is what the majority of e-commerce enterprises need to think about in the future warehousing planning.

E-commerce warehousing and traditional warehousing are more or less different in all aspects, on the whole, e-commerce warehousing is more demanding than traditional warehousing.