Disadvantages of dealer/manufacturer warehouse inventory management:

1. Inventory management is inaccurate, and the profit and loss figures are large each time the inventory is taken;

2. Product stocking Unfounded, the best-selling products are out of stock, the inventory of slow-selling products is very high, and the warehouse turnover rate cannot be reasonably controlled;

3. The warehouse, finance and business cannot be well connected;

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5. When there is profit or loss in inventory, there is no evidence to check;

6. Warehouse The problem of goods age management results in a large number of expired and imminent goods in the warehouse;

7. Mixed piles of defective goods and normal goods in the warehouse;

8. Delivery and shipment Sometimes, products are shipped incorrectly, missed, or re-shipped;

The retail supply management agency of Friendly Business conducted an investigation into the warehouse management of domestic dealers/manufacturers and found that the warehouse management is not good, mainly including the following reasons:

1. There are no rules and regulations for warehouse management. The warehouse is like a vegetable garden. All personnel can enter and exit at will, and many employees even smoke inside the warehouse;

2. The company’s management has no warehouse management. Awareness, he is taking the lead in violating the company's warehouse management system and ignoring fire protection awareness;

3. Delivery without a receipt, which means that the warehouse will leave the warehouse at will without seeing the delivery receipt issued by the company;

4. Good and bad goods are not stacked separately in the warehouse, resulting in chaos inside the warehouse;

5. Expired goods and normal goods are not stacked separately in the warehouse;

6. The company's returns are not processed in a timely manner, and the goods that need to be reported as damaged are not reported in time;

7. The inventory of the warehouse is not diligent, resulting in the profit and loss of the warehouse due to the inventory time span being too long. The reason cannot be found;

8. The safety inventory of goods in the warehouse cannot be reasonably controlled, resulting in the lack of what should be available and the backlog of unnecessary goods;

9 . The warehouse does not have professional reports or any analytical data, all based on the experience of warehouse management;

10. The warehousing system of the warehouse is not strict, resulting in an unnecessary increase in the goods on expiry in the warehouse; < /p>

11. The management responsibilities of the warehouse are not clear, and rewards and punishments are not clear, resulting in employees having no sense of ownership; 12. The sense of responsibility for delivery is not strong, and wrong delivery, missed delivery, Reissues often occur, and cannot be discovered in time, or even unsupervised;

In summary, most dealer bosses understand these problems, but the problem is that they know the root cause of the problem. But I can’t solve it well or I don’t know how to solve it. Here, Youshang Retail Management combines many years of supplier internal management research and combines it with the actual situation to provide a set of professional and unique solutions to share with everyone.

Friendly retail solutions: How to manage warehouse inventory?

1. The company boss pays attention to the management of the warehouse from the beginning, because for the boss, the management of the company's "cash warehouse" and "physical warehouse" is very important;

2. In the management of the warehouse, we should pay attention to "fire prevention, anti-theft" and other fire protection;

3. The "political review" of the company's warehouse management should be strengthened, which means that we should pay attention to the position of warehouse management, and don't always think that the salesman is the Important;

4. It is absolutely prohibited to ship goods without a bill of lading, manual shipping with white slips, non-compliance with procedures, and borrowing goods beyond authority;

5. The stacking of goods in the warehouse must be based on the batch. times, first-in-first-out must be fully considered when stacking;

6. Goods that are in critical period, expired, cannot be resold, and are returned to the supplier should be stacked separately and should not be mixed with normal goods. This will lead to chaos in the warehouse, inaccurate inventory, increased losses and tidiness of the warehouse;

7. Try to stack the goods according to brands and categories. This will greatly reduce the delivery time. Of course, the company's delivery time Orders or distribution orders must be sorted and printed according to brand and category, otherwise the delivery time will not be reduced;

8. All goods in the physical warehouse must be systematically managed and all entered into the company's The system carries out unified management to protect the company's promotional materials and advertising gifts;

9. Standardize the receipt and delivery process. A set of standardized operating procedures must be formulated and strictly implemented. The management of the warehouse cannot be arbitrary. , otherwise all your efforts will be in vain;

10. Strictly control the age inspection and packaging integrity inspection when receiving the goods. Do not just receive the goods into the warehouse and put them on the other party's delivery note. After signing to confirm, the ownership of the product will become the company's, and any negligence during receipt will be the company's loss;

11. During the delivery period, it must be clear We know that our end customers’ requirements for the age or packaging of goods cannot be caused by our unprofessional delivery, leading to customer rejection, or even due to lack of delivery of orders, causing our end customers to fine the company for lack of delivery. Of course, this The company must have a professional system to conduct data analysis and monitoring, and provide necessary reminders when printing distribution orders or delivery orders;

12. Warehouse management must ensure that your warehouse’s profit and loss figures are eliminated or To reduce the cost, it is very important to check the physical inventory frequently. Generally, we have to check the goods that are on sale every day, check the inventory according to the brand every week, and conduct a comprehensive inventory once a month. To achieve this, the company must equip warehouse managers with necessary equipment. Using warehouse scanning PDA equipment can significantly reduce the working pressure of warehouse managers, quickly take inventory, and quickly obtain profit and loss data;

10 3. Introduce professional "special software for supplier management" to ensure that all employees of the company have clear job responsibilities and implement them in place; 15. If funds allow, introduce barcode scanning management functions in the warehouse. For goods shipped, use the first->scan->print formal outbound order mode, which can 100% control the phenomenon of "ordering" in the warehouse, improve the accuracy of shipments, and eliminate wrong, missed, and missing shipments. , multiple phenomena.

Regardless of the size of the company or the type of company, "Supplier Internal Standardization Management" is necessary and urgent.