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Food warehouse management is no longer difficult. With 50WMS, food warehousing and delivery can be easily managed.


With the steady growth of economic development, the low-level food demand of Chinese consumers has been met, the growth rate of food consumption has gradually slowed down, and the overall food industry has entered a mature stage. Food consumption upgrading has become a major trend in the food industry. Many traditional Chinese food brands, such as "Time-honored Chinese Brands", have made efforts in e-commerce and set up national offline sales networks, relying on professional and convenient logistics to expand the sales range of their food products nationwide. In particular, brand companies mainly engaged in the deep processing of shelf-stable foods have achieved significant development during this period.

However, food is different from other commodities. Taking the warehousing and operation link as an example, it has higher requirements for warehousing and delivery efficiency, food quality and safety, and cost control. Taking a large listed food group in South China that uses Internet of Things cloud warehousing services as an example, it also faces the significant difficulties of the food industry, mainly reflected in the following aspects:

First, the demand for flexible warehousing service capabilities: Sales orders are highly seasonal and fluctuate greatly, especially during festivals. For example, online and offline orders for mooncakes and zongzi will skyrocket during festivals, with a huge difference in order volume compared to normal periods. This requires flexible warehousing service capabilities to adapt to the shipping needs of peak and off-peak seasons.

Second, strict expiration date management is required: Food is related to people's livelihood and safety. Both the government and consumers attach great importance to food safety, which requires warehouses to implement strict expiration date management to prevent expired or near-expiration products from entering the market and causing food safety incidents.

Third, refined warehousing operations are required: Due to the similarity in the outer packaging and specifications of some foods, picking errors may occur, leading to incorrect shipments; and the transportation and distribution fees are calculated according to the packaging volume, so the choice of commodity logistics packaging is related to the high and low freight costs. These details in warehouse operations require warehousing operations to be refined to avoid mis-shipment and control costs.

In order to help this customer solve the various difficulties in the food industry, the Internet of Things cloud warehouse provided the customer with the 50WMS warehouse management system, providing standardized and intelligent warehouse operation process management for the customer's B2B and B2C logistics scenarios, and helping the customer achieve full-process digital control of warehouse operations.

Specifically, the Internet of Things cloud warehouse 50WMS warehouse management system supports warehouse-level inbound management, inventory management, outbound management, rule strategies, PDA and RFID, client, basic data and configuration, and supports multi-warehouse enterprise-level partner management, goods management, and enterprise data import and export functions.

In the specific practical application of serving this customer, the Internet of Things cloud warehouse 50WMS warehouse management system has brought the following three significant values to the customer:

1. SaaS application characteristics, helping customers quickly achieve digital warehouse operation

The Internet of Things cloud warehouse 50WMS can fully utilize the characteristics of the SaaS-type WMS warehouse management system, with the remarkable characteristics of "plug-and-play, remote implementation, online management, and convenience and speed", which can help customers quickly implement the warehouse system online operation. Before the peak order season arrives, the Internet of Things cloud warehouse can actively cooperate with customers to quickly build a new digital warehouse system, allowing customers to respond to peak shipping pressure in a timely manner.

2. Expiration date management and FIFO management to prevent expired and near-expiration food from entering the market

The Internet of Things cloud warehouse 50WMS warehouse management system supports expiration date management functions. It can compare the production date and shelf life data to determine whether the product is near expiration or expired, and promptly send warning information to warehouse personnel to prevent the shipment of products with safety hazards. In addition, the Internet of Things cloud warehouse 50WMS warehouse management system supports the FIFO process, which can help warehouse personnel prioritize shipments of products that entered the warehouse first, thereby extending the shelf life of food products reaching consumers and ensuring food quality.

3. Packaging recommendations and verification packing to control costs and improve shipping accuracy

In order to prevent shipping errors caused by manual sorting errors and to control freight costs, the Internet of Things cloud warehouse 50WMS warehouse management system supports packaging recommendations and verification packing management. In other words, the 50WMS warehouse management system can help warehouse operators quickly select packaging materials and verify whether the packaged goods match the order information correctly. On the one hand, it improves the efficiency of packaging operations and verifies the correctness of the picking process. On the other hand, by controlling the volume of packaging materials used, it controls the waste of materials and freight costs caused by the use of non-standard packaging sizes.

In general, under the premise of stable total food consumption, the internal structure of food consumption is changing, and the development of food consumption sub-sectors is rapid: various types of cured meats and other specialty foods, mooncakes and zongzi and other festive foods, leisure foods, baked foods and other shelf-stable deep-processed foods are developing rapidly, and a large number of distinctive foods provide people with diverse choices. Although the future is bright, it is also foreseeable that competition in the food industry will become increasingly fierce. In order to take the lead in the food sector, adopting a warehouse management system such as the Internet of Things cloud warehouse 50WMS to improve warehousing efficiency is a necessary path for food enterprises.

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