What Is Warehousing?

Warehousing refers to the activities of entering, storing, and unloading goods through the warehouse to the materials and related facilities and equipment. It is produced with the production of material storage, and with the development of productivity. Warehousing is one of the important links of commodity circulation and an important pillar of logistics activities. ^[1]

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"Warehouse" means a warehouse, which is used for storage, custody, and storage.

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China's current situation

1. High storage costs. Difficulty in storage is a common phenomenon in the entire logistics industry. Strict land management policies make it more difficult for warehousing enterprises to acquire land, and the cost of land acquisition and use is high.

2. The warehouse layout is not reasonable enough. Due to the lack of uniform national standards and professional planning and design, there are many problems in new warehouse areas that have been built in various places.

3. Unbalanced development of storage equipment and technology. Due to the limited investment capacity of the warehousing industry, the number of new types of warehouses is in short supply in the face of sharply increasing storage needs, and distribution vehicles, container technology, picking technology, and information technology need to be upgraded and transformed.

4. The scale of warehousing enterprises is small and the economic benefits are low. In the past two years, although the business volume and main income of China's warehousing enterprises have increased significantly, their profits have been relatively low. The warehousing enterprise has an average asset of only 25.33 million yuan per unit. Among all logistics entities, the average profit margin on business revenue was 8.77%.

5. Lack of talent in warehousing. The development of the warehousing industry requires both professional and technical talents, as well as operational talents, and even more warehouse management talents. In recent years, there has been a shortage of talents in these areas.

6. The legal system and regulations in warehouse management are insufficient. Regarding the legal system of warehousing management, our country started late, and the established rules and regulations on warehousing are not suitable for the actual situation with the development of production and the improvement of scientific level. So far, China does not have a complete Warehouse Law. At the same time, China's warehouse management personnel have a weak legal concept and will not use legal means to safeguard the interests of enterprises.

In recent years, China's warehousing industry has developed rapidly. With the rapid increase in the number of online shopping, online payment, and mobile electronic merchants, more and more companies have begun to enter the warehousing industry. By the end of 2008, the number of warehousing enterprises in China had reached 17,416, the number of employees in the warehousing industry reached 511,000, and the operating income of the warehousing industry reached 302.09 billion yuan. In 2009, the fixed asset investment in the warehousing industry reached 176.6 billion yuan, and the added value reached 173.7 billion yuan. In 2010, the area of newly built warehouses reached 2.13 million square meters, an increase of 700,000 square meters compared with 2009. More and more logistics companies realize that without a strong network of storage resources and the ability to control and manage logistics warehouses, it will be difficult to develop into a large-scale competitive logistics company. However, both first-tier cities and second- and third-tier cities are facing difficulties in storage. Warehousing has become a difficult problem that restricts the development of the logistics industry and drives up the cost of circulation. Based on the experience of the warehousing industry in developed countries, this paper analyzes the problems facing China's warehousing enterprises and proposes corresponding countermeasures, with a view to promoting the development of the warehousing industry.

As the competition in the warehousing industry continues to intensify, mergers and acquisitions and capital operations between large warehousing companies are becoming more frequent. Excellent domestic warehousing companies are paying more and more attention to the research of the industry market, especially the in-depth study of the enterprise development environment and customer demand trends . Because of this, a large number of outstanding domestic warehousing enterprises have risen rapidly and gradually become the leader in the warehousing industry!

Logistics, warehousing and distribution services have become the core industry sector in China's e-commerce, and being able to provide a comprehensive and comprehensive logistics warehousing and distribution solution has also become a problem that many small and medium sellers and e-commerce supplier brands must pay attention to.

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Warehouses can be classified according to different standards. Common warehouse classifications are as follows:

Commercial enterprise auxiliary warehouse

Such warehouses are owned by wholesale businesses in the commercial sector and

Warehouse, bungalow, warehouse

Bungalow warehouse refers to a warehouse where the warehouse building is a bungalow with a simple structure and a height not exceeding 5-6 meters. Such warehouses are cheap in construction cost and convenient in manual operation. There are a large number of bungalow warehouses in China.

Warehouse, building, warehouse

Building warehouse refers to a warehouse with a building structure on two or more floors. This type of warehouse can reduce the land use area, and the mechanized or semi-mechanized operations can be used for in and out of the warehouse, but the operating cost is relatively high.

High-rise warehouse

High-level shelf warehouse refers to a warehouse composed mainly of high-level shelves. The building itself is a bungalow structure with a large number of internal shelves and the ability to store about 10 shelves or pallets. This type of warehouse is generally equipped with automated equipment such as picking laneway stacking cranes, and is an advanced warehouse commonly used in developed countries. , Can realize mechanization and automation.