Packing accounts for about 20% of the total workload of the sorting warehouse. Packing the goods in the shelf cells or turnover boxes can also serve as a secondary review after sowing. When packaging, you can take the opportunity to promote to customers by printing external publicity, piggybacking promotional or rebate flyers. Packaging is a systematic project. Improper packaging will increase costs, damage during transportation, product failure, and even lead to serious customer complaints. In the overseas warehouses of the vertical market, there are not many SKUs. You can simply fix a few specifications of boxes and associate them with the SKU. The system automatically recommends the box type and the number of filling packages for the corresponding order to achieve inventory management of consumables, such as the “three-dimensional packing” optimal packaging algorithm, which comprehensively calculates the placement of goods from the quantity, weight, and volume.
The packaging methods include manual packaging, semi-automatic packaging, and automatic packaging: manual packaging is flexible and inefficient; automatic packaging is efficient, and the goods are fully automatically implanted, weighed, packaged, printed, labeled, checked, and graded, but standard packaging boxes and fixed categories must be used during packaging. In order to cater to the concept of low-carbon and environmentally friendly global consumption, the materials and forms of express packaging are related to the receiving experience and brand affinity, taking into account the protection of the product. The packaging should be as reasonable as possible, using environmentally friendly processes and renewable or recyclable materials.
Among the actions of workbench review, packaging, printing, labeling, and weighing, the most time-consuming is packaging. Many e-commerce companies will pack hot-selling products in advance before the big promotion. In order to pre-pack and save freight, it is necessary to control the volume of the package. At this time, you can choose to split the order, distribute the package to each shipping entrance or collection position through a conveyor belt or cage car, sorting line, and stack it in the shipping area for collection. If an abnormality occurs when the product is shipped out, such as a discrepancy between the order and the goods, stringing/wrong delivery, product problems, damaged inner packaging, etc., the product can be placed in the abnormal area for manual processing, and sometimes it is necessary to rework and open a batch of packages for review.
The final link is shipment. When the courier comes to pick up the goods, the warehouse should have predicted the shipment data. The goods can be delivered in batches by cargo boxes, cage trucks, pallets or bags. A shipping list is attached to each container and then shipped back to the sorting center for review. It can also be scanned and reviewed piece by piece on site. After arriving at the warehouse, the courier uses a PDA to scan the delivery note to collect the goods and check the package handover list to avoid missing or wrong delivery. This is the last checkpoint to verify the delivery error and the last node to intercept the order. Since most online shopping orders are generated in the afternoon and evening, there are fewer orders cut in overseas warehouses. Therefore, usually after the “cut-off order instruction” is generated, the system will intercept orders that need to be cancelled, modified, mis-picked, mis-packaged, wrong waybills, repeated secondary shipments, etc. at any time. Large warehouse and distribution centers use automatic parcel sorting lines when goods are shipped out of the warehouse, which can automatically remove and distribute parcels from different carriers. After receiving and confirming the goods are received, the warehouse party signs the handover list and loads the goods out of the warehouse. When loading, an automatic telescopic machine or forklift tool is used. Finally, the system records the completion of the outbound delivery and provides the customer with the express number so that the customer can understand the subsequent delivery progress. After the goods are shipped, they leave the scope of warehouse management and enter the transportation link.