In today’s software-defined world, the best way to understand a business is to learn its system. Logistics focuses on process management of process execution. “No system, no process.” The system is the backbone of the logistics industry. Logistics that is not synchronized with the information flow is out-of-control logistics. The concept of cloud warehousing Cloud originates from cloud computing and provides intensive computing capabilities.
Cloud warehouse is first of all a logistics network based on multiple warehouses and connected through information and transportation. Secondly, it is the inventory distribution logic within the network. Under this model, multiple warehouses or parallel warehouses make full use of the resources of the whole society to achieve fast, efficient and economical warehouse distribution services. Intelligent warehousing and intelligent allocation make reasonable inventory decisions based on demand distribution characteristics.
If there are multiple warehouses in different geographical locations in Europe and the United States, then the stocking strategy has to consider factors such as order distribution and logistics timeliness, and the same stocking in different warehouses must also be calculated by the system. The optimal cost and timeliness determine the order fulfillment method. Amazon’s global cloud warehouse platform, driven by precise supply chain planning, integrates multiple warehouses to provide nearby stocking and predictive allocation.
In the supply chain field, software is mainly divided into planning, execution and management categories. The warehousing system WMS is a typical SCE execution system, with four walls and a link between the previous and the following. Many functions of the finished WMS software on the market seem to be the same. The value of the system is not determined by the purchase amount, but by the degree of matching with the process. In the face of large-scale operations, performance and reliability are also critical.
Overseas warehouse WMS must adapt to the use of overseas local employees, obtain planning instructions from upstream e-commerce platforms, order systems, and foreign trade ERP, control and track the operation process in the warehouse, and integrate with external automation and equipment. Based on the data provided by the overseas warehouse system, the company establishes piece counting, traceability and quality statistics, standardizes the process through the system, and sets up performance indicators to ensure the standardization of process execution and achieve refined operations.
The relationship between overseas warehouse WMS and foreign trade ERF. The ERP warehousing module is oriented to financial accounting, focusing on procurement assistance and inventory cost calculation, emphasizing result management, while WMS focuses on process control and result output. Unlike management systems such as CRM and HR, WMS does not have a large amount of “cloudification”. Systems with high-frequency transactions and high real-time requirements are placed in the cloud, which may affect the stability of internal operations.
However, under the open service model of overseas warehouses, SaaS applications are required to connect peripheral orders with e-commerce. Cross-border e-commerce does not care about the internal processes of overseas warehouses, but only cares about the service results. WMS itself does not need to be personalized. Nowadays, there is also cloudization after splitting WMS, such as local deployment of label printing, WCS, automation and hardware integration, and other application logic is put on the public platform.