Research On The Books-return Problem Of Provincial Xinhua Bookstore Distribution Center

With the knowledge economy and learning society established, the publishing industry has become an important industry. However, as the book market has been developing rapidly, the books-return which is the main part of Books Reverse Logistics is also constantly increasing, rising inventory of books, therefore, it is the key to solve books-return problem for the publishing industry reform and deepen the channels of distribution system.For a long time, Xinhua Bookstore system as the largest Book dealers and retailers of China's book distribution industry, it is in bears about 60% book distribution sales, book-return is no exception. Because of the book distribution channels inherent rules, All withdrawals must act in accordance with the positive mode logistics programs from the first back to the Grassroots retailers, and to Provincial Xinhua Bookstore, Finally to publishing units, from that point of view, Xinhua Bookstore's dealing with return of the books good or bad will have a direct impact on the entire publishing industry efficiency and results, In this task, Xinhua Bookstore play an important role.First, this paper made a comprehensive and systematic research on the books-return problem of China's book distribution industry, we analyze the status of books returned, the process and reasons from the view of domestic distribution channels and marketing model, we divide Book Reverse Logistics into two levels: Press-Dealer and Dealer-Retailer, and the latter (also can say Xinhua Bookstore system) more important in books-return problem. The article then come to the provincial Xinhua Bookstore distribution center as research object, analyze the features, business processes of books-return in the provincial distribution center and entire chain of middle role. of it. Then on the basis of the Shanghai Xinhua Bookstore distribution center investigation, the article seize sorting and stockpiling which is the main aspect causing inefficiencies of books-return task and use mathematical methods to compare the one-step sorting method with the two-step sorting method with the actual data of Shanghai Xinhua Bookstore, the fact is that the two-step sorting method is much better than the the former, and we give the factors affected the efficiency of the devices, also discuss how to optimize this method in-depth. Against books teaching aids category retreat focused on causing the peak return problem, The article made use of Cross-Docking to deal with it innovatively in provincial Xinhua Bookstore distribution center, which can give full play to the role of grassroots bookshops, the use of model, time and process were discussed in detail.