Cost Improvement Research On Warehouse And Distribution In Distribution Center Of X Retail Store

Distribution center, as one of logistics functional departments, it plays an intermediate role in the whole logistics activity, it is a bridge connecting upstream suppliers and downstream retailers, it is a center of logistics supply chain gathering commodity flow, capital flow and information flow. A full of competitive logistics corporation must have a high efficient and low cost distribution center as support.First of all, this thesis introduces related basic theories about distribution center, including definition, function, classification, basic processes, and cost management of distribution center etc. Then we select X store-type distribution center as research objective, introduces its general situation, function, operation flow, management status and current existing problems, after using X store-type distribution center KPI management to analyze problem, we find there are mainly four factors which result in current cost control problem, involving warehouse management factors, workflow design factors, employee configuration management factors and transportation management factors. Meanwhile aim to solve these problem we offer different solutions and strategies accordingly.Regarding warehouse management factors, we use ABC classification management method to classify important commodities and secondary commodities, and then arrange reasonable layout and location for corresponding commodities according to their different levels, furthermore analyze commodity sales and inventory situation, optimize commodities inventory planning, maximally decrease commodities overstocked to accelerate capital turnover. Regarding operation flow design factors, we need optimize logistics and information flow both, first strengthen internal three core operations of logistics (warehousing, shorting, transportation), meanwhile establish data exchange platform together with suppliers, strengthen information exchanging and sharing, so that both suppliers and X store-type distribution center can achieve a win-win situation. Regarding employee configuration management factors, we calculate the optimal amount of employees in each position based on labor quota methods, simplify organizations, and strengthen corporation culture and skills training to employees, cultivate compound talents to adapt corporation development. Regarding transportation management factors, need to be one step further in cooperation with third transportation corporation, normalize shipping classification and cargo loading rules, protect goods in the entire transportation, meanwhile establish a mathematical model of commodity distribution routing, optimize commodity transportation routing, so as to reduce transportation costs and ensure the efficiency and accuracy of delivery.According to current main problem of X store-type distribution center, cost control, we puts forward some draft solving methods and strategies, expecting this can be helpful for development of X store-type distribution center, and be positive for X store-type distribution center to achieve lower operating costs, higher operation efficiency and core competitiveness.