Warehouse Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement Plan

Warehouse Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement Plan. Warehouse is a place where many companies store materials and turnover materials. For companies to reduce costs, warehouses It plays a very important role and needs to be paid attention to by various enterprises. Let’s share with you the warehouse cost reduction and efficiency improvement plan. Let’s take a look.

Warehouse Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement Plan 1

1. Warehousing

1. When handling items into the warehouse, the custodian will check the quantity and specifications of the items in detail , quality, and whether the variety is consistent with the purchase order. Those without purchase orders and products that do not meet the requirements are strictly prohibited from entering the warehouse.

2. Materials shall be classified and stored after being accepted into the warehouse, and fire prevention, mildew prevention, and loss prevention measures shall be implemented. In addition to daily inspection and cleaning of the warehouse, items with shelf life shall be registered to ensure the safety and reasonableness of materials. use.

3. When items are shipped out of the warehouse, the custodian will first ask for a picking list signed by the director of the picking department. According to the variety, quantity, and distribution of materials on the picking list, items without a picking list will be rejected. Distribution of materials; when the custodian issues a warehouse-out form, it must be signed by the person who receives the items. After the items are shipped out of the warehouse, the warehouse keeper responsible for accounting will register in detail according to the warehouse-out form and the actual materials received by each hotel or group, and summarize them at the end of the month. Submit it to the Finance Department.

4. The user unit, purchasing personnel, and warehousing personnel must communicate reasonably. When the user unit receives the material purchase order, it must know the warehouse material inventory before applying. The purchasing personnel will also connect with the warehouse. Procurement can be reported only after the signature of the user unit and the person in charge of the warehouse, so as to minimize inventory.

5. Use effective storage positioning methods to improve the efficiency of warehousing operations. Storage positioning means determining the location of the objects being stored. If the positioning method is effective, it can greatly save time in searching, storing, and taking out, save a lot of labor, and can prevent errors and facilitate inventory management. The storage positioning method can adopt advanced computer management or general manual management.

6. Use effective monitoring and inventory methods to improve the accuracy of warehousing operations. Monitoring the quantity and quality of stored materials is conducive to understanding the basic situation of warehousing, and is also conducive to scientific control of inventory. A slight error in actual work will lead to discrepancies in the accounts. Therefore, it is necessary to grasp the actual storage situation promptly and accurately, and check with the account card frequently to ensure that the storage materials are intact. This is essential for manual management or computer management. of. An inventory is carried out once a month, and the audited inventory form is submitted to the finance department. If the inventory is found to be too large, it is reported to the director in a timely manner.

7. Separate statistics on warehouse energy usage. The use of water, electricity and other energy in the warehouse should be controlled. By measuring them individually, companies can see whether these energy sources are necessary, reasonable, and have potential for improvement.

2. Procurement

1. Improve basic procurement management. Including classification, grading and database establishment of purchased materials; determination of qualified supplier evaluation criteria, classification of supplier levels and establishment of database;

2. Seize the opportunity of price changes. Prices often change with the seasons and market supply and demand. Therefore, pay attention to the rules of price changes, grasp the timing of purchasing, and try to purchase seasonal vegetables as the mainstay and seasonal vegetables as a supplement. This can greatly reduce procurement costs. Therefore, you must learn to price check: No matter when purchasing any kind of material, you must be familiar with its price composition before purchasing, understand the source price of raw materials delivered by your supplier, and lay the foundation for your own accurate price check. Based on this, purposeful negotiation can be done to know the enemy and win every battle

3. Establish a stable cooperative relationship with suppliers. Choose suppliers with good reputations and sign long-term contracts with them. Stable suppliers have strong supply capabilities, transparent prices, and long-term cooperation. They have certain priority arrangements for the company's supply and can ensure the quality, quantity, and delivery of their supplies. Delivery date, price, etc. Procurement management should attach great importance to improving the competitive advantage of the overall supply chain, establish long-term and stable cooperative relationships with excellent suppliers as much as possible, encourage the improvement of supplied products and technologies, support the development of suppliers, and sign strategic alliances with them when necessary Cooperation agreement, etc.

4. A procurement information registration and review system is implemented for scattered purchases. Information such as purchase product name, quantity, trademark, price, manufacturer name, purchase location, contact number and other information must be registered in detail. The company can send personnel to a third party at any time. Identity checks.

5. Fully conduct market research and information collection. For an enterprise's procurement management to reach a certain level, it should pay full attention to the investigation of the procurement market and the collection and arrangement of information; it must have a better understanding of the supplier's product costs or service conditions. Only in this way can it fully understand the market conditions and Only by understanding the price trend can you be in a favorable position in price negotiations. This requires purchasing personnel to have a wide range of information sources: today's society is an electronic device, and purchasing personnel must collect material purchasing information, regional differences, etc. from different aspects.

6. Establish a monthly supplier rating system (from three aspects: quality, price, and service) and implement a supplier quota system, which will achieve unexpected results.

A brief discussion on cost reduction and efficiency improvement

Since the economic crisis, we have not only faced the dilemma of "difficulty in delivering ships and difficulty in receiving orders", but also faced the dilemma of rising prices of main raw materials and labor force. Unfavorable factors such as rising prices, an increase in the RMB exchange rate, and loopholes in the company's own management have led to rising costs, and the ship market price has fallen sharply, resulting in various difficult situations for the company's profit margins to become smaller and smaller. Through nearly a year of hard work, Runbang Ocean has continued to grow and expand. While affirming our achievements, we have also seen our shortcomings. To this end, it is recommended to rectify and improve from the following points:

1. Production

Pay close attention to production, strengthen shipbuilding plan management, continuously improve production efficiency, and strive to shorten the shipbuilding cycle. To ensure the steady progress of production;

1. Insist on grasping the previous process to ensure the smooth progress of the next production process. According to the characteristics of the product, clarify the important nodes and key projects of each department, assign responsibilities to the people, and track the completion to avoid wasting time caused by poor planning;

2. Establish and improve a complete planning management system, To establish the authority of the plan, each department of the company must closely focus on the company's production plan and prepare their own professional plans, such as: production technology preparation plan, material procurement and delivery plan, equipment support plan, safety production plan, quality plan, human resources plan , product cost plan, fund use plan, etc., and connect and coordinate with each other to ensure the implementation and full completion of the company's production plan, which will be issued and implemented by the company after unified comprehensive balance;

3. Once the plan is determined, All units and departments must implement it to the letter;

2. Quality

We implement the "three inspection system", self-inspection, mutual inspection, and special inspection, that is, a After the product is built, you must first inspect it yourself, then employees will conduct mutual inspections, and finally, full-time inspectors will check, so as to continuously improve product quality. At the same time, we adhere to the principle of "doing it right once, do it right the first time" to minimize the number of inspections and avoid rework;

Standardize process discipline, improve design quality, strengthen design management, and strictly control design drawings, Discover hidden problems in design drawings in a timely manner and propose solutions to avoid design errors from flowing into the production process and causing unnecessary cost increases.

3. Management

Strengthen "7S" management, break through managers' thinking patterns, and change employees' "irregular behaviors." The production site and facilities are set up and managed in a standardized manner, and the production workers carry out meticulous construction in accordance with the requirements of standardization and refinement.

1. Comprehensively strengthen the implementation of target cost management, decompose and implement target cost indicators to various departments and production units, and combine them with economic responsibilities, rewards and punishments, and conduct inspections, assessments, and analyses. , summary and feedback work;

2. Further streamline product cost accounting management, standardize cost accounting methods, reasonably allocate and calculate product costs, and prevent omissions and double counting;

3. Improve the management of product quotas and working hours quotas, equip all quota business managers, strictly enforce quota disciplines, and no unit or individual is allowed to modify without authorization;

4. Improve the price management system, including working hours Prices, outsourced labor service (product) prices, equipment stage prices, etc., unify the formulation, review, approval and external settlement procedures of various prices, and put an end to the phenomenon of changing orders from day to day, having multiple policies, and not following rules and regulations;

5. Strengthen warehouse management. You should take inventory every month to ensure that the items are consistent and the accounts are consistent. Understand the inventory status, provide ordering basis for material procurement, and strive to reduce reserve funds to minimize inventory. Optimize and avoid idleness. In short, reducing product costs is an eternal theme. It involves all aspects of enterprise management and is a complex system engineering. It is related to the rise and fall of enterprises and the fate of employees. Reducing product costs is limited, while increasing product costs is. Infinitely, strengthening management is the only way to reduce product costs. We must work hard, start with details, be scientific and economical, and involve all employees to reduce product costs to the lowest level, so as to highlight our competitive advantages with surrounding shipyards. Warehouse Cost Reduction and Efficiency Improvement Plan 2

How warehouses contribute to cost reduction and efficiency improvement

1. Reduce Inventory

Reducing inventory means increasing inventory turnover , thereby improving cash turnover, which plays a vital role in the smooth flow of the company's blood, but it also puts forward higher requirements for the company's production capacity. When the market changes, the warehouse's inventory strategy should respond immediately and make adjustments. Especially when the market changes from the off-season to the peak season, whether it can meet market demand is a severe test of the company's production capacity. First, conduct an inventory to find out the actual inventory (must be shippable inventory); secondly, adjust the safety stock amount based on the actual inventory amount and demand, and increase the frequency of receipt and delivery; thirdly, adjust the purchase amount on this basis . Market orders and forecasts are analyzed weekly, and inventory and purchase quantities are adjusted based on the analysis. Let the warehouse always maintain an inventory that is consistent with market demand to reduce the company's procurement funds and speed up the turnover of funds.

What needs to be pointed out in particular is the actual inventory amount. This inventory amount is not the amount on the inventory management computer system, but the deliverable varieties and quantities actually stored in the warehouse. No matter how large the amount of expired products, returned products, damaged products and other defective products in inventory is, they are all negative, which can only create obstacles for the company's rapid capital turnover, reduce the speed of blood circulation, and lead to the company's bankruptcy over time.

2. Daily inventory and reporting

Let the company know the inventory data clearly and make it true and reliable. Only when you have real data can you make the right decision. Only the production, sales, planning and logistics departments of the enterprise can know which items are circulating as planned, which items are slowing down, and which items have become sluggish. Promptly provide advice on how to deal with these items, especially for items that have become sluggish. We must be really ruthless and deal with them in a timely manner. We must not abandon them and let them continue to occupy funds, incur storage costs, and increase costs. Sales, planning, production, and warehousing must work together, not alone. But at this point, various departments within the enterprise often argue with each other, work independently, and lack coordination. What's more, some leaders don't pay attention to it, let alone various departments. It is necessary to take inventory every day and place items according to type, variety, and packaging specifications.

3. Adjust the warehouse layout

The market has changed and the inventory has changed. The warehouse layout should also be adjusted accordingly to improve the utilization of warehouse area. Never think that excess warehouse space can be used to store more inventory or to store some dull items.

4. Determine the standard operating time of warehouse work

Companies usually measure the standard operating time of workers at the production site, but rarely measure the standard operating time of warehouse workers. By measuring the item inventory time, cargo packing time, cargo handling time, and cargo repacking time, business leaders, persons in charge, or logistics engineers can analyze whether the warehouse operators' operating procedures are reasonable, make suggestions for improvement, and train operators to follow standards. Operate according to operating routes and processes, thereby improving labor efficiency and reducing personnel costs.

5. Determine the utilization rate of warehouse equipment

Forklifts, stackers, manual or electric hydraulic trucks, rickshaws and other equipment commonly used in warehouses must be like production equipment. Count their utilization and check whether they are fully utilized, so that it is possible to reduce warehouse equipment and reduce warehousing costs.

6. Improve packaging

When items are stored and rotated in the warehouse, a large amount of waste packaging will be generated. In this regard, companies should consider whether they can use recyclable packaging instead. For items that cannot be packaged in recyclable packaging, we should try to find ways to reuse them. Without affecting its storage physical and chemical properties, the material and shape of the packaging can be changed to maximize the storage capacity per unit volume and make full use of the storage space.

7. Improve inventory management software system

Using various software systems to manage logistics and materials has greatly improved material management. However, many software still have some shortcomings, especially the lag of information, which affects the improvement of warehouse efficiency. Enterprises should take measures to improve the timeliness of the system to reduce the risk of increased costs.

8. Training of professional personnel

For positions such as sales, planning, statistics, production, warehousing (including loading and unloading), logistics, etc., we must be willing to invest and train the personnel in the positions. Training and inspection before, during and after the job, training first and then on the job, real training, do not go through the motions to deal with the leadership, let the on-the-job personnel truly master and be able to use it flexibly. In this way, we can improve work efficiency and reduce costs.