What are the main methods of cross-border e-commerce warehouse management?

I. examples of existing shelves in storage space

Shelf location information refers to the classification of the storage occasions of inventory goods according to their locations, accepting the serial numbers before the same identification, and making significant marks. Scientific and fair shelf information is conducive to the scientific maintenance of inventory goods. In the process of commodity income and expenditure, the operation can be completed quickly, correctly and conveniently by using shelf information, and the progress is subject to eliminate deviation.

When compiling shelf information, it is necessary to ensure that a stack of shelves are numbered in the same way in order to find out the punishment. The following are several commonly used shelf space numbering methods, and everyone can choose a practical method according to the actual environment reference:

1, chapter number

Divide the battery stack into several parts and number each part. In this method, each section is a unit, and each number represents a storage area. Segment numbering is more practical in the environment where the stacking position is simple and there is no shelf. How many segments can the storage area be divided into: A 1, A2, A3… respectively?

2. Category grouping

Gather some coherent goods, divide them into several groups, and then number each group. This method is more practical for sellers who are easy to keep according to commodity groups and sell goods with great differences, such as sellers who plan multiple categories;

3. Position style

Code stacks, sections, lines, lines, layers, grids, etc. Four groups of numbers can be accepted to indicate the location of the commodity storage position, which respectively indicate the number of stacks, the number of shelves, the number of shelves and the number of units on each floor. Dealing with the serial number 1- 12- 1-5, we can know that the serial number means: warehouse 1, shelf 12, the fifth floor, and we can quickly determine the detailed storage location of a commodity according to the shelf information.

The above are three commonly used stacking shelf numbers, which are not independent of each other. Sellers can use them jointly according to their real environment.

Second, examples of commodity information

The example of commodity information here means that SKU information, commodity specifications and sizes, and Chinese and English customs declaration information are hierarchical. Examples of commodity information are conducive to the scientific processing of inventory goods, and fair SKU coding is conducive to the realization of refined inventory processing, and at the same time, it is conducive to real-time and correct picking, obeying the schedule, and eliminating picking mistakes.

In terms of commodity information and commodity specifications and sizes, the information of Chinese and English customs declarations can be satisfied with a little sorting as existing data, and commodity SKU (inventory unit) is the most important and basic data in commodity processing, but because it is not existing information, many sellers do not have SKU or the SKU environment is not ideal.

For example, shoe A has three colors and five sizes, and this pair of shoes needs to pay the SKU code of 15, which is too fine to the detailed size of the detailed color. If the SKU information of goods is not satisfactory, the seller will not be able to effectively monitor the detailed inventory of their goods, which is not only not conducive to interpreting sales data and mastering real-time replenishment, but also the order information can not correctly express the picking information when delivering goods. Sample commodity information is a useful basis for ERP system.

So how do you write SKU?

As the smallest inventory unit, the basic principle of SKU is that it cannot be copied. Theoretically, users can write at will without repetition, but from the point of view of facilitating cross-border e-commerce sellers, the method of combining commodity classification attributes from large to small is pioneered, such as:

XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX

Large classification, small classification, commodity name, specification and color

In the actual process of cross-border e-commerce, SKU is not only the smallest inventory unit, but also the necessity of identifying commodity information through SKU, so it is very necessary for commodity SKU to express commodity information perfectly. The above is just a simple example. In reality, sellers can make different attribute combinations according to the characteristics of their products and the necessity of processing, but no matter which attribute combination they accept, the order and the types of attributes they contain must be equal to prevent cognitive confusion.

Dealing with all kinds of products that are repeatedly released and may be sold, involving the multi-SKU release environment of the same product, the initiating seller distinguishes the situation by adding a prefix or suffix to the original SKU on the platform.

For example, if the original SKU of a commodity is ABC, you can set 1-ABC, 2-ABC, 3-ABC or ABC- 1, ABC-2, ABC-3 on the platform, and then set the corresponding prefix separator or suffix separator in the order processing system such as Saitu OMS. After the setting is completed, the system will take the initiative to retrieve the SKU with the corresponding separator from the platform.

Third, the process plan

The process here does not refer to 4S or 5S, but refers to the sequential connection of each node in the process of ordering, invoicing and processing by the seller in the above two examples.

Simply put, the back-end processing of cross-border e-commerce sellers can be roughly divided into: 1, order acquisition 2, order distribution 3, threat distribution 4 and inventory maintenance. As for how these whole processes can be connected in series to maximize, it is necessary to write at length. Here I will talk about how ERP circulates this series of things under the current market situation.

1. Order acquisition, actively importing platform orders into the processing system through the official API interfaces of Yi Bei, Amazon, AliExpress and Wish platforms;

2. Order distribution, access to the mainstream international logistics channels in the market, and all orders are actively distributed to the corresponding stack distribution, the corresponding logistics picking list and tracking number according to the user-defined distribution rules;

3. Threatening distribution, actively obtaining logistics information according to order rules, generating face sheets and tracking numbers, and printing picking information synchronously with face sheets; For a simple package (a package with only one commodity in an order), you can scan the list of commodities;

4. Inventory maintenance: the system actively maintains the inventory according to the delivery environment of the order, and initiates natural procurement according to the inventory quantity and the daily average sales volume of the adjacent date.