Barcode solves the big problem of warehouse management

Traditional warehouse management is result-oriented, and the process is often a black hole. Even some people think that anyway, if something is not lost, the material management process cannot be made clear, and there is no need to make it clear. Therefore, the traditional warehouse management is only based on the memory of the warehouse administrator and manual entry. This approach is not only time consuming and laborious, but also prone to errors. In the event of downstream quality problems, it is necessary to find out the causes and responsibilities in piles of paper documents. I can't imagine it. A company is a typical example. It is a fast-growing manufacturing enterprise and has encountered such confusion in warehouse management.
Manual management leads to increased stress and risk

A company's raw material types of more than 3,000 kinds, more than 300 kinds of finished products, by the 7 warehouse administrators slicing area management, after the material receipt of material with half A4 paper marking material information, when entering and leaving the library, register material card, fill in the material Single, then enter the computer's EXCEL spreadsheet.

With the expansion of the company's scale and the increase in the number of materials, the pressure and risk of logistics management of Company A has been increasing, mainly because: As warehouses do not use any warehouse logistics software, all material records are registered by hand to name, quantity, and materials of materials. Information such as specifications, in-and-out dates, etc. Manually record the workload is very large, and the timeliness and accuracy of the data relies entirely on the responsibility of the warehouse administrator.

In addition, company A's customers basically use bar code systems to manage materials. This requires Company A to print and paste bar code labels according to customer requirements prior to shipment. The manual recording of data and label printing work is not only inefficient, it has hidden troubles, and it is not a value-added activity for the company, and it affects the customer relationship management to some extent.

In this case, Company A decided to adopt bar code management in warehouse management, including the following aspects: Full implementation of automated management of bar codes for raw materials, semi-finished products, and finished products, management, storage, outbound, transfer, transfer, inventory, etc. Business, improve management level; purchase bar code scanners and bar code printing equipment, print box labels and various business documents, improve the efficiency and accuracy of operations such as outbound and outbound operations; transform existing local area networks, build WLANs, and implement bar code management systems through LANs and WLANs. The servers and computers, barcode scanners, printing terminals, etc. are connected and then imported into the ERP system through the interface program so that they can handle various tasks in real time.

After the ERP bar code, step by step implementation

The combination of bar code technology and ERP software can truly achieve the timeliness, accuracy and traceability of data collection. In view of the need for clear business processes for bar code implementation, Company A carefully considered and decided the order of implementation to be the bar code after ERP. Business process optimization and data correction during ERP implementation pave the way for bar code import. On the other hand, in the implementation and use of ERP, a large amount of document data needs to be entered, and barcodes are automatically identified and entered in place of manual entry, which also provides a powerful guarantee for the smooth operation of ERP systems.

The company A barcode application business scope includes:

1 Main processes: raw materials storage and delivery, finished products storage, and delivery;

2 secondary processes: production and material withdrawal, purchase and return delivery, transfer (between library and library transfer), transfer of library (transfer between locations in the library), inventory, query statistics;

3 Outsourcing process: Outsourcing and processing.

4 semi-finished product flow: workshop processing records → semi-finished products storage → semi-finished products delivery;

5Supply chain supporting process: establish a supplier platform, company A has designed a bar code rule, the supplier logs in the company's supplier platform, prints the bar code label of the outbound product, and sticks the bar code label on the part package or pallet before delivery.

A company decided to implement the implementation strategy for the step-by-step implementation, the first raw material bar code management, and then implement the finished product warehouse and semi-finished product warehouse, and finally implement the supply chain support. The specific approach is:

Raw material storage: In the early stage, the supplier was not alerted, and according to the supplier's incoming materials, a bar code label was printed according to the inspection order, and the inspector of Company A stuck the bar code on the material package or tray, and then scanned it into the warehouse. The bar code should include information such as the material code, batch number, quantity, and storage positions. After the bar code system runs smoothly, Company A sends a notice to all suppliers and requires suppliers to remotely print raw material bar code labels through EDI programs and paste them on the product packaging. Otherwise, the company will not be able to process the goods and lead to an increase in the payment cycle. .

Semi-finished goods storage: According to the production order, when the production line goes offline, the production operator prints a barcode label and pastes it on the semi-finished product, and then scans and stores it.

Finished goods storage: Scan production orders and print finished product barcode labels. When a package is filled, the bar code label of the package is automatically printed, and the bar code is pasted to the specified location of the package, and then scanned into the warehouse.

The use of raw materials to get out of the warehouse: The use of raw materials must correspond to the relevant production orders in order to calculate the cost of production and quality recourse. Therefore, when issuing a production task in a workshop, a production order with a barcode is printed. When the warehouse is used, the production order is scanned and the material list required for this production order is obtained and scanned out. Barcodes should include production order number, line number, material code, quantity, production department, and other information. For excess materials, the system must have authority control and enter the authorization password.

Finished goods delivery: Automatically search out the inventory list according to the invoices of the marketing department, and scan the barcode labels of the product packaging boxes one by one to ensure that the finished products are first-in, first-out. The bar code should contain the key information requested by the customer. The fixed information such as the material code is a code segment, and the change information such as the quantity can be set in another code segment.

It is worth pointing out that because the bar code system is integrated with different ERPs, its development difficulty and interface programs are not the same. Therefore, Company A considers the economics and maturity of interface development and selects a complete product line to provide a package solution. The supplier of the project, because its ERP system and bar code system integration is ready-made, no need to find other bar code manufacturers on the market to do the interface.

The effect is embodied in fast, accurate, and provincial

Simply put, the advantages of the bar code system are reflected in the words “fast”, “precise” and “provincial”. Barcode management is essentially process management. The process is fine and controllable. The result is naturally correct and effective. Warehouse bar code management brings great benefits to the logistics management of Company A, which is mainly manifested in:

1, to achieve material positioning, quantitative management;

2. Control raw materials first-in, first-out, avoid human error;

3. Strict implementation of quotas to prevent waste;

4, real-time control of inventory data, reasonable maintenance and control of corporate inventory, improve work efficiency and work quality;

5, through the automatic collection of material batch information, to achieve the traceability of the product production process.

More importantly, the bar code management promotes the transformation of the management model of A company, from traditional experience management to accurate digital analysis management, and post-management management to real-time management, real-time management, accelerated capital turnover, and improved supply. The speed of chain response will definitely enhance the company's overall competitiveness.