1. What is the logistics outsourcing?
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The so-called logistics outsourcing, the manufacturing enterprises to focus resources, save administrative costs, enhance the core competition ability, will the logistics business to contract entrusted to the professional logistics company (third party logistics) operation. Outsourcing is a long-term, strategic, mutual penetration and mutual benefit business commission and contract implementation.
2. What is a black hole of supply chain?
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Application of supply chain management is an important reason of gain visibility in the process of raw materials in the entire production and distribution. With good visibility, production arrangement will be more specific. Cheap information may lead to improved customer service and expensive inventory cost savings.
Although had improved the visibility of the supply chain management, inventory visibility of still not reached the degree of due. In fact many companies in the supply chain there is a big blind spot. Here are four of the supply chain's largest and most serious breach of:
1, purchase supply chain is usually not contact shipping supply chain. From the factory's point of view, this means that the truck down parts, and then returns empty, but in fact they can load the shipment. From a global perspective, the company usually put the product export to the products and raw materials import country. As a result, they did not make full use of two-way mobile the huge advantage of lower sea freight charges.
2, producers have no effective way to instantly to modify submitted order raw materials suppliers. Even with the best production facilities, on the day of the production, need parts will change frequently. Unfortunately, the order once submitted to supplier, will not change. A better solution might be to use electronic order system in concrete production.
3, many enterprises have many factories, and the same supplier, but not all factories overall demand for raw materials. Many factories restocked never coordinate transport. Due to each factory small order separate transportation, the transportation cost under budget.
4, although many large companies products, inventory, distribution is global, there are few of globalization are the company's inventory visibility. In domestic, many companies can from the recent factory or warehouse the goods transport to customer, because there is always a focus almost order processing system and centralized storage system connection. However, for international transport is not the case. For international orders, generally no centralized order processing system. If there is a concentration of the order processing system, also there are few centralized storage systems to determine where to send goods. As a result, the international order fill out very slowly and high inventory cost is unnecessary. Transportation cost is higher than should have been.