Warehousing logistics

Warehousing logistics is intended for all logistic chains ensuring safekeeping of stocks, their location, storage and accounting. This service is also used during consolidation (combination) of cargoes in transport logistics in delivering small-scale consignments.

The warehouse receives from manufacturing and commercial enterprises any products intended for a specific customer, and forms larger (consolidated) consignment thereof, which cover several participants. In this event, benefits include maximum reduction of transport costs, which are distributed among all participants of consolidated delivery depending on cargo volume.

Economic benefits are provided also in case when using one or more warehouses leads to direct reduction of general logistic costs.

Economic benefits are closely connected with basic functions, which are vested in warehouses, namely, consolidation, sorting-out, transshipment, revision/ postponement and accumulation of stocks.

Out warehouses are equipped with:

• handling systems;
• cargo processing systems (marking, packing);
• goods' storage systems;
• stock control systems.

During warehousing operation, the works listed below are fulfilled:

• loading/unloading;
• sorting, packing, marking of cargoes;
• storing and preparing cargoes for delivery;
• hand-over operations;
• cargo safety monitoring;
• works on prevention of transport facilities' delays; ensuring flexibility in choosing carriers and determining scope of transportation, and finally, decreasing transport charges.

Advantages

Due to their location in European countries, as well as in CIS-countries, warehouses can perform various functions being only an integral component of the system of higher level (logistic chain).

Therefore, warehousing suggests not only individual technological approach, but also logistic approach based on comparing peculiar features of ingoing and outgoing traffic, taking into account internal factors and requests of the customer.

Our warehouses can be also used for completion of the process of finishing or assembling light industry products. The warehouse duly equipped for product marking or labeling, allows postponing actual production till the product concerned is really demanded.

Economic benefits of the above service are connected, firstly, with risk minimization, since finishing and packing are performed only upon appearance of a definite customer making specific requirements to marking and packing; and secondly, they are stipulated by stocks reduction, since one and the same goods can be provided with various labels and packings. Reduction of risk and level of stocks often guarantees decrease in total logistic costs, in spite of the fact that packing and labeling in warehouse conditions is more expensive than that at the manufacturing plant.

For some companies having seasonal nature of business, warehousing logistics may be interesting from the point of view of stockpiling.

This function is typical for some branches which products are governed by seasons and require long-term storage. Accumulation of stocks creates, in a sense, protecting barrier, allowing to arrange efficient production in conditions of restrictions connected with the resources channels and fluctuations in customer demand. Therefore, asynchronous nature of production process is smoothed.