Quick Tips: Warehouse Management in the Daily Chemical Industry

The daily chemical and beauty industry belongs to the typical fast-moving consumer goods sector. In recent years, the increasing demand for personalized products from consumers and the normalization of online e-commerce shopping festivals have driven rapid growth in the daily chemical and beauty market.

This growth brings both new opportunities and challenges to supply chain management in the industry.

Challenges in the Industrial Chain




















 

1. High Variety of SKUs:
   
   Daily chemical and beauty products undergo rapid updates and iterations, leading to challenges in managing a wide range of SKUs, as well as additional items like batch numbers, dates, and specifications. This complexity can result in poor inventory management and accuracy, leading to losses due to expired stock.
    

2. Warehouse Operations Challenges:
   
   a) Seasonal, marketing, and brand-related factors influence demand and often rely on manual operations for bundling. During peak promotional periods, outbound operations can surge manyfold, leading to issues like overstocking, mismatches, and damages.
   
   b) Increasing demands for fast shipping require continuous improvement in operational efficiency in warehousing and logistics.
   
   c) Handling returns is often disorganized, with frequent issues like leaks and damages, resulting in low efficiency and potential errors in reverse logistics.
    

3. Surge in Orders during Shopping Festivals:
   
   Promotions, live streaming on e-commerce platforms, and celebrity endorsements can lead to explosive growth in orders during promotional periods, requiring flexible and intelligent warehouse automation solutions to handle the fluctuations in order volumes.

How BEST Software WMS Supports the Upgrade of the Daily Chemical and Beauty Supply Chain?

Inventory Management:

• Utilizes comprehensive inventory control strategies within the built-in intelligent warehouse management system to implement barcode management for products across all channels.
• Enhances inventory accuracy and circulation information with efficient collaboration in tasks such as scanning for shelving, picking, quality checks, and shipping.

Expiry Date Management:

• Provides alerts for products nearing their expiry date to help businesses manage close-to-expiry inventory promptly and reduce losses.
• Implements strategies for not accepting products with exceed expiry dates, improving inventory quality.
• Enforces strategies to prevent the sale of products with exceed expiry dates, enhancing customer service and reducing complaints.
• Supports strategies like first-in, first-out (FIFO), last-in, first-out (LIFO), and batch-specific selection to enable flexible batch management.
  
  

Combination Product Management:

• Standardizes information entry for gift items and promotional products, creating new bundled products to save time in processing orders, avoiding manual errors in picking, and ensuring timely shipments.

Return Package Management:

• Streamlines the entire return process with systemization and online management, eliminating the need for spreadsheets and improving efficiency.
• Manages the handling of small, scattered, and diverse return products before shelving, optimizing the shelving process and enhancing storage efficiency and outbound efficiency.
  
  

Introduce  Automation Equipment:

• For high-value products, supports integration with automatic sorting lines, automatic packaging machines, and other automation equipment to ensure operational efficiency during peak periods.

Stability and Reliability:

• Proven stability during major promotional events, having passed the test of "Double 11" (an important shopping festival in China) for over a decade, allowing it to handle daily millions of orders without stress.
   

For the daily chemical and beauty industry, maximizing resource allocation in the supply chain is of utmost importance, impacting both operational costs and the ability to capture market growth. In the rapidly changing landscape of internet commerce, you need an automated intelligent warehouse management system. BEST Software WMS, with over a decade of practical experience in the warehousing industry, offers a comprehensive solution to help customers reduce costs, increase efficiency, and expand their market share.