Packaging and Printing in Logistics Management

The great role of printing technology in modern logistics is an indisputable fact

Packaging and printing is an important part of logistics management. For packaging, the quality of printing, the processing of various graphic and textual information, and the rational use of printing processes not only add a lot to the packaging, but also play a crucial role in consumer identification and purchase. It also has a huge role in other aspects of logistics management. The specific symbols and descriptions of various graphic characters and numbers produced on the packaging facilitate the inspection, handling and handover of the loading and unloading warehouse, avoiding accidental miscarriage of damaged goods or accidents causing personal injury, and ensuring that the goods are delivered safely and promptly. people. The use of barcodes facilitates the transportation and handling of various specific printed signage packages, indicates cargo safety factors and safety technologies and precautions, and alerts certain dangerous goods to ensure the safety of materials and personnel during the logistics process.

The role of printing in logistics plays a decisive role, which is directly related to the success or failure of logistics. It is also crucial to improve logistics efficiency, reduce logistics costs, and implement specific management methods in the logistics process. If you implement the JIT method, the demand flow leader can quickly respond (QR) and computer-aided ordering system (CAO). Inventory control, and smart inventory management systems and management methods, there is no specific printing process these efficient modern logistics management methods are useless.

The starting point of circulation

Packaging is the end of the production process, and it is also the starting point of the logistics process. It plays a role of protecting products in the logistics process. It can provide information on logistics products, help people distinguish products and understand products. Appropriate packaging also improves the efficiency of material handling. As logistics customers play an increasingly important role in their planning, packaging design of logistics products also directly affects logistics costs, logistics handling, and storage equipment.

Packaging refers to the overall name of the container, material, and auxiliary means used to protect the product in the course of logistics to facilitate storage and transportation, sales promotion, and according to certain technical methods, and the operations performed to achieve the above-mentioned purposes. Packaging facilitates the promotion and expansion of sales of goods. Dupont law states that 63% of consumers purchase according to the packaging of the product. Appropriate packaging also improves the efficiency of material handling. As logistics customers play an increasingly important role in their planning, product packaging design directly affects logistics costs, logistics handling, storage equipment and other issues. It can be seen that the role of packaging in logistics is extremely important.

It is well known that packaging and printing have always been moving side by side, although in international packaging there are unlicensed neutral packagings that do not indicate the country of production, place names and manufacturer names, nor do they indicate the original trademarks or brand names or even any written descriptions of famous brands. These packages are minimal in many international packaging. If the package does not have any printed graphics and text, consumers of any nature of the goods in the packaging container and the information associated with the goods will be “headwatering”. Such a product will not have any market, and all the links in the logistics will be paid. The effort will be rejected by the consumer by one vote. Packaging also has no meaning, and the quality of printing and the advantages of graphics and word processing technology are the key to the success of packaging and are one of the key factors that can attract consumers. Therefore, packaging and printing are all indispensable, one loss and one loss.

The application of printing in modern logistics management mainly includes the application of printing in logistics and warehousing management, the application of printing in the packaging management of logistics industry, and the printing in the enterprise logistics information system.

Easy storage management

Warehousing management is an important part of logistics activities. Although in modern logistics management methods, many companies are implementing zero-inventory technology and just-in-time and rapid response methods such as reducing warehousing have minimized the entire process inventory to reduce logistics costs and improve efficiency. Reasonable storage, high efficiency of deposit and withdrawal can effectively coordinate with other aspects of logistics activities. Therefore, various marks must be printed on the packaging of the goods. The "Barcode" identification is widely used nowadays. It can quickly and accurately identify the goods on the goods or packages in circulation and logistics activities and automatically read the information on the goods. In the warehouse management, the administrator scans each item separately for depositing or withdrawing. The information is processed by the computer, accurately and promptly identified, and stored in the database.

After investigation, Wal-Mart, the largest US department store, handles more than 200,000 cartons a day in the United States. In the temporary storage area or in warehouses, the public use scanners to identify the barcodes on the waybills and on the goods, and they are accurately identified by computers. Only after depositing or picking out, has greatly improved the efficiency to ensure the smooth operation of Wal-Mart retail stores. After China's Honghe Tobacco Factory, Hongta Group and Wuliangye used modern warehousing hardware and software tools, they saved tremendous manpower and material resources and improved the company's competitiveness.

Accelerate the circulation of goods

The function of printing in logistics is to use the graphic words printed on the goods or packages and specific symbols to reflect various information of the goods in order to facilitate consumer identification, promote sales, and improve the efficiency of logistics activities. The printing function almost penetrates the logistics activities. All aspects play an important role in the transportation, storage, packaging, transportation, circulation processing and information processing, facilitating the consumption and identification of logistics personnel. So printing as a red thread goes through the entire logistics system.

In modern logistics management, the application of printing technology is mainly the printing of bar codes. Bar codes can greatly improve work efficiency in warehouse management. It can be used to encrypt information such as pictures, characters, and fingerprints. Therefore, the printing of 2D barcodes will play a huge role in logistics management.

In addition, most packaging designs use desktop processing system software, but these software lack effective features to efficiently complete design tasks. With the development of desktop system software technology, the PDF (Portable Document Format) file format can save all fonts, formats, colors, and graphics of any source document regardless of the application and platform used to create the file. And the customer agrees, but some important packaging design elements in the PDF will be lost, so it is not suitable for the performance of complex packaging design. Recently, adding anti-counterfeiting elements to the packaging design to prevent counterfeiting and copying is becoming a new hot spot in the market.

Logistics information transmission signal

To achieve the rationalization of logistics information system must have some material and technical support. Printing technology plays a key role in logistics information systems. The various graphic characters printed by the logistics personnel can be used for manual identification processing. However, this original processing method can no longer meet the high-speed logistics activities and the distribution of a wide range of logistics products. The application of bar code technology in the printing of goods and packaging bar code in all aspects of logistics information systems play a significant role. Using the scanner to input the information of the goods and then use the computer to record the various information of the goods, the various constituent systems in the logistics information system cooperate with each other to share the information. The inventory management system scans barcodes of incoming and outgoing goods, grasps various information in stock in real time, and masters inventory and stacking of goods as well as cargo quality information to be accepted by the ordering system and ordering system. The distribution system makes use of corresponding responses to achieve rational use of information. . The order system handles various orders, prepares the goods for precise delivery time, delivery deadlines, and management of the remaining goods. This must be combined with the storage management system to handle the various information reflected in the bar code in time and arrange various activities. The delivery system timely specifies the delivery plan, and the delivery system records the barcode information to grasp the delivery status of the goods to classify the delivery directions, and specifies the vehicle deployment plan and the delivery route plan. Therefore, the application of bar code printing technology provides logistics and technical support for logistics information system, which ensures that the normal work of logistics information system provides strong information support for logistics flow, reduces logistics cost, improves labor efficiency, and makes a modernization of logistics. Due contribution.

Source: China Logistics Bidding Network