Importance of warehouse management

Where is the importance of warehouse management? ? Looking at the warehouse and holding a key is called managing the warehouse?

what are the principles of warehouse management?

how to reduce product cost through warehouse management?

In fact, inventory management is closely related to product cost. Clearly accounting product cost is very important for accounting net profit, but from the cost itself, if product inventory management is poor, product consumption will increase. For example, if a certain brand of products are not made, some people will be in the warehouse, which will cause waste without inventory and management. Most marketing activities of professional beauty salons are carried out in two forms: discount and gift. Discount means giving customers discounts directly, and gift is how much they buy and send.

many store managers will ask, how much should the distribution proportion of promotional activities be controlled? I want to tell you that this is difficult to answer for four reasons. First, brands are different. Second, the intensity of brand distribution is different. Third, brand discounts are different. Fourth, the greater the discount, the smaller the plan, and the less the distribution intensity will be.

under the premise of many locations, it is difficult to accurately locate the distribution intensity, even if the proportion is not exceeding the standard, it is also very suitable. Then through inventory management, we can play four roles.

First, reduce the loss of products and reduce costs;

second: there is no waste in the process of controlling the purchase;

third: know how much the distribution strength can probably achieve;

fourth: reduce the overall cost and maximize the profit.

in the past, many shopkeepers and bosses would ask a question, how can the cost accounting be the most accurate without problems? Operating a beauty salon for many years has never figured out the profit. The reason is that in the process of purchasing goods, most brands have various policies, that is, how much money to pay, how much money to send, and sometimes, besides giving away, they will also do some spike activities, so that the product cost of beauty salons will become very chaotic.

Let me tell you a story first. The protagonist is a financial aunt and teacher Yang Hua. The background is that the owner of a chain store in Anhui hired a retired aunt. Her aunt is a 3-year-old financial officer to serve as the chief financial officer. One day, her aunt took a course with Teacher Yang. This aunt asked Teacher Yang, Teacher Yang, you don't know. It used to be easier to do finance in the original factory. Why? First, there is invoicing software, and the cost of the second product is very fixed. For example, if you subtract 5 product costs from the factory price of 1, pieces, you can automatically generate 5 gross profits through the software, and report all the gross profits together to the boss in one month. It is easy to calculate the net profit by subtracting the operating costs and personnel costs. However, since I have been in the beauty salon for two years, I have never figured out how to calculate the cost is the simplest. This aunt went on to say that every time the boss holds a meeting, he will come back with a policy and let me calculate it, which is equivalent to several discounts. For example, if you buy 1, yuan, you will get 1, yuan. This brand will get 5, yuan, which is equivalent to a discount price of 1, yuan. 5% of the distribution bosses said that there was an explosive product, and a store killed 2 bottles at most, and then returned 2 bottles every second. Then they reported these three data to me for me to calculate the cost of this batch of products, two or three times a year, and the investment promotion meeting reached two or three times. However, the proportion of each batch of gifts was different and the size of the scheme was different. A brand has to adjust its price three times a year. The first batch is 43% off, the second batch is 38% off, and the third batch is 45% off. Ten bottles of facial cleanser in the warehouse, three bottles are the first bottle, two bottles are the second batch, and five bottles are the third batch. Are the net profits accounted clearly in the end? I've been doing finance for 3 years, and I'm in a mess. The aunt went on to say that in the past, more than 2, items in the hardware factory would not have any problems in gross profit accounting, because we only had one cost, but the beauty salon was different. Buying a part is not counted, giving a part is not counted, and killing a part. In this state, what can be done to simplify things? At this time, Teacher Yang said, if I were you, I wouldn't worry at all. Although I haven't studied finance, because I have been running stores for so many years and have accumulated 2 or 3 years of experience in this industry, I can calculate the cost of my products with a small form. My aunt went on to say, Teacher Yang, you should show me this so-called simple method and see if it works or not. After all, I majored in finance. At this time, Teacher Yang said, if I were you, I wouldn't worry at all. Although I haven't studied finance, because I have been running stores for so many years and have accumulated 2 or 3 years of experience in this industry, I can calculate the cost of my products with a small form. My aunt went on to say, Teacher Yang, you should show me this so-called simple method and see if it works or not. After all, I majored in finance. Teacher Yang went on to say, I never need to calculate the product purchase discount, because as long as you discount it according to all the gifts, in the process of making the cost table, the same product will appear, and in the process of recalculating different costs, there is no way to be 1% accurate. No matter how many things the brand gives you, the product cost should be calculated according to the normal brand supply and supply discount, so don't give you any gifts, but it is also cost-effective in the middle of the discount. At that time, Teacher Yang shared two forms about inventory management with this aunt, namely, a gift inventory table and a gift inventory table. How can we make this part of the gift cost-effective very clear after defining the unified product cost? As a beauty salon, as long as we have these two forms, we can make our purchase cost very clear. The contents of the two forms are exactly the same, but the names are different. Send a genuine product and a gift. For example, 1, yuan will give 15% off the purchase, and we will take the products bought with 1, yuan from the agent. We will fill in the gift inventory table and the remaining 5, yuan will be filled in the gift inventory table. This part of the products has no cost, and the gross profit is 2 when it is sold to the customer 2 yuan, but it is taken from the genuine inventory table, which means that it is bought with money. Now let's talk about this genuine inventory table. The genuine inventory table refers to the fixed discount cost. There are several categories in the middle of this table. For us, let's say that the first category item number refers to the number of this brand on the quotation sheet, because some brands of home products are divided into travel, household clothes, and what kind of customer-made house clothes, such as water hibiscus cream. There are 3 grams, as well as large household packaging, 12 grams, although they are all called water hibiscus cream, but the number of grams is different, the article number is different, and the cost is different. Of course, the article number is unclear, and it is also possible to directly write the capacity. For example, just write 3 grams of water hibiscus cream and 12 grams of water hibiscus cream directly.

In the second column of the table, all the products in the inventory table of cost gifts are bought with real money, so you can't put the gifts in it. Every product will have a purchase cost price. The inventory table is usually in the hands of finance or restaurants, and another copy will be kept here. Some deans don't want to let warehouse managers know the product cost, and they can also remove the third column from the table. It's our opening and closing inventory. Every month, the number of each product after counting is the opening inventory. He must keep up with the previous month. The last column of this form is that the ending inventory is exactly the same, and the ending inventory is one month, minus the amount sold every day. The ending inventory is the reference for inventory counting. If the ending inventory is five bottles, it is as few as four bottles in the warehouse inventory. This bottle needs the warehouse manager to pay the bill. When filling out this form for the next month, I can only write four bottles for the beginning inventory, because there are only four bottles in the warehouse, and one bottle is lost. The fourth column in the form is the purchase quantity. For example, the initial inventory of the effluent hibiscus cream is 15 bottles, and the monthly sales volume can reach about 3 square meters. The number of 15 bottles in the area is definitely not enough, and it must be replenished, because there is still the balance in the account, and a phone call is made to the dealer, and 15 bottles are spent. This refers to the quantity of replenishment. The fifth column in the table is our total inventory, the initial inventory plus the quantity of purchased goods together is the current total inventory, and the last column is from 1 to 31, which means that the shipments of each day are filled in every day in the middle of the month. Beauty salons can't fill in Arabic numerals when making accounts, because the increase in quantity needs to be revised, so we suggest using orthographic statistics as far as possible. When you sell a bottle, fill in a bar, 13 flat on the 3rd, two bottles on the 13th, six bottles on the 19th, one bottle on the 26th, and three bottles on the 29th to 31st. The total shipments are 25 bottles, and each product is recorded one by one. We need to know the total inventory of products at a glance. Teacher Yang reminds everyone that we must be supervised in the process of inventory. Without supervision, it is nonsense. In the process of inventory management, there must be a store manager or consultant, and two or more people will take inventory. This is very important.

There is a very big shop in Linyi, Shandong Province, and the boss is a layman. I hired a store manager, who used to be the manager of an agent brand. After I went to this store, I introduced this brand out of my familiarity with Yuanyuan's brand. Many bosses have little monthly sales of single items in the store, and when they are 1% sure, they can guess whether it is good to sell or not. There is no specific concept store. After the manager came out of this brand, he applied for extra commission and more purchases from this company. Just take delivery of the goods directly with the commission of 2, yuan, and a lot of goods are piled up in the warehouse of 15, yuan. At this time, these phenomena happen frequently, and if you want to exchange the goods later, it will inevitably involve more costs, such as freight, and the other company will not allow it to be exchanged, so you need to know a safe inventory for each product. The so-called safety stock is calculated according to the average monthly sales volume of this single product last year. For example, last year, Lotus Cream sold 36 flat, 36 flat divided by 12, and the average monthly sales volume is 3 bottles. For this store, the safety stock of this brand is 3, which is lower than this amount. In case of out of stock, customers will not wait for you until you arrive, but they can't just ignore it because of the safety stock. Every time I read the inventory, I count the quantity and the brands that will expire in the last three months, take them out for internal treatment or promotion and digestion, or give them away individually, which involves the cost of these products. Under normal circumstances, I have to predict the minimum monthly inventory of each single product. If it exceeds this figure, there will definitely be problems. For example, it is obvious that the safety stock is 3 square meters, but 5 bottles are purchased, and only 1 sets are needed for a certain box, and 5 sets are finally imported. It is impossible to make a mistake or expire later, and there is no way to deal with it. At this time, there is a very serious problem of purchasing control. We deans must pay special attention to this link. Ok, everyone has finished sharing the genuine inventory table. Next, let's share the gift inventory table. We say that gifts are divided into two categories. We call these gifts of bed cover and sun umbrella materials. If the store is relatively small, it is suggested that it can be completed on one form. If the store is very large and the product inventory is very large, it is suggested that the gift inventory table be divided into two forms: the material gift table and the product self-evaluation table.

Through the calculation of these two tables, the gross profit will become very simple. Taking it out from the giveaway table is zero cost, and taking it out from the giveaway table is your standard activation cost. Later, we will analyze the spike cost table for everyone. Some partners will ask what the spike product is. The spike product can be counted as a giveaway, but the amount paid for spike is not regarded as the product cost, but as the operating cost. Spike products can be counted as gifts, but the amount paid for spike is not as product cost, but as operating cost.

ok, let's summarize the gift inventory table and the gift inventory table. what role can these two tables play?

firstly, with these two tables, we can clearly know how to conduct product inventory;

second, guide the store to clearly calculate the product cost by combing the genuine products and gifts;

Third, through the minimum inventory, we know that we should put an end to unnecessary exaggerations and avoid unnecessary waste. All products that are about to expire must be registered. If the shelf life is less than six months, it is a high-risk state and needs special treatment.

Fourth, strengthen the control of product cost and grasp the real-time situation of products.

What principles should we follow in warehouse management? We should also follow the following three principles