Warehousing Distribution Center Logistics Center difference

?Warehouse is the general term for the place wher goods are kept and maintained. In the past, items were stored in the warehouse for a long time or very long, few varieties of items, so the main responsibility of the library is to protect the good items and good maintenance goods.

But the modern warehouses, goods storage time in the warehouse, often shorter or shorter, in order to reduce the backlog of funds; goods varieties are also greatly increased, that is, the selecion of the amount of goods, speed and the number of distribution points are geometric series increase.
from quantitative to qualitative change, part of the warehouse name into a distribution center and logistics center. In recent years, many of the original warehousing enterprises, transport enterprises, and even small consignments, water delivery companies are renamed flop was renamed the logistics center or distribution center.

This phenomenon itself is not to the principle of inappropriate and not, but to the logistics of the customer's search has brought inconvenience in the academic exchanges with a certain inconvenience Lei. As a result, there should be little basic interdisciplinarity in academic communication.
In the GB / T 18354-2001 logistics terminology, the warehouse, logistics center and distribution center has a clear definition. But somehow, in this standard warehouse on the "logistics technology and equipment and the terminology" defined in the logistics center on the "basic conceptual terms" in the definition of distribution center on the "logistics operating terms" in the definition, which in concept Causing confusion.

In addition, I feel that the definition is too lengthy, to the reader's own request too much. Definition is indeed very difficult, in the future by experts and scholars to study. Here I would like to make a simple distinction between them:

Warehouse is a general term for the place wher goods are stored and maintained. A distribution center is a place wher numerous items are stored and many items with a short storage period are distributed to a large number of retail stores (such as exclusive stores, chain stores, supermarkets, etc.) or end customers. However, the logistics center is the storage of many items, and the storage cycle of a long number of items delivered to the distribution center of the place.

In order to make the retail store or the final customer not to set up the library or to set up the storehouse as well as not to set up the fleet, has the formidable multi-customer, the customer service center, the storehouse, the storehouse, Multi-species, multi-frequency small number of sorting and distribution functions.

Because many customers, and more varieties in order to achieve security Jian, transport operations of large-scale, common, cost savings. Distribution centers generally use "door-to-door" motor transport, the scope of its smaller operations (20 to 300 km), the region's end customer service. Sometimes, the distribution center also has the processing business, such as the steel processing, food from large transport packaging to small retail packaging, feed from a single feed for the compound feed, service extension and value-added.

Logistics center is characterized by: the location of the middle reaches of the logistics, warehouse and distribution center is the middle of the factory bad, generally far away from the factory warehouse and distribution centers, in order to transport the economy, the use of large-capacity cars or rail transport and less Batch a large number of out of storage.

Need to explain, warehouses, logistics centers, distribution centers are self-employed or on behalf of the customer storage and transport of goods place, it can be said that the past ministries, storage and transportation companies at all levels, it is more difficult to distinguish, and sometimes their business There is a clear cross-over; the so-called multi-customer, multi-species, multi-frequency small amount of picking or large-capacity cars or rail transport and a small number of bulk out of storage, etc., is relatively speaking.

Warehouses have been gradually replaced by the logistics center and distribution center, in addition to seasonal production of significant reserves of grain storage, cotton, fruit, cold Chih-sea product base and the military stockpile, is still the main custody.

Because the three have custody and maintenance of goods and other functions of the same function, but the extent of the strength of different, in addition to the logistics center and distribution center is developed by the warehouse, derived from. Therefore, sometimes we say that the warehouse, including the logistics center and distribution center, is the three collectively. Including the following planning and design narrative.