Warehousing is an integral component of the supply chain and an area in which Hoc has developed specific expertise.
The first function the warehouse has to perform is looking after stocks in order to supply production lines and/or to meet orders placed by end-customers.The different implementation processes
Receiving products from factories and suppliers:
- Quality and quantity controls upon arrival.
Managing stocks in accordance with the management rules defined for monitoring products (e.g. use-by date, FIFO, management by serial number):
- Inventory control (complete inventory or permanent inventory)
- Identification of ownership of goods, e.g. supplier managed inventory, consignment stock, storage of bonded goods
Preparing customers’ orders in a variety of modes (e.g. pushed flows, synchronised, just-in-time, Kanban, etc.):
- Preparation of homogeneous and mixed content, selective or bulk picking
- Cross-docking or merge-in-transit
- Quality control
- Monitoring the level of urgency of orders (e.g. AOG, spare parts)
The wide range of specialist activities on offer includes ambient, chilled, frozen, dangerous and bonded operations, pre-retailing and a diversified span of value-added services.
High value-added services
These services can create a real competitive advantage for our customers.
- Postponement by operations to be carried out on products (the addition of a component, for example) or by labelling (e.g. promotion, production of vignettes or a change of language), to increase flexibility and facilitate adaptation to local markets.
- Inkjet print on the finished product, to ensure constant traceability.
- Co-packing (promotional gifts, creation of batches).
- Kitting: management of nomenclature (compounds – components).
- Assembly, with the setting up of display shelves and promotional operations.
- Engineering of packaging to cut costs (less volume and weight to be transported, better product protection).