Automobile Industry
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Solution Introduction
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Production Logistics Solution

Based on a thorough understanding of the service demands and timeliness of the upstream supply chain for auto parts, SF has integrated its abundant transportation resources and powerful transportation and warehousing management systems to provide customers with efficient and stable pre-production warehousing and distribution integrated services. By coordinating customer production plans across the country, optimizing the pickup sequence and routes of suppliers, and conducting lean management such as unpacking, repacking, sorting of over ten thousand types of spare parts in the pre-production central warehouse, ensuring the stability and smoothness of production supply. Meanwhile, in response to the characteristics of the customer’s production line, SF offers highly customized services, including adaptable site planning of the plant, equipment application and personnel management plans. Moreover, by leveraging intelligent devices such as AGVs, electronic billboard, light picking, and unmanned forklifts, guaranteeing smooth and efficient feeding in the production line

Solution Advantages

Inbound and in-field transportation service

● Provide flexible and diverse inbound transportation services, including full truckload, less-than-truckload, express delivery, and freight. Support various scenarios such as long haul transportation, milk-run pickup, swap trailer transport, direct pickup and direct delivery, etc.

● Provide customized services, including geofencing, mobile apps, electronic locks, electronic receipts, control towers, real-time GPS tracking, and OTM systems, etc.

● Provide transportation management services, including network design, route optimization, loading management, performance monitoring, cost analysis and other end-to-end transportation management services, to achieve visibility, controllability and optimization of the entire transportation process

● Provide professional in-field transportation services for auto parts factories, including short-haul transportation within the factory, special vehicles (such as seat conveyor vehicles), container yard unloading, and waste transportation, covering both on-site and short-distance transfer needs

Warehousing and logistics service before production

● Ample warehouse resources are provided, including high-standard warehouses, forward warehouses, automated warehouses, and temperature-controlled warehouses, to meet the storage needs of multiple scenarios of production materials and automotive components

● Standardized warehouse operation services not only include basic receiving, dispatching and storage operations, but also provide various value-added services, such as intelligent site management, unpacking and re-packing, sorting, quality inspection, labeling, packaging, VMI, inventory optimization, equipment recycling, KD component assembly, professional management of battery power (lifting, iron containers, serial number management, etc.), and can extend to inventory age management, FIFO, empty container folding, asset control and design of circulation equipment solutions, meeting the needs of multi-level warehouse scenarios such as automotive pre-production, RDC, VMI, LOC, CMC, etc.

Production line collaboration and in-field logistics value-added services

● Operation services beside the production line, including inventory management, component re-packaging, sorting, SPS, replenishment of spare parts to the production line, kanban replenishment, putting on production line and distribution, empty/full exchange, etc.

● KD all/semi spare parts and components packing, assembly, etc., including consumer goods management, recycling tools solution design, etc.

● Value-added services, site management, recycling tool management, Kitting, waste recycling and management, AGV automated navigation, black light warehouse, light picking, electronic pull production, etc.

Applicable Scenarios

Applicable to automobile spare parts suppliers, major vehicle manufacturing factories

Inbound transportation of raw materials

In-field logistics: operation beside the production line

Warehouse management such as RDC/LOC/VMI/CMC

In-field transportation

KD fully bulk shipment/semi-bulk shipment packing, assembly

Customer Cases
SF provides inbound logistics services for a joint venture passenger car brand customer in Shanghai

 Service Coverage: 

LOC management, inventory management, unpacking and re-packing, sorting, SPS, distribution and putting on production line, workshop logistics management of assembly/vehicle body/coating/engineering, JIT management, and other logistics services. 
Service Features: 

Operation management applies lighting system, SPS/EPS, goods to person robot, image recognition/automatic scanning, voice recognition, AGV, sorting system, intelligent sorting and other technologies, implements peak and off-peak season employment management and measures, actively copes with adjustment and changes of customer production with suitable costs and quick response 

SF provides production logistics services for a joint venture customer in the fields of commercial vehicle manufacturing and sales in Beijing

The customer is a well-known truck manufacturing company, mainly producing medium-sized and heavy cargo trucks

Specific provided services include: 

●Inbound transportation

●RDC management

●JIT&JIS delivery to factory

●From the aspect of solutions, SF Supply Chain provides customers with: 

● Design various transportation modes to efficiently pick up parts from suppliers in Beijing and ensure the punctuality of inbound delivery;
● Utilize the “Intelligent Logistics Park” to provide professional inbound transportation planning, including vehicle scheduling, pre-entry of waybills, vehicle trace tracking, appointment of unloading time, berth scheduling, etc., to effectively manage the vehicles for pickup and delivery, improving the loading and unloading efficiency and effectively reducing the command pressure at the crossing junction;
● Provide VAS operations at the RDC before inbound factory, including packaging, sorting, unpacking, sorting, and then transporting to various production workshops according to the order requirements;
● Use the WMS&TMS system of SFDHL and connect it with the customer’s LES system to achieve real-time information synchronization

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