Steel products logistics

Steel products logistics operation mode is divided into three modules: purchasing and transportation of raw materials - steel production logistics - finished product sales logistics

Raw material procurement and transportation
The steel industry needs raw materials mainly iron ore and energy, which will cost a lot of business procurement and transportation costs. In general, large domestic iron and steel enterprises have their own mines both at home and abroad. Each year a large number of imported iron ore from abroad are transported back to the production base by sea. Specific operations, the large shipping by the ocean will be transported to the domestic port of the port, and then allocated in the port, and then transported back to the company through the inland production base. In order to prevent unforeseen factors, enterprises also hoard a large amount of raw materials, only this part of the need to consume expensive business procurement, transportation, inventory costs. In the context of the general rise in international ore and seaborne prices, how to reduce procurement and transportation costs is a headache for the domestic steel industry's logistics department every year.

Finished product sales logistics

In general, steel sales are always marketed with their processing and distribution centers. Data shows that China now has nearly 300 steel processing and distribution centers. In the next few years, for the large iron and steel enterprises, the biggest trend of the finished product sales logistics is the establishment and improvement of the steel marketing system. More and more powerful enterprises will transform the existing marketing network into a trunk transportation plus area Distribution of the reasonable model.