Warehouse Location Choice of QS Air Freight Forwarding Company Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process
Wan, Aiting (2023)
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2023060217381
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2023060217381
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In December 2019, the novel corona virus epidemic began to spread across the world, causing a huge impact on a variety of industries. Due to the strict global regional control, the transportation of personnel and goods is severely hindered, resulting in a significant reduction in the demand for passenger and cargo transportation. The impact on the transportation industry cannot be underestimated, and the air transportation industry, as one of them, is no exception.
Since 2022, the COVID-19 epidemic has improved, and the air transport industry has gradually recovered its vitality. Air freight forwarding companies have also begun to increase their air transport business to make up for the business losses during the epidemic period, so as to achieve better development. In this process, as a link between the previous and the next, the warehouse has the functions of storage, supporting the life cycle of goods, distribution and processing, information transmission, adjusting supply and demand and cargo transportation capacity, etc, which plays a pivotal role in shortening transportation time, improving transportation efficiency, reducing transportation costs and ensuring low consumption rate of goods.
Therefore, it is very important for air freight forwarder to choose a suitable warehouse address. This paper takes QS Air Freight Forwarding Company as an example, uses SWOT analysis to analyze the basic situation and advantages and disadvantages of the company, gives appropriate alternative schemes, and then makes a comprehensive analysis through questionnaire survey and analytic hierarchy process, and finally works out the most appropriate warehouse location scheme.
Since 2022, the COVID-19 epidemic has improved, and the air transport industry has gradually recovered its vitality. Air freight forwarding companies have also begun to increase their air transport business to make up for the business losses during the epidemic period, so as to achieve better development. In this process, as a link between the previous and the next, the warehouse has the functions of storage, supporting the life cycle of goods, distribution and processing, information transmission, adjusting supply and demand and cargo transportation capacity, etc, which plays a pivotal role in shortening transportation time, improving transportation efficiency, reducing transportation costs and ensuring low consumption rate of goods.
Therefore, it is very important for air freight forwarder to choose a suitable warehouse address. This paper takes QS Air Freight Forwarding Company as an example, uses SWOT analysis to analyze the basic situation and advantages and disadvantages of the company, gives appropriate alternative schemes, and then makes a comprehensive analysis through questionnaire survey and analytic hierarchy process, and finally works out the most appropriate warehouse location scheme.