公共的仓储
公共的仓储
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公共仓储
公共仓储(publicwarehousing)(应该)为所有合法的顾客提供服务且对这些用户负责。使用公共仓储，用户方不需要投资，所以当借钱的成本(利率)很高时，这无疑是一个很重要的考虑因素。相关的一个好处是用户应当可以对其仓储成本有相当准确的确定，因为公共仓储空间往往是按逐月方式租用的。
Public storage (publicwarehousing) (shall) serves all legitimate customers and is responsible for those users.Using public storage, users do not need to invest, so the cost is undoubtedly an important consideration when borrowing money (interest rates) is high.A related benefit is that users should be able to have a fairly accurate determination of their storage costs, because the public storage space is often rented month to month.
公共仓储对预期的用户也有吸引力是因为作为其他方会对人事决定和法规问题负责。仓储服务是物流业中两个主要的劳动力需求源头之一(另一个是运输)，而且仓储服务的雇员通常是成立工会的，所以增加了管理的挑战性。至少，当使用公共仓储时，仓储员工的招聘、选拔、薪酬、激励和评价等都是仓储公司而不是客户(用户)的责任。
Public warehousing is also attractive to prospective users because as other parties are responsible for personnel decisions and regulatory issues.Warehousing services are one of the two main sources of labor demand in the logistics industry (the other is transportation), and the employees of warehousing services are usually unionized, which increases the challenge of management.At least, when using public storage, the recruitment, selection, salary, incentives, and evaluation are the responsibility of the storage company rather than the customer (user).
从法规方面讲，仓储工人安全准则在美国受职业安全与健康管理局(Ocupa-tional Safety and Health Administration，OSHA)监督。因为OSHA的标准非常复杂而且冗长，所以从一个管理者的角度看，要遵守OSHA条例其代价会非常高而且非常复杂。值得指出的是，近年来仓储在美国受到更密切的OSHA监督，因为仓储已被列为高风险的工作场所。就像人事决定的情况一样，当使用公共仓储时，法规问题也是仓储提供商而不是仓储客户的责任。
In terms of regulations, warehouse worker safety guidelines are supervised by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Ocupa-tional Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).Because OSHA standards are very complex and lengthy, having to comply with OSHA regulations is very costly and complex from a manager's perspective.It is worth noting that warehousing has been under closer OSHA supervision in the US in recent years, as warehousing has been listed as a high-risk workplace.As in the case of personnel decisions, the regulatory issue is also the responsibility of the storage provider instead of the storage customer when public storage is used.
公共仓储比企业自己拥有的设施提供了更多位置上的柔性，这对企业准备进人新的市场时非常重要。例如，一个企业在新的市场可能想开始得慢一点，或对其产品在这些市场的接受程度不确定，则公共仓储可以在这些市场提供储存服务而不需要该企业投人大量的资本。
Public warehousing provides more positional flexibility than the facilities they own, which is important for companies to enter new markets.For example, if a business may want to start more slowly in a new market, or be uncertain about the acceptance of its products in these markets, public storage can provide storage services in these markets without requiring significant amounts of capital from the company.
公共仓储还可以提供许多其他资源所不具有的专门服务。例如，公共仓储很注重提供许多增值服务，像将较大的发货重新改换成零售尺寸的数量并使用缩减包装，协助产品召回，作价格标记、产品组装以及产品测试等。
Public storage can also provide specialized services that many other resources do not have.For example, public warehousing focuses on providing many value-added services, such as replacing larger shipments with retail sizes and using reduced packaging, assisting in product recall, price marking, product assembly, and product testing.
公共仓储最大的缺点或许是用户可能缺乏控制。例如，有时公共仓储会没有某个用户所要求的空间。或即使有空间，但用户可能对其货物存放的位置基本没有发言权，可能是哪里有空间就放在哪里，这可能导致某个用户的存货被分散地放在仓库的不同位置。此外，一些公共仓储不是一天24小时营业，这意昧着预期的用户在需要的时候可能不能存取产品，或者用户可能需要调整自己的运作以适应公共仓储的营运时间。
Perhaps the biggest drawback of public storage is the possible lack of control by users.For example, sometimes public storage does not have the space that a certain user requires.Or even if there is space, the user may have basically no say in where the goods are stored, and maybe where there is space, which may cause a user's inventory to be scattered in different locations in the warehouse.In addition, some public storage is not open 24 hours a day, which implies that users may not be able to access the products when needed, or users may need to adjust their operations to the operating hours of public storage.
