Internet economy era, the vagaries of consumer demand, accelerate product replacement rate, in order to better meet consumer demand, solid market position, manufacturing enterprise to consumer demand, and constantly develop new products, struggling to cope with changes in the market, too attention to meet market demand at the expense of increased supply chain management costs. According lean management thinking, manufacturing enterprises not only need to respond quickly to market demand, but also the need for strict control of operating costs, optimize inventory structure, prevent financial risks, in order to remain invincible in the competitive environment in supply chain management.
Supply chain management is sometimes called the supply chain, it spans procurement, manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, and many other sectors, will join together suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and users. Supply Chain Management (SCM) is to optimize relationship management and supply chain processes, integration of related businesses, enhance the competitiveness of enterprises. SCM system is a computer application system to control the entire supply chain management.
In the supply chain management process reengineering, information technology is the task for the entire supply chain management system to support the establishment of relevant platforms, providing support for service convergence and data exchange, the logistics, information flow and capital flow in the supply chain management. Orderly flow. Supply chain management changes and the associated flow of materials and information flow and funds. Business operations are driven by business stream, but to rely on the flow of information in order to achieve organizational workflow, logistics and cash flow, control and coordination. Only do logistics, capital flow and information flow synchronization in order to achieve process control, management or business can only be wise after the event.
In the case of the sharp increase in the amount of information in today's business, with only relying on network and database as the core information system, in order to ensure the integrity, accuracy and timeliness of the information. Use of information technology can improve the dynamic characteristics of the supply chain management, enterprise to make timely and effective to facilitate the reaction of the corresponding fluctuation. Information system enables the transmission of information from the original linear structure becomes a mesh structure, all aspects of the entire supply chain management can achieve real-time sharing, which eliminates delays, shortens the length of the supply chain management.
Supply chain management goal is to build an integrated supply chain management system, both inside and outside the enterprise supply chain are organically integrated. Therefore, we in the construction supply chain information system, can not be confined within the enterprise some specific business areas, from architecture to be a total solution from the first holistic view of business operations starting design, to guarantee the smooth operation of the entire supply chain.
For a typical manufacturing enterprise, the entire supply chain management can be divided into two sections: front-end sales supply chain (also known as distribution supply chain) and back-end procurement and supply chain management (also known as manufacturing supply chain management). Distribution supply chain management involves marketing headquarters, offices, dealers and service outlets and end customers and other links, corresponding to e-commerce B2C (Business to Consumer) and B2R (business-to-distributors) mode; procurement and supply chain involves suppliers, purchasing, quality control, warehousing, manufacturing and other sectors, corresponding to the e-commerce B2B (business-to-supplier) mode.
Source: Luo cloud computing (Huizhou) ( http://www.rofousrm.net/) supply chain management, Tel: 0752-7399016