How to make the supply chain system to adapt to global competition rules?
Wave of globalization has been the company’s supply chain management system to produce a huge impact, supply chain management software required for better scalability and better integration of the capabilities and partners. This is also the company’s user conference in I2 by users are repeatedly mentioned.
Wave of globalization has been the company’s supply chain management system has a huge impact, required supply chain management software has better scalability and better integration of the capabilities and partners. This is also the company’s user conference in I2 by users are repeatedly mentioned. As the relatively low labor costs overseas, most companies regarded their supply chain reach out into the Far East, therefore, the corresponding need the company’s supply chain management software to adapt to this latest request.
This caused a direct result of supply chain management is critical to have a stronger integration capabilities and quick reaction capability. Any of a global manufacturer of the supply chain is complex and fragile form, related to product design, production and sales have been to all aspects of recovery, if not usually focus on supply chain management, etc., if any of them a ring there information missing or management problems, the rest of the supply chain issues will be magnified geometrically, resulting in loss of control over the whole supply chain.
The rapid development of enterprise globalization is changing the business rules of the traditional competition. The success of an enterprise depends not only on whether it can effectively play organizations function more necessary in the global information society has the ability to work. Through the analysis of global companies, the U.S. consulting firm PRTM (Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath) that supply chain management in the following three areas had an outstanding performance.
1. Reduce the cost of management enterprise supply chain management, the total cost from total sales of 8% to 12% to 4% ~ 5%. Thus, with an annual turnover of 5 billion dollar company would thus saving 25 million ~ 30 million U.S. dollars.
2. PRTM accelerate the recovery of funds that enterprises from the purchase of raw materials to the sales recovery of its investment funds using the SCM former business cycle in 100 days, while the use of SCM best level after 30 days.
3. To enhance the delivery capacity of PRTM that the use of the SCM, the early delivery on time delivery with the best level for the percentage of 94%, while the current average of 69% ~ 81%.
Wal-Mart, Dell and other multinationals with outstanding supply chain management capabilities into new market leader. Indian software giant Infosys Technologies Ltd., the CEO of South Daniel Carney said: “We can screen the members to convene the global supply chain.” Conference room 8 wall clock showed the time the western United States, U.S. Eastern Time , GMT, India time, Singapore time, Hong Kong time, Japanese time, Australian time.
Can be seen from the above example, competition in the supply chain has become a competitive global business in the core. Supply chain, enterprise globalization offers opportunities but also how to manage this supply chain You become a corporate face of great challenges. The company’s globalization strategy to take with the supply chain lengthened and complicated the whole company operating requirements are also stepping up. In today’s complex and changing global trade environment in order to achieve sales revenue of 持续 growth must rationalize Qi Yenei external supply 链 is each part, from production to management, Cong administration to personnel, from suppliers to customers, from the sub- distributors to retailers, but also deal with a lot of currency, multi-language. Respect of any negligence will lead to a decline in sales. How in the global strategy based on enhance the competitiveness of the world’s best companies have to consider.
I2 Supply Chain Management software vendors the company is trying to solve this problem, provide more training services, from a technical perspective to provide a more agile response to the technology platform. I2′s president, said, I2 the company’s supply chain management software will be, and Microsoft, IBM to further integrate the company’s technology platform to provide users with more effective supply chain management services. Using Microsoft Outlook and Excel customers will be able to directly access De I2 provides software because the software and the Microsoft platform has been the Biaozhuntongyi put together, Ling Wai, I2 will be the company Jin Hou Ke Yi in the Microsoft platform for development supply chain management software. For those who like this kind of software customers, the current supply chain management software into Microsoft’s platform to make their management more convenient for quick. I2′s president, said the market some of the users have started using the Microsoft platform-based i2′s Master Data Management informationcleansing and consolidation management software, and users use the new software platform was well received. The program will be the company had been provided Business Suite to standardize on Microsoft technology platform, which will help those who Xiwangziji supply chain management software, a more standardized operation of the Ke Hu.
The tide of globalization, China is no exception, and has become an international giant in the global supply chain, an important part. According to reports, Nokia local procurement in recent years, growing scale. In 2003, Nokia procurement value in China more than 15 billion yuan. Nokia products in China, the local procurement of parts more than 60%. April 2004, responsible for the network’s first product logistics integration of Nokia Asia-Pacific distribution center in Suzhou Industrial Park, marking China has become Nokia’s global logistics, supply chain an important part. Currently, Nokia is the world as a major production base for all the major products of Nokia are produced in China. Logistics and the parallel development of the market for the other, the Nokia sales goals. China became Nokia important part of the global logistics supply chain.
The first Chinese companies to establish joint ventures and OEM, etc., passive integration into the global supply chain, the passive acceptance of the global supply chain arrangements for transnational corporations to establish a low-cost manufacturing capabilities and logistics execution. Today, the internationalization of local companies to become real “Fortune 500″, must break the “passive strategy”, and consciously integrated into the global supply chain competition.
According to market research firm Analysys International released “third-party logistics management software application report (2004)” shows that since 2004 China’s management software market as a whole slightly tired, good logistics management software, developed into the biggest highlight of the year, its market is expanding rapidly. From 2005 to 2009 within 5 years, this market will be an annual compound growth rate of 19.5% in the rapid growth to market size in 2009 to more than 1.5 billion yuan. This article is reproduced to
Previously, the logistics management software market survey, logistics management software is expected to exceeds the next few years 内 resource planning system (ERP) Er Cheng Wei Woguozhuliu of enterprise information technology management software.
This shows that China’s existing logistics management software users in the next two years will generally encounter software upgrades, system expansion problem requires not only software products have a good scalability to meet the demands of globalization, it also requires software companies with good technical support and after-sale services. In this regard, SAP, EXE, Brocade and other large information management software vendors have a big advantage, some small manufacturers upgrade inability to continue to develop and provide good service, will gradually be eliminated. Therefore, how to deal with supply chain management software, globalization is not just procurement logistics problems faced by software companies, but also a number of supply chain management software providers to resolve problems. Hope that China’s supply chain management software providers to seize the opportunities the wave of globalization, all the best.
