Supply chain refers to a functional network chain structure that connects suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and end users into a whole around the core enterprises, starts with supporting parts, manufactures intermediate products and final products, and finally delivers the products to consumers through the sales network. The business philosophy of supply chain management is to seek the overall optimization of supply chain from the perspective of consumers through cooperation between enterprises. Successful supply chain management can coordinate and integrate all activities in the supply chain, and eventually become a seamless integration process.
Supply chain is a system including suppliers, manufacturers, transporters, retailers and customers. Supply chain management refers to various activities and processes of planning, coordinating, operating, controlling and optimizing the whole supply chain system. Its goal is to deliver the right products that customers need to the right place at the right time with the right quantity, quality and status, and to minimize the total cost of this process. Obviously, supply chain management is a management mode that embodies the idea of integration and coordination. It requires the members of the supply chain system to work together to cope with the complicated and changeable external market.
The role of supply chain e-commerce;
1. Realizing supply chain business collaboration: It can improve enterprise's information management and help enterprises quickly realize all-round management and monitoring of information flow, capital flow and logistics through the platform. At the same time, using supply chain e-commerce can carry out comprehensive business collaborative management for suppliers, enterprises, distributors and customers in the upstream and downstream of the supply chain, and realize efficient capital turnover.
2. Change the operation mode: Supply chain e-commerce can help enterprises change from the traditional operation mode to the operation mode in the Internet era. With the in-depth application of internet technology and the gradual formation of online trading habits, the business model of enterprises needs to be changed accordingly. With the help of supply chain e-commerce platform, enterprises can share one-stop and all-round services from internal management to external business collaboration, thus liberating enterprise resources and significantly improving enterprise productivity and operational efficiency.
The flow of supply chain e-commerce;
Supply chain e-commerce, on the basis of unifying the management of people, finance, materials, production, supply and sales, and standardizing the basic information and business processes of enterprises, realizes the seamless integration of external e-commerce and enterprise internal ERP system, and realizes the whole process of business processes.