More vividly, we can describe the supply chain as a tree with lush foliage: production enterprises form roots; Exclusive agency is the main pole; Distributors are branches and treetops; The tree is full of green leaves and safflower, which is the end user; On the nodes of root and main pole, branch and pole, the common thread is information management system, which circulates again and again.
The relationship between enterprises in supply chain is similar to the food chain in biology.
In such a simple food chain as "a grass, a rabbit, a wolf and a lion" (for convenience of discussion, it is assumed that only these four creatures exist in this natural environment), if we kill all the rabbits, the grass will grow wildly, the wolf will starve to death because of the extinction of the rabbits, and even the most powerful lion will slowly starve to death because of the death of the wolf. It can be seen that every creature in the food chain is interdependent, and destroying any creature in the food chain will inevitably lead to the imbalance of this food chain and eventually destroy the ecological environment on which human beings depend.
Similarly, in the supply chain "enterprise A- enterprise B- enterprise C", enterprise A is the raw material supplier of enterprise B, and enterprise C is the product seller of enterprise B. If enterprise B ignores the interdependence of various elements in the supply chain and pays too much attention to its own internal development, the ability to produce products is constantly improving, but if enterprise A can't provide him with raw materials in time, or the sales ability of enterprise C can't keep up with the development of enterprise B's product production ability, then we can draw the conclusion that enterprise B.
Note: "Value chain" and supply chain are the same concept. There is also the so-called global logistics management mentioned, which is actually connected with the supply chain and has the same scope.
Integrated supply chain service
Import and export customs clearance logistics
Procurement execution (domestic ● international)
Sales execution (domestic ● international)
Lean Logistics (VMI ● DC Center)
Logistics protected by tax
International supply chain service of large-scale special equipment
Group procurement ● Bid execution