First, supply chain management companies mainly integrate supply chains. It can be more clearly understood from its concept that supply chain management (SCM) refers to a management method that effectively organizes suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, distribution centers and distributors to manufacture, transfer, distribute and sell products under the condition of meeting a certain level of customer service, so as to minimize the cost of the whole supply chain system. It is an integrated management idea and method, which carries out logistics planning and control functions from suppliers to end users in the supply chain. From the point of view of a single enterprise, it means that enterprises can gain competitive advantage by improving the relationship between upstream and downstream supply chains and integrating and optimizing the information flow, logistics and capital flow in the supply chain.
Second, so are you looking for a manufacturer or a foundry in mass production? Your products have patents and brands, and then you set up a company to focus on marketing and R&D, or simply hand over marketing to the marketing company, but supporting the chain of your products from raw materials to finished products to customers requires the support of logistics companies or supply chain management companies. Can help you transport raw materials, semi-finished products and finished products, manage inventory and manage distribution. Manage raw material suppliers, finished product suppliers, packaging, collection, information management and feedback, especially the feedback of inventory information, ordering information, sales information and customer information, and provide effective basis for you to make production plans, sales plans, market expectations and raw material procurement. Of course, it is not excluded that there are some supply chain enterprises to help the company with marketing and production, which I have not encountered yet, but pure supply chain management enterprises should not have these functions for the time being.
Secondly, through the definition of supply chain management company, the following analysis is made:
Supply chain management companies can't be compared to intermediaries, because intermediaries are more information dealers, and they also search for some value-added services (transfer, loans, etc.). );
In fact, supply chain management companies can be regarded as group buying, the essence of which is to centrally control resources, improve resource utilization, and thus dilute costs;
The business of supply chain management companies can be divided into: the integration of upstream and downstream resources. Because a good supply chain management company has mastered the high-quality resources of upstream and downstream, both upstream and downstream will like to find such a company to cooperate with. This is like Taobao, which has a lot of resources and a lot of passengers, and will inevitably reduce costs. The reduction of costs means the competitiveness of enterprises;
Integration of logistics resources: when the supply chain management company has a certain scale, the efficiency of logistics resources will be greatly improved, and efficient logistics methods such as milk running and centralized transportation will be easy to realize;
Enterprise operation management: this should be regarded as expanding service. In a sense, instead of consulting companies, supply chain management companies will send people to train and even work directly for client companies to ensure the implementation of management concepts, so as to achieve unified integration, highly consistent management and centralized control of resources. Finally, the purpose of reducing costs is achieved;