Integration of e-commerce and supply chain (IV)

Vi. Supply Chain monitoring and measurement

The final value of supply chain integration can be achieved if all partners believe that they will be rewarded with their efforts. Moreover, they are likely not aware of their participation so that they are not competitive with other members or traditional competitors. The more complex and scattered the supply chain, the more difficult it is to balance the needs of all parties. To ensure that members on each node in the Supply Chain trust each other and maintain the best performance, monitoring and measurement become an important factor for success.

Trust-based New Industry

Monitoring supply chain performance is a tempting new field. Terms such as supply chain event management, supply chain process management, or supply chain implementation management are used for this purpose. Supply chain monitoring must be based on the close tracking of various processes in the supply chain. The emergence of a large number of new technology solutions provides upgrading information about how products and information flow in different parts of the supply chain. The following describes some of the content:

Manufacturing

In the manufacturing process, datasweep creates a mature system to track manufacturing data, such as productivity, production, work, and machine status in the process. This information can then be sent to appropriate participants over the Internet, which provides the basis for Manufacturing Process Monitoring.

Transportation/Logistics

Savi technologies is a typical case in which companies use RFID technology to track individual products, such as portable or pallets containers, and transport tools. Information is uploaded to a common Internet platform, so that goods can be visualized in real-time end-to-end motion. Smartseal provided by the company can monitor product security to prevent damages or theft. Once the security of the product content is ensured, the close is also quite simple.

E-center of Monitoring System

Strict monitoring allows enterprises to gain insight into the problem at an early stage, so that they can take the right action immediately. The concept of e-center, which is early to describe the commitment of Cisco and other companies, can also be seen as a supply chain monitoring system. Many other new enterprises, such as worldchain, sourceree, vigilance, and existing players such as EXE, vascript, And Descartes, are using the Internet platform to provide monitoring services.

Procurement and contract fulfillment

Monitoring often requires tracking of supplier performance and contract fulfillment. The food service market transactions provide these services to customers as described above. For example, a food operator such as Marriott may have signed a contract with a food supplier to establish a price guarantee term based on the number of items purchased by the marriort hotel and operator. To ensure the best price and uniform quality, the Marriott headquarters is very concerned with monitoring the compliance of individual hotels and operators with the contract. Instill now provides purchase tracking services for multiple food service providers, and allows food service executives to perform real-time monitoring for better control.

For manufacturers, they must obtain the total demand and tracking data, which usually shows how their products work through each distribution channel. Provato and dicarta are Internet-based software solutions that help enterprises manage and monitor contract fulfillment.

Cross-supply chain monitoring

Supply chain integration also requires performance measurement. supply chain performance measurement is independent of the enterprise's own performance measurement. When enterprises share demand information, cooperate in planning and decision making, and exchange decision-making power for supply chain integration, performance is not a partial measurement. However, performance measurements of different supply chains are shared by all participants, this is 01:10 important. The Internet can be used again throughout the entire supply chain to promote performance measurement. For example, in the past, seecommerce was very mechanical in helping dainlerchrysler's service department mopar parts group, but now it has completely improved its service performance. The seechain package, an Internet-based software product of seecommerce, is implemented by mopar parts group to monitor the performance of multiple parts of the service supply chain. The investment was withdrawn within 12 weeks.

VIII. Next Wave: Market Intelligence and demand management

When the tools and technologies provided by management are gradually mature and enterprises are increasingly using these tools and technologies, enterprises will turn to demand management as a way to optimize resources and performance.

E-commerce practices can provide a complete set of demand data with great potential value. Data mining, data market, and other database analysis technologies provide enterprises with the ability to obtain business intelligence from endogenous sources. The total consumption data from multiple Resource Centers provides manufacturers and suppliers with market information to help them plan sales decisions, promotion plans, and new product development decisions.

Many distributors and distributors in the food service industry use the instill Internet Service combination, which can help enterprises obtain business intelligence. Enterprises consolidate industrial data, provide business intelligence, and use it as a service that provides consumers with higher yields and market positioning.

Another case of using demand data to create enterprise value is demandtec. With extensive data, the company's proprietary scientific methods based on mature statistical analysis and optimization techniques can analyze customer demand characteristics and help enterprises optimize demand management decisions, such as products, pricing, promotion plans and categories. The optimal state is based on non-linear project technology. It captures the mutual influence between products, stores, marketing decisions and timing, and also the supply chain cost impact from demand management. The main reason for making such a strong solution is that enterprises have a large amount of data.

This is a new field in the competitive battlefield. Manugistics, whose merger with Talus, also positioned itself as a major provider of the so-called enterprise profit optimization solution, linking supply chain management software with price and revenue management software.

The connection of comprehensive data throughout the supply chain opens a door for the next phase of supply chain integration. When many people think of demand as unpredictable variables for their planning, there are still many opportunities to coordinate and manage demand and bring it into other parts of the supply chain. With real-time productivity and resource data, companies can create projects such as discounts, kickbacks, and local or niche marketing to increase or reduce demand.

VIII. Conclusion

E-commerce has become a powerful and mandatory factor throughout the integration of a large number of industrial supply chains. Because of the e-commerce method, many core supply chain concepts and rules have been applied in practice in many more efficient ways. These concepts include information sharing, multi-party cooperation, supply chain management design, delay in mass customization, outsourcing and cooperation, extension or joint performance measurement. Internet allows enterprises to propose highly innovative solutions that accelerate the widespread adoption of core supply chain rules.

Table 2 summarizes the impact of e-commerce on supply chain integration. In the next few years, when enterprises develop e-commerce examples for the future, we will see the wide application of Internet B2B applications. Many enterprises have discovered that e-commerce activities are full of opportunities. This progress accelerates the movement of supply chain integration. The scope of this integration effort will be significantly different from that of traditional supply chain integration efforts. Companies that use e-commerce to redefine supply chain integration will greatly improve efficiency and gain a stronger competitive advantage than their competitors.

Table 2: impact of e-commerce on supply chain integration and Business Processes

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