What information technology can bring to logistics enterprises, I believe that logistics people want to know the answer. Generally speaking, cost reduction, enhancement of core competitiveness, and smooth flow are the most common benefits. But because of the logistics industry, the size of the enterprise itself, relying on the basic information, corporate governance, entrepreneurship and so on factors, information can bring the interests of logistics enterprises by enterprise size “ ”.
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- to reduce the logistics costs of
Whether the enterprise logistics or logistics enterprises, how to optimize logistics resources, how to implement the management and decision-making, in order to use the minimum cost to maximize the benefits is one of the most important issues facing the. Different from other systems, a large amount of information in the logistics system fluctuates not only with time, but also depending on meteorological and economic conditions, and it is unstable.
Therefore, logistics management and decision making operations and activities need to analyze various conditions in real time, and give the best implementation plan in the shortest possible time. As with class, packing, transportation resources, transportation route selection, work plan development, personnel arrangement, inventory decision, demand and cost forecasting, system control and so on, are in need of optimization or intelligent planning.
In the logistics information management system in the conscious use of intelligent planning theory and method, realize the optimization and intelligent management and decision making, can be the most reasonable use of limited resources, with minimal consumption, to achieve maximum economic benefits. According to the data, the social logistics costs in 2006 China's expenditure accounts for about 18.3% of GDP in 2006, China's GDP calculation, the whole social logistics costs in China in 2006 was 3 trillion and 800 billion yuan, if the logistics costs in China decreased by 1%, annual savings of 38 billion 300 million yuan, so that the space and the potential is huge.
Internationally, many advanced logistics management system, the application of modern science and technology and mathematical methods, mathematical models and using mathematical tools to predict and control the decision-making, the enterprise logistics activities, so as to realize the scientific management of the real effective. By introducing a variety of optimization model, advanced logistics management software in various vehicle loading and transportation route optimization, storage optimization etc. have achieved very good application, directly bring economic benefits for customers.
For example, in the optimization of vehicle routing, statistics show that the reasonable arrangement of the vehicle line can help users to use the original 60%-70% resources (vehicles, manpower) to complete the original work. Therefore, the logistics informatization can bring the maximum benefit with the minimum cost.
The direct result of logistics informatization is the acceleration of information flow, the timely and accurate information flow, and the rapid flow of information is directly related to the balance of the workflow of logistics. For example, for a manufacturer, in order to achieve rapid delivery, may adopt two methods, one is in the local sales office a week accumulated orders, will be mailed to the regional offices, processing orders in batch on the basis of the order assigned to the warehouse, and then through the air shipment;
The two is through the slower water transport, comparison, the former is obviously not much significance, the latter may be achieved in a relatively low total cost and more comprehensive delivery, thus, the goal of logistics information is crucial to the balance of the logistics system components, it also determines that we should restructure the logistics process. WAL-MART, for example, is working with suppliers to build a fast replenishment system.
As we know, retailers and suppliers of conventional business processes as follows: General retailers to sell — — fast discovery of commodity stocks to the lowest point of — — to the supplier to goods — — &mdash — retailer supplier delivery; warehousing & mdash; — sales, this is the most common way. But WAL-MART took a different approach, on the basis of computer and network technology. WAL-MART daily sales data for a supplier, not only to their headquarters, and through the “ RETAILLINK” software packages, the use of the Internet, sent to the supplier's computer system.
In this way, the supplier's data on the sale of goods is no longer 1 months later to know. It can also be seen that logistics informatization inevitably requires logistics process reengineering. But the logistics process reengineering and the logistic system is not completely negative, but the logistics system and sublimation, make logistics more reasonable, efficient and modern logistics, the time and space expand.
It is estimated that if there is a reference to the standard, the information system development costs of logistics enterprises in China can reduce 80% of the system connected to the cost can be reduced by more than half, to avoid duplication of development and construction of a large number of low cost. In the Chinese organised by the Federation of logistics and purchasing logistics and purchasing information “ 2002 outstanding cases and exchange of experience at &rdquo, logistics and purchasing; case information 10 enterprises were rated as excellent cases. One of the common characteristics of these outstanding cases is that they have made different attempts in the standardization construction, and achieved positive results. Therefore, logistics informatization promotes logistics standardization.
At present, the trend of modern logistics standardization based on information technology and modern network technology has three aspects: one is the standardization of business process, two is the standardization of information flow, and the three is the standardization of file format. The business process should be reflected in the information system software, only the business processes of enterprises, is conducive to the specific business information system and business combination; focus on the flow of information standardization is the various types of information encoding, management information, data management and technical data standardization; file format the standard is mainly to solve the interconnection and data exchange.
The core task of these three aspects is to realize data exchange and information sharing, which is a characteristic of advanced enterprise standardization in the information age. There are two key points: first, the standard should be unified; two, the standard should be appropriately advanced. Chinese logistics information management standardization committee was formally established in August 12, 2003 in Beijing, responsible person from the China standardization research China standardization management committee, Ministry of science and technology Chinese Chinese Ministry of Commerce and other units as the members of the committee. China Logistics Information Management Committee will be responsible for the standardization of China's logistics information management, system, security and other fields, and integrate the information mismatch caused by the decentralized management of the logistics field.
With the accelerating process of global economic integration, the field involved in the standardization work of more and more widely, the role is also growing, the international standard widely used has become a priority among priorities, so standardization has become an important means of enterprise competition. Microsoft, IBM, HP, NOKIA and other companies attach great importance to the standardization, they through the United States Office of information technology China offices, frequently to the domestic who asked about the relevant standard formulation and implementation.
In contrast, domestic enterprises have a much weaker sense of standardization. Therefore, to speed up the establishment of standardization system of high-tech development, the introduction of mandatory standards to support the development of information technology, and actively cooperate with relevant departments to establish good information interface standard of major engineering projects, solve the standardization problem of good logistics information involved, has become a topic of concern over the industry snape.
To enhance the competitiveness of logistics enterprises
From the point of view of competition. In the past the traditional logistics activities is often shown in storage, transportation or packaging for some individual links, businesses are often very concerned about the management level and efficiency of the single link to improve. But in the supply chain, especially after the formation in third party logistics enterprises, the competition is no longer stay in a single link, but the whole process of logistics or supply chain process management efficiency and improve the level of management has become the main focus of competition.
Especially after joining WTO, the enterprise application of logistics information, the whole process of logistics competition from the aspect of the competition to supply chain competition, as Martin Christoph said, at present, the competition between enterprises, in fact, is between the supply chain and supply chain competition. If it does not take the information, the logistics enterprises will not be competitive.
From the point of view of competition. In early 1980s, many international logistics activities are in the automated warehouse, multimodal transport and some other logistics facilities up to improve their efficiency, it can be said that in the information technology is not developed, a lot of technical means is to improve the logistics facilities can stay in force and improve the level of facilities. With the development and application of information technology, especially after the formation of the supply chain, is more important than the single facility level, but the integration of resources together through information technology, to improve the overall efficiency of the operation, that is to say, the ability of information processing and information management of the entire supply chain determines the ability to respond to market. Determines the ability of customer with high efficiency, high level of service.
At present, the core competitiveness of logistics enterprises in western developed countries has not been how high transport equipment and automated warehouse, but the ability to respond to customers. And this response ability is based on the wide and perfect application of modern information technology. Therefore, logistics competition has changed from the original level of logistics facilities to the improvement of information management ability and the improvement of information technology level. If there is no logistics enterprise information, it can not talk about the improvement of customer response ability, will be at a disadvantage in the competition.
