Definition of a supply chain company

Supply chain refers to a functional network structure company that connects suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and end-users into a whole through the control of business, information, logistics, and capital flows, starting from the procurement of raw materials, making intermediate products and final products, and finally delivering the products to consumers by the sales network; the concept of supply chain has been developed from the concept of "extended production", and the definition of supply chain in modern management education is "supply chain is centered around the core enterprise". The concept of supply chain is developed from the concept of Extended Production. Modern management education defines supply chain as "supply chain is centered around the core enterprise".

Image, we can describe the supply chain as a big tree with luxuriant branches and leaves, the production enterprise constitutes the root of the tree, the exclusive agent is the main pole, the distributor is the branch and the top of the tree, the tree is full of green leaves and red flowers is the end-users, in the heel and the main pole, the branch and the pole of the node, contains the circulation once and for all, all the body is connected to the vein is the information management system, the supply chain of the relationship between the various enterprises and the biology of the food chain. The relationship between companies in the supply chain is similar to the food chain in biology.

The supply chain company is the spurt of emergence, in the cold chain logistics industry is the emergence of the situation, in the future development of the cold chain logistics industry, the Internet will play a greater role.

Three functions of supply chain management companies

① Financial function

A supply chain company with dozens of people may have done more than one billion dollars of revenue, which is almost impossible to do from the perspective of traditional logistics companies! Finance has three criteria, do receivables, prepayments, inventory.

② Trade function

Mainly an executive service, you tell me to buy with whom I buy with whom you tell me to sell to whom I sell to whom, why do goods owners ask us? Because we have our professionalism and convenience.

③ Logistics function

Mainly customs clearance, warehousing and logistics, international freight forwarding.

What are the core competencies of a supply chain management company?

① Able to get bank credit, or have strong capital reserves themselves.

② Customs inspection, taxation and remittance coordination is particularly strong. Supply chain companies and the government's relatively good communication relations to support such an ability, compared to the traditional logistics companies in this regard, the ability to appear particularly weak.

③ Outstanding IT capabilities. Yiyatong 2016 made nearly 60 billion turnover, but the company has only hundreds of people, if there is no very strong IT system support, it may become a muddled account.

Some companies know that they made money this year, but how much did they make? How much did the Hong Kong company earn? Shenzhen companies earn how much, do not know, this is the result of the system is not strong enough.

④ Logistics capabilities. Unlike the basic ability of traditional logistics companies, the logistics ability of supply chain companies is mainly reflected in the integration, management and execution.

Future direction of supply chain management companies

Supply chain companies may develop in four dimensions in the future, as follows:

① Explore platformization just like traditional logistics companies;

② Maximize the traffic on the basis of the platform, so that a lot of companies will move in;

③ Low-indebtedness.

④ Return to the essence of service.