Integration of Intelligent Supply Chain Management (SCM) System

Abstract

The Chinese economy has been growing rapidly despite an underdeveloped supply chain network. Most Chinese manufacturing companies do not yet rely on supply chain systems, but the environment is becoming increasingly competitive and many enterprises will find it difficult to survive if they do not make their sourcing, production and distribution more efficient. That makes the supply chain management market potential enormous. There is necessity to integrating various components this field. This study will focus on the integrating the whole logistics chain, which includes: digitized labeling, intelligent loading-and-unloading robots, automatic warehousing, logistics information management platforms, Internet-based SCM network, and last but not the least, adoption of advanced SCM concepts by the management personnel of this complex system.