1. Subdivide the roles of suppliers and provide different modes of services for different suppliers.
For long-term cooperative suppliers, they hand over the order management right to the e-commerce platform and purchase goods directly in the central warehouse of the platform. Therefore, in addition to operational support, the system also needs to provide intelligent replenishment function, and intelligently give the supplier's corresponding stocking plan through data such as commodity sales, lead time and inventory.
2. Ensure the transparency and traceability of information.
Except for private data involving trade secrets, each system should enjoy real-time data to ensure the transparency and traceability of the data, so as to avoid information redundancy or information loss and information distortion and improve the overall efficiency. The timely enjoyment of information is also more conducive to enterprises to formulate corresponding production and sales plans and weaken the bullwhip effect.
3. Standardize the format of information data to ensure the feasibility of information exchange.
For the supply chain system, the data format is not uniform, and it is impossible to import data from one system to another, which is a headache. In order to reduce the cost of information exchange, cross-border e-commerce enterprises should formulate the standard format of data at the beginning to ensure the consistency of data formats of various systems, and at the same time create corresponding interfaces to ensure the feasibility of data exchange.
4. Make clear the relationship between the databases of each subsystem and simplify data maintenance.
In the operation of supply chain, if the basic database (including commodity information table, shelf information table, warehouse information table, etc. ) is not related to other tables in the database of each subsystem, so when the basic data needs to be changed, the data of each system needs to be maintained again, which is a time-consuming and laborious process. When defining products, it is necessary to well define the relationship between databases to avoid repeated maintenance of data tables.
5. Go deep into the business and improve the intelligence and automation of the system.
Building an intelligent and automated supply chain system is the goal of supply chain products, but it is difficult to achieve the effect of improving efficiency without business systems. As far as sorting system is concerned, sorting by order will greatly increase sorting time. Especially for larger warehouses, if different goods on an order are in different areas, then sorting according to the order needs to go back and forth to several areas, which will increase the time cost and waste manpower and material resources. But if the orders are integrated and the goods are classified by category, the efficiency can be improved.