How to arm traditional logistics enterprises with information technology?

The first layer is basic informatization. The demand for basic informatization accounts for about 80% of the informatization of logistics enterprises, which is the most basic and insurmountable step for logistics enterprises. Informatization makes enterprises more sensitive to market changes, so as to seize fleeting business opportunities. At this level, it is necessary to realize the popularization and development of information technology and network technology, especially to solve the standard and cost problems of information sharing and information transmission with internet technology, so that information can become the basis and basis for control and decision-making more widely. Therefore, it is necessary to solve the problems of information collection, transmission, processing and sharing, which can finally be reflected in the decision-making level and bring benefits to logistics enterprises. At this level, the task of information system is to provide timely and accurate information for decision-making, which is the fundamental problem to be solved in all informatization.

The second layer is the optimization and transformation of enterprise business processes. After a period of operation, some logistics enterprises with good conditions and foundations, driven by the interest mechanism, constantly pursue to reduce costs and speed up capital turnover, apply system theory and optimization technology to logistics process design and transformation, and integrate into the new management system. At this time, the information system has two functions: one is to solidify the new process or management system, so that it can be standardized; The second is to provide the optimized operation scheme in the specified process, such as the optimization scheme of storage and access, the optimization scheme of transportation path, etc. At this time, the main functions of the information system are solidification management and optimized operation. This information construction involves processes, so it has very obvious industry characteristics.

The third level is the formation of supply chain and the increasing role of supply chain management, in which logistics management is the main component. The problem to be solved at this level is to improve the efficiency and competitiveness of the whole supply chain. Mainly through the information feedback service to upstream and downstream enterprises to improve the local and overall benefits of the supply chain, such as the cooperation between manufacturers and sellers, suppliers and buyers. The basis of supply chain is to establish a mutually beneficial mechanism, but this mechanism needs certain technical solutions to ensure it. Information system is the fundamental means to realize this mutually beneficial mechanism. For example, the inventory of the seller is managed by the supplier's automatic replenishment system, and the manufacturer's production plan is arranged according to the seller's market forecast.