Design Of Distributed Data Warehouse For Sales Decision Of Large-scale Clothing Enterprise

With more competition nowadays, correct and prompt decision is an important factor for the survival and development of corporations under complicated dynamic market circumstances. To win a war of fierce competition, it's of uttermost importance for corporations to use computer and networks technology combined with technologies such as data warehouse and deeply excavate and analyze current and historical production data information and relative environmental information, so that corporations can automatically get quick access to the information that helps make decision, serving for quick, correct and convenient decision-making.As the corporation's business expending to more and more areas, the data warehouse and decision support system also tend to be distributed. The branches also need their own data warehouse systems. So distributed data warehouse is required to manage the information of the whole corporation.The paper firstly introduces some basic concept of data warehouse, and expatiates on the theory of data warehouse and relative technologies. Then, the characteristics of distributed data warehouse are explained, and combined with a logistics and sales project of BS Group, a model of distributed data warehouse for sales decision support system in large-scale clothing industry is proposed. At the end, the paper illustrates the design of OLAP system based on the distributed data warehouse.