Research On Distribution Management System Of Tobacco Based On SOA

With the improvement of the information technology, many systems have been implemented in the tobacco industry, such as Management Information System (MIS), Office Automation (OA), Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). These systems played an important role in improving the management of the company. However, these systems are developed by different companies at different time, the architecture used in theses systems is different. Data can not be shared among different systems, data changes are not synchronized, data redundancy and etc. Then many independent information islands appeared. While building Distribution Management System of tobacco industry, the major challenge is how to utilize current IT resource of tobacco enterprise, and not only to implement seamless integration of products and application based on different platform from different vendors, but also to satisfy the requirement of tobacco industry marketing management business.To solve the above issues, after the research of some related technology such as the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Business Process Management (BPM) and so on,and the analyzing of the business processes of tobacco industry marketing and sales management, integration requirement and non-functional requirement, this paper put forward an Distribution Management System which based on J2EE and SOA, and also introduces the design and implement of the system. The system is consisting of centralized service platform, enterprise information portal, security service infrastructure, and business platform. The centralized service platform used enterprise service bus (ESB) as the core, providing the service such as process services, data services, job scheduling and the tools for integrated development and execution management; In the aspect of ESB application, in consideration of the different requirements in distribution management system and other systems, the connect mode and information stream are designed between industry marketing management system and others; enterprise information portal provides the function, such as pages integration, todo list, content management and dashboard; Secure service infrastructure provides the access control for unify authentication, consolidate authorization, single sign-on and organization management; the business platform based on centralized service platform , provides the functions, such as market management, sales management, basic data management and collaboration, It also realizes user interface , procedure integration and data intergration with other systems. The system designed in this paper has been delivered in the Shanghai tobacco corporation. it established a information collection platform, which perfects the mechanism of collection, analysis and feedback of the market; it established a sales business operation platform, which accomplishes unified management of orders from some sales areas; it established marketing collaboration platform, which supports internal management in office and telecommuting; it established an information exchange platform between industrial company and commercial company, which provides carriers for cooperative marketing system construction. The system utilization situation shows that its construction and application obtained an initial success, which achieved an anticipated result and provided a great support to industry sale and marketing activity of the Shanghai tobacco corporation.