| This paper is intended to study Supply Chain Management (SCM) of supermarket-chain enterprises. A study review of store-chain operation and SCM was firstly conducted;especially a construct of SCM study was put forward on the dimensions of management functions and work flows. After that, the paper analyzed the relationship between store-chain operation and SCM, that is, both of them were important sources of competence to supermarket-chain enterprises on the one hand, they can be advantageous and influential to each other on the other hand. On this basis, the paper studied the construct, characteristics and management strategies of supermarket-chain enterprises' supply chain, differentiated SCM of supermarket-chain enterprises from of manufacturing enterprises. This provides a theoretical basis for the study of supply chain management functions and work flows, which will be conducted in the following parts of the paper.The main part of this paper, from the third part through the sixth, discussed the construct, operation, performance measurement and improving strategies of supermarket-chain enterprises' supply chain. To be more concrete, the construct part analyzed judging and selecting suppliers from outside, and location and planning of internal network as well. As to operation, much emphasis was put on ideas and tools about some key operations such as purchasing, storage, distribution, and information management. Then, the performance measuring system of internal, external, and integrity of supply chain was designed, on reference of large numbers of application models and measuring systems of previous studies. At the last, the paper put forward some improving strategies with the purpose of making supply chain more integrating, more agile, and more economical. This need supermarket-chain enterprises make a great efforts in management of suppliers, customers and information. |
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