A Study On Informatization Of The Cross-docking Distribution Center

In the environment of the global supply chain management, the globalization of manufacturing and marketing has made distribution operations playing a more and more important role in the modern economic development. The supply chain operation has been changing from push to pull type. Customer demand has been changed more diversiform; product life cycle has also been changed shorter and shorter, all this changes require products to enter the market more rapidly. More and more advanced ideas and technologies are being applied to the supply chain operations; cross docking is one of them. It is a "just-in-time" operation and has been well applied to the distribution center.For cross docking has been applied to the distribution center, the information system of distribution center must make corresponding changes to meet the operation changes. Traditional information system applied to the distribution center is designed for the function, and the subsystems are set up to meet the corresponding functions. As a new operation, cross docking emphasize particularly on process integration and optimization.This paper is on the study of the information system corresponding to the cross docking operation, and the paper is based on the study of the traditional information system and the comprehension of the cross docking operation. The paper makes recommendations on the design of the new system and has a target study on its coordination module.Ⅰhope that the new information system can run more responsive to the cross-docking operation and increase the efficiency of the distribution center.