Supermarket Chain Distribution Center Study

Supermarket chain is the most important business in world retail trade nowadays, and it's also main business in our country retailing, In the list of "Top hundred company in China Retailing in 2005", supermarket chain take 54 positions. It's selling attains 45.2% in "Top thirty Chain Store in China in 2005". Distribution center plays key role in supermarket chain. It purchases on gathering the sum quantitative goods of chain-stores, to store up, allocate goods, divide and pick out, handle information, assign goods, and to distribute goods promptly, precisely, and safely. Distribution center reduces logistic cost of companies.In our country's supermarket chain, there are lots of problems in building Distribution Center. Affected by the old thought of "stress producing but light circulating, stress capital flow but light article flow", some people hold error understanding of distribution center construction.Construction of distribution center is late than developed countries.There goes dispersing of distribution system, low efficiency, not correct location. And the management needs improve. Since 1990's, supermarket chain has developed fast, the average speed attaches 70%, compare with the fast grow of supermarket chain, the grow of distribution center is slow-moving, the logistic system is not mature, that restricts the progress of our country native supermarket chain. ? From December of 2004, China cashes the commitment of joining WTO after three years, cancels the restriction to foreign retailing investment in region, quantity, management scope, the portion of share ownership, etc. Foreign investment supermarkets want to enlarge there scales to carve up Chinese market, compare with world retail giants, our native supermarket chains are small, and have great insufficient in many aspects. How to play a better role in intense competition? So it seems to be very urgent to strengthen distribution center construction which is the blood and the key issue in supermarket chain.The author holds supermarket chains should stress distribution system construction which core is distribution center, cast off misunderstanding, not...