Current State of China's Supply Chain: Theory and Practice

Author: Peking University Liantai Supply Chain Research and Development Center
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: In recent years, supply chain system integration and supply chain management have become the two most rapidly developing frontiers in contemporary industrial development. On one hand, the integration of industrial system integration technology and industrial management technology enables large-scale comprehensive high-tech projects to be widely implemented under affordable costs. On the other hand, their integration into the industrial field leads to a qualitative transformation of traditional industrial forms: after the digitalization of upstream and downstream process sequences in the era of mass production on assembly lines, a group of information processing industries closely linked to consumers rather than workshops emerges at the end, including logistics and procurement, supply chain management, and the integration of information technology. The era of workshop economics in the mass production era advances towards the information and exponential economy. This qualitative transformation has a crucial impact on China's industrial upgrading, overall economic efficiency, and sustainable growth. The combination of supply chain system integration and management is the lifeline for China's economy to form core competitiveness in the future. This book is the first release of research findings from the Peking University Liantai Supply Chain Research and Development Center. Using internationally popular supply chain management theories and detailed survey data as tools, it summarizes and logically analyzes China's supply chain management level. This book serves as a valuable research resource for those engaged in supply chain research, industrial theoretical research, and the management of the real economy, as well as a gateway to understanding the current state of China's supply chain. Using internationally popular supply chain management theories and detailed survey data as tools, the book conducts summaries and logical analyses of the supply chain management levels of some key industries and enterprises in China in both theory and practice. The first chapter of the book reviews and looks ahead to China's economic growth and industrial development, highlighting the key role of supply chain management in future industrial development. The second chapter describes supply chain management theory, provides a set of important definitions and basic models, and explains how to use these definitions and models to identify problems and evaluate supply chain management levels. Starting from the third chapter, the book forms its main body. Researchers conducted in-depth surveys on the supply chain management levels of several key industries and typical enterprises in China, using the survey data as a basis to analyze them according to internationally popular supply chain management theories.