Logistics Informationization in China Paradox
Chai Yinghui
Industry Informationization is a slogan of China's old saying. For logistics industries, informationization is the necessary road of industrial development. It is like screws in a machine, which effectively connects each part to achieve it. Fast operation. Only software and hardware complement each other, the logistics industry can get a long-term development. However, for many companies in China, due to its lag of the old and software industry, there is a situation in which logistics informationization is low.
The "hard" development imbalance in the Chinese software industry
China's software industry is a long-term development in the 1990s. In the good situation of national policy support and the people concerned, it has become a sunny industry. However, as a specific historical country in China, the development of software industry has its own specificity. First of all, it is the development of the software industry. According to the Survey Data of China Software Association (CSIA), we can see that the growth rate of China's software industry is very fast. But it is not negligible, the Chinese software industry is late, it is developed on a weak basis, and the share of the shacks in the global market is still not ideal, so China has a long way to develop in developed countries. go. (See Table 1) Even after the inspection of some more well-known software companies in China, we can clearly see that they don't have a market share of more than 20%. (See Figure 2) This kind of politicism also has a negative impact on the psychology of software consumers, which affects the confidence in the software industry. Software industry is unbalanced, and in some extent determines the lag of China's information process.
Table 1999 - 2000 China Software Industry Total Composition: 100 million yuan
Software Product Software Services Software Export Industry Total 1999 182 238.5 21 441.5 2000 238 322 33 593 A year-on-year increase of 30.7% 35% 57% 34.3%
China, US, Japan and other countries in the total share of the global software: 100 million US dollars
China, USA, Ireland, India, India, South Korea, Global 1999 53.2 2200 540 84 67.5 59 5274 Share% 1.0 42.0 10.2 1.6 1.3 1.1 100 2002 71.7 2400 572 89 88.5 83.2 5960 Share% 1.2 40.2 9.6 1.5 1.48 1.39 100
Figure 2 Various logistics management software market share
Data Source: ccwicearch2002 / 08
The concept of Chinese enterprises managers
For SCM software, companies are divided into two major categories, namely logistics companies and goods owners. For them, although the planned economy has been transferred to a market economy for many years ago, the idea of their planned economy is still not getting rid of. Most managers still retain traditional ideas, hoping to be big, one step in place, thinking that the demand for software is just "catching trends", and cannot bring any actual significance for companies. In the survey conducted by Beijing Times, ICT, we can see that enterprises that have been designed and planned to increase software to strategic levels only account for 14.3%, and although enterprises with internal management software up to 94 .3%, but most of the software belonging to a certain aspect of financial management, sales, does not provide the integrated management function of the true SCM software. (See Figure 3)
Figure 3 The basic situation of the informationization of the logistics industry causes this phenomenon. In addition to the concept of the manager, there is no truly realize that corporate informationization has the significance of long-term development, and on the other hand, it is also the lack of assessment of the company's supply chain software. standard. Many companies currently have misunderstandings for SCM software. The first is to evaluate too much. Enterprises like to see short-term benefits, when they measure the significance of a software, often turn their eyes to their naked eye, such as increased asset returns, increased inventory turnover, and SCM software may bring The softness of the flexibility, such as the improvement of customer satisfaction and the increase in customer loyalty have been ignored by the company. But the actual situation is that these soft improvements have brought opportunities for business opportunities and continuous development of innovation. Secondly, the eyes are too narrow when evaluating. Enterprises like to conduct departmental assessments, that is, evaluate the specific departments of SCM software, to see the value of software from the perspective of cost savings, so that the overall gains and long-term benefits of SCM software. China's unique national conditions determine the restriction of technical investment
Many software developers like to develop foreign companies as their role model when developing SCM software, but the truth is that China has their own specific national conditions, and blindly moves only to decline. Foreign software is mostly developed in the premise of labor cost and advanced management ideas, this is obviously with China's great gap. For many state-owned enterprises, they refused information. What is the reason? Because enterprises will cause a large number of idle and overflows in labor, and under the guidance of Chinese politics "stabilize all", companies cannot cause large number of personnel to unemployment. Second, it is a cheap feature of China 's labor force. Maybe the company uses a lot of labor costs, far below the cost of software technology investment.
So, is China to avoid information about the information? The answer is obvious. For China, the land is both its advantage and it is its disadvantage. In a report of Essenzhe, it is pointed out that China's distribution channels are complicated and messy. The structure of this distribution is developed from the strict 3-layer inventive economic control structure in the 1970s. The first floor distribution is located in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Tianjin; the second floor distribution is located in the provincial capital city and heavy cities; the third floor is located in small and medium-sized cities and towns. This complicated and disorderly distribution structure determines the miniaturization trend on the market in market, and also shows the importance of enterprise informationization. Only effective information communicating and flowing is the magic weapon of corporate winning.
In addition, as China has access to WTO, China's companies will stand on the world's stage to participate in the global competition. After entering China, there will be naturally to win talents with Chinese companies for localization. The direct result of the release of the human resource system is the cost advantage of China's loss of labor. Therefore, from a long-term gaze, it is extremely unwise to abandon information investment because of cheap labor.
But we have to see, the information technology has its own weaknesses, which is too dependent on the one-line operator. For a simple example, when you scan the goods in many supermarkets, if you buy the same price, three kinds of bubble noodles with different tastes, the cashier often does not scan one by one, but directly multiplied by three. This damages the authenticity of the information to a certain extent, causing the soft phenomenon of the supply chain.
As a result, companies should find a balance point in the proportion of technology and labor in the proportion of cost minimization and long-term benefits when choosing the contradiction between technical advantages and cheap labor.
