What is the cross-border e-commerce supply chain？ What does supply chain service do？

What is the cross-border e-commerce supply chain? For most cross-border e-commerce, supply chain management is mainly four points: procurement, sales, storage and logistics. The cross-border e-commerce supply chain consists of: industrial chain, supply chain, value chain and transaction chain. These four parts are all global supply chains.

(1) Industrial chain

Mainly around the realization of the product to define. The main links include demand planning, design, research and development, trial production, procurement, production, delivery and after-sales service. Industrial chain shows a process of product output, which enables us to clearly understand all the links in the industrial chain, so as to understand the resources and capabilities needed in the industrial chain.

(2) Supply chain

Support the industrial chain, gather extensive resources, support the industrial chain in an efficient and coordinated way, and complete the whole process of product procurement, production, delivery and after-sales service from raw materials. Supply chain is the necessary support to complete the whole production and transaction. The integration and performance of supply chain determine the competitiveness of supply chain. It also determines the interests and living environment of the industrial chain participating in the supply chain.

(3) Value chain

It is the connection of each node of product value-added. The value chain is mainly to distinguish which behaviors in the value chain are value-added and which are not. In the process of supply chain operation, non-value-added activities should be reduced, and the cost of time, machine, personnel and capital should be reduced according to the actual situation.

(4) transaction chain

Transaction chain: in the process of commodity transmission downstream, it is the process of commodity ownership conversion agreed in the sales contract. Multiple transactions deliver goods to the most downstream customers in the chain, from the first sender in the upstream to the final customer, which is the transaction chain. Such as cross-border sesame trading chain: farmers-buyers-international traders-distributors-retailers-users. But it may also be deformed: farmers-cross-border buyers-distributors-retailers-users; You can also join trade agents or supply chain finance. The transaction volume of the trading chain can also be designed according to the situation, and can also be allocated with suppliers such as logistics, finance and technology, so as to realize the lowest transaction cost in the supply chain.

So what does supply chain service do?

Supply chain service is a service business model, which can be used to help enterprises achieve a higher level of customer service at a lower operating cost, and ultimately improve the profit rate of enterprises.

Supply chain service, because high-level after-sales service can significantly improve customer satisfaction, thus retaining customers, generating more business, obtaining high-profit service contracts and improving the profitability of the company. The rapid development of service supply chain has become a sharp weapon for many enterprises to gain and improve their competitive advantage. Like traditional supply chain management, performance management of service supply chain is an important means to measure and improve the efficiency of supply chain.

The above is the introduction of what cross-border e-commerce supply chain is and its related aspects.

(Source: Cross-border Younger)