Abstract
Presently in Chinese chain supermarkets, many enterprises have built automatic equipment and information facilities in the logistics center of their supply chain systems. Modern logistics technology and equipment largely depend on the resource integration of each role in the chain (such as suppliers, manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers), especially logistics facilities and equipment resources, to realize the circulation of products. The pallet, which is an indispensable basic tool for a supply chain system in the process of product circulation, is most often used in the handling, stacking, storage, and transportation of products. The process of building automation and informationization in the supply chain system of Chinese supermarket chains requires the solving of the problems of cost and sharing pallets in logistics operations. Large-scale enterprises often spend millions of dollars on investment, the failure of which can cause significant harm to the enterprise. Therefore, the authors of this paper adopted the fuzzy analytic network process (FANP), combining fuzzy and ANP models to evaluate our studied case. We utilized an actual case as the research object to resolve the important decisions regarding pallet resource sharing investment in the supply chain system. Importantly, it is expected that the proposed method can provide an important reference standard or a new idea for decision makers in the chain supermarket industry or related industries.
Highlights
The term “chain supermarket” refers to the unified purchase, distribution, and management methods across multiple supermarkets
On the basis of focus groups and the fuzzy analytic network process (FANP), the authors of this paper have proposed an evaluation model and method for a resource integration strategy for the chain supermarket supply system; these can help resolve major decisions regarding pallet resource sharing investment in the supply chain system
The authors of this paper hope that the proposed method can provide a reference for the decision makers of the chain supermarket industry or related industries and a new idea for the construction of a supply chain system or logistics center
Summary
The term “chain supermarket” refers to the unified purchase, distribution, and management methods across multiple supermarkets. With the rapid development of the economy, shopping demand is increasing and the operation mode of supermarkets in China have gradually developed into the operation mode of large-chain supermarkets, integrating business and storage. Institute (CIRI), the number of chain supermarket stores in China has been declining year by year from 33,301 in 2015 to 27,054 in 2019, with a decrease rate of 18.76% [1]. The number of stores was about 26,207, accounting for about 96% of the total number of chain supermarkets [1]. From the above-mentioned data, it can be observed that China’s large supermarket chain system is of great importance to people’s livelihood and economic consumption, as well as that the operation modes of supermarket chains are trending towards market centralization (store integration) on a larger scale
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