Research on Role of Cloud Computing in Optimization of Supply Chain Management

Abstract

In the network era, the concept of supply chain management is a customer-centric. Through the analysis of the customer's actual needs and the prediction of the customers' future needs to pull the products and services. Based on such idea, many new modern supply chain management strategies constantly produced. Such as rapid response strategy, electronic ordering system and enterprise network-based supply chain system and so on. In the overall structure of the supply chain management, distribution, warehousing, transportation and other areas all have developed very well. But the supply chain management is still facing great difficulties. Although there are some difficulties in the technical and financial resources support the implementation of supply chain management. But the organization, trade partnerships, logistics costs and information-sharing and other issues will be the implementation of supply chain management. The demand has become increasingly evident in the optimization of the modern supply chain management for the virtual structure of the supply chain business contact. Through the cloud computing technology the efficiency of communications between supply chain enterprises can be maximized. The cloud computing can enhance the degree of information sharing in supply chain management.