However, operation cost has been high often with low
profits for a long time due to the late start of supply chain
management. This has been largely attributed to the lack of
optimized management strategoes and tools, especially
information technologies. Market response speed is slow as
well because disjoint in upstream and downstream, even
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among different departments within a company. All these will
directly affect the competitiveness of the enterprise, even the
entire industry.