Distribution Center's Construction Of Wushang Supermarket Chains Company

As China has joined into World Trade Organization, Chinese business enterprises are confronted with a massive challenge. During the recent years, many foreign supermarket chains companies were flooding into the big cities in China. Compared with these foreign companies, Chinese companies are not in the same level at many aspects including management philosophies, the using of information technologies, construction of distribution center, etc. At the age of open and free competition, most important is the fact that a high-level performance is being achieved at lower total cost than characteristic of the past. For business chains companies, the distribution center is just the most critical cause that help achieve the lower total cost and the higher profit.Wushang supermarket chains company has been always the leadership among Wuhan business enterprises, but the distribution center is still at a lower level. In order to remain and strengthen its position, it must improve the distribution center. The initial chapter generally describes the concept, the powers, the patterns, the working process and the cost management of the distribution center. In the following chapter, after introducing the advanced models of the distribution center of the foreign and native supermarket chains companies, the weaknesses of the distribution center of Wushang's are analyzed, and then, the measures are proposed. Finally, the article makes the prospect on the future of Wushang supermarket chains company.