Huaihua City Tobacco Logistics Management Platform Design

Recently, State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau carries out series of transformations to separate industry and commerce. After the separation, provincial tobacco company only takes charge its own tobacco marketing, while tobacco production is presided over by Chinese tobacco Industrial corporation. The operation of tobacco company involves tobacco distribution from inventory to warehousing which is supported by information system. However, the existing tobacco system is mainly a single function system which can only fulfill some single-function daily management such as storage and distribution. Great part of logistics information doesn't even make good use of, not mention to integrate marketing information and monopolization information. And the existing tobacco logistics systems are mainly operation systems, faced to the competition threaten from international tobacco magnates, it's necessary for us to take full advantage of information technology and logistics information in order to construct intelligent logistics management platform with daily management and assistant decision-making, to improve scientific decision and logistics efficiency and to form comparative and competitive advantage.Based on a great deal of comparative researches on logistics management theory and technology, this paper labors Huaihua tobacco logistics process and designs Huaihua tobacco logistics management platform according to years of practice by the author and the researches of tobacco logistics distribution. This platform conducted supervision and management on the whole logistics process from tobacco leaf production, storage management, sort management, logisitics distribution, vehicles monitoring, financing management, tobacco marketing analyse, monopolization management, association members management, system setting and maintenance. C/S with triple structures was adopted in the system design, a combination of C/S, B/S and M/S was constructed. In the main functional implementations, GIS, GPS and the Web technology were introduced to combine the information of customer space position and path network, the existing tabular management was promoted to the direct-viewing spatial management and the network management, real-time guidance, the monitoring and the network in tobacco distribution were realized. This paper also introduced some technology supporting information platform such as storage and retrieval process management bases on RFID technology, tobacco sort process management based on electronic tag sort line, tobacco storage process management based on digital storage, tobacco distribution process management based GPS\GIS, the platform was demonstrated finally.The integration of tobacco logistics information was the main accomplishment in this paper, in the functional design of logistics platform, it did not only contain storage, distribution and other daily functional management, but also consider data sharing among marketing and other information systems, tobacco marketing analyse, monopolization management analyse and other assistant decision-making functions were designed. And GIS, GPS and the Web technology were introduced, the existing tabular management was promoted to the direct-viewing spatial management and the network management, real-time guidance, the monitoring and the network in tobacco distribution were realized.