Abstract:
A scheme for enterprise level tobacco logistics management platform was presented, GIS and GPS technologies were used to meet the requirements of dispatching, navigating and monitoring in tobacco distribution and delivery. By investigating and analyzing the procedure of tobacco distribution and delivery, a combination of C/S, B/S and M/S was adopted in the system design, the basic functions of logistics management, such as geographic data collecting, delivery route planning, freight vehicle monitoring, etc, were implemented. The management platform applied in one of the tobacco companies in Zhejiang Province demonstrated that it realized the intelligent dispatch within the service range of the distribution center, offered better service and saved delivery cost. Besides, associated key issues, such as how to manage the data of cigarette retailers' location dynamically, lay out the business procedure adaptable to centralized distribution and delivery, and exchange data with related systems were emphatically discussed.