HANGZHOU , Feb. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In the footwear and apparel industry, there are widespread pain points such as opaque information in the supply chain, complex terminal distribution, and the difficulty of traditional supply chains to adapt to rapidly changing market demands. These problems have seriously affected the market response speed and competitiveness of enterprises. Today, Best Supply Chain, with its deep digital capabilities and rich industry experience, has successfully helped Pathfinder solve these core problems, helping Pathfinder achieve a comprehensive digital transformation of the supply chain and creating an industry benchmark. The series of digital solutions provided by Best have also attracted widespread attention in the industry.
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Digital base: facilitating full-chain coordination and efficient development of the supply chain
Driven by the wave of digitalization, the full-chain digital transformation of enterprise supply chains has become an inevitable trend. At present, focusing only on cost and efficiency control of a single link can no longer meet the needs of long-term development. In this context, the role of logistics suppliers has become particularly important. They not only need to have the ability to manage digitalization, but also need to meet the requirements of networked operations.
It is based on such industry trends that Best has built a powerful digital foundation with its independently developed OMS (order management system), TMS (transportation management system), WMS (warehouse management system) and other software, as well as the application of big data computing and machine learning technologies, to help customers achieve deep collaboration between upstream and downstream of the supply chain and create a smarter and more flexible supply chain system, enabling it to respond quickly and flexibly to market changes.
Specifically, BEST has achieved intelligent management of the entire process from basic operations to customer decision-making through a layered architecture. At the bottom logistics operation layer, while providing basic operational services such as warehouses, transportation, and distribution, BEST uses a digital operation system to comprehensively, real-time, and accurately collect data from all links and upload them to the system. This not only optimizes on-site operational efficiency, but also collects relevant supply chain data for clients, laying a solid foundation for digitalization.
At the middle-level operation management level, Best helps customers' operation managers achieve coordination and cooperation among various operation businesses and improve operation management efficiency by connecting OMS, WMS, TMS and other systems. At the same time, it helps customers build their own data middle platform, collects operation data information of various suppliers (including Best), and realizes efficient interactive use of all supplier data and operation management coordination in the data middle platform. This deep coordination between systems promotes the efficient integration of resources between upstream and downstream of the supply chain and various links of logistics, and helps customers achieve digital upgrades in operation management.
At the top-level customer decision-making layer, by deeply mining and analyzing the massive supply chain data accumulated during the operation process, and using big data computing, algorithm optimization, intelligent algorithms, model simulation and other technologies, customers can achieve scientific supply chain layout, provide a basis and solutions for production and sales forecasting, planning, production and sales coordination, etc., help customers improve the accuracy of decision-making, and thus help customers develop their business efficiently.
This digital base not only meets the needs of full-link digitalization, but also realizes efficient collaboration and flexible management of the supply chain, providing solid digital support for Pathfinder.
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Blockchain technology: enhancing transparency and integrity of the entire supply chain
In the cooperation between Pathfinder and Best, transportation services based on blockchain technology have become an important part of digital services. As early as 2019, Best applied blockchain technology to B2B warehouse delivery and collection of payment, creating a precedent for the application of blockchain technology in the entire chain of B2B transportation. In 2023, Best's logistics traceability method and system based on blockchain technology successfully obtained a national invention patent certificate.
The application of blockchain technology has fundamentally solved many long-standing pain points in the supply chain transportation links, such as document receipt and verification, collection and transfer management, and settlement and collection. It has effectively avoided disputes such as false receipt of goods and transfer of property rights, and ensured honest transactions.
In the cooperation with Pathfinder, Best has realized the use of face recognition authentication for all nodes in the entire chain from warehouse to transit warehouse, to terminal station, and finally to the receiving store through blockchain technology, and realized the real-time storage of data of the entire upstream and downstream process on the blockchain platform, ensuring the traceability and non-tamperability of data, and greatly improving the risk prevention ability of the supply chain. So far, the utilization rate of blockchain technology in Pathfinder's transportation business has reached 100%, which has been highly recognized by customers.
It is worth mentioning that the application of this technology has also greatly reduced the labor and time costs of checking and sorting paper documents, and realized intelligent and automated settlement. Blockchain technology has also promoted the paperless process of the entire transportation process. Both parties have completely stopped the use of paper receipts since January 1, 2025, taking a crucial step towards green and efficient paperless transportation.
Terminal delivery: Digital empowerment breaks through the terminal bottleneck of the footwear and apparel industry
As an independent business category, footwear and clothing have more complex end-to-end delivery scenarios and service requirements than general consumer goods. The transportation of goods from warehouses to stores seems simple, but in fact, there are many difficulties in operation. On the one hand, business operations such as purchase, return, and exchange are frequent, which requires logistics service providers to have the ability to respond quickly; on the other hand, traditional regional distribution will have problems such as upstream and downstream handover errors, opaque cargo dynamics, and limited end-to-end delivery.
To this end, Best has built a cloud distribution network, integrated Best Express and high-quality external resources, and created a B2B transportation service network covering counties and towns across the country. At the same time, through the application of digital technology, Best has not only broken through the information barriers in all aspects of transportation, including the effective connection of terminal outlets, local dedicated lines and on-site distribution resources, realized the full visualization of business progress, but also successfully broke the isolation of online and offline data, and promoted data collaboration and efficient management at the operational management level.
Taking the end-point delivery scenario of Pathfinder as an example, in response to the specific delivery needs of its stores, such as delivery route optimization, strict time window requirements, clear delivery standards and efficient inventory methods, Best provides a series of customized delivery services such as pre-delivery appointments, on-time delivery and door-to-door delivery. In view of the inefficiency and frequent errors caused by the traditional manual classification of goods at the pickup stage, Best uses digital technology to realize the automatic binding of box numbers and logistics order numbers, effectively avoiding the problem of mixed goods between stores.
Furthermore, Best has significantly improved the safety and accuracy of the delivery process through full-process visual monitoring of goods, combined with a dual protection mechanism of unpacking location tracking and personnel scanning code verification.
In the era of industrial digitalization, close cooperation between enterprises and logistics partners is the key to promoting the digital transformation of the supply chain. With its 17 years of deep accumulation in the supply chain field, Best Supply Chain helps enterprises successfully realize the digital transformation of the supply chain. In the future, Best will continue to build B2B2C and cross-border business networks between China, Southeast Asia and North America, help Chinese brands go overseas and expand their business, and strive to create more business value on a global scale.
