Report Summary
In 2006, consumer goods value in China topped RMB6.5 trillion. This presented a huge stage for the retail industry. Obviously, China's retail industry is at a junction of growth and drastic change. It has become a general consensus among many retail enterprises that as market competitions intensify, they need to adopt the chain operation model to achieve fast growth and improve their competitiveness and expansion ability. Chain operations' dispersed layout and cross-regional operations are bound to put forward high supply and demand relationship management for upstream and downstream enterprises.
As the market environment changed in China's chain retail industry in 2006, expansion, bankruptcy and restructuring took place from time to time. To win advantages of scale and market advantages, numerous chain retail enterprises started to strengthen their management and core competitiveness. IT applications can provide necessary technical support and guarantee for chain retail enterprises to improve management. To a certain extent, "the level of IT applications represents enterprises' core competitiveness".
In relation to such hotspot issues as IT application status in chain retail enterprises, competitions pattern and future market opportunities, the 2006-2007 Annual Report on IT Application Market in China Chain Retail Industry will help services providers, chain retailers and investors more accurately grasp the overall status and basic characteristics of IT application market in China's Chain Retail Industry, and recommend investment and competition strategies for IT firms to better market growth opportunities:
Rich and detailed market description data, and examine the status of IT investment and the characteristics of IT applications in the chain retail industry from the aspects of industry growth and operational status, status of IT product applications and overview of IT application system building, and project the trend of IT applications in the industry.
Highlight the performances of major IT services providers in 2006, sum up enterprises' successes and failures from the multiple dimensions of competition pattern and competition strategy, and review the elements for attaining market leadership.
Taking the current status of China's chain retail industry as the starting point for research, explore the factors affecting retail enterprises' overall demand and development trend, and forecast for the scale of IT investment in the chain retail industry, 2007-2009 and the opportunities brought to IT firms.
Make respective suggestions to IT firms and chain retailers.
Framework of the Report
Main Conclusions
Key Findings
Section 1 Growth Environment for IT Application Market in China Chain Retail Industry, 2006
1.1 The policy environment
1.2 Industry development and competitions
1.2.1 Industry structure
1.2.2 Industry growth
1.2.3 Industry competitions
1.3 Operational status of industry economy
1.3.1 Industry revenues
1.3.2 Industry investment
Section 2 Overview of IT Product Applications in China Chain Retail Industry, 2006
2.1 Overall status of IT product applications
2.1.1 Scale of investment
2.1.2 Investment structure
2.2 Status of hardware applications
2.2.1 Scale and structure of investment
2.2.2 Distribution of key product brands
2.3 Status of software applications
2.3.1 Scale and structure of investment
2.3.2 Distribution of key product brands
2.4 Status of information services applications
2.4.1 Scale and structure of investment
2.4.2 Distribution of key product brands
2.5 Characteristics of IT product applications
Section 3 Overview of IT Application System Building in China Chain Retail Industry, 2006
3.1 Overall status of IT application system building
3.1.1 IT application system architecture
3.1.2 Status of building of main IT application systems
3.1.3 Existing problems in IT applications
3.1.4 Procurement characteristics
3.2 Status of IT application system building in GOME
3.2.1 Scale and structure of investment
3.2.2 Status of IT application system building
3.3 IT application system building in Suning
3.3.1 Scale and structure of investment
3.3.2 Status of IT application system building
3.4 IT application system building in Beijing Hualian
3.4.1 Scale and structure of investment
3.4.2 Status of IT application system building
3.5 IT application system building in WALMART
3.5.1 Scale and structure of investment
3.5.2 Status of IT application system building
Section 4 Competitions in IT Application Market in China Chain Retail Industry, 2006
4.1 Overall competition pattern
4.2 Key enterprises' competition strategies
4.2.1 IBM
4.2.2 i2
4.2.3 SAP
4.2.4 Sybase
4.2.5 ORACLE
4.3 Growth enterprises' competition strategies
4.3.1 SISS
4.3.2 Nanjing Tangcheng
Section 5 Forecast for Demand & Investment in IT Application Market in China Chain Retail Industry, 2007-2009
5.1 Trend of demand in IT application market
5.1.1 Factors affecting demand
5.1.2 Overall demand trend
5.1.3 Trend of demand from user segments (sub-industry)
5.2 Forecast for investment in IT application market
5.2.1 Scale of investment
5.2.2 Investment structure
Section 6 Recommendations
Tables
Comparison of Retail Business Forms Issued in China between 1998 & 2004
Growth of Sales Revenues and Number of Stores of the Top 10 Chain Retail Enterprises in the Chain Retail Industry, 2006
Comparison of SCM Enterprises' Market Competitiveness in the Chain Retail Industry, 2006
Figures
Growth of Sales Revenues of China's Top 10 Chain Retail Enterprises, 2006
Comparison of Sales Revenues and Number of Stores between Various Forms of Businesses in the Chain Retail Industry, 2006
Growth of Overall IT Investment in the Chain Retail Industry, 2003-2006
Changes in IT Investment Structure in the Chain Retail Industry, 2003-2006
Forecast for Overall IT Investment in the Chain Retail Industry, 2007-2009
Forecast for Changes in IT Investment Structure in the Chain Retail Industry, 2007-2009
Forecast for Size and Growth of SCM Market in China's Chain Retail Industry, 2007-2009
