Mode of Agile Supply Chain Based on Competitive Intelligence

Market competition has turned fiercer as customers´ demands keep on changing. In this environment, the competition among enterprises and supply chains, to a large extend, is a struggle for time and speed. Competitive intelligence would help enterprises to obtain competitive advantages of predicting, grasping and responding to customers´ demands agilely through environment monitoring, early warning and information actions in sequence, etc. In this paper, we put forward the competitive mode of agile supply chain based on competitive intelligence for the first time. The competitive mode mainly includes the subsystems of information collecting, information analysis, intelligence forecasting, and intelligence service. The application of competitive intelligence in agile supply chain strengthens the competitive advantages of agile supply chain by improving the service level on the aspects of speed and accuracy