How NetEase Yanxuan’s Supply Chain Simulation System Boosts Decision Accuracy by 97%
NetEase Yanxuan built a cloud‑native supply‑chain simulation platform that standardizes data flows, achieves 97% forecasting accuracy, processes billions of orders daily, and reduces decision cycles, enabling over thirty major business choices with cost savings of tens of millions.
Yanxuan, NetEase’s premium e‑commerce brand, faces increasingly complex supply‑chain decisions such as where to open new warehouses or how to allocate food inventory in the southwest, which involve massive data volumes and long decision cycles.
To address the high risk and slow pace of these decisions, the team created a systematic supply‑chain simulation system that abstracts business logic into reusable models, enabling full‑link simulation and precise data analysis.
The platform also incorporates intelligent algorithms that automatically search for optimal configuration parameters, turning the simulation into a proactive decision‑support tool.
Key Capabilities
First industry‑wide supply‑chain simulation system built from scratch despite a lack of prior data and experience.
Standardized event flow, external dependencies, core data, and a rigorous evaluation framework, delivering highly trustworthy metrics.
Achieves 97% accuracy in matching real‑world outcomes while staying synchronized with live business logic.
RSS algorithm automatically discovers optimal system parameters , outperforming expert‑derived settings.
Provides generic, extensible, and user‑friendly interfaces that map directly to actual business processes.
Built on cloud‑native technology , allowing rapid provisioning of multiple parallel mirror environments with strong isolation and scalability.
Impact and Results
Supported data‑driven decisions for more than 30 major business initiatives .
Delivered annual fulfillment‑cost savings in the tens of millions of yuan.
Simulates daily order volumes at the hundred‑million to billion level.
Maintains a simulation‑to‑live error margin of less than 3% , earning high user trust and becoming the primary data source for all critical decisions.
For readers interested in the technical details of Yanxuan’s supply‑chain simulation system, a deeper technical article is available that explores the architecture, algorithms, and deployment strategies.
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