Recently, Suzhou Keyi New Power Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Keyi Power") and Qiqitong held a digital procurement project kick-off meeting. Senior executives and heads of relevant departments of both companies attended the meeting . At the meeting, the two parties reached a consensus on the construction of a digital procurement management platform. Qiqitong will tailor a procurement and supply chain management platform solution for it according to Keyi Power's digital construction needs, helping enterprises achieve digital transformation and upgrading.
01. The new energy market continues to develop at a high speed
Drive the demand of power battery industry
Since the 1990s, lithium batteries have been widely used around the world. With the continuous advancement of battery technology and the enhancement of people's awareness of environmental protection, the power battery industry has gradually become an important part of the new energy field in China and the world.
At the same time, with the maturity of the industrial chain, technological upgrades, and the improvement of supporting infrastructure, the driving force for the development of the new energy automobile industry has changed from policy-driven to demand-driven. Its development has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the scale of production and sales has expanded rapidly. In terms of installed capacity, China is the largest power battery market. From 2017 to 2021, China's power battery installed capacity will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 43.5%, and it is still expected to maintain a long-term growth trend in the future.
Keyi Power was established in 2010, its headquarters and R&D center are located in Beijing, and its production bases are located in Suzhou and Liuzhou. Since its establishment, Keyi Power has been based on the new energy vehicle industry, with technological innovation as its core competitiveness, and has a scientific research, production, marketing, and systematic service system. The main product is a power battery system, which is suitable for passenger cars, commercial vehicles, Two-wheel vehicles, field vehicles, low-speed vehicles, forklifts, construction machinery, etc.
Source: Keyi Power official website
As a leading service provider of high-performance power battery systems in China, Keyi Power has accumulated rich development experience in the field of battery systems, and has the ability to flexibly customize and develop products. In the future, it will continue to iteratively innovate, promote the electrification of various vehicles, power machinery and energy storage devices, achieve more energy-saving, more efficient, and more environmentally friendly experiences, and ultimately create greater value for customers.
02. Introduce procurement and supply chain digital system
Ensure the coordinated and stable development of the supply chain
The industrial chain of lithium batteries is mainly composed of upstream raw materials, midstream cell module manufacturers and downstream application fields. Battery raw materials directly determine the performance and cost of power batteries, and as raw materials are an important part of the procurement supply chain, it is critical to control operating costs from the source of procurement and achieve a leapfrog improvement in digital procurement.
As a high-tech enterprise of new energy power battery system, the current procurement process management of Keyi Power adopts Kingdee Yunxingkong ERP system to complete part of the order management, and the procurement mainly relies on offline.
With the growth of the company's performance, the procurement business is becoming more and more large and complex. The current supplier and procurement business management methods can no longer meet the development of the company. Building an intelligent digital procurement supply chain management platform has become a new demand of Keyi Power.
Based on this, the digital procurement supply chain management platform created by Qiqitong for Keyi Power will cover supplier management, strategic sourcing, order execution and other full-scenario procurement business, further optimize procurement business process management, and realize procurement in a fair, just and open manner. Purchasing can be completed in an environment to help the stable development of the enterprise's supply chain.
To let professional people do professional things, Keyi Power chooses partners very carefully.
"Through a full investigation, we found that among all the companies involved in the selection, Qiqitong Procurement Supply Chain System has the most experience in the field of new energy projects, and the customers it serves are also professional and benchmark customers. Pre-sales service and strong technology, so we choose Qiqitong to build a digital procurement upgrade system." General Manager of Keyi Power pointed out.
At the same time, he also added: "Keyi Power attaches great importance to the construction and application of informatization and digitization, and hopes that this cooperation with Qiqitong, based on the premise of big data technology, can greatly promote the application of procurement and supply chain management systems. The scientific and intelligent procurement management improves our work efficiency and simplifies the procurement workflow."
03. Blessing of digital procurement supply chain system
High-tech enterprises shine
Through multiple online and offline communications, the members of the Qiqitong project team have done a lot of demand research and industry understanding, and according to Keyi Power's business needs and pain points, Qiqitong provided it with a full-module digital procurement solution.
Based on the digital procurement supply chain management system built by Qiqitong, Keyi Power will eventually realize the following procurement business values:
Online communication from the outside to the inside: Through the procurement supply chain management platform, Keyi Power has established an online collaboration channel with suppliers externally, and integrated with internal systems such as ERP and APQP internally to achieve internal cross-department and external cross-company , Efficient business collaboration across systems.
Supplier management in the whole process of supervision: the procurement supply chain management system can realize the scientific assessment of suppliers, from the admission, certification, performance evaluation of suppliers to optimization and elimination to complete the whole process of closed-loop management, so as to optimize suppliers and improve Supplier service quality ensures the healthy development of suppliers from the source.
The whole process automation of procurement business: from procurement plan, order, contract, payment, invoice and account processing all online, in addition, a procurement sourcing mechanism can be established in the system to realize sourcing, inquiry, quotation and price comparison, In order to achieve rationalization of prices, reduce unnecessary costs and workload, and improve work efficiency.
Realize procurement data analysis and decision-making: Based on business closed-loop and interconnection, Keyi Power can grasp the dynamic data related to the whole process of procurement, and after processing, modeling and analysis, provide clear data decision-making reports to procurement decision makers and managers to achieve Visual management of business processes and effective guidance for decision-making.
The strong alliance between the two parties, on the one hand, will further deepen the digital procurement service capabilities of Qiqitong in the field of new energy; on the other hand, it will help Keyi Power to realize the two closed loops of supplier life cycle management and procurement business process management , Open up the collaborative channel between the purchaser and the supplier, and realize the efficient coordination of multiple purchasers.
Through this cooperation, Qiqitong and Keyi Power will give full play to their respective corporate advantages, steadily promote the implementation of the project, and help Keyi Power's procurement business achieve better development. It is also expected that the two parties can work together for a long-term and win-win situation.