Recently, "Foshan Municipal Construction Engineering Co., Ltd." (hereinafter referred to as "Foshan Municipal"), a first-class national construction general contracting enterprise, is actively deploying digital construction work. Based on the digitalization of procurement business, it has joined hands with Qiqitong to create a SaaS procurement cloud platform .
01. Lingnan construction strong enterprise
Ingenious casting boutique
Foshan Municipal Construction Engineering Co. , Ltd. is located in Foshan, Guangdong, a famous historical and cultural city in the south of the Five Ridges. It was formerly a municipal engineering team under the Foshan Municipal Government. It is a state-owned enterprise; it was officially transformed into a joint-stock enterprise in 2002, with a registered capital of 100 million yuan and an annual output value of about 2 billion yuan.
Source: Foshan Municipal Official Website
As a private enterprise that realized the overall restructuring of the construction industry in Guangdong Province earlier, Foshan Municipal has participated in the construction of a number of large-scale key urban construction projects. The company's branches are located in more than 20 cities inside and outside the province. At the same time, it has branches in various cities in the province. It has become an active participant in the construction field in Guangdong, especially Foshan City, and the main force in the construction of people's livelihood projects. At the same time, Foshan has a complete range of municipal construction qualifications, rich experience in construction management, and has won many engineering awards. It is a first-class national construction general contracting enterprise.
02. Rapid development of procurement business
The construction of digital intelligence is at the right time
As the digital economy continues to upgrade the level of empowerment of various industries, digitalization has entered thousands of industries and has become an important driving force for the transformation of various industries. Judging from the digitalization level of various industries in China, the digitalization level of the construction industry has always been at a relatively low level in various industries, and the construction industry is also facing an urgent need for digital transformation.
The engineering business scope of Foshan Municipal covers a wide range, including municipal infrastructure supporting projects, construction engineering, highway engineering, water conservancy engineering, landscaping and landscape, etc. With the continuous increase of various engineering projects, the procurement business volume is also increasing, and procurement digital management imminent.
Pan Zhikun, head of the Foshan Municipal Procurement Department, said: "The development process of digitalization in Foshan Municipal Procurement has gone through three stages, from the initial digitalization of financial data to cloud-based digitalization of project management, and now to the cloud-based digitalization of material procurement business. change."
In the initial stage, each project department of Foshan municipal government operated independently and independently procured. The advantage is that it is efficient, but there are still many areas that need to be improved, such as information resources are not shared, procurement costs are high, and the same supplier has different procurement unit prices for different projects. .
In the development stage, Foshan municipal government has been involved in centralized procurement, which has the advantages of concentrated procurement volume and obvious advantages in competitive bargaining, but there are still a lot of time required for the preparation of procurement plans in advance, and the workload of suppliers’ follow-up inquiries is heavy, and the scope cannot be fully covered, etc. shortcoming.
In the current upgrade stage, Foshan municipal government has introduced the enterprise-enterprise procurement platform for digital management. Through hierarchical management of suppliers, the efficiency of inquiry has been improved, comprehensive coverage of inquiry has been achieved, and the inquiry process has become transparent.
03. Hand in hand with Qiqitong
Digitalization of SaaS procurement injects new impetus into construction enterprises
According to Mr. Pan, there are many municipal suppliers in Foshan, and offline sourcing is no longer suitable for the development of enterprises. At the same time, Foshan municipal government needs to carry out information sharing, procurement coordination, and sunshine procurement.
Qiqitong has a complete set of solutions for both the management of the entire life cycle of suppliers and the coordination of procurement, which can well match the needs of Foshan municipal government. At the same time, Qiqitong has rich implementation experience in various fields and has a good reputation, which has virtually enhanced the confidence of Foshan Municipal Government in the digital upgrade of procurement.
Mr. Pan said frankly that he is full of expectations for the digital procurement project this time when he joins hands with Qiqitong. He hopes to upgrade and improve supplier management, sourcing, procurement collaboration, etc. through the procurement management platform to make the procurement process smoother. At the same time, he hopes to deploy it through the cloud. , so that enterprises can quickly experience the digitalization of procurement.
"Qiqitong SaaS procurement cloud platform has the characteristics of low cost, fast deployment, high scalability, timely iteration, strong compatibility, and high stability. At the same time, Qiqitong SaaS procurement cloud platform implements an annual membership fee system, and suppliers can The registration is free and the operation process is streamlined, which are very consistent with our needs." Mr. Pan added.
The Qiqitong SaaS procurement cloud platform breaks the information gap between the supply and demand sides, effectively matches the upstream and downstream resources of the industrial chain, builds communication channels for customers, expands business opportunities, and makes the procurement business easier and more efficient. In this regard, Mr. Pan also shared the changes brought about by the application of SaaS procurement cloud:
● All-round control and whole-process management of suppliers. In terms of supplier management, the SaaS Procurement Cloud can manage the entire life cycle of Foshan Municipal from supplier development, admission, cooperation, performance to elimination, helping to establish a complete supplier information database, optimize supplier quality and resources, and build High-quality supplier ecology.
● Purchasing coordination, eliminating regional procurement obstacles. The departments involved in the procurement business include the project department, the procurement department and the relevant departments that evaluate suppliers. The enterprise enterprise SaaS procurement cloud opens up the data ledgers of various departments, breaks the data islands, achieves resource sharing, and allows various departments of the enterprise to improve collaboration efficiency , collaboration is more efficient. According to the characteristics of Foshan municipal regional procurement, through the procurement cloud, it is possible to quickly and flexibly screen regional suppliers, quickly inquire and compare prices with suppliers, and the procurement area is not limited.
● Standardize the procurement process and provide references for decision-making. Using the SaaS procurement cloud platform, Foshan Municipal Government has realized full coverage of procurement business processes such as procurement plans, orders, delivery, warehousing, and financial settlement, sorted out and set business logic to complete the optimization of business processes, and formed a standardized business system. Changes in procurement costs have been achieved The embodiment of quality, the procurement process is standardized and sunny, the inquiry is more fair and just, the incremental cost of centralized procurement is reduced, and the data summary provides a strong basis for cost analysis.
As a cloud-based procurement digital platform, SaaS Procurement Cloud integrates economy, flexibility and security. It not only makes up for the shortcomings of traditional procurement management software, but also enables enterprises to carry out procurement and supply chain business more conveniently, efficiently and cost-effectively; Enterprise business, management, purchaser, finance, production and other procurement business links required for circulation.
04. Same frequency as purchasing
The SaaS model is more convenient and efficient
When improving quality and efficiency becomes the goal of a joint effort, the digital procurement system is endowed with more and more significance. Among them, as the direct users of the system, the experience of relevant procurement department personnel is very important.
Huo Xiaoyan, director of Foshan Municipal Purchasing, said that the personnel in the purchasing department generally pay the most attention to the quality and price of the product; followed by the area where the project is located; and the overall performance of the supplier, such as production site, equipment, personnel, productivity, etc.
As one of the users of Qiqitong SaaS Procurement Cloud, Director Huo shared: Qiqitong SaaS procurement cloud system strengthens the management of suppliers on the one hand, and realizes the whole life cycle from supplier development, admission, performance to elimination Management, to provide enterprises with better supplier management and services; on the other hand, the procurement business process is optimized, especially in terms of quotations, invitations are fast, comprehensive, and the process is clear, and quotations and negotiations can be conducted in a timely and fair manner, improving procurement efficiency.
05. Digital empowerment, building a dream future
A century of municipal administration, forge ahead hand in hand
The National Two Sessions have pointed out the direction for the healthy and high-quality development of the private economy. Accelerating the transformation and upgrading of traditional construction enterprises and promoting the high-quality development of enterprises will be a new trend in the development of construction enterprises.
For more than 60 years, Foshan municipal government has gone through an extraordinary course of survival and development, experienced wind and rain, and also withstood tests. After reforming the past several times, we constantly explore and seek the way of survival and development of the enterprise in the face of difficulties.
At present, Foshan Municipal Government is actively thinking about changes and innovations, and joins hands with Qiqitong, with the development direction of "platformization and digital intelligence", to jointly create a digital management platform for procurement and supply chains, to further promote the development of digital construction of enterprises, and to keep up with the development of the times. Keep pace, create new value for the society, customers, and employees, and work hard to realize the dream of "a century-old municipal administration"!