01. Where is the supply chain management of the chemical industry headed?
The chemical industry involves multiple branches such as oil refining, metallurgy, energy, environment, medicine, coal chemical industry, and light industry. Its products are widely used in various fields such as industry, agriculture, and public life.
Chemical industry involves a wide range of fields, the industrial chain is huge and complex, the industry is constantly upgrading, chemical products are updated, and the standardization of production links is becoming increasingly strict, driving the traditional industry of chemical industry to enter the array of digital transformation. Especially affected by the impact of the epidemic, the economic downturn, the rising price of raw materials such as oil, and many other factors, chemical companies are under increasing pressure, and the pace of digital transformation is accelerating. By building a digital supply chain to improve its core competitiveness, reduce production costs and operating costs, improve profitability while maintaining high value, provide services for internal and external stakeholders, and improve the synergy and supply chain efficiency of both parties. The development direction of chemical industry supply chain management.
Build a smart platform covering the whole procurement process and multiple categories. Purchasing supply chain is an important part of enterprise supply chain system, and it is the key for enterprises to improve quality and save costs. The smoothness of each link of procurement directly affects the quality of supply chain. The distribution of procurement categories in the chemical industry is relatively diverse, with 60% for direct material procurement, 17% for service procurement, 10% for catalog procurement, and 5% for tactical procurement and sporadic procurement. Therefore, the digital supply chain must cover the entire procurement process, all materials and service categories, and different purchase channels.
Emphasize and strengthen the coordination and cooperation of upstream and downstream enterprises in the supply chain, and improve the response speed of the supply chain. Through the construction of a digital supply chain, strengthen the synergy between upstream and downstream, establish a procurement management mechanism, and use digital tools as a foothold to improve the response speed of the supply chain and increase the added value of the supply chain under the smooth process, orderly business, and data-driven.
Build a supply chain system with a network structure and increase the mechanism and elements of risk balance. In the face of more instability, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, supply chain management needs to build an intelligent platform for high-quality services, and make effective decisions based on changes in the industrial chain through dataization, intelligence and intelligence. Scientifically predict and make decisions, and gradually form a smart supply chain system that meets the needs of responding to emergencies and high-load work. By promoting the synergy between various industries, the network-like cooperative ecology balances the risk factor.
Create industry-specific and customized supply chain solutions. Chemical enterprises face different industries and different products. Enterprises at different nodes of each chemical industry chain need to face completely different status and changing trends of upstream and downstream supply systems. Therefore, each chemical enterprise needs to combine the generality of the industry and its own situation. , formulate supply chain strategies, and customize solutions.
02. How does the chemical industry promote the digital transformation of the supply chain?
Digital transformation has become the general trend of the industry, and the creation of a digital supply chain has become one of the development strategies of many companies. In the process of promoting the transformation of the digital supply chain, chemical companies have taken a solid step towards the success of the transformation by choosing to cooperate with supply chain management service companies with professional and innovative capabilities that can provide customized solutions.
In the field of digital procurement, Qiqitong has always been a benchmark in the industry. Deeply cultivating the digital supply chain services of enterprises, Qiqitong has cooperated with many chemical benchmarking enterprises to promote digital transformation and development, provide professional industry solutions, help enterprises build digital and intelligent SRM procurement platforms, integrate procurement business, and cover the entire procurement chain It helps enterprises to straighten out the upstream and downstream of the supply chain, optimize the supply chain ecosystem, enable enterprises to quickly implement digital procurement with customized functions and efficient delivery, promote the pace of digital transformation of the supply chain, and help enterprises develop high-quality.
| Build an SRM management platform to realize digital procurement management
The construction of digitalization is inseparable from the technical foundation and carrier. Based on the application of various information technologies such as cloud computing, the Internet, and big data, starting from the application scenarios of procurement digitalization, the SRM procurement management platform carries the implementation of electronic procurement business, realizing the realization of chemical enterprises in Collaboration at the three levels of business, system and people completes the upgrade from the traditional offline procurement management model to the digital management model.
category management. The industrial chain of the chemical industry is complex, and there are various procurement categories. Through the SRM management system, the processes of all procurement goods and service categories are sorted out, the purchase modes are classified, and different procurement channels and procurement approval processes are configured according to the formulated procurement strategy. The end-to-end procurement process from sourcing to settlement promotes the standardized management of procurement business by category.
Closed-loop management of the whole procurement process. The life cycle of business scenarios is repetitive and multiple. The SRM procurement collaboration platform covers the closed-loop management of the entire chain nodes from demand submission, sourcing to contract management, quality collaboration, order collaboration, receipt and delivery, and financial collaboration, achieving standardization , Automate recurring business execution, and improve overall business efficiency.
Strategic Sourcing Management. In order to reduce the procurement cost of various categories, companies often need to adopt different sourcing strategies. Simplify and fix the process of sourcing for all categories with a standardized solution, data-driven cost analysis, and improve the process efficiency and cost control of procurement of various categories. The standardized solution includes workflow, contract/electronic signature, template, and collaborative management to improve the efficiency of sourcing to contract process.
Supplier management. Through the SRM management platform, online integrated management of the entire life cycle of suppliers is carried out, suppliers are classified, data is evaluated, and third-party credit and risk data are integrated to improve supplier risk management.
Visual data analysis. The SRM management platform provides various visual data panels, cost analysis reports, price comparison reports, price files, etc., and forms a unified procurement data analysis platform integrating data integration, data quality, information management and text analysis to assist enterprises in scientific decision-making.
| Integrate procurement business to improve automation efficiency
Build a complete procurement process system, integrate procurement business, and establish an online collaboration channel with suppliers through the SRM management platform. Internally, integrate with internal systems such as ERP, PLM, WMS, MES, QMS, and BI to improve the enterprise The demand for overall business automation enables efficient business collaboration across internal departments, external companies, and applications across systems.
Integrating business objects such as suppliers, demand departments, warehouses, quality inspection, transportation, and finance with informatization, template-based, and process-based mechanisms and systematic collaboration, to improve the accuracy of the supply chain, strengthen cost control, and minimize orders Processing cycle, complete order processing accurately and quickly, optimize inventory management, establish a certain buffer capacity, and conduct flexible production with a higher supply chain response speed.
| Strengthen upstream and downstream coordination capabilities and weave a mesh supply chain
In the face of a large number of collaborative objects and collaborative affairs, with the help of the effective collaborative platform of Qiqitong SRM procurement management system, the upstream and downstream collaboration capabilities can be strengthened.
The first is platform-based and integrated management, which makes internal and external collaboration visible, real-time online interaction of information, real-time dynamic updates, and control of the supply chain status at any time.
The second is to establish a supplier management mechanism to improve the level of coordination. Through the scientific performance appraisal mechanism, the closed-loop management of the whole life cycle of suppliers from admission, factory inspection to order, rectification, and elimination, the survival of the fittest, improve the performance of supply chain enterprises and the speed of data analysis, and increase the scale of procurement through procurement. Drive suppliers to improve responsiveness. Hierarchical management can be carried out through assessment, forming a strategic relationship with suppliers, providing demand information, and allowing them to make a certain degree of preparation, such as preparations for raw materials and production capacity, improving collaboration efficiency, and shortening the order response cycle.
Ultimately, it is the whole chain collaboration from the back end to the front end. Customer needs are transmitted from the front end to the back end, and collaboration is from the back end to the front end, from suppliers to manufacturers, from raw materials to finished products, from industrial chains to distribution chains, so that business roles can seamlessly participate in the business platform through the integrated system. Digital collaboration, resource integration, data-driven. The demand-centered network structure and the collaboration mode of the two-way network process form a new network supply chain ecosystem in a digital way.
| Build a B2B/B2B2B/B2B2C chemical platform to optimize the supply chain ecosystem
The e-commerce trading model has matured. There are a large number of chemical products and various uses in the industry. Faced with many difficulties such as narrow product sales, scattered product demand, long intermediary channels, and information asymmetry, the chemical industry can use the B2B online trading platform as an effective solution. Entrance. Qiqitong Mall Cloud can help chemical companies build industry-specific B2B/B2B2B/B2B2C chemical products platforms, and build their own trading platforms in the form of matching transactions, self-operation, and joint operations of enterprises, and optimize the industrial supply chain ecosystem.
The chemical companies on the platform operator, through the B2B/B2B2B/B2B2C chemical products platform, have established a self-service transaction and Internet customer reception model to help traditional chemical companies achieve business upgrades.
On the one hand, it integrates its own supplier resource pool, attracts platform merchants to settle in, and matches suppliers, buyers, and consumers to achieve end-to-end precise transactions, helping upstream suppliers expand sales channels and increase customer stickiness.
On the other hand, innovative industrial chain services , through OMS, channel management, CRM, big data analysis and other middle-end business support systems, open up business processes such as transactions, marketing, business opportunity services, sales, settlement, and operational analysis, and build a new platform The business model maximizes the value of the platform.
In addition, through the B2B/B2B2B/B2B2C chemical platform, a new synergy is formed. Qiqitong can help enterprises connect with external third-party e-commerce platforms and suppliers through Juyuan Pool , enrich the supply of goods, and obtain a large number of product choices. At the same time, it can also be connected to the SRM procurement management system to realize the centralized management of procurement and the coordination of procurement and marketing business .
By building a digital procurement management system and matching trading platform, the supply chain management capabilities of the chemical industry can be improved. Different companies in the huge chemical industry chain need to face different supply systems. Qiqitong uses full-module and full-category digital supply chain solutions to serve chemical companies to build customized or standardized supply chain management systems and empower chemical companies. Transform and create a high-quality supply chain ecology to achieve high-quality development.