Qiqitong SRM: From "manufacturing" to "smart manufacturing", how does the high-tech electronics industry create a smart supply chain?

 

With the development of a new generation of information technology, we have entered the era of digital intelligence. All walks of life rely on technology upgrades to accelerate their own digital transformation. As the frontier of technological innovation, the high-tech electronics industry is also ahead of traditional industries on the road to intelligence, which includes technological innovation in production R&D, innovation in R&D management, multi-dimensional digital and intelligent transformation, and the promotion of high-tech electronics. The industry is making further progress towards "smart manufacturing".

01 "Insight into demand " : Where is the "difficulty" of supply chain management in the high-tech electronics industry?

The high-tech electronics industry is a knowledge- and technology-intensive industry with high technical difficulty, high intellectual requirements, strong competitiveness and permeability, high investment, and high risk. It is a cutting-edge scientific industry that has a significant impact on the development and progress of human society.

Information technology has been identified as one of the seven strategic emerging industries in the national "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", which includes next-generation communication networks, the Internet of Things, triple play integration, new flat panel displays, high-performance integrated circuits and cloud computing Representative high-end software. As an integral part of the information technology industry, the high-tech electronics industry is also greatly radiated by market dividends.

While continuously expanding the market, the high-tech electronics industry is also facing many difficulties in business management:

Short product life cycle: technological innovation and product innovation play a significant role in the high-tech electronics industry. High-tech products have a short life cycle, fast update, strong timeliness, and are unpredictable. Therefore, continuous product innovation is required to adapt to new market demands. Therefore, high-level management is required in product development, production, and traceability.

Difficulty in material management: Material management affects product development, material planning, production delivery, warehouse management and other links. The raw materials in the high-tech electronics industry are small in size, various in variety, huge in quantity, and high in defective products. They are easily affected by factors such as the supply market, raw material prices, product function requirements, and customer needs; there are also many cases of using alternative materials.

Frequent changes in production plans, difficult to control costs: the production of high-tech electronics industry is generally discrete manufacturing, orders are multi-batch, small-batch and often change, emergency order insertion often occurs, requiring efficient collaboration efficiency; and there are many types of products, rework Frequent, cost accounting is time-consuming and laborious, and it is difficult to grasp the actual cost.

Incomplete construction of complex product structures: Manual export, artificial offline construction, independent data storage, manual transfer and import and other product structure management modes are difficult to support rapidly evolving product demands. It is difficult to guarantee the integrity, accuracy and consistency of the design source data in the back-end process design, manufacturing, procurement and other businesses, resulting in changes, rework, repurchase and other problems, affecting product quality and delivery.

The supplier collaboration process and traceability are not clear: Traditional email, telephone, WeChat and other interactive modes make it difficult to effectively record the supplier data collaboration process, which affects the query and traceability of historical data, and it is also difficult to understand and control the delivery of supplier data in a timely manner Timeliness, leading to waiting, expediting and other situations, affecting the delivery of end products.

As a technology-based industry, the high-tech electronics industry is a fertile ground for the application of new technologies and the realization of intelligent manufacturing. Especially in the fast-growing market, it is urgent to realize transparent and lean production through intelligent manufacturing, and realize the coordination of planning and logistics. Collaboration between procurement and production, full-process traceability of materials and quality, seamless connection between equipment and processes, etc. Among them, the smart supply chain is a necessary part of realizing smart manufacturing.

02 " The way to win " : SRM procurement management platform to build a smart supply chain

"Smart supply chain" is a comprehensive technology and management integrated system that combines the Internet of Things technology and modern supply chain management theories, methods and technologies, and is built in and between enterprises to realize the intelligence, networking and automation of the supply chain. Its core is to realize the seamless connection of business flow, information flow, logistics, and capital flow in the supply chain, and eliminate the influence of asymmetric factors as much as possible, thereby improving the efficiency and operation quality of the enterprise's internal supply chain and the entire industry supply chain. Compared with the traditional supply chain, the smart supply chain technology has stronger penetration, stronger visualization, stronger information integration, stronger scalability, stronger collaboration, and stronger agility.

The creation of a smart supply chain is not a one-day effort. It must not only meet the requirements of more accurate control of supply chain operation information, but also meet the requirements of supply chain services to reduce costs and facilitate management. This will inevitably require higher-quality supply chain services. Qiqitong is an expert in digital procurement services. Its SRM procurement management system provides professional industry solutions, builds an intelligent procurement platform that matches different procurement scenarios, and serves enterprises to create a smart supply chain.

| Platform management, standardized supply and procurement coordination process , complete data chain

As the upstream of production and the starting point of the supply chain, procurement management directly affects product development and manufacturing. Qiqitong SRM procurement management system enables enterprises to achieve highly process-oriented, integrated, and platform-based management, so as to reduce costs and increase efficiency to promote high-quality development.

Unify the portal, procurement process, business content, data integration, business information, and organizational system. The SRM management system builds the procurement management application, realizes convenient adjustment and expansion according to needs, and completes the management platform and integration upgrade. Through the SRM procurement management platform, procurement companies and external suppliers can establish a unified collaboration channel, sort out and fix the entire procurement process informationally, and standardize systems and business rules in the form of software for standardized custom control to support diversification business scenarios, smooth information flow channels, allow both buyers and suppliers to execute business efficiently and improve operational efficiency.

At the same time, the SRM procurement management platform is connected to internal business systems such as OA, PLM, WMS, ERP, OMS, and TMS, and externally connected to suppliers to open up a complete procurement business data chain . Information such as demand changes and plan adjustments is synchronized with SRM in real time, and costs are automatically calculated, and various data tools such as cost analysis are provided to realize intelligent decision-making. Use SRM and data association to ensure the integrity, accuracy and consistency of demand source data and order process, and reduce rework and repurchase. In the event of an abnormal situation, it can also trace the source in real time to control the risk.

| Two-way trading mechanism, one-stop trading closed loop

With unimpeded information flow channels, the logistics response time can be accelerated, and the operation can be more efficient, so as to realize the rapid flow of business flow, ultimately shorten the completion time of capital flow, and improve the efficiency of the supply chain as a whole. The SRM procurement management platform systematically and digitally manages the entire process of commodity information, inquiry and price comparison management, order management, payment management, electronic contracts, delivery management, financial reconciliation, and evaluation system, simplifying the transaction path and realization of transactions between suppliers and purchasers Intelligent, helping enterprises to establish a closed-loop system for supply chain transactions, integrating four streams into one, and improving the responsiveness of the supply chain.

| Refined inbound and outbound management to strengthen delivery coordination

The raw materials in the high-tech electronics industry are small in size, diverse in types, and in huge quantities. Especially with the acceleration of R&D and innovation, it is necessary to manage an increasingly large material library. Smart manufacturing enterprises must establish an application integration environment to promote the comprehensive digitization of documents, materials, BOM and processes, and complete inventory management of materials.

The inbound and outbound management of materials can be handed over to the SRM procurement management system, which can realize seamless connection with internal management systems such as PLM, ERP, and WMS. Through SRM, the delivery of materials can be coordinated with suppliers, and special delivery notes can be used. Standard material barcode, code scanning quality inspection, unified management of inbound and outbound, and connected to MES material distribution, material management realizes seamless flow from system to system and service production.

| Strengthen supplier management, from ecological cooperation to ecological collaboration

The upgrading of supply chain management and the realization of a more scientific management model are the inevitable requirements for building a smart supply chain. Through the SRM management system, the enterprise establishes a unified data collaboration platform with suppliers, online shelf display of process, UDF, mold, and sample information, realizes online interaction of various data, realizes instant and effective notification and feedback of data sending and receiving, and improves touch To achieve efficiency, know and control the performance of supplier tasks in a timely manner, and control procurement risks.

Supply chain collaboration requires that all members of the supply chain realize collaborative management in procurement, production, research and development, sales and other links for a common goal, which is the connection between enterprises. Through SRM, high-tech electronics companies can build a business network that connects thousands of enterprises, and the cooperation mode with suppliers and partners changes from ecological cooperation to ecological collaboration, achieving strategic synergy, resource synergy, and capability synergy.

Utilize the SRM procurement management platform to realize the full life cycle management of suppliers from admission, classification, business collaboration to rectification, optimization, and exit, and build a unified and standardized supplier performance appraisal system. Refine the assessment indicators, use data to assist in classifying suppliers in terms of strategy, selection, and qualification, carry out survival of the fittest, cultivate talent enterprises, and use the lower threshold of incentive policies to expand the scope of incentives and increase investment in incentives to make partners more profitable. Attract more high-quality partners. Under the strengthening of trust, enterprises selectively share information such as forecasts, orders, and inventories with upstream and downstream enterprises to improve the accuracy of forecasts, strengthen planning coordination and replenishment, and improve resource utilization efficiency. Build a high-quality, high-density cooperative ecological network with ecological synergy and energy gathering.

03 " Growth weapon": Self-built mall platform to increase corporate revenue channels

At present, the unstable factors of the world economy are increasing. In the case of stabilizing the existing market, enterprises must seek more profit growth points and improve their ability to resist risks. By effectively utilizing upstream and downstream suppliers and purchasers in the enterprise's ecological environment, realizing existing customer resources and expanding sales business is one of the growth points that high-tech electronics companies can choose.

Based on the transaction mode of e-commerce, Qiqitong Mall Cloud can help enterprises build industry-specific B2B / B2B2B malls, covering matching transactions, self-operated, and joint operations of enterprises, effectively integrating purchasers, suppliers, and platform resources . Build the enterprise's own procurement transaction platform to realize the integration of procurement, supply and marketing.

On the one hand, enterprises build self-operated shopping malls, promote their own brand products on the shelves, and sell them to downstream distributors and agents. They can connect to the SRM system to realize the establishment of a "one-stop" enterprise ecological management platform for procurement and sales collaboration, covering business Distribution, cost control, procurement execution, reconciliation and payment, etc., open up business process data links, carry out sales-to-purchase business coordination, and improve sales and supply chain efficiency.

On the other hand, with the establishment of a B2B/B2B2B mall, enterprises can also act as platform operators, use their own supplier resource pool, and attract more platform merchants to settle in, match suppliers, parts merchants, etc. directly with downstream manufacturing enterprises, Buyers such as electronic product companies realize end-to-end accurate docking and cooperative transactions, providing real-time tracking and two-way settlement services from clues, business opportunities, orders to payment collection, and enterprises through product sales, business entry services, operation services, advertising space, funds Accumulate income, flow entrance and other profit models to increase enterprise income.

The industry has entered the 4.0 era. The development trend of the high-tech electronics industry is high-quality, high-quality, and green. Intelligent manufacturing is the only way, and intelligent supply chain is the necessary support. Enterprises use digital tools to build smart supply chains, complete procurement transparency, lean production, and integrate business flow, information flow, logistics, and capital flow to achieve cost reduction and quality improvement for more traditional enterprises and industries. Set up a model of digital transformation and lead the development of intelligent manufacturing.

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