"Large investment, long cycle, and slow effect" is a problem that every enterprise will struggle with when considering a digital strategy.
It is easy to conquer the country, but it is difficult to defend the country
In the process of rapid expansion, enterprises often do not need to think too much about details, and the staking method will be more effective.
However, the market share has become saturated, and the competition among the survivors has become more brutal, making every company focus on how to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve product quality.
For a traditional auto parts manufacturer that has been fighting for 20 years, the efficient coordination of more than 10 factories and 6,000 employees has become a major issue that managers must face. Zhixin will work with customers based on low-code development to explore a new digital transformation path.
Low-code bridge paves the way and links "data islands"
- "Could you please connect with U9?"
- "Can the electronic scale read the data in the system?"
- "Can our printer dock templates to generate barcode labels?"
This is the first batch of questions that weaving letter researchers received when they came to the customer site.
In such a business scenario with very complicated processes, more than a dozen software systems have been procured around the office, production workshop manufacturing R&D, supply chain upstream and downstream, procurement, warehousing, transportation, and dealer management.
However, due to the different suppliers of these software systems, they often do not have the ability to communicate with each other. In the future, suppliers will be required to develop the docking interface, and the secondary development cost may exceed the original procurement cost . Even the original factory of some systems is no longer available, and no one can be found to maintain it.
Faced with such a problem, Zhixin's developers were on site, and immediately transferred the data to UFIDA's system by consulting the relevant interface documents of UFIDA, through the rapid development and custom API capabilities of the Zhixin platform, and transferred the original The workload of a week was completed within a few hours, which made the eyes of the person in charge of the enterprise information department shine.
We can take advantage of Zhixin's flexible configuration advantages and use it as a universal interface. On the premise that large-scale adjustments to the original system are not required, the application of the Zhixin platform can actively adapt to the original system and pull all data to the weaving platform. The letter platform comes up, so that we can easily perform secondary processing on these data.
Data is a huge asset of an enterprise. From the collation and analysis of data, we can clearly understand the operating status and optimization direction of the enterprise. However, the data are isolated from each other and difficult to communicate with each other, which will affect the overall value of business data. Therefore, data connectivity has become an important step in the new stage of digital transformation.
Low-code empowerment, raising demand is no longer "learning from the West"
Hope to be able to customize the barcode label system. The production department has raised this demand for more than a year, and it is even more difficult than learning from the West.
Before weaving letters, it has always been a big problem to stick barcodes to the products produced. Because the manufacturers require that labels be printed in a fixed format, each format relies on Excel to compile templates, order numbers, barcodes, and QR codes. Etc. will consume a lot of tabulation time.
But this demand is also difficult for the Ministry of Information to handle. Whether to add it to the sales system or to ERP is a problem. Issues such as data extraction and subsequent expansion need to be considered, which leads to a problem that needs to be solved urgently in the business process.
For the needs of connecting system data and generating custom label classes, weaving letter is very easy to solve.
After we communicated the requirements, we quickly built the label format that the production department wanted through the custom page. Then dock the label printer, and immediately print out the desired content. The whole process has also become very simple and does not need to rely on the original system.
There are still many problems like barcode labels in other business scenarios. Low code can be said to be the right medicine for this short, frequent, and fast demand. Through simple training, developers can get started quickly, and through simple construction, they can generate the desired functional modules and directly put them into production, so as to achieve rapid response to demand and fast launch.
Open up the upstream and downstream supply chain at low cost
In the past, suppliers were often isolated from informatization. No matter how strong the internal informatization of the enterprise is, once the intervention of suppliers is involved, due to data security and process considerations, internal accounts will not be given to suppliers.
However, in terms of business, such as transportation progress, supply volume, delivery cycle, and even product batches, in fact, both parties need to synchronize with each other.
According to the original business process of the enterprise, Zhixin has tailored a set of supplier management system for the whole process from the bidding, negotiation, confirmation of suppliers in the previous procurement, to the production coordination of suppliers in the subsequent procurement. Compared with the original plan of direct procurement For a mature system. The development of the entire process not only greatly reduces costs, but also activates the entire supply chain.
After a period of running-in and communication, we found that the main difficulty in advancing the digital strategy is that the traditional development model requires a lot of manpower, material resources and time.
This unavoidable factor will cause companies to hesitate when evaluating costs and risks. The digital transformation route based on the low-code development platform is precisely to help enterprises make digital attempts and breakthroughs with less manpower investment and shorter time.
"Data is connected, demand is raised, and the closed loop is started." Take the first step and let everyone really feel the benefits of digitalization, so that the promotion of the strategy will reduce the obstacles.
Like thousands of companies, they have encountered all the problems in the digitalization process of traditional manufacturing, but through trial and innovation, they have developed a new model of low-code digital transformation.
When all your first-phase projects are implemented, we will start to think about a deeper digital model. We must transfer all low-code capabilities to enhance our own low-code development capabilities and achieve complete autonomy and control.
"Transferring low-code capabilities to users" does not mean business interruption for Zhixin. It's actually a win-win situation.
Zhixin can focus more on the iterative upgrade of the platform, provide users with more effective low-code development tools, and empower more business scenarios.
Enterprises can also truly realize the independent and controllable digital strategy, timely and effectively respond to various problems encountered in business development, and truly achieve "professional things, professional solutions".
At present, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the application rate of the low-code platform in business, which requires more customers to practice and grow together with Zhixin. Zhixin has provided low-code technical support for more than 20 industries and 30,000+ enterprise users. In different industries, it proposes in-depth scenario solutions and is committed to becoming the preferred solution for the digital transformation of enterprises.
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