"Nature Home_I Love Nature". Health and environmental protection are the unique value of nature's home furnishing and the DNA of nature's development.
When everyone has the traditional impression of low efficiency, energy consumption and environmental pollution in the home furnishing industry, "Natural Home ( China ) Co., Ltd." A new trend of health and environmental protection has been introduced, and we are striving to build a green smart factory. And through continuous exploration, it is found that digital management of green supply chain can help enterprises achieve more efficient operations in procurement, production, inventory and other aspects.
Recently, the high-end home furnishing brand "Natural Home" signed a contract with Qiqitong, and successfully held a supply chain and procurement digital project kick-off meeting. Leaders of relevant departments and project teams of both parties attended the meeting. At the meeting, the two parties made overall arrangements for the project background, SRM construction planning, project process management, etc., hoping to work together to help Nature Home realize the digital transformation and upgrading of the procurement supply chain.
01. Create a benchmark for green living
Nature Constructs the Road to Intelligent Home Furnishing
Nature Home , originated in 1995. Over the past 28 years, Nature Home has continued to innovate and develop, from floors to wooden doors, cabinets, wardrobes, wallpapers, wall coverings, wall panels, curtains, soft furnishings, kitchen appliances, from doors to wall cabinets Integration to environmental protection, integrated kitchen, and whole house customization have gradually formed a closed loop of the entire home furnishing industry. There are more than 5,000 terminal stores with unified authorization and unified image in China, leading Asia in terms of output and sales.
Expanding from the floor to the large home, providing consumers with one-stop environmentally friendly home improvement solutions, the development model of Nature Home is the GD model, namely green lead (Green lead) and digital drive (Digital drive). In terms of procurement and supply chain, Nature Home implements this development model. It has deployed 9 major raw material supply bases and 6 intensive intelligent manufacturing bases around the world, and has a complete industrial chain of wooden flooring, wooden doors and cabinets.
Source: Nature Home
With the advancement of Made in China 2025, home furnishing companies have been equipped with digital intelligence accelerators to gradually achieve real high-efficiency, low-energy consumption, and high-quality development. The same is true for natural homes. It is understood that Nature Home's investment in digital systems has covered human resources, administrative office, finance, operation management, supply chain, intelligent manufacturing and marketing.
Supply chain operation capability is one of the indispensable core competitiveness of home furnishing enterprises. With the development of natural furniture, the procurement business continues to increase, and the procurement and supply chain process is becoming more and more cumbersome and complicated, which affects the procurement efficiency to a certain extent, and the procurement and supply chain problems gradually emerge:
l Lack of perfect systematic management: the procurement business process is not clear enough, the efficiency is low, and it is difficult to monitor and track the status and progress of the business;
l Lack of interconnection between various parts of the supply chain: there is an "island" phenomenon between departments and businesses, which leads to impeded information flow and logistics, and increases the complexity and uncertainty of business processes;
l Lack of comprehensive understanding and mastery of each module of the supply chain: resulting in the inability of business personnel to skillfully use the system and handle business, affecting work efficiency and business quality.
Nature Home realizes that although it already has a certain digital foundation, the existing procurement management method is difficult to adapt to the development needs of the current procurement business, and it is necessary to carry out a digital upgrade of the supply chain procurement system.
02. Find the right starting point and join hands with Qiqitong
Open the green supply chain and procurement digital innovation
After various inspections and selection comparisons, Nature Home Furnishing finally chose Qiqitong, which has a good industry reputation and mature customer cases in the home furnishing industry , as a service provider to realize the transformation and upgrading of the procurement supply chain management platform and create a one-stop brand new Digital procurement management system.
Further standardize the procurement process, increase the speed of business flow, and achieve closed-loop management, thereby improving overall efficiency and transparency, and better meeting the needs of the market and customers.
Just as Mr. Long, the person in charge of the supply chain of Nature’s Home Furnishings, said: “We hope to reorganize the business process through Qiqitong SRM, determine the card points and offline operations, so as to realize the process from material demand to procurement, order placement, distribution, and supplier assessment. The closed-loop business management of data, reconciliation and payables can improve work efficiency and organizational management effects. At the same time, we need to realize the interconnection of the business department, procurement execution department and suppliers, and open up the entire industrial chain to achieve online dehumanize, dehumanize and leave a mark.”
Based on the current characteristics and needs of Nature Home's procurement supply chain business, after the implementation of this digital procurement project, Nature Home will complete the following changes in digital procurement:
The first is to realize the reconstruction of data and establish a supply chain language: under the original management, the definition and association of existing material categories have not been covered and established, resulting in the inability to conduct meaningful analysis and utilization of data. Data reconstruction of the supply chain system is carried out through Enterprise Communication SRM to establish the language and association relationship of material and supplier master data, so as to realize the visualization of data and the rapid generation of associated data reports.
The second is to reorganize the procurement business process and realize closed-loop management: conduct closed-loop management from material demand to procurement, order placement, distribution, supplier assessment data, reconciliation, payable and other businesses, improve the clarity and efficiency of business processes, and facilitate monitoring and Track business status and progress. At the same time, it can realize the interconnection of business departments, procurement execution departments, and suppliers, breaking the "island" phenomenon.
"We hope to strengthen our suppliers and upstream and downstream in this project." Mr. Zhou, the person in charge of the IT department of Nature Home, added.
The third is to systematize management work and business processes: to achieve online, dehumanized and leave traces, reduce the time and cost of manual intervention, avoid errors caused by human factors, and facilitate follow-up traceability and verification. Review work and make management decisions.
Nature Furnishing attaches great importance to the construction of this project and is full of confidence in the project. Relevant persons in charge of Nature Furnishing jointly stated: "The whole business chain and the whole organizational structure can be fully covered in one step. If we don't do it, we must Just do it well!"
In this cooperation, Nature Home and Qiqitong will give full play to their respective advantages and jointly upgrade the digital procurement system. Help Nature Home to build a greener supply chain and procurement digital intelligence system, and at the same time realize the comprehensive upgrade of digital transformation, contribute more to the digital transformation and development of the home furnishing industry, and make the concept of health and environmental protection more popular in the home furnishing industry wide spread and application.