Since a supply chain that exists in the form of links will not consciously generate value and requires efforts from the management side, digital management of supply chains has become an issue that cannot be ignored under the tide of digital transformation.
1. What is a digital supply chain?
1. Concept:
The digital supply chain is a new generation of information technology based on the Internet, the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, etc. It builds a value-creation-oriented, customer-centered, and data-driven system that plans, processes, and manages the entire supply chain business process. Execution, control and optimization, data integration, resource sharing, and business collaboration mesh supply chain system for overall planning of physical logistics, information flow, and capital chain.
2. Objectives:
The goal of a digital supply chain is to optimize the operation of the supply chain, from sourcing raw materials to producing, distributing and delivering products, to meet customer needs and reduce costs and risks throughout the process.
3. Composition:
The components of the digital supply chain mainly include the current relatively emerging digital technologies, such as cloud computing, IoT and traditional device technology, big data analysis, artificial intelligence, blockchain, etc., which have created great opportunities for the digital transformation of the traditional supply chain. Under good conditions, the real-time online supply chain form driven by customer needs can obtain data in real time through multiple channels, realize end-to-end visibility of the supply chain, and maximize the use of data to provide a basis for intelligent decision-making.
2. How to build a digital supply chain system?
3. Development status of supply chain digitization
1. The core of supply chain digitization
Activities on the supply chain can be reflected as the "three flows" of information flow, logistics and capital flow in the supply chain; on this basis, the issue of digitalization of the supply chain can be split through two dimensions: Dimension 1 is internal and external ; The second dimension is the extension on the same "flow" and the interaction between different "flows". The core of each participant's digitalization of the supply chain lies in two aspects - the horizontal extension of the same value chain and the vertical interaction between different value chains.
2. Supply chain digital service scale
In 2021, the revenue of different types of participants in supply chain digital services will be about 2.8 trillion yuan. At the same time, supply chain digital services can be divided into three corresponding parts according to the digital transformation of information flow, logistics and capital flow. In terms of structural proportion and growth rate, supply chain digital services in the logistics link account for the highest proportion, but supply chain digital services in information flow and capital flow have strong growth potential.
3. Insights into supply chain digitization trends
(1) Technology development trend: the future digital supply chain is a complete digital twin of the physical supply chain
At present, the mature application of digital intelligence technology in various links of the supply chain (including supply chain planning, procurement, manufacturing, operation logistics, etc.) is still limited. Lag, discontinuous, non-real-time data-driven" to the overall collaborative, smooth, real-time, analysis and prediction based on digital twins.
(2) Enterprise development trend: The future development path of supply chain digitalization of large, medium, small and micro enterprises is very different
Large enterprises—evolving from "big" to "strong", from digital "practitioners" to "enablers";
Medium-sized enterprises——Before digitalization, informatization needs to go first, and service providers will play a key role in the education of digital awareness for medium-sized enterprises;
Small and micro enterprises—the services of small and micro enterprises based on the industrial Internet urgently need breakthroughs. At the same time, the public digital transformation infrastructure will be further deepened to continue to support small and micro enterprises.