Shandong is an important industrial base in the country. It actively responds to the national strategy and has achieved remarkable results in building a digitally powerful province. It has designated 2023 as the year of "comprehensive improvement" in the development of the digital economy. Nine departments including the Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued an action plan. We will refine and clarify the main direction of making Shandong’s digital economy stronger, better and bigger, and strive to promote the scale, level and level of the digital economy.
In order to better meet the growing digital application needs of enterprises and empower more enterprises to accelerate digital transformation, on September 22, the 2023 Huawei Cloud Shandong 828 B2B Enterprise Festival·Linyi Station was successfully held.
The theme of this event is "Digital Intelligence, Cloud Opens the Future" to empower industrial enterprises to shift gears faster. Qiqitong, as an outstanding representative of procurement and supply chain technology service providers, was invited to attend this event and meet with experts and experts in the digital field. Representatives from hundreds of Linyi industrial enterprises jointly discussed how digital productivity can achieve high-quality development of enterprises.
The 828 B2B Enterprise Festival is jointly initiated by Huawei Cloud and 30,000+ ecological partners. It uses the technology and experience of Huawei Cloud and ecological partners in the digital field, as well as high-quality and preferential digital products, technologies, and services to meet the digital needs of enterprises; and comprehensively assist enterprises Improve digital capabilities, solve digital problems, accelerate the steady growth of enterprises, achieve good business, and become a good enterprise.
Under the wave of digitalization, with the application of technologies such as the Internet, big data, and blockchain, enterprises are also facing new challenges in procurement management and business.
So what are the opportunities and challenges in sourcing the supply chain? How does the procurement supply chain empower the development of industrial manufacturing companies?
During the event, Han Zhongyi, a senior expert on the procurement supply chain of Qiqitong, gave a keynote speech on "Building Digital Procurement Supply Chain to Enhance Enterprise Competitive Advantages" and shared the exploration practices and benchmark cases of digital empowerment of the industrial Internet platform and procurement supply chain.
He mentioned that from a procurement perspective, the current penetration rate of digital procurement in domestic enterprises is less than 10%, indicating that the level of digital procurement in most enterprises is still at a low level. Currently, the enterprise procurement supply chain faces the following opportunities and challenges :
1. Development of advanced technology: With the development of science and technology, supply chain management is facing a constantly changing technical environment. The application of cloud computing, big data, AI, ChatGPT and other technologies can improve the efficiency and refined management of the supply chain;
2. Personalized needs for procurement and supply chain transformation: The changing market and the continuous development of enterprises require higher and higher supply chain agility. Demands are becoming more and more personalized, and delivery times are getting shorter and customized. Supply chain collaboration solutions;
3. Synergy between procurement and supply chain: For problems such as poor communication inside and outside the company, material quality issues, and supply affecting production, the construction of a digital procurement system can ensure effective information exchange and improve the work efficiency of members of each department;
4. Demand for cost reduction: As the costs of labor, raw materials, transportation, etc. continue to rise, as well as the acceleration of technological updates, enterprises’ demands for cost reduction are further accelerated. Digital transformation can help ensure the scientificity and rationality of various expenditures.
Based on the above, digitization and collaboration of the procurement supply chain are the preferred options in fierce competition.
Some companies are prone to a misunderstanding, that is, they only focus on the purchase price. However, the purchase price is only the tip of the cost iceberg. Procurement management should start from the overall business of the enterprise. On the basis of ensuring safety, timeliness and economy, consider the overall optimal price/performance ratio and the optimal total cost of the entire life cycle, thereby strengthening the overall Supply chain competitiveness.
In addition, the digital supply chain must be planned uniformly and implemented step by step, such as setting up a "digital and visual" supply chain information system to achieve the overall goal of business processization, process digitization, and data assetization, and then start from System infrastructure construction, improvement of system functions, data analysis and platform improvement are gradually deepened.
The more common procurement digitalization and supply chain collaboration solutions are mainly based on the procurement business to achieve two closed-loop management, supplier full life cycle management and procurement full-process closed-loop management, opening up all aspects of supply chain procurement, forming business, system, people and materials Multi-dimensional integration and collaboration achieve procurement management goals of ensuring supply, reducing costs and improving efficiency.
For corporate non-organic procurement, you can also establish a corporate procurement mall and build an enterprise-specific procurement mall platform with multiple business scenarios and transaction models, allowing companies to purchase the best one-stop, centralized full-chain sales, and open up the end-to-end supply chain system. Make procurement more efficient and standardized, and realize multi-faceted innovative value, thereby improving sales performance.
In order to empower the digital transformation of traditional industries, Qiqitong provides an industrial Internet digital intelligence empowerment platform based on its rich accumulation of industrial intelligent manufacturing scenario applications . The entire manufacturing process helps enterprises improve their production and manufacturing capabilities and create a flexible supply chain.
To empower suppliers from multiple parties and build more stable supply chain capabilities, Qiqitong also provides suppliers with various empowerment solutions such as capital docking, marketing procurement, business opportunity matching, intelligent product recommendation, talent management, and IT empowerment. , to help enterprises improve their multi-dimensional supply chain empowerment capabilities and create a comprehensive enabling supply chain digital platform.
Han Zhongyi, a senior expert on the procurement supply chain, also took a top 500 large home appliance group as an example to deeply analyze its overall supply chain planning route and application results. He pointed out: Through the transformation and upgrading of digital capabilities in all aspects of procurement, Qiqitong has greatly improved its capabilities . Improve business efficiency throughout the entire procurement process and reduce procurement costs.
At the same time, the platform's early warning measures not only ensure timely supply, but also remind companies to replenish their purchases, secure inventory, and reduce corporate procurement supply chain management risks. Multi-dimensional dynamic data on the entire procurement process and internal and external assessment data provide management with more objective and scientific data guidance and decision-making support.
At present, the digital economy has become one of the engines of economic growth. In the context of the digital economy, the digital transformation of corporate procurement and supply chains will be crucial to the sustainable development of enterprises and of great significance to the improvement of corporate competitiveness.
Facing the future, Qiqitong will continue to improve its application results based on its own technological accumulation in the construction and deepening of digital procurement, optimizing user service experience, etc., complementing the advantages of partners, and giving full play to the ecological advantages of co-creation, sharing, and win-win with partners. , promote the innovative development of digitalization in the field of intelligent manufacturing, create new models and chart new paths for the industry.