In order to deeply implement the innovative development strategy of the Industrial Internet and comprehensively promote the digital transformation of China's manufacturing industry empowered by the Industrial Internet, the Shenzhen Industrial Internet Association specially created a "Hundred Lecture Hall" on intelligent manufacturing and industrial Internet, inviting 100 industrial Internet experts from all over the country. , disseminate industrial Internet-related knowledge and practical experience to enterprises, and promote the industrial Internet to empower Chinese manufacturing.
As a leading company in the field of procurement digitization and supply chain collaboration, Qiqitong was invited to attend the "2023 Intelligent Manufacturing and Industrial Internet" series of public welfare broadcasts. Tang Shuiqing, senior procurement and supply chain program director, spoke about "Industrial Internet and Procurement Supply Chain Integration Program" 》 gave an in-depth explanation of the topic , shared the successful practical experience of Qiqitong in the digital field of industrial Internet and procurement supply chain in recent years, and brought new ideas to the digital transformation and upgrading of procurement for intelligent manufacturing enterprises.
Teacher Tang gave an in-depth explanation from three aspects : the current situation of the industrial Internet and the procurement supply chain, the overall plan of the procurement supply chain, and the application of the industrial Internet in the procurement supply chain. Let us review the exciting content of this public welfare class together.
01. Driven by national policy support, digital technology and market, my country’s industrial Internet has developed rapidly
With the continuous development of digital technology, traditional procurement models are being reformed and replaced. More and more companies are making changes, using procurement management platforms for digital collaborative management of supply chains, seeking industrial Internet solutions, thereby reducing procurement costs, increasing profits, and seeking to maintain advantages in future supply chain competition.
The essence of digitalization is the comprehensive digitization of elements, allowing enterprises to respond more agilely to changes, including product demand, marketing models, supply chains, manufacturing, delivery experience, and intelligent services.
Driven by national policies, digital technology and market needs, my country's industrial Internet has grown rapidly. However, at present, the digital transformation of enterprises is still full of challenges. The three major transformation challenges of digital empowerment manufacturing are as follows:
● The multi-category and small-batch production model in the era of category economy poses challenges to the production process
● The high-turnover operating model in the speed economy era poses challenges to overall operations
● The dispersion of factories to low land cost areas poses challenges to distributed management
The digital demand and willingness of the industrial supply chain are accelerating, and comprehensive digital transformation has become a consensus. The systems, entities, diverse activities, and complex structures involved in the industrial Internet supply chain have expanded its attack surface. Building a more independent, complete, and secure industrial Internet supply chain will be a new trend.
02. Procurement digitization and supply chain empowerment value under the empowerment of industrial Internet: reduce costs and increase efficiency, and enhance the competitive advantage of the supply chain
In the process of promoting the transformation of the industrial Internet digital supply chain, by using mature SRM products to build an integrated and unified digital procurement supply chain collaboration platform, enterprise information construction can achieve twice the result with half the effort.
SRM, or Supplier Relationship Management , is a set of management ideas and software technology solutions dedicated to establishing and maintaining a long-term, close partnership between buyers and suppliers. An intelligent procurement platform can be built for different procurement scenarios to help enterprises build smart supply chains, streamline the upstream and downstream supply chain and the entire procurement link, and form multi-party collaboration among suppliers, procurement, sourcing, finance, quality, outsourcing, etc. to achieve The three major goals of ensuring supply, reducing costs, and improving efficiency will help enterprises develop with high quality.
◆ Establish an integrated and unified platform, establish supplier assessment standards and supplier database. The SRM management system can unify portals, procurement processes, business content, data integration, business messages, organizational systems, etc., and can realize convenient adjustments and expansions according to needs to complete the platform-based and integrated upgrade of management.
Through the SRM management system, the company establishes a collaborative platform with suppliers to conduct life cycle management of supplier registration, access, cooperation, performance, rectification and elimination, multi-data sources, closed-loop management, and multi-dimensional analysis to strengthen supplier ecological construction and ensure The timeliness and accuracy of information sharing can solve problems such as unclear supplier collaboration process and traceability, which affects the delivery of end products.
◆ Strengthen the coordination ability from procurement requirements to reconciliation and optimize the supply chain ecosystem. Smart manufacturing and industrial interconnection companies often have a long business process from demand to reconciliation, resulting in many anomalies, poor information, and low efficiency in the procurement process. The SRM system strengthens procurement management from the perspective of the supply chain, achieving efficient collaboration between purchasers and suppliers on procurement operations such as demand planning, purchase orders, delivery, delivery plans, receipt and delivery, and procurement reconciliation, so that the purchasers and suppliers can form a better relationship. Close ecological partnership.
At the same time, the procurement management system can provide multiple methods such as price comparison, bidding, and bidding, and provide massive supplier resources, covering all categories of corporate procurement business. Multiple strategies, flexible configuration, and full collaboration can realize the optimization of the entire sourcing process. Online, efficient collaboration with suppliers provides intelligent price comparison assistants to help effectively reduce procurement costs.
◆ Multi-dimensional industrial digital intelligence empowerment helps enterprises build flexible supply chain systems. For traditional manufacturing and industrial interconnection companies, a large number of offline operations are inefficient and prone to errors; there is a lack of collaborative means, and suppliers do not respond in a timely manner; statistical analysis is difficult, affecting the objectivity of quality evaluation and performance, and directly affecting the quality of the supply chain. level and efficiency.
The SRM procurement management system directly addresses the core aspects of supply chain management, meets various industrial manufacturing scenarios, and achieves multi-faceted collaboration such as quality collaboration, R&D collaboration, outsourcing collaboration, and mold/equipment collaboration. On the one hand, it realizes supplier process quality management and standardized quality management; on the other hand, it realizes integration with PLM to obtain technical information and ECN/PCN change coordination. At the same time, it improves supply chain efficiency and promotes supply chain through complete OEM outsourcing business management. Ecological construction.
03. Enterprise interconnection: Integrate multi-party systems and establish a unified collaboration channel between purchasers and suppliers.
Through the SRM procurement management platform, externally, procurement companies and suppliers can establish a unified collaboration channel, organize and fix the entire procurement process in an information-based manner, and implement standardized and customized management and control of standardized systems and business rules in the form of software to support diverse oriented business scenarios and smooth information flow channels, allowing both buyers and suppliers to efficiently execute business and improve operational efficiency.
Internally, the SRM procurement management platform can be integrated with PLM, ERP, WMS, MES, QMS and other business systems to open up a complete procurement business data chain and complete the integrated application points of SRM business such as "order-production-delivery-settlement". , to achieve order collaboration, progress collaboration, receipt collaboration, and quality collaboration in the procurement process.
Through the establishment of a huge industrial ecological network that connects enterprises, it bilaterally empowers purchasers and suppliers to achieve interconnection between enterprises, reducing costs and increasing efficiency for enterprise industrial management and supply chain development.
In recent years, the development of industrial digitalization has gradually entered the deep water zone. As a new digital infrastructure and application ecology, the industrial Internet is gradually becoming the main battlefield for the transformation and upgrading of the global real industry and competition among countries around the world. Statistics from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology show that my country’s industrial Internet has entered a period of large-scale development, with the industrial economy contributing more than 4 trillion yuan, accounting for 3.5% of GDP.
As the digital transformation of the industrial Internet gradually deepens, Qiqitong will continue to innovate and make breakthroughs, deeply explore the value of the procurement supply chain, provide industrialized supply chain procurement digitalization and supply chain empowerment solutions for intelligent manufacturing and industrial Internet, and steadily improve the enterprise's orientation. The procurement business and efficient decision-making capabilities of digital transformation can effectively assist the digital transformation and upgrading of various intelligent manufacturing and industrial Internet companies in new business formats.