Digital supply chain centralized purchase platform solution for mechanical equipment industry: optimize resource allocation and realize cost reduction and efficiency increase

2021 In the first half of , The added value of China's machinery industry increased year on year 22.3%, The market demand of China's machinery industry has gradually recovered , The trend of stable industrial production is becoming more and more clear , But the price of raw materials in the machinery industry is “ Heating up ”, It also urges mechanical equipment manufacturing enterprises to strengthen the control of procurement costs . In response to cost pressures , More and more mechanical equipment enterprises choose to purchase through centralized purchase e-commerce supply chain system , Reduce cost and increase efficiency .

In recent years, the centralized purchase mode has become an important part of the business concentration of enterprise groups , It has obvious effect on reducing cost and increasing efficiency , For many large mechanical equipment enterprise groups , It has been regarded as an important assessment indicator of procurement supply chain management . The centralized purchase mode can reduce the purchase cost , It also brings the following advantages ：

● Reduce the preparation period of bidding documents of the authority units

●  Reduce the preparation period for bidding, bid evaluation and bid negotiation of the bidding unit

●  development strategy / Core supplier

●  Improve idle warehouse 、 Utilization efficiency of equipment

●  Accelerate supplier capital flow 、 Shorten lead time

●  Idle materials between plates 、 Equipment reuse , Improve the turnover rate of current assets

●  Reduce storage and logistics costs through regional material allocation

●  Reuse of idle materials , Reduce purchasing cost and capital pressure

●  Develop supply chain finance , Reduce the number of enterprises within the group 、 Supplier financing costs

Now , Many mechanical equipment enterprises are aware of the importance of digital procurement , And carried out digital transformation to varying degrees . Although some enterprises have introduced a large number of advanced technologies , But the effect of digital application is not very good , It is difficult to give full play to the advantages of centralized purchase mode in mechanical equipment industry . The main reason is , That is, the digital integration with mechanical equipment enterprises is limited 、 The value of digital procurement is closely related to the fact that it has not been deeply explored .

The construction of the digital supply chain centralized purchase management system platform can form the sharing of resources 、 Realize centralized processing , So as to improve the systems of the machinery and equipment enterprise group 、 Work efficiency of each department . As a service provider with many years of experience in the development of centralized purchase system , The digital commerce cloud can aim at the characteristics of different mechanical equipment enterprise groups , Provide high-quality supply chain centralized purchase management system solutions for mechanical equipment industry .

Digital quotient cloud Digital centralized purchase management system Around the whole process of purchasing and supply chain of mechanical equipment enterprises , Build a centralized purchase system internally , adopt “ Plastic process 、 Risk control 、 Data applications ” And other ways to make the enterprise achieve “ The sun 、 Reduced Edition 、 Efficiency improvement ” Management purpose of ; Build an e-commerce platform for enterprises , By providing “ Trading Services 、 information service 、 Value added service ” Make the upstream and downstream enterprises of the supply chain realize “ Connect 、 Interaction 、 The fusion ”, So as to promote the fine management of the centralized procurement supply chain in the mechanical equipment industry .

Business pain points and solutions for mechanical equipment industry

1、 Customer credit problems

Customers registered to enter the centralized purchase platform of mechanical equipment , Enterprises know nothing about customers' information , How to filter out customers with low credit , It is the focus of enterprises .

Solution ：

Before the customer conducts business on the centralized purchase platform , Enterprises can conduct due diligence on customers in different ways , The focus of the investigation includes ： Customer （ Enterprises ） The financial situation of the company 、 Customer （ Individuals or businesses ） Big data credit investigation, etc , Filter out customers with low credit through a series of risk control means .

2、 Customer credit problem

In the process of the customer's application for purchasing goods , Type of goods requested 、 There is no limit on the number , There is no limit on the loan amount applied to the centralized purchase e-commerce supply chain system , Therefore, the back-end platform attaches great importance to the approval process of customer credit line .

Solution ：

The supply chain centralized purchase system integrates the credit line management function of the credit system , Comprehensively control the direct credit line involved in the centralized purchase business of supply chain finance , Improve the risk control system .

3、 Goods in and out of warehouse

There are quantity errors in the process of goods in and out of the warehouse , The warehouse shall conduct inventory counting and other operations at any time .

Solution ：

The centralized purchase system of the mechanical equipment industry is used when the goods are in and out of the warehouse , You can enter the receipt information table ; Support the approval of picking when picking up the customer's goods 、 Acceptance and delivery payment 、 Confirm picking information ; Support batch export of goods information table .

4、 Capital risk

If the customer fails to pay and pick up the goods as agreed , As a result, the funds advanced by the enterprise cannot be recovered on schedule ; If there is a sharp drop in the price of the goods stored in the warehouse , The customer refused to pick up the goods , Enterprises are likely to incur depreciation losses .

Solution ：

If the customer cannot pick up the goods within the agreed time limit , The centralized purchase supply chain platform will take immediate measures , Such as ： Overdue warning 、 Go to the collection phase and stop the operation of this customer's new business ; In business operation , The enterprise may assign special personnel to pay attention to the changes in the market prices of commodities under centralized purchase , Once the price is found to have a downward trend , Ask the customer to make up the deposit .

The functions and services of the supply chain platform are gathered by digital commerce

1、 Set up centralized purchase platform

① Authorized centralized purchase . The centralized purchase platform is used for the customers who jointly conduct centralized purchase in the region , Perform centralized purchase authorization , The two sides reached a consensus , Mutual authorization succeeded , Establish centralized purchase Association  .
② Unified commodity management . Centralized purchase of commodities is the key to the circulation of the whole supply chain , Only commodities SKU Reach unity , To reduce the cost of intermediate communication , Realize order summary of centralized purchase supply chain platform , Unified procurement , Unified management , Unified distribution .

 2、 Centralized purchase order management

① Order summary . The downstream B End to end summary to distributor , Then it is summarized to the centralized purchase platform , Collect through the online mall , Collect the supply of all centralized purchase commodities . 
② Centralized purchasing . After the product summary is completed , The digital supply chain centralized purchase platform begins to arrange centralized purchase , According to different categories 、 Different goods , Contact the corresponding upstream supplier for centralized purchase .

3、  Centralized purchase and distribution management

① Centralized storage and distribution . You can create a central warehouse , Centralized storage , Save more cost . Or according to the situation , Direct delivery to the corresponding distributor . 

② Automatic receipt . After delivery to the corresponding distributor , Automatic receipt and stock in , Distributor can review actual quantity . Easy to operate , Greatly save the receiving time .

4、  Centralized purchase data display

The digital supply chain centralized purchase platform displays the sales situation , Financial situation , Data of each centralized purchase client , Centralized purchase data, etc ; The centralized purchase client also has an independent data report , Able to support daily operations and management decisions .

summary ：

Creating a high-quality, efficient and fast digital supply chain centralized purchase platform is to promote the strategic transformation of mechanical equipment enterprise groups , The inevitable requirement of realizing leapfrog development . The supply chain centralized purchase system of mechanical equipment industry has realized enterprise logistics 、 Capital flow 、 High integration of information flow , Integrate resources for the enterprise , Optimize resource allocation , It provides an effective tool to improve combat effectiveness and core competitive advantage .

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