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High requirements for the supply chain of the food industry

China's food industry is one of the industries with the earliest opening and the highest degree of marketization, and the market competition is fierce. At the same time, with the improvement of people's living standards, people tend to buy more varieties, fewer quantities and pollution-free food. Food enterprises are required to seize the needs of customers and provide safe and delicious products in a timely manner. The smooth, efficient, accurate and intelligent supply chain is particularly important.

Compared with other industries, the supply chain requirements of the food industry are higher and more prominent.

First, the food quality requirements are strict, the risk is high, the food business process is complex and changeable, the loss is large, the cost is high, and even once the quality problem occurs, consumers will lose trust in the brand;

Second, enterprises' inaccurate grasp of the market, frequent adjustment of plans, and short turnover time of materials will lead to a series of unpredictable risks such as overstock of inventory and cost increase;

Third, raw materials are highly dependent on the environment, including the natural environment and social environment, which will seriously affect the quality of products;

Fourth, high requirements for storage and transportation equipment and management. Food is perishable and has a short shelf life. It has a strong dependence on the temperature control technology of the food supply chain and the storage and transportation equipment. It not only requires high cold chain technology in the transportation system, but also requires high cold control technology in the storage place.

This puts forward higher requirements on the supplier's site selection, raw material quality, production capacity, delivery capacity, risk resistance and other aspects.

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Digital upgrading of food industry supply chain management

Nowadays, the key to the competition of enterprises lies in the competition of the supply chain. A major development trend of the food supply chain is digitalization, that is, the digitalization of information flow, logistics and capital flow.

First of all, the digitalization of information flow is to do one-stop procurement collaborative management.

China's food industry supply chain information technology level is still relatively low, information congestion, low transparency, business links are disconnected, which seriously affects the overall operation level and efficiency of the food supply chain, and even affects the quality of products and brand reputation. By using the third-party enterprise SaaS platform, such as the one-stop procurement collaborative management platform for enterprise to enterprise communication, we can provide food enterprises with solutions for supply chain management and information diagnosis and analysis, control key nodes of supply chain management, provide powerful information assurance for timely solving specific problems in the business process, and reduce decision-making costs.

| Efficient collaboration of "people business system"

The SRM one-stop procurement collaborative management platform enables the enterprise's internal systems to interface with business links, efficiently and smoothly share information, from supplier access, cooperation to evaluation and hierarchical management, from potential suppliers to qualified suppliers, to supplier management, and from contract, order, delivery, reconciliation and settlement to full cycle control of the whole procurement process, breaking the "data island", using data integration to make accurate decisions, so as to achieve efficient operation of procurement management.

Materials are purchased by category and managed transparently

There are many SKUs in the food supply chain. The SRM management platform formulates rules to sort out food categories and classified suppliers, integrates sourcing, bidding, financial settlement and other procurement processes, checks the bidding progress at any time, integrates the project operation system, and conducts efficient overall management.

Secondly, the digitalization of logistics requires intelligent monitoring.

The particularity of food quality requires efficient and stable logistics. Both cold chain logistics and general logistics need to be controlled in a timely manner. The one-stop procurement collaborative management platform of Enterprise Connect can combine barcode, mobile handheld PDA equipment and mobile network with streaming data, follow up the material logistics situation, receipt and warehousing at any time, accurately control the enterprise inventory, reduce the logistics cost and warehousing cost, and manage the warehouse more efficiently.

At the same time, the digitalization of capital flow depends on supply chain finance.

Supply chain finance can enable the upstream and downstream financing of the food supply chain. The Enterprise Supply Chain Enabling System provides a complete set of supply chain enabling solutions for supply chain enterprises and suppliers. Based on the supply chain transaction data, the enterprise enterprise supply chain empowerment system connects the asset side and the capital side. It provides enterprises with convenient and fast supply chain empowerment and capital services to help build more stable supply chain capabilities. Bilateral empowerment can create a higher industry ceiling, a deeper and more cohesive network platform to cope with market development. As a manufacturer with bilateral enabling capability in the industry, Enterprise Connect is also becoming the industry benchmark and leading the direction of digital development of the supply chain.

Food is the most important thing for people. With the upgrading of consumption, the traditional food supply chain procurement has not been able to meet the needs of the public in many aspects. The fierce market competition also requires enterprises to save costs while maintaining quality. Only by changing from time to time, upgrading the digital supply chain, realizing the digitalization of information flow, logistics, capital flow, optimizing supply chain management, reducing costs and increasing efficiency, can enterprises inject new vitality and respond to the development of the market.