Recently, the 2024 JD Industrial Digital Intelligence Supply Chain Conference was held in Chengdu, sharing the latest product of JD's industrial service supply chain transformation and upgrading, the innovative achievements and application practices of the "Taipu" digital intelligence supply chain solution in southwest China. Kangdi, vice president of Jingdong Group and general manager of the key account department of Jingdong Industrial Public Industry, said that the core of "Taipu" is to use technology to accurately link both ends of supply and demand, realize the optimal matching of supply and demand through the digital and intelligent supply chain, reduce the cost of socialized collaboration, improve total factor productivity, and build a solid infrastructure for promoting new industrialization and developing new quality productivity.
Provide full-link digital and intelligent services for the supply chain, and promote "sunshine compliance" in procurement with top-level design
With the comprehensive promotion of the construction of China's modern industrial system, the development of new quality productivity and the implementation of new industrialization have become the key tasks of the industrial industry. As the most critical infrastructure and core competitiveness of the industrial industry, the supply chain has become an inevitable trend in the development of the industrial manufacturing industry to quickly complete the digital and intelligent transformation.
However, due to the high dispersion of supply and demand, the difficulty of matching supply and demand, the redundancy of distribution levels, the slow response speed, the large number of non-standard commodities, and the high cost of communication and transactions, the digital and intelligent transformation of the supply chain still faces a lot of challenges. The main reason is that there is a lack of system solutions throughout the industrial chain, which makes it difficult for all links to effectively coordinate.
In order to break this situation from the root cause and promote the interconnection of all links in the supply chain, JD Industry launched the "Taipu" digital intelligent supply chain solution at the end of last year, creating a "highway" for data flow by realizing digital intelligence at both ends of supply and demand. On the supply side, Taipu mainly aggregates a large number of suppliers through technical means on the one hand, links demand-side planning and inventory on the other hand, shortens intermediate links, and finally realizes the optimal matching and efficient coordination of supply and demand with the help of intelligent decision-making. On the demand side, Taipu mainly focuses on the digital intelligence of the internal supply chain of enterprises (including the company's own internal demand planning, supplier management, financial integration, etc.), and helps industrial enterprises achieve compliance, supply assurance, cost reduction, efficiency increase and innovation through consulting, technology, operation and other services.
At present, Taipu has formed a series of technical service products around the digital intelligence of demand, digital intelligence of procurement, digital intelligence of fulfillment, and digital intelligence of operation, including Mercator standard commodity library, inventory socialization mode management system "Evangelism", etc., among which strategic consulting services are one of the key areas of Taipu's layout. At present, the supply chain management of a large number of enterprises is gradually transformed from offline to online, and the process of system upgrade often relies on continuous patching to cure headaches and pain in the feet, resulting in the lack of a unified top-level design and data middle platform for the entire system, which is easy to give rise to the problem of "data islands" and "chimney jungles", and it is difficult to carry the growing business needs. Based on JD.com's 8 million active enterprise customer service experience and deep understanding of the supply chain, the strategic consulting and planning services provided by Taipu can diagnose the shortcomings of various process planning such as commodity management, transaction collaboration, and back-office management for enterprises, create a forward-looking top-level design with a global vision, and give full play to the long-term value of the supply chain centralized procurement platform.
With the help of such consulting services, enterprises can not only better implement cost reduction and efficiency increase, but also greatly promote the "sunshine compliance" of procurement. Taking supplier management as an example, supplier management has always been a weak link in procurement compliance. On the one hand, the supplier management in many industries is relatively extensive, and it is still based on human governance, lacking unified standards; On the other hand, the phenomenon of offline collusion and negotiation followed by the online model and the bid-rigging and collusion of suppliers still exist, which further exacerbates compliance risks. Through the creation of standard product transactions, Taipu is the first in the industry to realize the decoupling of commodities and suppliers, and the decoupling of customer orders and fulfillment orders, which can help enterprises realize the isolation of products and merchants and intelligent decision-making and order division. As a result, it not only effectively avoids human intervention in the procurement process, but also urges suppliers to focus more on the improvement of their own business and capabilities, and promotes the positive development of the supplier ecosystem.
Taipu's "Circle of Friends" continues to expand and serve the digital and intelligent upgrading of the supply chain of many enterprises in Southwest China
Since its release, Taipu has been adopted by many industrial enterprises, especially in southwest China, providing strong support for the local supply chain to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
In cooperation with Southwest Pipeline Co., Ltd., the State Pipeline Network Group, Taipu relies on the super commodity supply chain to effectively guarantee the demand for commodities in various professional scenarios. As an important energy enterprise in Southwest China, Southwest Pipeline Co., Ltd. of the State Pipeline Network Group is mainly responsible for the construction and operation of infrastructure such as oil and gas trunk pipeline network and gas storage and peak shaving in Southwest China. The construction of the pipeline network is complex and highly professional, involving a large number of professional spare parts and testing instruments. Therefore, in the process of digital and intelligent transformation of the supply chain, professional commodity capabilities are the most important elements of the pipe network group. Through VC supplier management system, Gongding commodity management, evangelistic inventory management and many other technical products, Taipu has efficiently aggregated 48 secondary categories, 2,000+ well-known brands, 30,000+ high-quality suppliers and 40 million+ high-quality commodities, providing strong support for the material supply guarantee of the pipeline network group.
In the cooperation with Langjiu, Taipu has helped enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency of inventory management through a new generation of fulfillment infrastructure. Langjiu is a well-known liquor brand in China, and Langjiu Erlang Sauce Flavor Production Area is located on the left bank of the Chishui River on the border between the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the Sichuan Basin. The remote location of this place makes it extremely inconvenient to procure materials and fulfill the contract. In the past, Langjiu would equip each production area with a general warehouse and multiple secondary warehouses for inventory management of various materials. These self-built warehouses have also brought a lot of capital and management costs to Langjiu. After the introduction of Taipu, Jingdong Industry deployed a front warehouse and a Beijing cabinet, of which the front warehouse was mainly built near the factory and park, and the Beijing cabinet was deployed on the side of the production line. All kinds of materials will usually be temporarily stored in the front warehouse and Beijing cabinet, and after the production line initiates the purchase demand, it can be delivered to the factory by a special person or picked up by the employees themselves as soon as possible. Different from the previous "procurement front" model of purchasing spare parts in large quantities for inventory and then receiving them in batches, the front warehouse and Jinggong cabinet can realize "circular consignment", that is, Jingdong Industry will calculate a reasonable safety stock level through data model analysis, and automatically trigger the purchase requisition when the material is received below the safety stock level, and the goods will be stocked by Jingdong Industry. At present, the front warehouse and Jinggong cabinet have been deployed in Langjiu Erlang, Luzhou two factory companies and supply chain packaging subsidiaries Huayi, Yihe and Dongglass, which have fully replaced the original general warehouse and secondary warehouse, greatly reducing the company's warehouse management investment and capital occupation.
In the cooperation with Sichuan Airport, Taipu helped Sichuan Airport to achieve refined and transparent management of spare parts system. In the past, Sichuan Airport's spare parts procurement was mainly offline, but after cooperating with JD Industry, Taipu will not only provide full-link digital and intelligent management tools and services, but also help Sichuan Airport realize visualized, lean and agile management of the spare parts supply chain, and greatly improve procurement efficiency. At the same time, it will also rely on intelligent algorithms to accurately analyze historical consumption data, give the average consumption of spare parts, and recommend the replenishment water level and replenishment cycle, so as to realize the inventory level control based on the demand forecast of spare parts.
Bian Dongsong, general manager of the southwest region of Jingdong Industry, said that materials are an indispensable element in the industrial production process and the material basis for new industrialization. Through the "Taipu" digital intelligent supply chain solution, JD Industry is committed to building a digital highway that spans different industries and is compatible with different types of materials, and opens this highway to the whole industry to share, and finally realizes "more data flow and less goods run", promotes the cost reduction, efficiency increase and unimpeded flow of the supply chain, and helps traditional industries to reduce costs, increase efficiency, transformation and upgrading.