Let steel trade enterprises step flat on the "cloud"

Recently, the industrial Internet platform Find Steel Mesh signed a SAAS software service cooperation agreement with Anyang Furui Trading Co., Ltd. Find Steel Network will provide Anyang Furui with a full range of business and management system technical services covering OA collaborative office, internal information management platform, human resources, intelligent warehouse, processing, invoicing and inventory, finance, logistics, etc., to help it improve its operation and management efficiency.

"Anyang Furui is a large trader in the Central Plains, with a large business volume and high requirements for systematic management. The company's primary concern is to resolve the problems caused by poor management systems as soon as possible. Jiang Bo, a product expert at the Steel Mesh Product Technology Center, said that at present, many steel trade enterprises that have achieved large-scale development have achieved systematic management in the fields of finance, warehousing, processing, logistics and so on, but most of the systems have not been opened, and the iterative upgrade is slow, and there is still an information island phenomenon.

"Compared with other industries, the information construction of the steel industry is lagging behind, the relevant system has a lot of room for optimization, many companies are using invoicing and inventory software that has not been updated for more than ten years, and even some companies are still using pure manual methods to manage enterprises." Overall, the steel industry does need to accelerate the pace of information construction. Based on this, the steel mesh combined with the characteristics of steel circulation enterprises launched saas products, hoping to help enterprises solve development problems more effectively through new technologies. Jiang Bo said.

Saas is a type of cloud service that means "software as a service". Users do not need to be equipped with hardware and software and servers, just through the Internet can access the management system deployed in the cloud, so as to achieve comprehensive management of the enterprise. For example, the saas software for finding steel mesh can help enterprises achieve regional sales, integrated services, precision management, data management, online docking and mobile experience. As a lightweight software tool in the steel industry open to external users, the product can help users effectively improve sales level, reduce labor costs and comprehensively improve the efficiency of enterprise operation and management through visualization, digitization and precision system management.

Jiang Bo said that the project has strong replicability. First of all, on-demand customization of the product system, it can not only meet the personalized needs, but also abstract the common and high-frequency scenarios, and iteratively upgrade on the basis of the industry's common solutions; secondly, in the technical system, relying on the domain model drive, support multi-tenancy, plug-in, componentization, servitization, and distributed development; third, in the operation and maintenance system, fully do a good job in resource scheduling, data security isolation, elastic deployment and virtualization support.

"The prospects for cloud services are very good." Jiang Bo said that compared with traditional software, the application of industrial cloud in the manufacturing end has two advantages. First of all, the industrial cloud is an overall solution, with open and connection capabilities, can open up more products and services, integrate internal and external cooperation channels of enterprises, precipitate transaction data and credit data; secondly, the industrial cloud can be seamlessly linked with intelligent hardware, through the combination of software and hardware to improve productivity, to achieve automatic inspection, automatic measurement, automatic weighing, automatic coding, pda in and out of the library scanning code, etc., thereby improving work efficiency, reducing the probability of data errors.

From the above two points, the industrial cloud will represent the future development trend of the industrial Internet. "However, although Internet thinking is now very common, because the industrial Internet has a certain threshold, the industry as a whole is still in its infancy." Jiang Bo said.

In addition, deploying cloud services requires customized services, which requires companies to have a deep understanding of the industry and integrate operations and technology to create successful products.

According to Jiang Bo, in the course of 7 years of development, The steel network has built a relatively complete e-commerce service system for the whole industry chain, covering steel trading, financial services, logistics, warehousing and processing and other whole industry chain services, and its operation system can effectively support the scale of 100 billion yuan of transaction volume, and also has obvious advantages in product innovation and iteration speed.

Industry experts said that the SAAS products launched by the steel network can be opened through the internal and external systems, helping enterprises to use the data precipitated during the operation of the system to rebuild the credit system of steel trade enterprises, laying a good foundation for expanding e-commerce sales channels, third-party financial services and supply chain services and other related customized services, thereby creating more imagination space for steel trade enterprises. (Economic Daily reporter Li Jing)

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