First-class venues and facilities such as the Olympic Sports Center Swimming and Diving Hall with a total construction area of 100,000 square meters have been widely praised by athletes and spectators, and one of the founders of these landmark buildings is Shaanxi Construction Engineering Holding Group.
Completing the construction task of the venue on schedule and with high quality is inseparable from the support and guarantee of the supply chain. In order to further enhance the supply chain management capabilities of Shaanxi Construction Engineering, Shaanxi Construction Engineering and Jingdong Industrial Products recently signed a cooperation agreement to deeply implement the digital and intelligent transformation of Shaanxi Construction Engineering Supply Chain with procurement management as the starting point. The agreement stipulates that the two parties will focus on the core links of material commodity management, performance and delivery, and use digital technology capabilities to build a digital and intelligent supply chain that meets the characteristics of the engineering construction industry, reduce the inventory backlog of construction projects, and shorten the advance period of material supply and on-site construction.
In-depth construction "front-line" combing procurement list With the help of Mercator to achieve the unification of material category standards
The engineering construction industry is a typical decentralized procurement management model, and different projects not only span a large space, but also have different types of materials in demand, and commodity management is difficult. Taking Shaanxi Construction Holding Group as an example, it undertakes more than half of the major engineering construction tasks in Shaanxi every year, involving super high-rise buildings, bridge construction, underground space development, landscaping engineering, industrial buildings and other fields, with a total procurement of millions of materials, and a large number of non-standard products and long-tail commodities. In addition, nearly 30% of Shaanxi Construction's projects are located outside Shaanxi Province and scattered throughout the country, further increasing the difficulty of management.
Zhou Peng, manager of the collection and mining center of Shaanxi Construction Holding Group, secretary of the party committee and general manager of Shaanxi Construction Logistics Group, said that in the past, the procurement of various engineering projects was mainly carried out through local bidding and bidding in the project, and each single procurement needed to go through the process of bidding, inquiry and price comparison, which took a long time and was less efficient. More critically, the service capabilities of suppliers in different regions are uneven, making it difficult to unify the specifications, quality and prices of goods. Since 2018, Shaanxi Construction Engineering has taken the lead in realizing the digitalization of procurement in the construction industry and trying to solve this problem.
The use of digital technology to solve industry problems requires hard work first. The category experts of Jingdong Industrial Products went deep into the project sites such as hospitals and sewage treatment plants under construction by Shaanxi Construction Holding Group, and the industrial product standard commodity library "Mercator" built based on Jingdong Industrial Products clarified the specification parameters and price standards for each type of water-stopping screw, water-stopping steel plate, aluminum film pull-out sheet and other professional materials in the project, forming a detailed digital "standard procurement list". At present, mercator standard commodity library has integrated a large number of professional categories of professional categories of engineering and construction of the head brand resources and expert experience, combined with the industry experience of Shaanxi Construction Engineering to jointly establish a set of industrial construction industry exclusive material standards.
With the help of the "standard procurement list" established by Mercator's standard commodity library, Shaanxi Construction Holding Group can not only realize the unified commodity management of various construction project standards nationwide and ensure the quality of project delivery, but also effectively reduce the information asymmetry in the procurement process, improve the transparency of procurement management and reduce the overall procurement cost.
Improve engineering and construction infrastructure upgrade the "last mile" service of the supply chain of the construction industry
In addition to material and commodity management, fulfillment and delivery is also a serious challenge in engineering procurement. In particular, some engineering projects may be located in relatively remote counties, cities, and mountainous areas, and conventional logistics cannot cover them. Construction teams often have to send commissioners to nearby counties on a regular basis to pick up materials, which not only has a large manpower investment, but also is difficult to guarantee the timeliness.
In order to solve the problem of "material support difficulties" at the construction site, Jingdong Industrial Products will build a variety of terminal infrastructure such as intelligent mobile warehouses, front warehouses, and enterprise distribution centers according to the needs of different projects in Shaanxi, and upgrade the "last kilometer" performance service. Take the "intelligent mobile warehouse" as an example, which places the high-frequency and consumable industrial products of the construction site, and in the interactive interface, you can see the list of collars configured by the project procurement department according to different types of work, which clearly indicates the available goods and quantities. After selection, the cabinet door automatically opens, and the construction personnel receive materials on demand, realizing the real sense of "zero inventory" management. At the same time, the "mobile warehouse" can be moved with the progress of construction, so that "where the construction is, the warehouse is where".
Mao Jidong, deputy secretary of the party committee and general manager of Shaanxi Construction Holding Group, is highly looking forward to the cooperation between the two sides. He said that accelerating the application of digital intelligence technology and improving the level of supply chain management has become the development consensus of the engineering construction industry, and Shaanxi Construction Engineering has joined hands with Jingdong Industrial Products to carry out digital intelligent management of the supply chain, providing a "Shaanxi construction model" for the digital and intelligent transformation of the industrial construction industry.
Song Chunzheng, vice president of Jingdong Group and CEO of Jingdong Industry, said that Jingdong Industrial Products is not just a simple horizontal connection, but also links and optimizes all aspects of the supply chain through digital technology to help industrial enterprises promote innovative changes in production management methods. In the future, Jingdong Industrial Products will continue to have in-depth insight into the supply chain management needs of the industrial construction industry, rely on solid infrastructure, efficient digital and intelligent social supply chain, and innovative technical service capabilities to create integrated service solutions and serve the digital and intelligent transformation of the industrial construction industry.
This article originated from the Financial Circle Network