The Supply Chain Support of Insulating Glass Equipment Manufacturer

The Implementation of Supply Chain Management

At the beginning, supply chain management originated from the study of logistics support system. Later, commercial enterprises and transportation enterprises began to use some of the principles of logistics to carry out "logistics management", gradually forming the current supply chain management model, and became the factory enterprise to carry out lean Production management is an essential management improvement module for realizing just-in-time production.

Based on the manufacturing point of view, the supply chain is a series of continuous activities, the process of converting raw materials into a series of final products and continuously realizing value-added process. From the perspective of topology, the supply chain management promoted and implemented by Jinan LIJIANG Glass is a network of autonomous or semi-autonomous enterprise entities, including some subsidiaries (Jinan LIJIANG Intelligent Technology Co,.Ltd. -- The Glass Processing Implementation ERP Software R&D Company, Jinan Kation International Trading Co,.Ltd.-- The International Trade Export Company), Manufacturing Plant (Jinan LIJIANG Glass Automation Equipment Co,.Ltd. -- The assembly manufacturer), Warehouse, External Supplier, Transportation Company, Distribution Center, Agent Distributor Retail (such as the US market, the Eastern European market, the Middle East market and the Indian market, etc.) and the final equipment users.
A complete supply chain management of the glass deep processing industry starts from the supplier of raw materials and ends at the end user.

Jinan LIJIANG Glass is a part of the glass deep-processing industry in global. The core content of its supply chain management implementation includes two: the first is to advocate collaborative business; the second is to carry out advanced plans in the scope of the supply chain. The essence of Jinan LIJIANG Glass' supply chain management is effective collaboration through customer and supplier networks. At the business process level, collaborative commerce mainly includes the following aspects: coordination of demand and forecast data, coordination of purchase order operations, coordination of production planning and supply capacity, coordination of quality management and quality certification, and sharing of price and cost information. According to the scope of collaborative operation, it can be divided into: the collaboration between Jinan LIJIANG Glass enterprise and external partners, and the collaboration between various departments or business divisions within Jinan LIJIANG Glass enterprise.

The benefits brought to enterprises by carrying out collaborative business operations are enormous. Simultaneous operation of the supply chain under inventory minimization and effective management can enable Jinan LIJIANG Glass to reduce costs and speed up the flow of products in the supply chain.

1. Reduce inventory and reduce costs.

A business process of an enterprise is mainly to place an order, produce, deliver, and settle. In the ERP system, the order is first entered in the ordering module, and then the production plan and material requirement plan are generated in the production module, and then transferred to the purchasing module. In the procurement module, a procurement plan is generated according to the inventory situation and demand plan, and then the purchase order will be received from the supplier and delivered in time.

Jinan LIJIANG Glass has reached cooperation agreements with world-renowned brands of insulating glass processing equipment accessories manufacturers such as German Siemens PLC control system, German Schneider electronic system, Japanese Yaskawa servo motor, British Trio system and Taiwan Hiwin slider guide screw, and other world-renowned brands. Could already achieve the zero cost of Jinan LIJIANG Glass production scheduling and stocking plan.

In this process, since the ERP system can quickly transfer information between the supplier and the production workshop, Jinan LIJIANG Glass, as a manufacturer, does not need to prepare a large amount of inventory to ensure production, which greatly reduces the cost of inventory, reducing production costs. Effective supply chain management and ERP systems optimize all aspects of the process. Except for inventory, because suppliers and manufacturers have established strategic partnerships, the procedures for signing supply contracts are greatly simplified, and transaction costs are greatly reduced.

2. Quickly respond to customer needs and shorten the time of the whole process.

The establishment of the supply chain and the application of the ERP system in the enterprise make the information transfer faster and more accurate. When the seller obtains the customer's demand information, it can pass the information to the workshop for assembly and production through the ERP system and other software.

It will not cause product backlog or lose market opportunities due to information asymmetry and can meet customer needs promptly, increase profits and reduce losses. The ERP system also makes the formalities between enterprises in the supply chain simple and easy, greatly reducing the time of the whole process. For example, in the process of purchasing, due to the transparency and timeliness of information, the synchronization operation efficiency of enterprises in the supply chain is improved.

3. Reduce risk.

The rapid transmission of information and the transparency of information enables enterprises to make corresponding decisions and plans as soon as possible in the face of opportunities and problems, effectively control the business process and prevent problems from production scheduling to equipment delivery. , reducing the risk of Jinan LIJIANG Glass business operations.

4. Improve the core competitiveness of enterprises

In the entire supply chain, each enterprise only does the part that it is best at, that is, its core part, and the part that it is not good at is done by the partners in the supply chain so that the limited resources of the enterprise can be used in a centralized manner. The core part of the enterprise makes Jinan LIJIANG Glass more competitive.