A well-known group company in China possesses several production bases in Guangzhou, Wuhan and Zhengzhou, etc., while the trading companies and services centers under Baosteel International providing services to it amount to dozens. However, since the distance between each trading company and service center is quite far, the difficult business data transfer and exchange cause low efficiency of synergy. How to improve the synergetic efficiency and rapidly satisfy the customer's demands? Recently, along with the successful coverage of Baosteel International's industrial and trading integration system, through the integrated system management of tremendous information of trading, processing, finance and logistics, etc., Baosteel not only realizes the synergetic and efficient operation of sales and supply chain, but also is able to rapidly satisfy the overall and systematic demands of key customers.
In recent years, as many strategic customers of Baosteel implement management by grouping of enterprises, the trend of multiple base production and centralized procurement across regions becomes more and more obvious, requiring Baosteel's trading companies and services centers in different regions to provide services to their production bases in various locations, therefore putting forward higher requirements on the integrated synergy and cross-region synergy of each region under Baosteel International. In the meantime, the original information systems of Baosteel International's marketing system are many in quantity, have many interfaces and exchanges, resulting in tremendous business data transfer and exchange between many systems by each trading company and services center, the synergy efficiency is not high and the response speed is quite slow.
To better satisfy the customer's demands, with the target of constructing "Digitized Baosteel", Baosteel International actively practices the customer service concept of "customer as the center", exerts itself to build the synergetic and efficient supply chain. In the past three years, the task force of industrial and trading integration system consisting of relevant people from Baosteel International and Baosight Software made brainstorming on the efficient data exchange and centralized management of basic code. The task force focuses on the customer's demands, applies the concept of "simplicity, speed and cost", travels all over the country to the front line, to carry out work on business procedure combing, business system consolidation, information resources consolidation and management, etc. After the efforts for more than three years, the industrial and trading integration system has successfully covered all the business units of Baosteel International.
Now through the industrial and trading integration system, Baosteel International has successfully realized the seamless integration and interlinkage between each subsidiary in the system. The nearly 100 outlets scattering all over the country no longer operates on its own, and each subsidiary in the system flexibly composes a synergetic service body according to the business demands with the informatization approach. The resources, fund and inventory realize centralized management in the systematic level, the business procedure is streamlined, the resources deployment and fund risk control capability are enhanced greatly. The controllable and flexible processing and distribution procedure is formed, the data exchange also becomes more timely and exact, and the synergy efficiency is further improved. According to the statistics, before the industrial and trading integration system is put on-line, each unit of Baosteel International needs to spend a large amount of time on data acquisition and consolidation, the customers need to wait at least a couple of days before they can inquire the production progress, logistics and other information. After the overall coverage in the industrial and trading integration region, even the customers are thousands of miles far away, they still can inquire the relevant information of the products they need in real time, thus the customer satisfaction is improved.
