Today, with the rapid development of the Internet, the railway transportation industry is actively joining hands with the Internet, cooperating with upstream and downstream enterprises, innovating the railway development model, promoting the "dual-network integration" of the high-speed rail network and the Internet, and helping to build smart railways. This can be confirmed in the recently released "China Enterprise E-commerce Procurement Development Report (2017) ".
On December 6, at the 2017 (3rd) Internet + Enterprise Procurement Summit Forum, the CCID Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly released the first "China Enterprise E-commerce Procurement Development Report (2017) " (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") in our country. The report pointed out that: the size of the e-commerce procurement market has reached 100 billion, an increase of more than 70% year-on-year, and the e-commerce procurement is active in the enterprise-level e-commerce market. Among them, JD.com enterprises purchased 48.6% of the share to occupy the first place in the e-commerce procurement market. At the meeting, experts said that in 2017, the proportion of online procurement by enterprises in our country has exceeded 50%, among which the transportation, manufacturing and financial industries have made outstanding achievements in promoting the e-commerce of procurement.
The "China Enterprise E-commerce Procurement Development Report (2017) " was released, ranking first in the JD.com market
With the continuous advancement of the "Internet +" strategy and railway reform, the transportation industry, as the main force of economic operation, is actively exploring the e-commerce transformation and upgrading of enterprise procurement. The reporter combed through the data and found that among the 18 railway bureaus in the country, there are 11 that cooperate with JD.com Enterprise Purchase to promote the speed of the procurement supply chain. JD.com Enterprise Purchase has an absolute leading position in the e-commerce procurement market of the railway industry. Through the provision of smart procurement solutions and the logistics advantages of 100% coverage of administrative districts and counties across the country, JD.com Enterprise Purchase can effectively solve the problems of railway bureaus concerned about the cost and efficiency of the procurement supply chain. JD.com Enterprise Purchase is helping the transportation industry enter a new era of intelligent procurement through leading technology and strong resources.
JD.com customized solutions deeply empower enterprises
"How difficult it is to meet the demand", "How difficult it is to manage suppliers", "How difficult it is to approve the process", "Remote regions, high distribution costs", "The arbitrariness of multi-channel procurement is very large" are the persistent problems that the transportation industry has always faced in material procurement. In the process of upgrading e-commerce procurement, different units also have their own different painpoints to be solved. In the context of full openness, full coverage, full process management of the whole road and the creation of smart railways, the e-commerce model has gradually become an effective solution.
Faced with the many pain points, complex problems, and remote distribution areas in the transportation industry, JD.com has been able to solve the problems of reducing costs and increasing efficiency for transportation customers and accelerating the response speed of the supply chain through the accumulation of technological innovation in smart procurement and its own traditional advantages such as enterprise-level supply chain.
Taking the cooperation between Shanghai Railway Bureau and JD.com as an example, the reform of e-commerce for material procurement by Shanghai Railway Bureau has clarified that a new platform for cooperation with JD.com enterprises must focus on railways and strive for simplicity, convenience and efficiency. In response to the needs of Shanghai Railway Bureau, JD.com and Shanghai Railway Bureau have joined hands to create a new "e-commerce direct purchase" model dedicated to serving Shanghai Railway Bureau. A brand-new "JD.com Shangtie Mall" e-commerce platform has been built, becoming the first e-commerce direct purchase platform in JD.com to achieve a complete closed-loop procurement process. Under the new model, with the help of JD.com’s enterprise procurement platform, enterprises only need to "place an order with one click" to centralize procurement transactions in "one stop". The purchased goods are directly sent to the first-line work area and team of the railway station section by JD.com.
JD.com enterprises purchase to reduce the burden of procurement for Shanghai Railway Bureau
It is understood that since the launch of JD.com and Shanghai Railway Bureau’s cooperation on JD.com Iron Mall, it has been through the platform "e-commerce direct purchase" of office supplies, computer consumables, low-value consumables and other small commodities-based general materials 93.82 million yuan, which saves 18.81 million yuan compared with traditional procurement channels and saves 16.7%. Shanghai Railway Bureau’s e-commerce procurement upgrade benefits have begun to appear.
Guo Zhiyi, director of the Material Purchasing Office of China Railway Shanghai Bureau Group Co., Ltd., said at the meeting: "In the cooperation with the JD.com team, I feel more of the openness, integration and excellence brought to us by e-commerce Internet companies. This kind of work attitude and work idea. I believe that in the future, e-commerce direct purchase will bring new development to the Shanghai Railway Bureau, achieve better services, and provide support for the development of the Yangtze River Delta and the national transportation."
In addition, in cooperation with Kunming Railway Bureau, JD.com Enterprise Purchase has customized a complete set of customized solutions from supplier management, commodities, payment, delivery to procurement platform for Kunming Railway Bureau. Including customizing the exclusive LOGO procurement page, jointly developing a multi-level approval system, designing customized payment methods, invoice issuance and other functions; at the same time, JD.com Enterprise Purchase also regularly provides project multi-dimensional analysis reports to provide corresponding decision-making basis for procurement management, so that Kunming Bureau has a clear understanding of the current procurement situation, simplifies the process, and controls reasonably.
According to statistics, on the JD.com enterprise shopping platform, JD.com saves enterprise procurement costs by collecting and monitoring commodity price information. Compared with traditional procurement channels, the savings rate can reach 15.2%; and the delivery time through JD.com is also shortened from the past average of 8 days to 3 days, effectively reducing the warehousing cost of railway enterprises. The electronic procurement management of the whole process has greatly improved the efficiency of financial settlement.
The remarkable cooperation results have not only shown a new development model for e-commerce procurement in the transportation industry, but also made JD.com enterprise procurement highly recognized by the railway industry. Today, more than half of the railway bureaus in the country have cooperated with JD.com, which has greatly accelerated the upgrading of e-commerce procurement in the transportation industry.
Technology Drives Change in the Smart Age
With the application of new-generation information technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence on e-commerce platforms, e-commerce procurement will be intelligently upgraded. The report points out that under this trend, human intervention in procurement will be further reduced, and procurement behavior will become more scientific and effective. The era of intelligence in enterprise procurement is coming.
The essence of enterprise e-commerce procurement is to transform the procurement process through information technology, so that the procurement cost is lower, the efficiency is higher, and the management is better. Technology plays a decisive role in the quality of e-commerce procurement behavior. For example: electronic infrastructure such as electronic signatures, electronic contracts, and electronic invoices ensure the convenience, efficiency, and green of the whole procurement process; personalized analysis of big data platforms makes "on-demand procurement" possible; data cloud, supply chain compass and other tools provide intelligent warehouse management and accurate sales forecasting to ensure accurate delivery of logistics; decision-making reports based on data analytics help realize visual procurement management.
New platforms and new technologies have brought new opportunities to open up e-commerce procurement in the transportation industry. It is also the innovative technology and service capabilities of retail infrastructure that have given enterprises more confidence in e-commerce procurement reform. JD.com, as a leader in enterprise-level e-commerce procurement platforms, has been in a leading position with a market share of 48.6%. JD.com has been committed to using technical means to create a sunny, efficient, smart and open enterprise procurement process. Focusing on the driving technology of smart procurement, JD.com proposed six general technical standards, and then realized eight system support platforms on the standards to realize intelligent transformation of the seven core links in procurement. At present, JD.com has launched related products. These include "JD.com Enterprise Cloud", which focuses on cloud computing technology, JSF, which focuses on API technology, Moonshot, which focuses on AI technology, JOYlink, which focuses on IOT, JD.com Vientiane, which focuses on big data, and blockchain.
"Smart procurement should be: have temperature, understand" you "and have no boundaries," Song Chunzheng, vice president of JD.com Group and head of key account business, said at the meeting. And how can procurement do this? Song Chunzheng said that through the system front, through the connection with the entire OA and HR systems of the enterprise, collect data to accurately analyze employee portraits, realize intelligent decision-making, and make users feel better.
In order to deal with the diversification of enterprise procurement scenarios and the complexity of demand, JD.com enterprises purchase through data, network and intelligent technical means, according to each enterprise’s previous procurement behavior and purchase cycle rules, establish efficient, accurate and safe large database, so as to achieve accurate insight into enterprise user requests, fully grasp the procurement needs of enterprises in different time periods and scenarios, predict in advance what enterprises really need and want, and provide them with matching procurement services in advance, so that enterprise procurement really enters the era of wisdom.
Song Chunzheng said that in the future, JD.com enterprise procurement can be open to all partners across the board. Starting from the essence of procurement – "efficiency", "cost", "experience" and "service", it will open up its own procurement service capabilities to the outside world, create more procurement service scenario solutions, and cooperate with industry suppliers to establish an empowered ecosystem to build a symbiotic, symbiotic and regenerative enterprise procurement ecosystem.
