refinedthinAs an important symbol to measure the level of national chemical industry, chemical industry provides important end product support for the national economy. Compared with large chemical products, fine chemical products need high professional skills and processes, and their production process requires complex chemical reactions and strict control conditions. The products produced have the characteristics of low output and high value, which is the embodiment of the country’s core technical capabilities.At present, China’s high-end fine chemical industry is still in the growth stage, and the technological level is still relatively low compared with developed countries. With the industrial upgrading of China and the support of national policies, there will be more and more domestic high-end fine chemical products.
Overview of upstream and downstream of fine chemical industry
Characteristics of fine chemical products
High technical content
Fine chemical products need high professional skills and techniques, and their production process requires complex chemical reactions and strict control conditions, and their production techniques and formula management are strict;
Product diversity
The products involved in fine chemical industry are mainly multi-varieties and small batches, which belong to technical customization. The products are very diverse and their packaging forms are also rich and diverse.
High safety requirements
The raw materials for the production of fine chemical products are mostly flammable, explosive, toxic and harmful materials, so the safety requirements for the transportation and storage of raw materials are strict, and safety management requirements need to be implemented;
High quality requirements
Fine chemical products require extremely high quality, so in the process of warehousing and logistics, we need to pay special attention to the storage conditions, moistureproof and anticorrosion of products, and we need to realize comprehensive process monitoring of products.
Flexible warehouse layout
There are many kinds of fine chemical products and different types of warehouses are needed, so the warehouse layout needs to be flexible and changeable to meet the storage needs of different kinds of products;
Various modes of transportation
Because fine chemical products are usually small-batch and high value-added products, their transportation mainly adopts road LTL transportation, and some large-scale transportation often uses multimodal transport such as waterway and railway.
At present, the homogenization of domestic fine chemical products is serious, and the market competition pressure is great. With the global economic recession, its traditional extensive supply chain management mode is difficult to keep up with the pace of enterprise management transformation, which hinders the further development of enterprises. With the construction of the country along the way, domestic fine chemical enterprises are based on their own markets, speeding up the development of foreign product sales channels and starting to export in large quantities, and the supply chain has also extended from domestic to foreign countries. Therefore, the digital transformation of supply chain has become an important task for the whole industry to enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises. Facing the limited domestic market and the vast foreign market, how to enhance the competitiveness of enterprises and stand out from the crowd,Innocent thinksEnterprises need to focus on the integration of production, supply and marketing, and carry out a series of digital transformation work from the inside out. By breaking through the information barriers of sales, production, procurement, warehousing and logistics, they can provide accurate business data for enterprises, better realize the intelligent production scheduling system internally, reduce unnecessary product production and raw material procurement, and provide timely and accurate warehousing and logistics distribution services to customers externally to enhance customer satisfaction. We believe that the supply chain transformation of the fine chemical industry in the future requires the following core competencies:
Have the ability to calculate the balance of inventory supply and demand
The product production scheduling in the traditional fine chemical industry mainly records the implementation results of the plan in ERP, which has the characteristics of typical unlimited supply capacity and unlimited production capacity. Its production scheduling mainly relies on manual past experience and assists EXCEL in management.Innocent thinksIn the future digital transformation of chemical enterprises, we should first focus on the balance of inventory supply and demand capacity. By optimizing product production schedule, we can promote the supply plan reminder of raw materials, the purchase and consumption of packaging, and the allocation between warehouses according to the product production plan. By establishing inventory balance, we can accurately guide the implementation of warehousing and logistics, so as to avoid the failure to complete the production plan on time due to lack of materials, thus improving production efficiency and business efficiency of enterprises, reducing production costs, and ensuring the smooth operation of production lines and maximizing production efficiency.
Scheduling plan based on inventory supply and demand balance
Refined inventory management ability
The product inventory of fine chemical industry is mainly divided into two categories: general product inventory and customer order inventory. In traditional warehouse management, the customer order inventory cannot be occupied in time, which leads to the shortage of product inventory due to the rush for goods, and the products have strict requirements on the warehouse environment, so it is necessary to monitor the inventory status in real time and control the available inventory information.Innocent intelligent warehouse management systemBased on a large number of successful cases in the chemical industry, a set of unique inventory management functions have been precipitated, which can realize early warning based on production batches, real-time monitoring of inventory occupation and operation process management, and avoid problems such as product quality decline or untimely operation caused by improper inventory management.
Multi-dimensional inventory owner management
Real-time logistics monitoring ability
In traditional fine chemical enterprises, logistics transportation mainly entrusts professional logistics carriers to transport goods. There are some typical problems in logistics transportation, such as unable to choose the best carrier, unable to obtain the delivery time of vehicles to the factory in time, unable to deliver the customer’s receipt documents in time, which leads to the imbalance between the owner and the logistics company in obtaining and transmitting information. Because the owner can’t grasp the specific transportation situation of the logistics company, he often needs to rely on telephone or email to inquire about the latest transportation situation of goods.Innocent intelligent logistics management system,Through the logistics dispatching center, the distribution of transportation demand can be automatically realized based on the service quality and price of the carrier. Combined with the working resources and delivery plan of the warehouse, the delivery time is automatically established to reduce the waiting time of vehicles. At the same time, the rapid information interaction and sharing with carriers, drivers and customers can be completed based on the lightweight transportation execution terminal.
Comprehensive factory safety management ability
Because of the hazardous chemicals involved in traditional fine chemical enterprises, the factory area strictly controls the vehicles and personnel entering and leaving the factory, and carries out qualification inspection and safety publicity on the vehicles and personnel entering and leaving the factory through a large number of offline paper documents. In the past cases of chemical industry, Innocent has precipitated a set of safety inspection mechanism around the vehicles in the factory, from booking-entering the factory-loading and unloading-leaving the factory. Through pre-qualification examination, in-process review and behavior monitoring, after-event abnormal behavior investigation and hidden danger rectification, safety hazards can be found and handled in time, and safety risks can be reduced.
Security management mechanism of Innocent Park
Omni-channel order center management ability
The sales of traditional fine chemicals are mainly based on channel dealers, advertising sales or salesmen. There are many problems such as long ordering process, low timeliness and inconvenient operation. It is difficult to transmit information to the customer service center in real time, which leads to the delay in delivery of order demand and the difficulty in realizing the demand of supply chain centered on customer demand. Based on the supply chain of chemical industry, Innocent provides a lightweight ordering terminal, and seamlessly integrates the enterprise’s ERP or external third-party e-commerce platform internally. After summarizing the order requirements, according to the order management engine and the integration of the warehouse, Innocent automatically locks the inventory and sends the stocking instructions, integrates an intelligent logistics dispatching system, and automatically selects a carrier with high timeliness and low cost to place logistics orders. Users can check the order processing status online with one click, and control the order processing progress with one click, so that the internal business personnel can release the cumbersome.
Lightweight order management center
Full-link coordination ability
Because of the diversity of its sales channels, the fine chemical industry needs to share information with relevant personnel in production, sales and quality control internally, and needs to communicate with export forwarders, domestic dealers, end customers, logistics carriers and raw material suppliers externally. Because of its long business process and no collaborative platform, there are problems such as distortion, lack and repetition in information transmission among all objects, which leads to poor information interaction. Innocent believes that it is the focus of the digital transformation of the supply chain for enterprises to realize the full-link rapid response under the existing process system. Enterprises need to strengthen the collaborative ability of different internal and external objects and different links to create a full-link collaborative supply chain, which can more effectively improve the efficiency of the supply chain and reduce costs under the purpose of realizing customer-centeredness.
Collaborative ability of all links in Innocent supply chain
Data depth analysis ability
The supply chain of fine chemical industry is mainly developed around the integration of production, supply and marketing, and product sales will directly affect the supply plan of raw materials and the production and operation of enterprises. In order to strengthen the accuracy of production plan, we can gradually realize the deep utilization of data through the analysis of past consumption data. First of all, we should provide convenient business progress query and early warning functions for all business links based on the existing business data analysis; Secondly, through the online data of the whole business of the supply chain, the business chain is opened to analyze the process timeliness and key bottlenecks of the business; Finally, combined with the record of potential business opportunities in the market, the AI product consumption forecasting model is established, and the production forecasting ability and raw material supply plan of the product are constructed to reduce unnecessary production and purchase, thus improving the inventory turnover rate and making the data generate the maximum value.
In-depth supply chain data analysis ability
Generally speaking,The transformation of supply chain in fine chemical industry involves all links of product demand forecast, order, procurement, production, warehousing and distribution. It is necessary to integrate warehousing capacity and logistics distribution capacity, actively introduce new digital technologies, and use digital platforms to build an integrated supply chain platform. Through continuous business management refinement, the supply chain management level and innovation ability of enterprises will be continuously improved, product quality and production efficiency will be improved, and green and sustainable development will be realized.
Conclusion:Innocent, as a professional supply chain solution company in heavy assets industry, has established an integrated management and control platform covering demand, procurement, warehousing, logistics, supply chain coordination, data analysis and forecasting, providing one-stop business consulting, software development and implementation services for the digital transformation of heavy assets industry.
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