What is intelligent procurement? How does Unicom build a smart supply chain platform?

Supply chain is to effectively plan and manage the supply, procurement, production, operation, distribution and all logistics activities in the industrial chain by breaking the business and information islands within and between organizations, especially the coordination and cooperation between the relevant parties in the industrial chain, so as to realize the efficient integration of business flow, logistics, information flow and capital flow.

Intelligent supply chain was first proposed by Luo Gang, a postdoctoral fellow at Fudan University, at the 2009 Shanghai Conference on Integration of Informatization and Industrialization. Smart supply chain refers to an intelligent, digital, visual, automated and networked technology and management integrated system that organically combines information technologies such as Internet of Things, Internet and cloud computing with modern supply chain management theories, methods and technologies.

2. The characteristics of intelligent supply chain

(1) technology is more permeable.

Smart supply chain is usually supported by the new generation of information technologies such as Internet, cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence, and also obtains data information in a visual way.

(2) Information integration is stronger.

Relying on the highly open and intelligent information network, the intelligent supply chain system effectively solves the heterogeneous problem of information systems in various functional departments of enterprises, and realizes the seamless connection of business flow, logistics, information flow and capital flow, thus making the information in the supply chain more integrated and ornamental.

(3) more cooperation.

The high integration and sharing of information enables enterprises to know all kinds of information inside and outside the supply chain in time and effectively, and communicate with upstream and downstream enterprises of the supply chain at any time according to the actual situation, and make targeted adjustments and cooperation, thus greatly improving the operation efficiency and effect of the supply chain.

(4) the ductility is stronger

Intelligent supply chain is based on advanced Internet information technology.