Media Report | SIE Tan Ling: Leading enterprises should activate "chain transformation" with orders
8月27日，在2024中国国际大数据产业博览会上，第三届828 B2B企业节正式开幕，旨在融通数智供需，加速企业智改数转，助推中国数智产业实力再升级。作为拥有广州首家本土国家级“双跨平台”的企业，赛意信息携手华为云及伙伴们共同启动第三届828 B2B企业节。Recently, SIE Information and Huawei Cloud jointly launched the third 828 B2B Enterprise Festival, helping enterprises to "achieve good business and become good enterprises", and comprehensively enabling digital transformation of enterprises. Tan Ling, vice president of SIE and president of China, was interviewed during this period and shared the joint solution of SIE and Huawei Cloud. She stressed that during the 828 B2B Enterprise Festival, SIE will effectively help SMEs to carry out digital transformation at a lower cost and in a faster manner through digital empowerment.
Tan Ling, Vice President of SIE and President of China, said that SIE would focus on two joint solutions with Huawei Cloud. In the field of industrial software, SIE, "based on the new generation of iDME SMOM", creates a scenario based tool chain system in the mode of "platform+industrial application" to help group enterprises achieve "consistent control" of global factories. At present, it has launched industrial solutions such as electronics and auto parts to help enterprises improve quality and efficiency and enhance industrial competitiveness
At the same time, SIE Information also brings supply chain AI solutions. Focusing on customers, it carries out digital transformation around the three main lines of integrated supply, ecological collaboration and digital operation, and builds a proactive supply chain. It can provide supply chain integration capabilities such as digital fulfillment of orders, integrated collaborative planning, smart logistics, one-stop collaboration platform, and supply intelligent operation driver's cabin. It helps enterprises optimize production processes and supply chain management, and achieve cost optimization and maximum supply efficiency.
She stated that through the dual empowerment of industrial software and supply chain AI, the optimization and upgrading of the supply chain industry chain can be promoted from multiple dimensions, injecting new vitality into the high-quality development of the industry chain.
Southern Plus: What was the original intention behind your joint launch of the 828 B2B Enterprise Festival?
Tan Ling: For C-end consumers, there are consumer promotions such as Singles' Day and Singles' Day, while B-end enterprises do not have such widely known activities. We will discuss with manufacturers such as Huawei to launch a digital transformation festival for enterprises, making it easier for small and medium-sized enterprises to access digital services. This year is already the third edition, and we have also referenced activities such as Double Eleven to offer some preferential prices and lower the threshold for small and medium-sized enterprises to transform.
Southern Plus: This time you also showcased the supply chain AI solution. Guangdong Province proposes to innovate and explore a practical model from "single point breakthrough" (digital transformation of leading backbone enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises) to "chain transformation" (overall digital transformation of industrial and supply chains). What is the difference between the "chain" transformation and the past?
Tan Ling: The "chain" transformation not only focuses on the digital transformation of leading backbone enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises, but also strengthens the digital transformation of individual industrial chains and supply chains. This transformation model promotes the optimization and upgrading of the entire industry chain, achieves resource sharing, collaborative innovation, and enhances overall competitiveness. At the same time, it also provides more opportunities and platforms for digital transformation for small and medium-sized enterprises, enabling them to better integrate into the industry chain and achieve common development.
When leading enterprises are promoting the digitization of the supply chain industry chain for the entire upstream and downstream, on the one hand, they have accumulated digital experience in the process of single point breakthroughs, and they are also increasingly emphasizing the synergy of the industry chain and supply chain. We have also built an industrial Internet platform with some leading enterprises to effectively help SMEs in the industrial chain to transform through digital empowerment.
On the other hand, top enterprises have orders and use digital tools to empower small and medium-sized enterprises, which is more effective than their own transformation. For example, top enterprises will have orders to upstream and downstream, and have certain requirements for production quality and delivery cycle, which will drive the digitalization of upstream and downstream enterprises.
Southern Plus: How can small and medium-sized enterprises also transform at a lower cost?
Tan Ling: Due to the significant investment required for digital transformation, many small and medium-sized enterprises may not be willing to invest on a large scale in this area. However, whether it is top enterprises or small and medium-sized enterprises, their biggest concern is how technology can truly empower them, help them better establish themselves in the wave of digital transformation, and achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement.
In response to these issues, platform enterprises can provide more customized and comprehensive solutions, connect various links, help enterprises achieve digital transformation, solve core problems, and achieve comprehensive production management and business optimization. Secondly, by providing high-quality digital transformation consulting and diagnostic services, cost-effective digital transformation products and platforms, as well as talent development services in the field of digital transformation. Targeting key industries and assisting key small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in implementing the optimal path of digital transformation will bring greater commercial value and competitive advantage to the enterprises.
South+: Even small and medium-sized enterprises have quite different demands, and it is difficult for industrial Internet to be connected as quickly as consumer Internet.
Tan Ling: In the face of the differences in the needs of SMEs and the complexity of industrial Internet connectivity, we have provided standardized and scenario based software products for SMEs and industrial clusters through the "SIE Gushen" industrial Internet platform. This platform was also upgraded to a national level "double cross" platform last year, and it is also the first national level "double cross" platform cultivated locally in Guangzhou.
Among the service targets of the "Gushen" platform, small and medium-sized enterprises account for about 30%. We open up to small and medium-sized enterprises through our accumulated industry knowledge, and provide standardized and scenario based software products for small and medium-sized enterprises and industrial clusters. We provide a technical foundation for expanding combinations, on-demand integration, and incremental delivery for industrial scenarios. This approach enables us to flexibly respond to the different needs of small and medium-sized enterprises and help them carry out digital transformation at a lower cost and faster pace.
Southern Plus: Currently, innovation and entrepreneurship have become a major trend. But it is not easy to replace mature software, especially in the industrial field.
Tan Ling: We are well aware of the difficulty and challenges of replacing mature software, especially in the industrial field. Making industrial software must be done from requirements to requirements, and cannot be done in isolation. The biggest advantage of SIE is "knowing". Our gene is in industrial manufacturing, and we have a lot of industry know how. First of all, in the process of research and development, we focus on problem driven, find the problems that need to be solved urgently in the identification, decision-making and control of the enterprise's production process, select the right application scenarios, ensure that our industrial software can meet the actual needs of customers, and become a "good use" industrial software.
Secondly, we attach great importance to the construction of the information and innovation ecosystem. At present, SIE EPM has passed the certification of the Xinchuang system and obtained the Xinchuang product evaluation certificate; SIE Gushen Industrial aPaaS platform, SIE SMOM, Mr. SIE Finance, etc. have cooperated with Huawei&Kunpeng, Kirin Software, Tongxin UOS, Zhongke Fangde, Shenzhen Shenfu, Aerospace Tianyu, Renmin Jincang OceanBase、 Da Meng and other mainstream domestic manufacturers have completed product adaptation, achieving comprehensive localization of chips, operating systems, middleware, and databases, and building secure and efficient deep service capabilities for user needs, allowing enterprises to choose and use domestic industrial software with more confidence.
