The benchmarking case of SIE was selected into IDC's research report "Annual Leader Case of China's Digital Factory, 2023"
Recently, the world's leading IT research institution IDC released the research report "IDC PeerScape: China's Digital Factory Leaders Practice, 2023". Starting from the most common challenges faced by Chinese enterprises in building digital factories, the report selects representative cases of Chinese digital factory leaders.
In the advanced practice case of "overall planning and construction of digital factory", the "digital factory" created by SIE and Rifeng Group is cited as a benchmark case to provide reference for enterprises to promote digital transformation and development.
Urgent need for integrated digital factory solutions
The report points out that there is a persistent supply-demand imbalance between the overall digital factory planning and construction needs of manufacturing enterprises and the supply of single point IT systems in the market. The main trend of manufacturing enterprises in building digital factories is gradually shifting from focusing on local optima within a single business domain to focusing on overall optima of digital factories.
However, digital factories cover a wide range of business areas, and industrial enterprises coordinate multiple service providers in different fields. When planning and implementing, there are generally challenges such as inadequate planning, difficulty breaking down departmental walls, difficulty in data fusion, and headache relief. Therefore, when building a digital factory, enterprises are more inclined to collaborate with a comprehensive solution service provider.
The digital factory path of Rifeng Group
Founded in 1996, Rifeng Enterprise Group Co., Ltd. is a large national high-tech enterprise that integrates research and development, production, sales, and service. Rifeng Group's products cover water supply, drainage, heating, gas, casing, bathroom and other fields, and are sold well in more than 100 countries and regions around the world. Rifeng Group has always been committed to building a digital factory to meet market challenges and enhance corporate competitiveness.
The construction of a digital factory is one of the core tasks of the Group's digital transformation. In 2016, SIE Information and Rifeng Group launched the first MES project, jointly launched the journey of digital transformation, helped Rifeng Group achieve digital control and real-time monitoring of the production process, and helped the enterprise achieve refined management of production plans and improve production efficiency.
By integrating advanced information technology and manufacturing technology, SIE realizes the intellectualization, networking and flexibility of the production process, continues to promote the digital manufacturing construction of Rifeng Group, and maintains its leading position in the industry. In 2018, both parties launched the group's financial cost control system project, creating a "new financial management" model through digital construction, realizing visual and quantitative management of business processes, gradually optimizing business processes, and improving efficiency.
In 2019, both parties launched the SRM supply chain management system project, focusing on the huge cost reduction pressure of the enterprise's current procurement. Targeted deployment of digital consulting services and subsystem modules was carried out to solve the integration of multiple systems such as SAP, OA, HR, PLM, and the manufacturing procurement of multiple product businesses OEM、 The problems brought by the outsourcing procurement model have helped Rifeng Group build a transparent procurement management system, reduce procurement costs, and integrate various business systems to make outsourcing, OEM, and internal procurement operations smoother. This has shortened the average supplier introduction cycle by 30%, optimized 10% of unhealthy suppliers, and ensured production and supply guarantees, reducing overall procurement inventory.
Empowering Rifeng Group to enhance competitiveness
The report believes that in the process of SIE Information helping Rifeng Group to build a digital factory, through the collection, analysis and mining of production data, Rifeng Group can find problems and bottlenecks in production in a timely manner, and make adjustments by optimizing production processes and adjusting production plans to improve production efficiency and product quality.
At the same time, Rifeng Group also uses big data analysis technology to explore customer needs and market trends, providing decision support for product development and marketing. Through the construction of a digital factory, Rifeng Group has achieved digitalization, intelligence, and networking of the production process, improved production efficiency and product quality, and enhanced the competitiveness and market share of the enterprise.
The digital factory is not only an important carrier for the group's digital transformation, but also an important direction for the future development of the manufacturing industry. In the construction of digital factory, in the future, SIE Information will always take "making Chinese enterprises become world enterprises" as its mission, empower factories with digital intelligence and make them more "smart".
