Recently, the Ministry of industry and information technology, together with relevant departments, drafted the "14th five year plan for the development of Intelligent Manufacturing" (Draft for comments). The plan proposes that by 2025, manufacturing enterprises above Designated Size will basically popularize digitalization, and key industry backbone enterprises will initially realize intelligent transformation; By 2035, digitalization will be popularized in manufacturing enterprises above Designated Size, and the backbone enterprises will basically realize intelligent transformation.

Under this background, how can industrial enterprises carry out digitalization? How and how to promote the digital transformation has become a "must answer" for the development of industrial manufacturing industry in the next decade. During the epidemic period, industrial enterprises with complete and vertically integrated supply chain can resume normal industrial production in a short time. It can be said that the competition of industrial enterprises is the competition of supply chain in the final analysis.

Industry experts said that the supply chain, as the cornerstone of industrial production and operation, is not only the main cost of industrial enterprises, but also the core window of docking with the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. The whole process involves not only the highly complex commodity system and professional services, but also the docking of thousands or tens of thousands of brand and service partners, which is very difficult in terms of management and delivery. The biggest advantage of digital technology is that it can promote the seamless link between the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, as well as the efficient integration and intelligent analysis of massive information, which can help enterprises effectively reduce the cost of intermediate links and management links, quickly obtain the "optimal solution" of resource allocation optimization, and realize more efficient industrial collaboration.

In fact, in the past, a large number of industrial enterprises have entered the digital transformation through procurement management and performance delivery, and achieved good transformation results while achieving business model innovation.

Taking the energy industry as an example, through cooperation with Jingdong industrial products, Angang Value Mining Co., Ltd. has established a group digital procurement management system, which integrates and upgrades the products suitable for Angang's procurement mall, and comprehensively connects with the financial system and asset management system of Angang, Pangang, Angang mining and other subsidiaries within Angang Group, so as to realize capital budget, demand plan, and management Efficient collaboration in all aspects of the procurement process, such as sourcing management, procurement bidding, performance delivery, reconciliation and settlement, billing, after-sales quality assurance, etc.

In the digital aspect of performance delivery, the more typical is the engineering construction enterprises. Engineering construction projects often have a long construction period, which can be as short as several months and as long as several years. The lack of effective operation support will greatly consume the energy input of the enterprise's own personnel. Taking the project of Panzhihua Ningnan Expressway built by Chuanjiao road and bridge as an example, the construction team is located in ganaliang mountain area all the year round. The difficulty of goods preparation and slow delivery caused by geographical conditions is a major problem in the process of performance and delivery.

"Whether it is procurement management or performance delivery, it is only a port for the digital transformation of industrial enterprises. The digital transformation of industrial enterprises will be a long-term and complex system engineering, which needs to solve all kinds of problems in the whole process of manufacturing, such as design, production, management and circulation. But choosing the right entry point can greatly accelerate this process and make the digital price fully released. " Relevant experts said.