IBM helps atlas build a global digital supply chain, deepen global layout

In the results of the outstanding award of China Digital Transformation award of 2019idc recently announced, Atlas global supply chain management integration platform project won the "outstanding award of information and data transformation leader" and "innovation award of manufacturing industry technology application scenario (Industrial Internet platform)". This project is a global digital operation and management platform planned and deployed by IBM services for Atlas sunshine power group, which was successfully launched in early January 2019. With the core of saps / 4hana, Astor sunshine power has built a global shared integrated operation and management platform for China, Europe, America, Oceania, Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific, realizing end-to-end integrated management of the supply chain The global standardized management of management and finance covers the process reconstruction from customer demand to planned production and sales delivery, so as to realize the coordination of supply chain and value chain, and lay a solid foundation for intelligent analysis and promotion of system data value.

Atlas Solar Power Co., Ltd. is a leading solar photovoltaic module manufacturer and overall solar solution provider. It started in China in 2006 and began the strategic deployment of global business five years ago. With the group's business entering the high-speed development channel of globalization, at the same time of global deployment of its sales area, atlas has also established production bases in several Southeast Asian countries outside China. The existing IT system only covers the business process since the production and delivery. At the same time, it integrates CRM system, SRM system, Hyperion system, MES system distributed in five places around the world, global third-party warehousing and logistics system, tax systems in three places in Europe, Brazil and the United States, forming a hybrid cloud of three clouds + multiple local systems State of enterprise management platform. Through these global and efficient operation and management platforms, the end-to-end transparent management of the supply chain is realized, the supply chain ecosystem with fixed production and global sharing and coordination is established, the global development strategy of atlas is supported, and an important cornerstone is laid for further upgrading of intelligent manufacturing. The successful construction of the global efficient operation and management platform with s4hana as the core has changed the information management and business communication mode of the past fragmentation, offline operation and asymmetric basic data of atlas, and will realize the comprehensive system management of global sales plan, production plan, production supply, procurement and supply of 6 continents, 11 sales companies and 5 production bases, supporting atlas From the end-to-end planning collaboration and business integration of silicon ingot, silicon wafer, battery chip, solar module and power station, the multi-stage receiving and delivering business among branches realizes automatic data transmission, greatly reducing the complexity of work and improving the accuracy of data. Four months after the launch, 4000 sales orders, 2100 planned orders, 7600 production orders, 4400 delivery orders and 10300 delivery orders were executed according to the supply chain process specifications, which reduced the internal ineffective communication, greatly improved the inventory accuracy and efficiency, reduced the inventory error rate by 50% and increased the turnover rate by 25%.

To be specific, the global digital operation management platform supports atlas to realize process reengineering in several aspects: reorganize and standardize material coding to support product diversification and customization. The centralized collaborative data platform will comprehensively analyze various attributes of solar module products to help atlas optimize material coding design and management, including 8 attributes used to define product materials, more than 80 attributes to support customers' special needs, and 52 attributes included in batch attributes to strengthen inventory management. With the help of scientific and unified coding and management, atlas can support the specification of specific needs of customers, key product information such as version type, component series and certification, etc., while customers' personalized needs in product size, wire length, frame, junction box, packaging mode, etc. can also be transferred to the production and logistics back end through version and batch attributes, supporting highly customizable and improved products Product competitiveness of enterprises in the market.

Create a flexible supply chain, realize the end-to-end integrated visual management of the supply chain, and strengthen the production and marketing collaboration and customer rapid response. In this project, the effective management of business opportunities with the front-end CRM system is facilitated and strengthened. The sales forecast is refined according to different dimensions such as total amount, channel, category and SKU, which improves the accuracy of sales forecast and deepens the deep collaboration between production and marketing. The customer demand is transferred from the power station to components, batteries, silicon wafers and silicon ingots, so as to realize the end-to-end cross regional calculation Planning collaboration and business integration support multiple planning modes such as MTO / Mts. the core operation management platform can also quickly match the production automation output with the customized demand of customers, realize order delivery in the shortest possible time, further improve the supply flexibility, and strengthen the rapid response of atlas to customers.Quality Traceability, improve the intelligent control of sales and inventory. Integrate internal, external, cloud and local related systems, build a complete and transparent supply chain covering demand collection, production planning, procurement and supply, as well as transportation and delivery, realize the traceability of the whole process from delivery plan to logistics transportation, to port to warehouse, customer confirmation, customer delivery commitment and end-to-end management of logistics costs.