Baosteel Visual Automotive Steel Demand Pulling System

In the daily production and operation of auto manufacturers or suppliers, due to the lack of information on the stock of related materials or excessive inventory, the company's production and operation are not smooth. Recently, Baosteel International Steel Trading Company, Shanghai Baojing, Baosteel Automotive Plate Sales Department, Dongfang Steel, Baosight Software and other units have formed a project team. In the past two years, the company has developed a visual automotive steel demand pulling system that has effectively solved the problem. The problem of asymmetric information on production information with suppliers.

Both auto companies and Baosteel have independent supply chain systems. However, these two systems are incompatible with each other and cannot share information in real time. Information transmission between two systems can only be entered manually. Manual input has high error rate and low efficiency. , And it is easy to cause information not to be delivered in time. The lack of timely delivery of information and the asymmetry of information between the two parties have forced Baosteel to increase inventory levels in order to avoid the occurrence of out-of-stock conditions, which in turn has resulted in high inventory management costs for both companies and users.

It is reported that this set of visual automotive steel demand pulling system allows automakers to leave their homes, to be able to view the production and inventory status of the plates needed for production of models, and to achieve automatic ordering of materials that will be out of stock, to reduce inventory. The purpose of risk and cost.

This system realizes the seamless integration of the entire process of supply chain between Baosteel and auto companies, enabling suppliers and users to realize visual real-time information sharing during the procurement process. Auto companies can inquire about and control their own material demand status and Baosteel's production and inventories in real time, so that every aspect is well known. Baosteel, on the basis of the system prompts, more intuitively understands the production information of each model and every part of the user, generates accurate user material requirements information, in order to arrange their own production plans, and realizes the automatic generation of materials from the vehicle scheduling plan. The supply plan will enable Baosteel and the user to form an organic whole.

At Baosteel International Steel Trading Company, business personnel showed reporters the highlights of this set of visualization systems. With a click of the mouse, the various components of the car plate used by a car manufacturer's model are presented in a three-dimensional manner. Clicking on a car body component, it is used by the car manufacturer, and how much of the existing inventory can be maintained. The time is clearly displayed on the computer screen. Among them, a display interface similar to the oil meter on the dashboard of a car , which uses red, yellow, and green colors to represent the three stock statuses of “imminent breaking material”, “entering breaking material forewarning”, and “safety”, respectively. Baosteel can see the stock status of this material. According to the status display, the system can analyze the parts of the car that have entered the “off-feed warning” stage, determine the type and specification of the steel needed for the part, calculate the amount of steel needed, and achieve automatic ordering. Steel Trade Company will timely transmit the order information back to the factory and organize orderly production. This move has changed the situation in which both parties used manual information to make mistakes and inefficiency, eliminating the need for extensive manual collection and communication between users and Baosteel. The system can also track and analyze historical data and new production plan changes, optimize the inventory structure, gradually reduce the inventory level, truly manage inventory, ensure that users achieve the lowest level of material inventory, reduce Baosteel's inventory costs, and finally Reduce the risk of both companies.

With the trial operation of the “Visual Steel Demand Pull System for Visual Automotive”, which includes seven patents, it also created a new model for deepening the supply chain cooperation between China's steel companies and auto companies.