Suzhou Universal Chain Technology Company (hereafter known as Suzhou Common Chain) and IBM China just lately introduced the profitable growth of Suzhou Common Chain’s enterprise utility integration platform and enterprise course of automation administration platform utilizing IBM hybrid cloud and AI software program. This was achieved after six months of devoted efforts and laid the inspiration for reshaping the corporate right into a extra digitally superior and clever enterprise.
With greater than 50 years of expertise within the analysis and growth (R&D) and manufacturing of chains, Suzhou Common Chain is a frontrunner within the home chain trade. Additionally it is a nationwide high-tech enterprise that integrates chain R&D, manufacturing and gross sales. Lately, Suzhou Common Chain has acknowledged the significance of digitalization and clever transformation as key drivers in advancing its enterprise operations. Due to this fact, to help its varied enterprise processes, Suzhou Common Chain has developed and deployed a number of IT programs, together with a manufacturing execution system (MES), enterprise useful resource planning (ERP), warehouse administration system (WMS), high quality inspection system and provider administration system.
As high-tech companies quickly develop and competitors intensifies, Suzhou Common Chain urgently wanted to make sure shut cooperation and interconnectivity between their upstream and downstream enterprise operations, encompassing product design, manufacturing, logistics, gross sales and extra. Accordingly, Suzhou Common Chain wanted to construct a unified and modernized enterprise course of administration platform that facilitated such integration to enhance its total effectivity.
The next are a few of the fundamental targets that had been completed within the growth of an enterprise utility integration platform and enterprise course of automation administration platform utilizing IBM hybrid cloud and AI software program.
Set up interconnectivity between a number of programs to hurry up order supply
A siloed IT system structure usually results in inefficient enterprise processes, making it tough to rapidly establish dangers and leading to prolonged order supply cycles. Therefore, in its digital transformation journey, Suzhou Common Chain’s core issues lay in maximizing enterprise worth by realizing seamless interconnectivity between IT programs utilized by completely different work roles, guaranteeing a easy and environment friendly connection between enterprise processes and fast order supply with quick alerts, end-to-end visibility and traceability.
Nevertheless, reaching unified administration and monitoring between a number of utility programs requires addressing quite a few sensible technical issues. For example, some beforehand deployed system interfaces are too outdated and don’t align with present common communication protocols, whereas others are comparatively complicated and make use of a point-to-point transmission mode, leading to excessive coupling. Moreover, some system interfaces are repetitive and unidentifiable, and the related historic codes are both misplaced or unreadable. The shortage of unified interface requirements and specs additionally makes it tough to combine newly launched programs. As a result of apparent info silos, there isn’t any unified integration, which makes it unattainable to realize interoperability and knowledge sharing amongst logs.
Due to this fact, Suzhou Common Chain collaborated with the IBM Buyer Success Supervisor workforce and utilized IBM Cloud Pak for Integration and its enterprise service bus element, IBM App Connect, to ship a dependable utility integration resolution—a light-weight and agile utility integration platform for the enterprise.
Based mostly on the manufacturing trade’s enterprise service bus, the unified utility integration platform resolved Suzhou Common Chain’s challenge of complicated system interfaces, and the light-weight, agile integration structure permits for the connection of a number of utility interfaces and the processing of various knowledge codecs. The platform additionally supplies capabilities for the synchronous and asynchronous transmission of data, whereas guaranteeing excessive safety, stability and scalability, together with sturdy statistical, analytical and monitoring capabilities.
Set up interconnectivity between a number of programs to hurry up order supply
As a consultant trade chief within the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing sector, Suzhou Common Chain’s digitalization and clever transformation transcend simply optimizing and integrating its IT programs. They imagine {that a} unified and modernized enterprise course of administration automation platform is essential for enhancing the corporate’s operational effectivity.
Prior to now, Suzhou Common Chain relied primarily on offline communication for enterprise course of execution, resulting in info gaps between completely different departments. This resulted in excessive communication prices from order to supply and infrequently made it tough to fulfill supply deadlines. Manufacturing administration was additionally based totally on experiential judgment, resulting in frequent last-minute procurement of uncooked supplies, which posed cost-management dangers and precipitated delays in monitoring procurement progress. Furthermore, Suzhou Common Chain lacked real-time suggestions on the standing of order placement to manufacturing to supply, and there have been no processes in place to deal with distinctive conditions.
With the help of the IBM Buyer Success Supervisor workforce, Suzhou Common Chain adopted the Enterprise Automation Workflow (BAW) capabilities in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation as an enterprise-level resolution to combine their enterprise programs and handle course of approvals with full visibility of their enterprise processes.
IBM Cloud Pak for Enterprise Automation supplies an built-in and coordinated software program platform for course of enchancment and BAW lifecycle administration, showcasing its benefits in course of administration and business rules administration. Its robustness and excessive efficiency—required for vital process options—additionally allow prospects to construct the workflow and visualization course of platform they want.
Along with BAW, IBM Cloud Pak for Enterprise Automation additionally encompasses intelligent automation capabilities like guidelines engine and doc administration, which could be quickly expanded horizontally sooner or later to help extra of the purchasers’ clever automation wants.
At present, Suzhou Common Chain makes use of IBM Cloud Pak for Enterprise Automation to determine a unified business-process-automation administration platform. The platform has a comparatively easy growth interface so the corporate’s IT workforce can simply develop new enterprise processes in line with new enterprise necessities. Furthermore, the event course of is quick, debugging is handy and fast, and deployment is straightforward.
The developed processes could be simply built-in with different programs and include a built-in content material and guidelines engine, assembly Suzhou Common Chain’s wants for a simplified guidelines engine. Moreover, from a technical perspective, the platform presents complete course of visualization, enabling efficient administration of complicated inner processes and course of compliance monitoring.
Constructed on a hybrid cloud basis of Pink Hat OpenShift, the platform permits prospects to simply change between completely different underlying infrastructures, henceforth simplifying Suzhou Common Chain’s unified administration of its functions, knowledge and enterprise processes in a hybrid IT atmosphere.
Ms. Huang Yadan, Normal Supervisor of Suzhou Common Chain, stated, “Over the previous six months, with the assistance of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration and IBM Cloud Pak for Enterprise Automation, we’ve efficiently streamlined varied hyperlinks and programs in our order-to-delivery course of and achieved seamless integration and help for our enterprise by means of interconnected IT programs. The IBM Buyer Success Supervisor workforce additionally enabled our IT workforce with hands-on abilities by means of a collection of modernization workshops and fostered a collaborative and mutually useful atmosphere. That is precisely the success we’re wanting ahead to.”
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Based in 1970, Suzhou Universal Chain Technology Company has developed rising high-tech sectors like clever programs and industrial utility software program in recent times. With digital management, agile growth, versatile manufacturing, and clever testing, Suzhou Common Chain wholeheartedly supplies passable merchandise and high-quality companies to international prospects.
