On September 6, the 2023 High-Quality Supply Chain Conference for the Sanitary Ware Industry was grandly held in Foshan, Guangdong. More than 300 upstream and downstream domestic and international sanitary ware enterprises, including Xin Hai Jia Lan, JOMOO, and Arrow, gathered together to exchange ideas, envision the future, and seek common development. Digitalization Makes the Future of Enterprises Better At this conference, Zhang Aiguo, chairman of Soonfor Software, was invited to attend and deliver a keynote speech in his capacities as chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee for Furniture Industry Informatization, chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee for Intelligent Manufacturing in the Furniture Industry, an expert in manufacturing digitalization empowerment in Dongguan, and a visiting professor at Central South University of Forestry and Technology. Before the keynote speech, he first said: "Our enterprises should not study what to do in the future, but what we need to do now in order to have a good future. Since last year, more than 20 provinces across the country have regarded digitalization as their top project. Now it is not only the bathroom industry, but every manufacturing enterprise that treats digitalization as a rigid demand of its own. Digitalization can move all our management models online and connect them, accumulate all enterprise resources, eliminate all waiting and waste, and empower enterprises."
How Can Bathroom Enterprises Use Digitalization to Connect the Entire Front, Middle, and Back-End Value Chain? In the following keynote speech, How Bathroom Enterprises Can Use Digitalization to Connect the Entire Front, Middle, and Back-End Value Chain, Chairman Zhang of Soonfor gave a detailed introduction to the current state of bathroom enterprises. He said: "The characteristics of the bathroom industry are very obvious. First, there are especially many product categories, including bathroom vanities and shower rooms. Second, there are many materials, and they are highly irregular. Third, product structures are very complex. Fourth, processes are irregular. Fifth, the degree of automation is not high. Sixth, talent is very scarce. These characteristics cause many enterprises to exhibit many kinds of blockages." First, our marketing is blocked, with no integration among pre-sales, in-sales, and after-sales; Second, our R&D, sales, production, supply, and service are blocked, which is a system-level blockage; Third, our processes are twisted and indirect. They are not driven by user data, but by power inside our systems, enterprises, and factories. This is process blockage; Fourth, our bottlenecks are blocked. The capabilities of different operating links are unbalanced, with some highly efficient and others inefficient; In addition, we still have various departmental walls. Now, after implementing a lot of software, we have even brought about many software walls as well. The bathroom industry has many product categories and is highly customized, and these multi-category customized products are irregular and non-standard. As a result, enterprises also face many pain points. Regarding the problems of blockages and pain points in bathroom enterprises, he said: "To solve these difficulties, we must introduce digitalization, connect the front, middle, and back ends as an integrated whole, and achieve decoupling. Only then can we remove intermediate links, create digital serial connections, and improve the delivery efficiency of bathroom enterprises."
Use Soonfor Well, and Do Bathroom Business Well When many bathroom enterprises face management problems, the first thing they think of is digitalization. In fact, there is a key tactic within digitalization called decoupling. Decoupling means turning a large enterprise into several small enterprises, removing outside disturbances, and preserving the most fundamental things. Decoupling bathroom enterprises includes product decoupling, equipment decoupling, production line decoupling, material decoupling, meaning supply chain decoupling, capability decoupling, process decoupling, regional decoupling, and so on. Decoupling has many benefits. It can make products modular, equipment flexible, processes modularized, production lines balanced, supply chains 3R-oriented, workflows automated, organizations amoeba-based, and systems agile. Through decoupling, it can help enterprises fully connect the entire value chain horizontally and vertically, thereby achieving upgrades in enterprise management.
Use Soonfor well, and do bathroom business well. Soonfor Software is a leading provider of integrated digital solutions for the bathroom industry. After more than twenty years of deep engagement in the industry, more than 100,000 users are now using the Soonfor system online every day. From bathroom vanities to shower rooms, and then to whole-bath customization, from marketing to manufacturing to supply chain, and from process optimization to digitalization to intelligent manufacturing, Soonfor Software has created brilliance together with the bathroom industry. It has many outstanding bathroom enterprise clients such as Xinhai Jialan, Jiale Bathroom, Fulanke, and Hangzhou Huijia.
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