Bu Yangmin: Information Development of Jiatong Tire

Jiatong Tire is a Singapore company with a history of tire manufacturing for nearly half a century. It is one of the largest tire companies in the world. Currently, it has seven factories in China's five strategic cities. It adopts a multi-brand strategy and meets market demands with a complete and high-quality product line. North America and Europe are the major export markets, and products are sold in over 100 countries and regions worldwide. Under the jurisdiction of the headquarters, the company implements a strict and unified raw material procurement, production process and quality monitoring system, with the goal of “pursuing zero defects” to ensure that each tire reaches the international professional level. Accompanied by the company's development of the company, under the unified promotion of the company's leadership, Jiatong has taken a road from informationization to optimization and provided information support for the rapid development of the company's business. In this issue, we interviewed Step Yangmin, executive deputy general manager of Information Department of Giti Tire (China) Investment Co., Ltd.

From the perspective of the industry, the tire industry is a technology, capital, and labor-intensive industry, with a relatively significant scale effect. Therefore, like many foreign-funded enterprises, Giti Tire entered the Chinese market by initially investing in new plants and acquiring domestic companies. This has also brought tremendous challenges to the development of Giti's information technology, which is not only facing the backwardness of traditional industry information technology. The characteristics of the company must continue to meet the strategic trend of the Group's growth and development.

The senior management of Jiatong Tire is very supportive of information technology and regards informatization engineering as first-class engineering. The company attaches great importance to the importance of information technology, control, and the use of high-end systems. Since 2000, Giti China has launched a large-scale informatization construction work.

When introducing the informationization process of Giti, Mr. Bu Yangmin said that along with the continuous development and development of the company, the informationization of Giti Tire has undergone several stages of infrastructure construction, solidification, reinforcement, and post-optimization. First of all, the first stage is the initial stage of Giti's development in China, that is, from 2000 to 2003, which is the initial stage of Gitiong's information construction. Jiatong attaches great importance to the foundation of informatization. From the beginning of its establishment, it has introduced Oracle software technology and deployed ERP systems in its factories and sales centers to realize the full integration of group information and to master production, sales, and accuracy in a comprehensive, timely and accurate manner. Information such as logistics, improve the efficiency of the entire company's operations and management.

The second stage is the period of development and growth of the company from 2003 to 2005. Informatization began to enter the stage of solidification. Jiatong has acquired a number of factories in China and newly established sales centers around the country. The informationization department has deployed the ERP system in a timely manner, and has extended the group's high-efficiency management platform to new members of the group in a timely manner through the ERP system, implementing the principle of solidification and reintegration. Full implementation of the Group's management system and business process norms, which effectively reduce operating costs, truly play scale benefits, and constantly expand the competitive advantage.

The third stage is from 2007 to 2009, Giti's business has been steadily growing and growing, and informatization has begun to enter the process of functional enhancement. After the completion of the basic framework of the overall system, the information system has become the supporting platform for the business operations of Giticom, and further optimization and enhancement of functions in terms of process control and system efficiency. The company's headquarters, five production bases, and 46 branch offices have fully implemented the world-class ERP system ORACLE E-Business Suite to conduct comprehensive management of company business processes, standardize business processes and data standards, and realize manufacturing, sales, and finance. Operational information and integration.

The fourth stage is the near-term information optimization process. With the development of business in the future, new requirements will continue to be raised. In the newly completed project of Oracle EBS upgrading from 11i to R12, full consideration will be given to the further development of the business. IT is business-oriented, combining business needs, while comprehensive IT strategy and planning, to achieve the mutual integration of the two. In the future, it will also be necessary to gradually and effectively use new technologies such as cloud computing and the Internet of Things, and steadily move forward. Step Yang said frankly, "This is also the focus of our team's work in the next five years."

ERP Drives Management Concept Upgrading In recent years, with the gradual liberalization of the domestic tire market, the Chinese tire industry has opened up fierce competition. There are nearly a thousand tire companies in China, ranging from large state-owned enterprises to small and micro enterprises. At the same time, the internationally leading large multinational corporations represented by Michelin, Bridgestone, and Goodyear have also entered the domestic investment and built factories. With the advantage of the brand, they have expanded vigorously. It can be said that domestic tire production areas It has become a place of competition, and it will be a large-scale enterprise with advanced production equipment and management advantages that can survive in the fierce competitive environment in the future.

Jiatong Tire is a brave person in this competition. In 2008, it was the first in eight consecutive years of production and sales, and it was repeatedly awarded the Best Supplier Award by domestic and foreign automobile manufacturers. According to statistics, in 2009, 13% of China's tires were produced by Giti, and with its complete product line, it provided supporting tires for multi-type automobile manufacturers, and its share in the domestic matching market was as high as 16%. Successful companies come from excellent management. Jiatong tires can stand out in the fierce competition, and it is inseparable from the perfect production value chain system and excellent management concept.

Giti employs powerful information system management functions such as ERP to help companies increase sales revenue and reduce costs, thereby improving the competitiveness of enterprises. In the implementation of ERP, Giti emphasized that ERP is a management idea, rather than an independent and pure information project. As we all know, ERP embeds the management and control processes of some businesses in the ERP system. Along with the establishment of the system, it also promotes the management philosophy of the system. Mr. Bu Yangmin concluded that "the management system and process will be integrated into our system and it will be promoted, rather than artificially divesting, and gradually realize the concept of using processes to drive business operations."

Through the implementation of the ERP system, Jiatong Tire achieved an organic combination of technology management, system management, process management, and behavior management, brought advanced management concepts into business production, achieved significant inventory reduction, and shortened production. Cycles, improve labor efficiency, reduce costs, and improve delivery of customer service on schedule. It also mines data from ERP systems, helps to optimize business processes, provides analysis and decision-making data for the company's leadership, and provides services for the company to generate maximum operating benefits. At the same time, it optimizes the distribution of information resources such as people, finances, goods, purchases, sales, deposits, etc., and realizes the unification of logistics, capital flow, and information flow in the true sense, increasing information sharing, and reducing information management costs. The company brings significant economic benefits and comprehensively enhances the company's overall economic strength and overall competitiveness.

The future of cloud computing talks about the current topic of cloud computing. Bu Yangmin also expressed his opinions and his outlook for future cloud computing. He is very optimistic about the future of cloud computing and believes that the adoption of cloud technology can effectively reduce the operating costs of enterprises, especially in the data center. Second, the cloud can effectively improve system efficiency and reduce the intensity of IT's daily operation and maintenance. However, in the reduction of operating costs and security, he felt that the "cloud" needs further development.

In the enterprise-level use of cloud computing, he believes that cloud computing is a good direction, and its concept is also very good. However, how to use "clouds" in enterprises and how to put "clouds" to the ground requires further exploration. . Step Yang Min said, "For some new concepts and new technologies, we will be happy to explore." Jiatong company always pursues innovative style, and will pay great attention to the development of new technologies, currently in cloud computing. Applications are being studied including the use and implementation of virtualization and private clouds.

Of course, Giti is also a company that pursues steady and steady steps. Maybe new technologies sometimes look good. They may play a role in some small or high-tech companies. The risk is not too great, but for a traditional one. As for large-scale manufacturing companies and Jiatong, which has a history of more than ten years, it is pursuing a more sophisticated and mature technology. "If it is really suitable for enterprises, Giti will explore and certify it, and gradually use and implement it, instead of receiving it completely and rushing to use it. New technologies must be fully certified and have an ongoing process. After all, For the IT operations department, the most important goal is to ensure that the system is very smooth and effective to support the daily operation of the business.I do not want IT to be a new technology, although the technical level is very good, but the operation of the business is interrupted or Influencing, we will consider more carefully and comprehensively," explained Bu Yangmin.

At the same time, he also agreed with the implementation of virtualization technology, from the virtualization-automation-delivery cloud computing construction process, and explained that the current exploration of Giti is also started from virtualization, mainly some server-level work, will presently A large number of Windows servers and ERP servers are virtualized. In the past, it was a single server application or several applications. The servers were separate. Now we need to connect these servers through the concept of cloud to realize the virtualization process. However, for users, as long as they know an application and do not need to know exactly which server to put, they can get the necessary data and data. At the same time, when other applications are free, resources can be fully utilized, so that the concept of cloud can be used to achieve resource sharing and maximize utilization.

Regarding the possible obstacles that cloud computing may encounter, he feels that the security aspect is the first, and it also depends on whether the operating model can really bring about a reduction in the efficiency of the enterprise and an improvement in efficiency. To build a private cloud, it needs to reach a certain scale to have an effect. If the scale of operation is not enough, then the cloud cannot reach a certain scale effect. Of course, it may also be possible to rent, or to find a common platform service provider. A good service provider can rest assured that it can be used. However, as far as the current status of China is concerned, the professionalism of some service providers has not yet reached, so how is the security of the company? Secured, but also companies need to consider carefully. “Overall, we are in agreement with the viewpoints and development of cloud computing, and Jiatong will explore and develop in the cloud in the future,” concludes Bu Yangmin.