Digital business cloud: strengthen supplier management and promote efficient collaboration between air transport enterprises and suppliers

Air transport is an important part of modern logistics , With security 、 quick 、 Convenient and excellent service , Play an important role in improving commodity turnover rate . The air transport industry is a heavy asset industry , High barriers to entry , In addition, historical reasons , Make it form a natural monopoly in the process of development , The overall concentration of the industry is high .

With the new crown raging all over the world , The air transport industry also suffered a heavy blow , The supply chain pattern of the global aviation manufacturing industry has entered a period of adjustment . Compared with the main manufacturer's strategy of blindly pursuing low cost in the past , At present, the demand to prevent supply chain disruption is increasing , Airlines pay more attention to maintaining a competitive and safe supplier team in operation . By comparing and analyzing the categories of qualified suppliers of major airlines in recent years , It can analyze, study and judge the industry supplier management strategies and change trends .

Industry supplier supply category structure 、 Analysis of Chinese supplier structure

Raw materials and parts 、 Body structural members 、 Supply chain and design services are the three main suppliers in the air transport industry . To be specific , In the case of Airbus suppliers , Its supply category roughly includes body structural parts 、 Raw materials and parts 、 Cabin equipment 、ATR Company projects 、 Airborne equipment 、 Supply chain and design services 、 The engine part 、 European aviation materials company 、 There are eight categories of component software . In the field of aviation manufacturing supply chain , Most of them are professional suppliers , There are relatively few versatile suppliers .

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For Chinese suppliers , In terms of geographical distribution , Chinese suppliers are distributed in 17 provinces and municipalities directly under the central government , Airbus supplier clusters have been formed in Beijing, Tianjin and Yangtze River Delta ; From the perspective of enterprise attributes , The number of foreign-invested enterprises has increased significantly ; From the perspective of supply category , Have a relatively complete aviation manufacturing supply chain . The supply category of qualified suppliers mainly involves body structural parts 、 Raw materials and parts 、 Special process and experiment 、 Cabin equipment 、 Airborne equipment 、 Supply chain and design services 、 The engine 、 Component software, etc , Body structural members 、 Strong strength in parts processing , But in airborne equipment 、 The engine and software are relatively weak , It is restrained by foreign enterprises .

Strengthen supplier management , Start with professional integration

In view of the shortcomings in the development of the above suppliers , In from “ Scattered small weak ” March towards “ Strong, excellent and big ” On the road of evolution , China's air transport industry is gradually forming a new industrial pattern , Improve the quality of development , The work to solve the problem starts from the implementation of professional integration .

Airlines focus on “ Specialized integration ” This core task , Long term vision , Think from the perspective of ability cultivation 、 Promote professional integration work , According to the system law 、 Industrial law and market law , Efforts should be made to solve the problems existing in the transportation process 、 Small 、 Weak and other historical issues , Realize the systematic reengineering and fundamental reform of China's air transport industry . For the specific problems of different companies , use “ Based on supplier collaboration + Lead in the professional field ”、 Set up a professional business department and other modes , Realize professional and coordinated development .

And some problems in the stage of professional integration , It should be classified according to the actual situation , There should be a substantial difference between temporary difficulties and problems faced by normalization , Take different measures , Look at and solve the problems at this stage with different ways of thinking , Take the initiative to change , Make necessary upgrades to its own strategy, tactics and capability system , Adapt to the new era of post epidemic aviation dominated by the new law system .

Energy accumulation “ chain ”, Comprehensive transformation and upgrading to system suppliers

Economies of scale and synergies need to be achieved through specialized integration , It is the most critical part of professional integration . The air transport industry passes “ A unity 、 Five synergies ”（ unified planning , Market synergy 、 R & D collaboration 、 Manufacturing collaboration 、 Service guarantee coordination 、 Industrial Synergy ） Gather energy into one “ chain ”, Form synergy and competitive advantage , Achieve the overall goal of high-quality development .

such as , Give full play to the complementary advantages of manufacturing resources of member units of strategic suppliers , Actively layout the industrial chain , From technical support 、 Production maturity assessment 、 Unit copy 、 Production Line 、 Resources docking and other aspects should be supported accordingly , Realize synchronous output of technology and capacity . according to “ Coordinated development of resources 、 Professional capacity building 、 The comparative advantage is prominent ” Principles , Define the professional competence of each supplier , Allocate resources , Key support , Accelerate technology output and process disclosure . Through data collection and Analysis , Define the market demand and output value of each unit 、 Task completion and capacity load 、 Main products and professional features , Agree on the production layout framework of each professional product , Jointly form the production transfer scheme within the Department , Upgrade the modernization level of industrial chain and supply chain .

- In terms of planning and command , Focus on the planning and construction of professional technology and products ;

- In the supply chain adjustment , Improve the manufacturing capacity from parts to components , Continue to promote the adjustment and reconstruction of the internal supply chain of the air transport industry , Complete the construction of manufacturing system ;

- On collaborative innovation , Strengthen the construction of innovation centers , Expand the future with technical reserves , Integrate the innovation resources of the division , Realize front-end centralized development , Accelerate technological breakthroughs and leading edge , Pay attention to preliminary research , Using internal and external high-quality resources to achieve rapid innovation ;

- In terms of delivery mode , Build a supplier management system through a third-party professional company , Undertake the delivery requirements of suppliers and enterprise management requirements , Based on task assignment and assessment criteria , Efficiently organize the production resources of each supplier member unit , Realize on-time and complete delivery and high-quality service guarantee for customers , Build a good industrial operation environment .

At present, there are many service providers in the field of supplier digital management in the market , But it can provide from the presentation layer 、 Access layer 、 Service layer 、aPaaS layer 、 Cloud primary layer 、 The data layer goes to LaaS There are very few integrated solution service providers at layer , Not only a strong team of experts 、 Advanced cloud computing 、 Perfect data analysis ability , Data analysis and modeling are also required 、 The intelligent engine is closely combined with the functional modules .

Digital business cloud, a full chain digital operation service company, has been deeply researched in this field for many years , Through special market research and discussion , Grasp the pain point and demand of the market , It completely covers the whole process of digital transformation from methodology to digital tools to scene implementation . Through the creation of supplier management system , It can help the air transport industry to manage effectively “ people 、 machine 、 material 、 Ring ” Key elements , Carry out comprehensive management around the production and manufacturing links of suppliers , Gradually transform and upgrade to the system supplier , Comprehensively improve the management and competition barriers of airlines , Form long-term scale benefits .

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Serve ecological construction , Further avoid enterprise management risks

In addition to the gradual and comprehensive transformation and upgrading to the system supplier , at present , The service ecological construction of airlines is also becoming an important issue in the industry , There are many unique innovations in CAAC , Also experienced a lot of thinking and exploration together . Airlines need to take advantage of the situation , Take the initiative to change , Make necessary upgrades to its own strategy, tactics and capability system , So as to adapt to the new era of post epidemic aviation dominated by the new law system .

If you only focus on the air transport industry , In extreme cases , Airlines will become very passive , The income stream will shrink dramatically , Losses will quickly arise , It can't be reversed . From the perspective of the diversified layout of high-risk factor confrontation , After avoiding supplier risk management , Airlines can also improve from the following two points ：

（1） Strategically focus on the layout of online business types . This is a business with real hedging ability for offline influence , Such as online consumption and various business activities , The group served by airlines is likely to become the target group of online business . Especially in the era of epidemic normalization , Can a smooth business translation logic be established , To expand new business areas , Will be a very important consideration for Airlines .

（2） Avoid only linear high correlation layouts . The upstream and downstream of linear business are closely related , If a link is affected , Other business links will soon be similarly damaged , The linkage between tourism and hotel business and air transport business belongs to this category . It can be linked upstream and downstream , But it can no longer be just upstream and downstream linkage .

Summary and reflection

The reform of air transport industry is the general trend of development in the new era . The goal is to achieve high-quality development , In the future, the air transport industry will continue to deepen the reform of system and mechanism , Focus on professional integration , Reorganize with systematic thinking , With the help of the supplier management system , Continuously optimize upstream and downstream supply links , Save procurement costs , Comprehensively improve the product capability of airborne system equipment , Lay a solid foundation for the expansion and development of the aviation division .

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