China and Taiwan's "Promotion" Helps Tobacco's Digital Intelligence
The concept of China-Taiwan was first proposed by domestic Internet companies, and aroused many corporate thinking. For example, the business middle station and the data middle station form a double middle station, and the shared construction method solves the problems of repeated system development, data fragmentation, and low efficiency caused by the previous chimney-style construction. The concept of China-Taiwan began with the consumer Internet, but it has become more popular with the corporate Internet in recent years. For medium and large enterprises, "Middle Taiwan" has become a necessary option for digital and intelligent transformation of enterprises, and has become the strongest driving force for business innovation and management reform.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the tobacco industry will accelerate the construction of an integrated platform, centering on "cloud, using data, and empowering intelligence", based on the overall architecture of the integrated platform "1242", and strive to promote the construction of industry cloud platforms and digital middle stations. Promote the construction of industry analysis and decision-making and management and control applications to create a new highland of high-quality development. The core of the digital middle station is the business middle station and the data middle station. Its connotation is to interconnect the entire value chain of enterprise products and all element data, support efficient and lean delivery of high-quality products that meet the needs of users, and open up the integration of research, production, supply, marketing and service. , To help companies win the fast-changing market competition.
From IT architecture to digital intelligence capabilities
For a long time, traditional enterprise platforms have been chimney-like system architectures: vertical applications form a separate line, isolated applications do not interact with each other, and processes are difficult to connect; horizontally, data is bound to applications, data is not shared, and processing and reuse are difficult. At the same time, in order to adapt to changes in business development, enterprises constantly modify and build various systems, resulting in complex and repetitive system functions, poor flexibility, and extremely high maintenance costs. This method of re-creating wheels not only makes the application capabilities unreusable, but also consumes manpower, financial resources, and opportunity costs. Under this traditional framework, IT invests a lot of energy in the maintenance and development of the Jushi system, and it is difficult to think about it to solve the problem of supporting digital capabilities for enterprise development.
The evolution of enterprise digital architecture
In the era of digital economy, the nature of corporate competition has evolved into how to optimize the efficiency of resource allocation and use data to drive business to respond to rapidly changing market changes. With the continuous advancement of the digital transformation of enterprises, the disadvantages of the original IT system architecture have become prominent, especially in the ubiquitous connection of the Internet of Things, data-based intelligent application innovation, and social industrial business synergy, which cannot meet the needs of business and technology in the digital economy era. Development requirements.
In the future, the new generation of enterprise IT architecture will tend to three levels. First of all, it is based on the IoT IoT layer for mass devices of industrial enterprises to realize data collection and edge intelligence at the edge layer. Secondly, it is the enterprise middle station based on digital twins and intelligent algorithm services, including technology middle station, data middle station, and business middle station. Based on the mid-Taiwan architecture, general service and business processing functions are transformed into reusable, extensible, and operable capabilities through a set of design methods to build rich APP applications in various fields of enterprise, human, financial, and product supply and marketing. Finally, it is the collaborative application of the social-level industrial chain, from the internal management of the enterprise to the external interconnection, to break the information wall between the enterprise and the enterprise, and to enhance the value chain capacity of the industrial chain. Through the new architecture, data-driven, flexible expansion, and agile iteration are realized to meet the ever-changing application requirements.
In the new era, centering on the transformation of digital intelligence, relying on a unified cloud platform and industry double middle stations (ie: business middle stations + data middle stations), the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration has made the decision to build a national integrated platform for tobacco production, operation and management. To this end, various China Tobacco Industrial companies have focused on exploring the construction of enterprises in the middle of Taiwan, based on cloud platforms and microservices, to develop new models of data asset empowerment business, in order to promote the intelligentization of enterprise manufacturing, production, operation, and management, and improve core competition. Advantage.
The industry dual platform is the key to the digital transformation of the tobacco industry. The business platform is the precipitation and solidification of the company’s core competitiveness. It extracts and aggregates public capabilities and provides stable service component support for front-end business application scenarios. , And accumulate business knowledge and realize ability reuse in this process; Data center is to collect, clean, aggregate, model, and analyze massive and multi-dimensional data of the enterprise to make data assets and value, and provide data for foreground applications Application, data monitoring and data analysis services, business digitization, data businessization, and revitalization of data assets. By constructing a digital dual center, enterprises can meet the needs of front-end scene-based innovation and open and flexible expansion, while ensuring the agility and reliability of IT systems in response to business innovation.
For the tobacco industry, the Chinese-Taiwanese architecture is the core driving force for the transformation and upgrading of enterprises, and it is a necessary capability for the construction of digital intelligence. Xiamen UFIDA Tobacco Software Co., Ltd., as a digital enabler of YonBIP, a business innovation platform for the tobacco industry, is based on technical middle-stage, digital middle-stage and business middle-stage. The digital technology framework and technology base of the tobacco industry.
UFIDA’s business innovation platform YonBIP adopts a new generation of information technology, and is designed with cloud-native (including microservices), metadata-driven, centralization and data-use separation architecture, covering platform services, application services, business services, and data services. Integrating tools, capabilities, and resource services, it is a platform-based and ecological cloud service group that serves enterprise and industrial business innovation. Among them, the Chinese-Taiwanese architecture, as a vital part of it, has received strong attention from the market and enterprises.
Over the years, UFIDA has built its corporate service experience in various fields and industries into a digital global platform for enterprises, providing corporate social marketing, smart procurement, smart manufacturing, smart supply chain, technology finance, smart finance, digital human resources, and social collaboration Middle-office services in various fields, as well as various data middle-office services and intelligent middle-office services that support enterprise digital and intelligent applications. At the same time, UFIDA has launched a set of methodology for capability packaging and mid-station construction, as well as a series of capability support services to empower companies externally, help them build and operate their own digital mid-stations, and enhance their innovative power in the digital age.
UFIDA believes that the construction of a central platform is not only a construction of a central platform, but also includes the organization's matching capabilities and business integration capabilities. Only by combining business with data can the value of Zhongtai to the enterprise be brought into play. Therefore, combined with the specific business applications of the tobacco industry, UFIDA has built an overall middle-stage structure of the tobacco industry based on technical middle-stage, digital middle-stage and business middle-stage.
First of all, the technology center is based on new technologies such as cloud native, containerization, microservices, blockchain, IoT, etc., to provide upper-level SaaS services including container cloud, microservice governance, DevOps, blockchain platform, and IoT platform. Core technical services, and support dedicated cloud, private cloud deployment mode. Of course, the technical middle station can also adopt and adapt to the technology stacks of third-party cloud platform vendors such as Ali, Huawei, and Tencent to support multi-cloud adaptation.
Secondly, the business center is a global center, including user center, organization center, authority center and other general capabilities center, marketing center, procurement center, manufacturing center, supply chain center, finance center, and finance center. Capabilities in the fields of middle station, human middle station and collaborative middle station, these capabilities cover all aspects of enterprise operation and management, and provide rich and diverse enterprise scenario-based application services for the front end.
Third, the data center has the ability to process massive data, supports integrated processing and management of data, empowers enterprise data analysis and mining, supports visual modeling and real-time analysis, supports rich big data processing needs, and helps customers achieve data-based Innovation, forming a perfect closed loop between business and data. At the same time, the data center has opened up the entire link from data feature processing, model algorithms to intelligent analysis services, and implements intelligent applications. At present, VPA virtual personal assistant and RPA robot process automation are very mature intelligent applications, helping enterprise users to improve work efficiency and change the mode of human-computer interaction.
In addition, based on the completion of digitization, the data center can help companies truly use data, and output scenario-based AI capabilities through AI workshops. This will greatly reduce the door size of enterprise data intelligence applications, making industrial intelligence at your fingertips.
Leveraging on the Chinese-Taiwanese architecture, UFIDA has created a variety of business innovation scenarios for the tobacco industry.
Aiming at the special field of marketing management in the tobacco industry, UFIDA planned and designed the overall structure of the cigarette marketing management platform "1288". Focusing on the three-level applications of the head office, provincial-level companies, and prefecture-level companies, at the general bureau level, a level 1 control, 2 systems, and industry business and industry data centers are formed; at the provincial and municipal company level, 8 major applications are formed , 8 provincial-level digital middle stations-user center, commodity center, enterprise center, customer center, transaction center, promotion center, payment center, data warehouse center. The overall construction of an operation and management platform based on platform operation and data-driven as the engine realizes a new marketing management model of "platform operation, data-driven, terminal upgrade, and team empowerment".
In the process of digital intelligence transformation of smart finance, enterprises can build smart financial platforms by using data centers to realize the unification of financial data standards and the unification of data resource management, which will contribute to the integration and integration of future financial systems, the deepening of financial applications, and the value of financial data. The mining provides a foundation for the sustainable development and construction of smart finance.
Through the digital middle station, a series of systems such as tobacco industry data standards, technical standards, and integration standards can be established, and a middle station architecture that includes scene-oriented, servicing, and ecologicalization can be built, and the optimal cost can be used to drive the enterprise to achieve automation, intelligence, and real-time Efficient continuous operation closed loop.
For tobacco industry enterprises, collect data from each link of the production chain from the production line through the middle station, analyze, process, and visualize, complete the full-link data drive of design, production, logistics and service, and improve the quality of the company's finished products , Reduce tobacco consumption, realize cost reduction and efficiency increase, and improve quality and quantity.
With the help of the marketing center, build a unified marketing service center, including commodity center, customer center, order center, warehousing center, policy center, settlement center and other middle-level services. Enterprises can establish unified product master data and unified customer portraits. The globalization and unification of order management forms a closed loop of end-to-end scenario-based processes from order placement, delivery coordination, product delivery, and fast settlement, thereby improving order fulfillment rate and delivery efficiency.
The "Tobacco Marketing Joint Solution" jointly issued by UFIDA and Huawei is to focus on the status quo and development demands of the tobacco industry's digital transformation, combine the advantages of both parties, use "Internet +" to transform the industry development thinking, and build a new tobacco marketing model that adapts to the development of the times Assist the high-quality development of the tobacco industry.
It can be said that "middle stage + scenario" maximizes the matching of business and data, highlights the ability construction and empowerment of middle stage, supports front-end flexible and changeable business forms and business scenarios, and accelerates the implementation of digital strategy in the tobacco industry.
There is a long way to go to build a middle office in the tobacco industry. Central Taiwan is the ideological system that empowers the digital transformation of enterprises in the digital economy era. The goal is to improve efficiency, data-based operations, and better support business departments to quickly respond and innovate in the face of complex and changing market demands. The construction of China-Taiwan is a systematic project, which is a transformation of the traditional information system construction method, and will have a fundamental and long-term impact on the construction of enterprise digital intelligence. The high-quality development of the tobacco industry is also a gradual and systematic development process. Only by interdependence and symbiosis can the two parties truly realize the integrated application of a new generation of information technology in the tobacco industry and promote the transformation and upgrading of the tobacco industry.