On April 15, 2019, Asia intelligent and innovative logistics conference and exhibition officially kicked off in Shanghai new international expo center. With the theme of "intelligent logistics", this exhibition comprehensively demonstrates the integration and application of logistics intelligent innovation and new informatization technologies in various fields of sea, land and air logistics supply chain.

In recent years, promoting supply chain innovation and application has become a national strategy and achieved remarkable results. As early as October 2017, the state council is introduced on the guidance of promoting innovation and application of supply chain (hereinafter referred to as "opinions"), the ministry of commerce market system JianSheSi deputy director Zheng Shuwei said: "this is the first time the level of the state council of grand strategy to the development of supply chain, the guidance of the development of supply chain of our country has an important landmark significance."

As the saying goes, follow the policy, career success will have. Then, with the support of many innovative applications, can the spot market of bulk commodities in China be "unsealed" in the "severe winter" season, so as to find a new way out?

Supply chain companies may be a model to learn from

"By 2020, China will cultivate about 100 global supply chain leading enterprises, rank among the world's top in the competitiveness of supply chains in key industries, and become an important center for innovation and application of global supply chains." This is the opinion on the development of supply chain enterprises put forward by the clear requirements.

Why supply chain enterprises? Why is it so important? What are the implications? There may still be doubts. Futures daily reporter interviewed wang yonglong, President of the modern economic management research institute of zhejiang yuexiu foreign languages university.

In wang yonglong's opinion, in modern economic practice, the idea of supply chain has a wide range of application fields and application prospects, such as total quality management, organizational strategy design, management information system, enterprise resource planning, logistics planning, distribution integration and so on. Supply chain reflects the interaction between a series of subjects. In economically developed countries such as the United States, supply chain management is often defined as a basic strategy for the construction of competitiveness. For example, in American enterprises, supply chain management is considered as an important factor to promote efficiency change due to its rich and profound experience and knowledge accumulation. Contrast the experience of developed countries, the supply chain thought in the application of our country's economy, because of the lack of long-term precipitation, inspection and knowledge development is not sufficient, "the sequence" of the supply chain is considered to be caused by our country economy the important roots which the efficiency loss, therefore, will develop the supply chain enterprise to rise to the national strategic significance is profound.

The development of supply chain enterprises is not only to optimize China's industrial organization mode and promote supply-side structural reform, but also to become an important starting point for China's enterprises to compete in the international market. Mr Wang said it could be put down to "three improvements in competitiveness".

One is from the enterprise or from the industrial economic level. The development of supply chain enterprises is the inherent requirement for the construction of the whole industrial chain. It is an important way to cultivate the core competitiveness of enterprises to optimize the industrial structure and enterprise structure through supply chain drainage, integrate the information flow, logistics, capital flow and value flow, and change the original market competition relationship between enterprises in the chain into a cooperative partnership. Therefore, in the sense of enterprise or industrial economy, supply chain is an organic part of the strategy to improve the competitiveness of enterprises or industries.

Second is from the national economy or from the national economy level. Firstly, supply chain collaborative innovation is an important driving force for economic transformation and upgrading. Supply chain can guide optimal allocation of resources and continuously improve total factor productivity. Secondly, supply chain collaborative innovation is an important starting point to promote supply-side structural reform, and an important means to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve quality and energy. Finally, supply chain collaborative innovation is an important path choice to promote high-quality development and realize three changes. Therefore, in the sense of national economy, supply chain is an organic part of the strategy of improving national competitiveness.

The third is from the perspective of global economy or economic globalization. With the deepening of economic globalization, the realization of global resource allocation and the full play of the decisive role of the two markets is the inevitable practice of promoting China's economy into the world economy, and the global supply chain is an important way to promote trade connectivity. Therefore, from the perspective of global economy, supply chain is an integral part of the strategy to enhance global competitiveness.

The impact of supply chain on commodity market is gradually emerging

In October 2018, the ministry of commerce and other eight department announced on national innovation pilot city and application of supply chain and the list of pilot enterprises notice (hereinafter referred to as "notice"), "notice" pointed out that upon examination and approval by the departments and the social public, determines the 55 pilot cities such as Beijing and 266 pilot enterprises such as TCL Corporation.

The futures daily found that among the 266 pilot enterprises, besides well-known enterprises such as TCL and alibaba, some supply chain enterprises in the field of bulk commodities, such as Beijing national cotton trading market group co., LTD and ruimaotong supply chain management co., LTD, are also included. Thus it can be seen that the commodity market has gradually developed a "resonance" with the supply chain, and the impact of the supply chain on the commodity market will also become increasingly apparent.

From the perspective of the most important trade, commodity trade is an important area of China's international trade. However, our international position in this field has not been very favorable for a long time, such as unfavorable trade pattern, unfavorable pricing mechanism and unfavorable rule system. This series of disadvantages finally led to the "marginal deterioration" of China's commodity trade conditions, and also became an urgent problem of China's commodity trade.

"The bulk trade should not be just the traditional trade and the simple extension of the upstream and downstream, but to build a real supply chain ecology, based on data and intelligence and other high-tech, through integration and collaboration, the upstream and downstream will be organically organized together, to achieve win-win and common development. Some related profession association expert said to the reporter.

In this regard, wang yonglong also believes that the construction of supply chain, especially the global supply chain system, is the only way to improve the adverse pattern of China's commodity trade and enhance the dominant power. At present, we should adhere to the principle of paying equal attention to development and management, and focus on the following: first, improve the global resource allocation mechanism, gradually grasp pricing power, and expand the dominant space; Second, closely following the new changes and trends of global economic development, we are committed to improving the global supply chain system, strengthening the infrastructure construction of trade networks, and promoting trade connectivity. Third, promote the integration of digital economy and supply chain, and develop cross-border e-commerce and digital trade; Fourth, with the supply chain as the core, an agile response mechanism to global price changes, supply and demand changes and sudden changes should be established to improve the emergency response capacity.

If the development of commodity spot market wants to go further, it can't stay in the traditional framework and mode. It needs to rethink the way out with the thinking of supply chain. Hu yuyue, director of the institute of securities and futures at Beijing technology and business university, also said in an interview that the development of the spot market of commodities should go beyond the framework of article 38 and rearrange the layout from the perspective of modern supply chain.

Hu Yu is also in iron ore, for example illustrates the transformation of commodity spot market development direction, he said, iron ore, as a kind of important commodities and futures trading platform to play the role of the main is just pricing and hedging, but in actual applications at present, it need more of is a mixed ore port integration platform based on modern supply chain. Through scientific ore blending, the final ore blending products can meet the production demand of various steel mills, so as to provide stable raw material supply guarantee for steel mills, or directly export to the surrounding countries in need. Its fundamental purpose is to realize the most effective allocation of resources, so as to achieve resource control and acceptable price.

Recently, the commodity boom in southwest chongqing liangjiang, BBS, the relevant person in charge of liangjiang new area indicates that at present, the positive construction of harbour of liangjiang new area is an orchard coal, ore and other commodities trading platform, to provide food, coal, steel, ore and other bulk commodities online and offline trading, third-party payment and financial supply chain logistics service commodity trading, with emphasis on the project, including commodity trading platform, commodity delivery (delivery) warehouse, storage area, etc. This example also exactly and hu yuyue's view echo.

Farewell to traditional ways and embrace new development

Compared with the traditional spot market of bulk commodities, modern supply chain intensifies more new knowledge and technology, especially the application of new generation information technology (such as big data technology), which promotes the optimization of supply chain structure and the agility, adaptability and coordination of modern complex economy.

"Modern supply chain develops a series of new advantages, such as digital integration, multi-chain collaboration, fintech, and knowledge management, based on the comparative advantages of traditional methods. Therefore, modern supply chain plays a key role in cost reduction, drainage, quality improvement, energy and efficiency enhancement. Wang concluded.

Hu also said that modern supply chains emphasize the concept of a platform economy, where various resources are effectively integrated and configured using the Internet. Next, with the launch of 5G technology, we will move from the Internet era to the Internet of things era. If the Internet is to solve the communication between people, then the Internet of things will solve the communication and connection between people and things, and between things. Say goodbye to the traditional way, modern supply chain with the wings of the Internet of things will fly higher and farther.

Source: jintou net