Continue to write "grassroots legend" with informationization
Anta (China) Co., Ltd. is the most innovative private enterprise in China. From 1994, a shoemaking workshop in Jinjiang, Fujian, to one of the largest garment manufacturers in China today, Anta has written its own "grassroots legend". The innovative spirit of "being the first in the world" has always been the source of Anta's "never stopping", and Anta's information construction has also inherited this spirit. In fact, the informatization implementation of Anta, like many domestic private enterprises, has also experienced a process from scratch. The Information System Department of Anta Company has developed from a few personal computers and an IT technician to dozens of high-end servers and stable ERP systems, supporting the business operations of more than 6,000 sales outlets nationwide.
In today's southern Fujian, Anta has become a leader in the informatization construction of garment manufacturing industry. In the past two years, Anta has laid a solid foundation for the stable and efficient operation of ERP system by changing its sales model and improving its business process and organizational construction. At the same time, the distribution system and supply chain system were successfully launched at the end of 2005 and the second half of 2006 respectively, which is what Anta is proud of in information construction.
But looking to the future, with the improvement of enterprise product line and the expansion of business scale, there will be higher requirements not only for the speed and quality of information feedback, but also for information internal strength such as authority management, information security and remote data backup. The leadership of Anta has long recognized that a single ERP system can no longer support the innovation of enterprise management and operation. In order to support the long-term development of enterprise information construction, we need to hone our internal strength from equipment, solutions, technicians and other aspects, and also need to formulate a long-term
The first intimate contact between IBM and Anta
Anta needs a long-term and reliable partner. The person in charge of information system department of Anta clearly remembers that the first cooperation with IBM was in March 2006, because it was the first high-end equipment of distribution system he purchased after coming to Anta. In 2007, as Anta further accelerated its preparation for listing, the IT system began to be upgraded in an all-round way at the beginning of the year, so it bought IBM's high-end servers (X3850, X3950, X3755) again, which were mainly used to support ERP data processing background processing and SCM data center support. After use, the data flow reaches 4G/ hour, which greatly improves the efficiency of information circulation.
So what was the consideration for the initial cooperation between Anta and IBM? Facing this question, Anta made a sincere answer: "Our cooperation and mutual understanding with IBM is a process from shallow to deep." From the beginning, Anta has a special liking for the technical advantages and reliability of IBM products. At the end of 2006, through many comparisons and according to actual needs, Anta bought IBM's high-end memory DS4600, so the two sides had their first close contact.
With the deepening of cooperation, Anta found that IBM has many advanced ideas for the retail industry in China, and can provide many comprehensive consulting services and business solutions according to the characteristics of this industry, which may be the most needed thing for the future development of Anta. More importantly, in the actual use process, IBM's blue express technical support team solved the temporary problems in time and efficiently, broke through the technical bottleneck, and provided comprehensive and targeted training for Anta's technicians, making them more familiar with IBM's equipment, more skilled in operation, and greatly improving work efficiency. In order to maximize Anta's IT investment, experts from IBM Systems and Technology Division have planned the most suitable blueprint for Anta's IT infrastructure development through early technical consultation, laying a good foundation for further cooperation between the two parties.
2 hand in hand development, so that private enterprises will carry out information construction to the end
As a matter of fact, Quanzhou and even the whole southern Fujian have always been a hot spot for the growth and development of garment manufacturing enterprises in China, but compared with the expansion of business scale, the application and implementation of informatization is still a wasteland. In recent years, through extensive cooperation with private enterprises, IBM has gradually learned that today's private enterprises are more pragmatic in information construction, rarely invest huge sums of money at one time, but pay more attention to the gradual and localized information model. This is how Anta Company came along, and it is this "pragmatism" that makes the completed informatization partial construction more solid and pragmatic. However, the problem is that there are still many managers of private enterprises who don't really realize the long-term value and benefits brought by informatization for their business, or they sometimes don't know where to start and how to better combine information technology with business development.
Based on the continuous investment and attention to the SME market in China in recent years, IBM has a deep understanding of the demand characteristics of SMEs. Take IBM Fuzhou Branch as an example. Since the establishment of 1997, it has maintained good communication and contact with Fujian provincial government and local municipal governments, and also has a lot of cooperation experience with private enterprises in various industries. By comprehensively expanding the "Blue Sky and Blue Sea Plan" in third-and fourth-tier cities such as Xiamen, Quanzhou and Nanping, we will deepen channels and develop together with partners, bringing high value to private enterprises in southern Fujian. It is worth mentioning that IBM has just launched the "Yi Jie Advantage" strategy specifically for the small and medium-sized enterprise market, which once again shows IBM's determination and continuous investment to be close to the small and medium-sized enterprise market. IBM will focus on crossing the resources and advantages of the whole company, unite more business partners, and provide its most suitable products, solutions and services for the changing needs of small and medium-sized enterprises in different industries.
Retail and circulation industries are the industries where private enterprises gather in China, and they are also the focus of IBM's long-term concern and strong investment. Retail needs standardization, unification of logistics, information flow and capital flow, and rapid response. At the same time, the improvement of supply chain and the promotion of value are also a key link. In this regard, Mr. Lin Zhichang, the retail industry manager of IBM Business Department, has many original opinions. "The characteristics and demands of Anta in IT construction are actually the same problems faced by most private enterprises in China, especially those in the field of garment manufacturing. How to better implement informatization to support the expansion of stores and business outlets, and how to maximize the use of limited resources, the informatization road of private enterprises really needs to be gradual. We see that more and more retail enterprises like Anta attach importance to IT planning and construction, and IBM's task is to provide the most suitable products and solutions for these private enterprises, and at the same time give customers comprehensive support in terms of technology application, maintenance services, personnel training, and long-term planning of IT architecture, so that the business operations of enterprises can be perfectly combined with the innovation of information models, and we should be innovative partners around them. "
Going to the international market is a long-term goal set by Anta, and many leading domestic private enterprises also have such ideals and ambitions. For most developing private enterprises, technology and innovation are still obstacles to their business development. To break through the bottleneck that hinders development requires both our own efforts and the development of the whole industry. At the same time, both sides hope that with the help of Anta's influence in private enterprises in Fujian, they can set a benchmark for garment manufacturing enterprises in Fujian and even the whole country, provide them with experience, build up confidence and promote the wave of information development in the whole industry.