Yingde Gas Fang Shiwen: Accumulate Energy for Green Development and Build a Global Digital Operation Base

Global Network Technology Reporter Zheng XiangqiAs an important basic raw material for modern industry, industrial gases are known as the "blood of industry". They are not only widely used in traditional industries such as steel smelting, petrochemicals, and metal processing, but also play an important role in emerging industries such as semiconductors, healthcare, and new energy

Global Network Technology Reporter Zheng XiangqiAs an important basic raw material for modern industry, industrial gases are known as the "blood of industry". They are not only widely used in traditional industries such as steel smelting, petrochemicals, and metal processing, but also play an important role in emerging industries such as semiconductors, healthcare, and new energy.

In the era of global sustainable development, the industrial gas industry has ushered in new market prospects, which has forced practitioners to achieve high-quality development through digital transformation to improve quality and efficiency, save energy and reduce emissions.

The CEO of Yingde Gas, a leading industrial gas manufacturer, has a deep understanding that "in order to achieve green development, every enterprise needs to have a 'carbon ledger' demand, which is particularly high for our company and our industry. Fully promoting digital transformation has become an important component of Yingde Gas's sustainable development strategy

For the industrial gas industry, due to factors such as market demand and transportation distance, it has the characteristics of being multi regional and distributed. It is urgent to introduce new systems to drive business from offline to cloud, and from decentralized to centralized.

Because industrial gases are difficult to transport, our factories must be close to customers. This has led to more than 100 companies producing gas in various regions across the country. In addition to on-site gas supply, we also transport gas through a large number of vehicles, with over 500 vehicles circling the Earth three times a day. "Fang Shiwen said that in response to such an open and distributed business form, the company will also have higher demands for digital systems.

Overall, after weighing the macro environment, industry trends, as well as its own industry vision and business value, Yingde Gas firmly implemented the digital transformation strategy and launched the digital transformation project - A1 project construction in February 2022.

After 10 months of deployment, the Yingde Gas Digital System was officially launched in January of this year. This project achieves the integration, replacement, coverage, and standardized management of information systems across all formats, regions, and business domains through a project group centered on SAP ERP and characterized by subsystems such as CRM, SRM, MDM, and TMS. This lays the foundation for strengthening business collaboration, improving management levels, and reducing costs and increasing efficiency in enterprise operations.

Thanks to digital means, the changes in operation of Yingde Gas are truly tangible. Fang Shiwen gave an example that Yingde Gas has built an intelligent distribution system for dangerous goods using digital maps, and has also combined mobile applications to complete factory maintenance and repair on mobile terminals. Our digital system has led to revolutionary changes, shifting us from focusing on business results to analyzing the details of the process. Our energy consumption efficiency has become cost efficiency, and each individual cost can be analyzed in detail

It is worth mentioning that digitization also opens up boundaries for the global layout of Yingde Gas. According to Fang Shiwen, such an open and globalized digital system can also integrate Yingde Gas's overseas production facilities into the same platform for management. By managing the operational consumption and reliability of the facilities through big data management, business, control, and process integration can be achieved, and business management efficiency can be enhanced globally.

In addition, during the voyage, Yingde Gas also needs to address the diverse tax and compliance requirements of different countries, as well as the carbon footprint requirements of its products.

And this is precisely the field that SAP is deeply cultivating. Currently, SAP's ERP system includes policies, regulations, tax policies, and data requirements from 190 countries, which can help Chinese enterprises build a compliant and controllable global digital operation base. In March of this year, SAP also released the "Gold Key Plan for Going Abroad", aiming to help Chinese enterprises accelerate their global expansion and achieve "dual circulation" and global development through cloud empowerment, ecological empowerment, and management empowerment.

Fang Shiwen said, "Our digital system with SAP as its core is compatible with our overseas development, including local compliance and tax requirements. From a future perspective, this system also provides us with a fundamental platform for green development, laying the foundation for our global green development

It is reported that SAP's innovative green ledger can help enterprises integrate sustainable development solutions into the ERP cloud, directly obtaining real, accurate, and auditable carbon data from ERP, thus efficiently managing sustainable development related data like managing revenue and profits.

In the past, Yingde Gas completed carbon footprint tracing manually, but now it has a preliminary system foundation that can submit carbon certificates to customers while delivering products. In Fang Shiwen's view, calculating carbon data through digitization will become the future trend of green development for enterprises.

SAP has become the cornerstone of Yingde Gas's digital transformation. The current digitization process not only strongly supports our global layout and supply chain collaboration, improves operational efficiency, but also comprehensively supports the rapid expansion and high-quality development of local and overseas businesses. "Fang Shiwen emphasized that in the future, Yingde Gas will continue to move towards the direction of building a digital ecosystem by using digital chemical tools, building overseas business, dual carbon management Digital capabilities such as smart factories promote rapid growth in various businesses and provide greater value to customers.

Regarding this, Huang Chenhong, SAP's Global Executive Vice President and President of Greater China, also stated, "We are seeing more and more enterprises accelerating their cloud management, expanding global business, and achieving sustainable development. SAP looks forward to working with industry partners to use innovative technologies, business models, and management methods to help new Chinese enterprises achieve high-quality development

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