In today's hyper-interconnected world, competition between enterprises is no longer limited to the comparison of strength between individual enterprises, but also about how enterprises build and leverage the industrial ecology in which they operate. The "14th Five-Year Plan for the Deep Integration of Informatization and Industrialization" mentions that the key to digital transformation is to "strengthen enterprises, focus on key points, build a solid foundation, and build an ecosystem".
In recent years, affected by multiple factors, the steel industry has entered a downward cycle. Under the complex and changeable situation, the steel industry urgently needs to build an industrial ecosystem that can be collaboratively innovative, develop together and resist risks together. As the steel e-commerce platform gradually penetrates the upstream and downstream of the industry and the whole process of the first chain, more and more industrial customers choose to join hands with the platform. While helping to build a more resilient industrial chain, the steel e-commerce platform also plays an important role in bonding all circles of the industry and enhancing industrial competitiveness and sustainability.
Industrial ecological organizer: vertically break through barriers and connect the upstream and downstream of the industry
The degree of information transparency has always been a key factor affecting the pricing of both supply and demand. In the digital era, the steel e-commerce platform has successfully brought together all participants such as core enterprises, first-class platforms and small and micro enterprises online with its strong resource integration capabilities, eliminating the common problems of "information islands" and "information distortion" in the traditional steel chain.
At present, the head steel e-commerce platform represented by steel-silver e-commerce generally pays attention to the construction of the ecological service system of the whole industry chain, and integrates the service resources of the originally scattered industrial chain links such as warehousing, processing and distribution into the industrial ecology through standardization, digitalization and ecological means, so as to promote the close connection of all links of the steel industry chain. These e-commerce platforms not only eliminate information barriers by opening up upstream and downstream resources, form industrial big data, and achieve more accurate matching of supply and demand, but also optimize and integrate traditional industrial chains, tap potential value, and build a new industrial value network. At the same time, the platform gathers industrial service resources with the help of the sharing economy model, provides technical, financial and other support for upstream and downstream enterprises, and promotes the transformation and upgrading of the entire industrial chain.
With the penetrating opening of information barriers, from the first end to the circulation end to the demand side, all links of the originally complex and complex industry have formed an all-round, chain-type and precise connection. The efficient exchange of information enables the supply and demand sides to be matched more accurately, and greatly reduces the market imbalance caused by information asymmetry. While helping upstream and downstream participants in the industrial chain to reduce costs and increase efficiency, the steel e-commerce platform also incorporates key links such as procurement and sales into the platform by enhancing its scientific and technological strength and improving its risk management capabilities, so as to form a mutually beneficial and win-win exogenous growth model.
Leader of industrial ecology: Extending boundaries horizontally and giving full play to the synergistic effect of circles
Ecology is a necessary stage to promote the high-quality development of the industry, which requires participants in the steel industry to cooperate in multiple dimensions and roles, realize resource sharing, and build a benign new ecology of the steel industry in the interconnection with all parties in the ecosystem. The competitive advantage of the steel e-commerce platform not only stems from the continuous accumulation of its internal value and the continuous improvement of its resource capacity, but also lies in its ability to effectively use external resources, co-evolve with the market environment, and build and integrate into the industrial ecosystem.
Under the framework of the industrial ecosystem, enterprises have abandoned the traditional competition and consumption of resources, and instead committed to collaboration. The multiple entities such as platforms, customers and tripartite partners in the circle have jointly formed an industrial ecosystem with multi-party cooperation, multiplied benefits, and mutual benefit and win-win results. In this system, each enterprise positions itself as a part of the ecosystem from a macro perspective, gives full play to its own capabilities, and works closely with system members to promote technology and product innovation to achieve benefit sharing and common growth. This model of "joint symbiosis" not only brings advantages that cannot be achieved by a single competition, but also makes the entire ecosystem closely connected and shares weal and woe.
As a leading steel e-commerce platform in China, steel and silver e-commerce is a practitioner of this concept. While building a "small ecosystem" in the industry and connecting the upstream, midstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, Gangyin E-commerce is also committed to building a "big ecosystem" and actively embracing external industrial ecological partners with an open attitude, such as Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and Huawei Cloud in cloud services, Kingdee, UFIDA, and TravelSky in the Golden Tax sector, as well as eSign, Anzhengtong, DingTalk, Qiwei and other enterprises. This kind of cooperation that breaks through their respective vertical fields not only extends the ecological boundaries and depth of steel and silver e-commerce, but also enables it to gain deeper insight into and meet the deep and diversified needs of industrial users. Through the dual circulation of digital service ecology inside and outside the industry, steel-silver e-commerce has contributed to the construction of a "big ecosystem" in the steel industry.
The multi-dimensional system of the industrial ecosystem conforms to the development trend of cross-border integration and synergy and symbiosis of modern industries. Under the wave of digitalization, an open and competitive industrial ecosystem will provide solid support for the transformation and upgrading of the steel industry. By building an industrial ecosystem of agglomeration and symbiosis, the steel e-commerce platform not only realizes extensive collaboration and cooperation with upstream and downstream enterprises, breaks down information barriers, consolidates the value chain, but also gives full play to the comprehensive effect of multiple industrial drives, and injects new vitality into the sustainable development of the steel industry and even the entire industrial system.