FAW-Volkswagen’s intelligent dispatching system for inbound vehicles

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1. Application company profile

FAW-Volkswagen Automobile Co., Ltd. is a large-scale car production enterprise jointly operated by China FAW Group Corporation, Volkswagen AG, Audi AG and Volkswagen (China) Investment Co., Ltd. It is the first large-scale car manufacturer in my country based on economic scale. A modern car industrial base that started construction.

FAW-Volkswagen has three production bases in Changchun, Chengdu and Foshan. The Changchun base is located in the southwest of Changchun, China, and has an annual production capacity of 660,000 vehicles. The Chengdu base is located in the Chengdu Economic and Technological Development Zone. It was officially completed and put into production on October 13, 2011, with a designed production capacity of 350,000 vehicles, and the capacity to produce one car per minute. The Foshan production base is located in Nanhai District, Foshan City. The FAW-Volkswagen Foshan branch was formally established on December 1, 2011, and is expected to be completed and put into production in August 2013. The first-phase production capacity will reach 300,000 vehicles.

In 2012, FAW-Volkswagen’s annual sales jumped to the second place in the industry, with a market share of 9.6%. Among them, Volkswagen’s single-brand production and sales have historically exceeded 1 million vehicles. At the same time, in order to support the million-dollar system, the development speed of FAW-Volkswagen’s dealer network is also increasing. FAW-Volkswagen has 580 dealers across the country, which has increased by more than 100 within two years. The data further shows that in 2012, FAW-Volkswagen newly opened 100 first-level networks and 20 second-level networks, achieving 80% prefecture-level city coverage. According to FAW-Volkswagen’s plan, its entire sales channel is divided into two major networks, L1 (first level) and L2 (second level). In L1, it is divided into flagship store, type I exhibition hall and type II exhibition hall; while in L2, it is divided into sales service store, city exhibition hall and franchise service store.

pass throughRFIDWith the promotion and implementation of the Internet of Things technology VCS system, FAW-Volkswagen is committed to building an integrated warehousing and logistics management platform with “high quality and high efficiency” as the core. Staff performance appraisal provides data support, the unloading rate of transport vehicles has increased by 40%, and the efficiency of parking at designated unloading spaces has increased by 70%; Plan timely and advance in an orderly manner, and gradually establish a modern vehicle logistics management and control service system that can integrate the whole country.

FAW-Volkswagen's intelligent dispatching system for inbound vehicles

2. The problems that exist before the implementation of informatization of enterprises, that is, the outstanding problems in production management, operation management, etc. to be solved through informatization

1) Lack of information: Due to the lack of effective transportation vehicle status information and transportation vehicle location information, effective monitoring and management of transportation vehicles cannot be carried out.

2) Process monitoring: Lack of management of the intermediate process of transport vehicles, no informational process management and control, and the transport status of vehicles is not transparent with the information of the goods carried.

3) Unloading area management: lack of unloading area management, no dispatch function for vehicles, low vehicle utilization,

4) Employee workload assessment: manual recording of employee workload, recording errors may occur.

5) Information feedback: After the operator has made an error operation, the manager cannot find the abnormal operation in time.

6) Safety management: There are serious hidden dangers of opaque vehicle status in the company and opaque unloading process

3. The process of informatization, the main difficulties, problems and solutions encountered in the implementation, how to advance, organize, and deepen enterprise informatization step by step?

This project consists of a development team composed of nearly 20 professionals in various aspects including consultation, demand, design, development, hardware integration and testing of Guanghua Technology Company, and is dedicated to providing comprehensive and complete services for FAW-Volkswagen Co., Ltd. information construction.

At the same time, FAW-Volkswagen has also established a project team to actively cooperate with Guanghua Technology Company; it collects the processes and requirements of business departments, and submits the demand report to Guanghua Technology Company after sorting. And actively cooperate with Guanghua Technology to debug RFID radio frequency equipment and build a network. It played a key role in the rapid establishment of an information system for FAW-Volkswagen Co., Ltd.

4. System design plan and system characteristics:

4.1 System structure diagram

The VCS system includes, intelligent vehicle scheduling, LED management, collected data management, log management, basic setting management, report management and system management functions. The main functional architecture of this system is shown in the figure below:

4.2 database architecture design

Database architecture design drawing

4.3 System design features

The establishment of this system must adhere to the general principles of “implementation of norms, overall design, advanced and practical, safe and reliable, open and compatible”.

4.3.1 Open database

The system management software interface conforms to the TCP/IP standard, and has a real-time, open relational database, which can exchange data with other application software in the form of DDL, DDE, OLE, etc., with standard ODBC and SQL interfaces.

4.3.2 Powerful software function, support multiple operation modes

The software configuration is flexible, and the management mode only needs to be controlled by the authority and level, and the management operation is realized within the authority.

4.3.3 Rapid deployment and good scalability

With the continuous development and expansion of the entire business, the entire system must have good scalability.

4.3.4 Good safety design

Adopt industry-standard network security solutions, such as SSL, SET, CA certification, firewall technology, etc., to ensure the security of network communication; in the internal system, select the operating system and system software with a higher security level; the design of the application system is also It is necessary to fully consider security issues, adopt hierarchical authority management, user log records and other measures; the system should have supervision and management functions to prevent the spread of harmful information.

4.3.5 Simple and practical

The user interface has good operability, simple, intuitive, and practical; the application system should have the characteristics of easy to master, simple to operate, low investment and operating costs, and easy to manage.

4.3.6 Flexibility

The information system can adapt to future business changes. When the business changes, there is no need to modify the system or only minimal modification.

5. Scenario diagram and software function diagram:

5. Analysis and evaluation of the main benefits of informatization, including:

1) Comparison and analysis of benefit indicators before and after the implementation of informatization

The implementation of this project has formed a unified vehicle logistics intelligent warehousing standard. The next step is to promote and implement it in other branches of FAW-Volkswagen, which greatly saves research and development costs.

Reduce the lack of supply in the sales market due to the efficiency of vehicle logistics, which affects customer satisfaction and contributes to the value-added of the FAW brand.

At present, the project has been successfully launched and is running well. Through the implementation of this project, the expected results have been achieved, and the data accuracy has reached 100%.

The entire logistics process adopts automated control, reducing human labor. Labor costs have been reduced by 20%.

The error rate in the warehousing process has been reduced by 90%, and the error rate in the unloading process of transport vehicles has dropped to less than 0.01%.

Through the use of this system, the error rate is reduced, the labor cost is reduced, and the economic profit is increased.

2) The impact of informatization implementation on enterprise business process transformation and competition mode

Through the implementation of system information management, the company has transformed and optimized the main business processes, and created the first vehicle intelligent dispatch system management using RFID radio frequency technology in the country. To meet the requirements of vehicle warehousing, to achieve transparency in the vehicle transportation process, improve the adjustability of vehicles and goods, the controllability of the unloading process, improve the balance of required goods, increase the utilization rate of vehicles, and reduce the detention time of vehicles in the company. The tracking information logistics service system of the whole process.

3) The effect of informatization implementation on improving the competitiveness of enterprises

The project results play an important guiding and decision-making significance for the analysis of the company’s logistics costs, the improvement of logistics operations and management, and the future planning of the company’s logistics.

After the project is successfully implemented, it can play an exemplary role in other domestic logistics carriers, thereby expanding the influence of the company’s brand.

6. The main experience, experience and lessons in the process of informatization implementation, and what are the significance of promotion.

1) Experience, experience and lessons:

Improving the management level and enhancing the staff’s awareness of information operation play a decisive role in the promotion of the Internet of Things information system. The system involves a large amount of RFID radio frequency technology, and the pre-planning must combine information flow and business process. Developers should further strengthen communication with sales staff in a timely manner, and solve problems in actual use in a timely manner to make information management more standardized.

2) What is the promotion significance:

The Internet of Things is known as the third wave of the development of the world’s information industry after the computer and the Internet through the integration and application of intelligent perception, recognition technology, pervasive computing, and the Internet. As an emerging Internet of Things technology, the LVCS system pioneered the use of Internet of Things RFID radio frequency technology in China’s vehicle warehousing and reached the world’s advanced level. During the visit and learning activities of FAW-Volkswagen’s complete vehicle storage service provider, it has been fully affirmed by the storage service provider and the German minister of Volkswagen.

7. The next step of the improvement plan, ideas of this system, as well as suggestions for logistics informatization, etc.

The second phase of VCS system integration and upgrade:

A. Integrated application of new logistics technologies to comprehensively improve the level of logistics management

1. More RFID and other sensing devices are integrated and applied in the whole vehicle storage and transportation to realize accurate and fast vehicle storage location tracking

2. Handheld terminal integrated application in warehousing operation tracking

3. GPS integrated application to realize the visualization of logistics process

B. Visual warehouse management

1. Increase the rate of warehouse reversal

2. Optimize warehousing strategy to improve warehouse utilization

C. Strengthen KPI management

1. All operators and operation links are recorded in the system.

2. Generate assessment forms for KPI assessment and improve management.

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